Article Finder
Articles and More From Journals, Newspapers, and Online Reference Resources
SUBJECT: Biology
Recommended starting places - Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
AccessScience (McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology)
(reference resource, e-books)
Includes articles from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, research updates, thousands of illustrations, Science News headlines, biographies, and more.
Oxford Reference Online - Biological Sciences
(reference resource, e-books)
Full-text access to several Oxford University Press reference resources, including Dictionary of Animal Behaviour, Dictionary of Biology, Dictionary of Ecology, Dictionary of Genetics, Dictionary of Plant Sciences, Dictionary of Scientists, Dictionary of Zoology, and Oxford Companion to the Body.
Recommended starting places - Article Indexes for Biology and Related Sciences
Agricola (EBSCOhost)
(article index)
1979-present. This bibliographic database provides more than 2.5 million citations from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Library. Agricola offers a variety materials related to agriculture.
Annual Reviews
(article index)
Authoritative, analytic reviews in 37 focused disciplines within the biomedical, life, physical, and social sciences.
Biological Abstracts (EBSCOhost)
(article index)
1995-present. Biological Abstracts covers journals, books, and other materials in the life sciences. For information before 1995, see the printed index Biological Abstracts, located in the Michener Library Reference area.
Medline (EBSCOhost)
(article index)
1966-present. The National Library of Medicine's database of biomedical journal literature.
PubMed Central
(article index, free non-subscription resource)
The freely available PubMed interface for the Medline database, along with easy access to the National Library Medicine's digital archive of biomedical journals.
Science Citation Index Expanded (ISI Web of Science)
(article index)
Web of Science includes Arts & Humanities Citation Index (2004-present), Science Citation Index Expanded (2004-present), and Social Sciences Citation Index (1979-present). It offers bibliographic citations and cited references from a broad range of disciplines, and is useful as a citation analysis tool.
ScienceDirect
(article index)
1993-present. Over 1,800 full text journals in the areas of science, technology, and medicine. Full text coverage for all titles goes back to 1995; coverage for IDEAL titles goes back to 1993.
Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide (EBSCOhost)
(article index)
1935-present. Index to literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. Major topic areas include studies of individual species, habitat types, hunting, economics, wildlife behavior, management techniques, diseases, ecotourism, zoology, taxonomy and much more.
Recommended starting places - General Article Indexes
Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
(article index)
A large academic multi-disciplinary database providing indexing for over 8,000 journals and full text for nearly 4,700 (including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals). PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for some journals.
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Google Scholar
(article index, e-books, free non-subscription resource)
Google Scholar, currently in development, searches for scholarly materials (peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and articles) from sources such as academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, and universities.
Pharmaceutical News Index (ProQuest)
A database of pharmacological news, research, and regulatory information covering specialized publications in the pharmaceutical, health care, biotechnology, and medical device industries.
Windows Live Academic Search
(article index, free non-subscription resource)
Windows Live Academic lets you search academic journals and content for article titles, author names article abstracts, and conference proceedings. (currently in beta version)
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