LibGuides: Biological Sciences: Finding Scholarly Articles

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Databases for finding journal articles relating to Biological Science

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SEARCHING SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE

Scopus This link opens in a new window
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Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Terms of Use
SciTech Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
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Databases in the SciTech Premium Collection include: Agricultural & Enviornmental Science Database (1946-Present), Biological Science Database (1946-Present), and Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database (1950-Present), Medline (1946-Present), Materials Science & Engineering Database (1965-Present), and Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database (1962-Present). Terms of Use
BioOne This link opens in a new window
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Full-text articles from research journals in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
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ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
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Provides online access to the tables of contents of over 2,500 journals published by Elsevier, with strong collections in the sciences, social sciences, engineering, and medicine. Full-text access to articles is available for over 100 journals subscribed to by WSU and over 150 open access journals.
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To link to ILLiad from Science Direct, click on the article title, then “360 Link to Full-Text”, and then “Submit Request”.
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As of January 1, 2016, ScienceDirect will no longer support Internet Explorer 8.
MEDLINE (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
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Provides citations and abstracts for over 4,800 journals published worldwide in the life sciences with an emphasis on medicine and health. Produced by the National Library of Medicine. Searchable using MeSH (Medical Subject Headings.) Coverage: 2000-present.
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Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
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How to Use Google Scholar off-campus Provides access to scholarly sources across many disciplines including articles, theses, books, etc. from a variety of publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Links to full-text when available.
GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources) This link opens in a new window
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This database focuses on the physical, social, and economic aspects of environmental issues. Topic, organization, and country portals form research centers around issues covering energy systems, health care, agriculture, climate change, population, and economic development. Portals include authoritative analysis, academic journals, news, case studies, legislation, conference proceedings, primary source documents, statistics, and rich multimedia.
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General Science Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Citations and abstracts of articles in nearly 300 periodicals in the life sciences, physical sciences, and health sciences. Includes some full-text articles. Coverage of indexing: 1984-present; full-text: 1995-present.
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PubMed (Medline) This link opens in a new window
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Citations, abstracts, and some full-text from thousands of biomedical journals published worldwide in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences. Coverage: 1966-present.
Applied Science & Technology Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Contains indexing and abstracts for nearly 800 core English-language, scientific and technical publications back to 1983. Content includes coverage of a wide variety of applied science specialties—acoustics to aeronautics, neural networks to nuclear and civil engineering, computers and informatics and much more.
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WorldCat Dissertations and Theses This link opens in a new window
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Index to all dissertations, theses and published material based on theses cataloged by OCLC member libraries, including Wichita State University.

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