Databases for Background Information
For background information and/or conducting a very thorough search, these databases may be helpful:
- Academic Search Premier
Full-text of more than 1,100 multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journals - Proquest Newsstand
Full text of 300+ U.S. and international news sources. - Lexis-Nexis Academic
Core Biology Databases
These resources are the First Stop for biology research articles:
- Agricola Published by the National Agricultural Library.
- Biological Abstracts The primary database for biology research.
- Biological and Agricultural Index Plus Full Text Biological & Agricultural Index Plus is a full text and bibliographic database that indexes international publications,
- Science Citation Index via Web of Science, from 2001 to current
- Web of Science tutorials Lots of tutorials and guides here, to help you become an expert in using this database.
- CalFlora Provides information on 8,375 currently recognized California vascular plant species, including over 800,000 records of plant observations and 20,000 photographs.
- Chemical Abstracts via SciFinder
- Chemical Abstracts Registry via SciFinder
- SciFinder tutorials A wide variety of tutorials and guides located here, to help you use SciFinder more effectively.
- Environment Complete A full-text database covering agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, and more.
- GeoBase Geography, including biogeography.
- GeoRef The premier geology database.
- JSTOR Biological Sciences Note: This database contains full text of each publication from inception, but does not cover the current 5 years.
- MEDLINE via PubMed Medline(or PubMed) is the National Library of Medicine's database covering the fields of medicine, biomedical research, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.
More Biology-related databases
- Annual Reviews Online
- Dissertations & Theses (Proquest) Full text, can be downloaded
- Greenfile GreenFILE database offers information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Content includes scholarly, government and general-interest titles.
- MathSciNet
- Toxnet
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If you come across in article that we do not have print or electronic full-text access to, use Interlibrary Services (ILS) to request the resource from another library.
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