Resources A to Z
Collections on the History of Science: 1830-1970
Free database of peer-reviewed research journals in biology and medicine
Explore more than 580 journals and eBooks in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences
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The BSAVA Library pulls together the BSAVA’s huge range of world-renowned veterinary content and makes it easily accessible online.
A comprehensive collection of over 80 titles on livestock production, management, and medicine.
CABI Databases, including CAB Abstracts and Global Health, bring together millions of research records across agriculture, the environment, human health and the applied life sciences to support study, research and practical application around the world.
The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
The DMEG is designed by European experts to help social science researchers make their research data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR).
DEFRA is the government department responsible for environmental protection, food safety, rural development and animal welfare in the UK.
DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone.
DMPonline is an open source tool which helps you create your Data Management Plan (DMP) both at the bid-preparatioon stage and after funding has been secured.
dvm360 is an American resource providing veterinary news and insights for today’s veterinary professionals.
Emerald Publishing is one of the world's leading digital-first publishers, commissioning, curating and showcasing research that can make a real difference.
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EthOS is the UK's national thesis service. YOu can search the metadata of every UK published PhD since 1987.
HathiTrust is an external site that offers reading access to millions of digitised items including the full-text of Books, some of which are included in RVC Reading Lists.
IVIS is an on-line publisher of veterinary books and proceedings. The IVIS website currently includes 1,673 book chapters and proceeding articles. Registration is free and gives access to all the resources.
The Internet Center for Wildlife Damage Management is a non-profit grant funded site that provides research-based information on how to responsibly handle wildlife damage problems.
JoVE is the world-leading producer and provider of science videos with the mission to improve scientific research and education.
JISC library hub gives you access to details of materials held in many UK national, academic and specialist libraries.
Microbiology Society Collections – bringing together peer-reviewed content from across the Society’s publishing platform on a range of hot topics and subject areas.
The MSD Veterinary Manual (MVM) is a concise, easy-to-use, comprehensive reference that covers the diversity of species and animal diseases worldwide.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research.
The National Office of Animal Health (NOAH) represents the companies that research, develop, manufacture and market licensed animal health products in the UK. The NOAH Data Sheet Compendium contains the majority of authorised veterinary medicines (AVM).
BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. The index contains more than 400 million records from more than 11,000 content providers. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed records for free (Open Access). BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.
CORE (COnnecting REpositories) provides a comprehensive bibliographic database of the world’s scholarly literature, collecting and indexing research from repositories and journals.
One of the largest open scholarly record collections worldwide, key in fostering Open Science and establishing its practices in the daily research activities.
Sciendo publishes a wide range of Open Access publications including journals, books, conference proceedings and other publictions, both academic and professional literature
While you browse publisher webpages, this plugin will indicate whether a freely available copy of an article is available from a repository and will give you access at a click of a button.
Get the extension (requires Chrome or Firefox) and click the green tab to skip the paywall on millions of peer-reviewed journal articles. It's fast, free, and legal.
The Ovid interface provides access to a range of databases, e-journals and e-books. The databases are particularly useful for identifying journal articles and other publications on a particular topic within the subject areas covered by each database. The examples in this guide are based on MEDLINE but each Ovid database has similar functionality.
The National Center for Biotechnology Information advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information.
RCVS Knowledge is an independent charity sitting at the heart of the profession, to help advance the quality of veterinary care for the benefit of animals, the public and society. They support veterinary teams on the ground and in practice, influencing policy. Collaborating with veterinary teams, educators, and organisations.
Re3data is a global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines. It includes repositories that enable permanent storage of and access to data sets to researchers, funding bodies, publishers, and scholarly institutions. re3data promotes a culture of sharing, increased access and better visibility of research data.
ResearchGate is the professional network for scientists. Over 800,000 scientists from 192 countries have already joined. Interact with fellow researchers and build your scientific network. Download full-text papers, and find conferences and research jobs. Collaborate, discuss methods and co-edit with colleagues.
A searchable library of resources relevant to bioscience policy issues, which have been produced by the RSB and their Member Organisations. It contains links to published outputs such as briefing notes, consultation responses, policy reports and reviews.
Search for peer-reviewed journals, articles, book chapters and open access content..
SpringerNature Experiments is a complete set of products for life sciences.
Find, evaluate and implement experiments across the life sciences with the new research solution for protocols and methods from Springer Nature.
The UK's largest collection of social, economic and population data for over 50 years, we provide researchers with training, support and data access as lead partner of the UK Data Service.
For Veterinarians By Veterinarians. It covers a wide range of topics for vets, technicians and students.
ViN is an online resource with free registration.
A record of every diagnostic submission from livestock and wildlife in Great Britain made to the Veterinary Investigation Centres of the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), its partner PME providers, and to Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) Veterinary Services (SRUC VS).
Veterinary Practice News is dedicated to informing U.S. veterinarians about industry trends, best practices and new products as it relates to practice management, small animal and equine care.
Veterinary Practice Today is a personal and professional development (PPD) journal for the whole practice team – a valuable resource for veterinary surgeons, veterinary nurses, practice managers and receptionists.
500+ veterinary CPD courses, latest news, publications, letters, comps and blogs.
Access to over 27,000 pieces of text and multimedia content on small and large animals.
Vetstream's 'Vetlexicon' database is the world’s largest online clinical reference source and provides a series of comprehensive, peer-reviewed digital encyclopaedias, delivering instant and structured point of care information for the treatment of dogs, cats, rabbits, exotics, horses and cattle.
VETnetBASE provides information on the fundamental and emerging issues inthis field. The eBooks in this collection help veterinarians promote the health and welfare of companion animals, farm animals, horses, exotic animals, and wildlife
Web of Science provides seamless access to the Science Citation Expanded®, Social Sciences Citation Index®, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index™. Includes journal citation reports.
The Wellcome Library provides access to a significant collection of its own electronic resources for research into the history and progress of medicine. In addition to these, the Library also subscribes to a range of other databases, freely available to any registered user. As well as certain journals being freely available online, subscribed access to various full-text journals is provided to users of the Library.
Wiley hosts peer-reviewed primary research and survey journals across the life and physical sciences, technology, medicine, social science and the humanities. Table of contents and article abstracts are freely available online for all journals. The RVC subscribes to some.