Biochemistry: Search engine allows you to find articles from 1996-present, but you cannot view anything but the publication information.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Along with the NSF, this private institution provides loads of dough for scientists. Also like the NSF, grad students are asked to look for money from HHMI.

Journal of Biological Chemistry: Has all articles from 1995 to the present online, for free, with a very good search engine.

Nature: The European equivalent of Science, this journal covers a broad range of topics, and has spun off several more specific sister journals, such as Nature Genetics and Nature Biotechnology. On the site, you can search for articles from 1998-on, and can view their abstracts if you register (free) with the site.

National Institutes of Health. According to their website, “the NIH mission is to uncover new knowledge that will lead to better health for everyone.” They dole out money and jobs, like any good government program should.

Science: The premier journal in the United States, only the most important & pertinent research gets published here. On the site, you can search for articles from 1995-on, and can view their abstracts if you register with the site (registering is free), but full text not available w/o $$$

The Protein Database: Formerly housed on the web at Brookhaven National Labs, this database contains the structures of thousands of proteins. Scientists deposit structures, determined through X-ray crystallography and/or NMR, on the database for all the world to use. To find a given protein, go to the “Search Lite” option and type in the name of your desired protein. You will then be able to download a 3-D structure of the protein, in the file format .pdb. To view the structure, you will need Rasmol or some other. pdb-viewing application.