“The Animal Biology” scientific journal is indexed in the following scientometric databases:
- Cambridge University Library is one of the largest and oldest academic libraries in the United Kingdom. In addition to its physical collections, UL provides access to tens of millions of electronic articles, books, journals, scores, and other electronic resources.
- CrossRef is an official Digital Object iIdentifier (DOI) Registration Agency of the International DOI Foundation. The CrossRef citation system was founded in 1999 as a cooperative effort among publishers to enable persistent cross-publisher citation linking in online academic journals. Nowadays the system includes over 75 millions of journal articles and other publications (books, dissertations, technical reports, etc.) from thousands of academic and professional publishers worldwide. This service does not keep full texts of scientific papers but collects the information about linking between publications via Digital Object Identifier (Crossref DOI) technology as well as metadata of these papers. With the CrossRef system, researchers can use functionality at the level of a global scholarly publishing environment.
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a website that hosts a community-curated list of open access journals, maintained by Infrastructure Services for Open Access (IS4OA). It was launched in 2003 with 300 open access journals. The project defines open access journals as scientific and scholarly journals making all their content available for free, without delay or user-registration requirement, and meeting high quality standards, notably by exercising peer review or editorial quality control. DOAJ defines those as open access journals where an open license is used so that any user is allowed immediate free access to the works published in the journal and is permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of [the] articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose. The mission of DOAJ is to "increase the visibility, accessibility, reputation, usage and impact of quality, peer-reviewed, open access scholarly research journals globally, regardless of discipline, geography or language.
- Google Scholar is free-of-charge search system of scientific publication full texts in all formats and disciplines. The project was launched in November 2004. Google Scholar index includes data on the majority of peer-reviewed online journals of the largest scientific publishing houses in Europe and America.
- Index Copernicus is the international scientometric database (Index Copernicus Journals Master List) founded in 1999 in Poland. The website gives the possibility of indexing, ranking and referencing journals, and also is a platform for scientific cooperation and implementation of joint scientific projects.
- National Library of Ukraine named after V. I. Vernadskyi is the largest repository and the main scientific and information center in Ukraine. It is one of the twenty largest national libraries in the world. Contains the online resources fund.
- Open Ukrainian Citation Index (OUCI) is the Ukrainian search engine and the database of scientific citations that come from all publishers using the Cited-by service from Crossref and supporting the Initiative for Open Citations.
- Scilit is a database of scientific papers developed and maintained by the open access publishing house MDPI. It is a complete free database for scientists using a new method of matching data and indexing scientific materials.
- WorldCat is the worldwide network of library content and services. Launched in 1998 by the American non-profit orgabisation Online Computer Library Center ( OCLC Inc.), nowadays it is collectively maintained by tens of thousands of institutions, mostly libraries. The WorldCat system is aimed at librarians for cataloging and research, as well as the general public.
