LibGuides: Biological Sciences: Articles

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Biological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
An expansive index to the world’s life sciences journal literature, with topics ranging from botany to microbiology to pharmacology.
Biological Science Collection (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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Abstracts of leading scientific/peer-reviewed journals in biological and biomedical sciences. Includes immediate full-text /PDFs of articles from over 1000 leading biology journals.
Includes the ProQuest Biological Sciences Database with full-text from over 1000 leading biology journals. Also includes the article abstracts from the broader ProQuest Biological Sciences Index, MEDLINE and TOXLINE.
General Science Full Text This link opens in a new window
General Science Full Text™ provides full text from periodicals dating back to 1995, in addition to indexing and abstracts for periodicals back to 1984.
Subject coverage includes astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, conservation, health & medicine, oceanography, physics, zoology and much more.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
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Search for articles from a very large but selective list of high-impact research journals. Provides complete reference list for covered journals, robust citation tracing tools and research metrics. Includes selected book chapters and conference proceedings.

Additional Biological Sciences Databases for Your Research

AGRICOLA This link opens in a new window
This National Agricultural Library database provides abstracts for selected journal articles, and records for books, serials, audiovisual materials and online content from around the world.
AGRICOLA has records from publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences.
Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
Annual Reviews provides researchers, professors, and scientific professionals with a definitive academic resource in more than 45 scientific disciplines.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
GreenFILE offers information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects.
Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
JoVE: Core Biology This link opens in a new window
Instructional video on concepts in biology, including introductions and demonstrations of concepts in practice.
Over 200 instructional videos concepts in biological science as well as 150 "scientist-in-action" demonstrations of concepts in practice
PubMed Central This link opens in a new window
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PubMed comprises of citations for biomedical journal articles from MEDLINE (or queued to be included in MEDLINE in the future), other life science journals, and selected medical books.
The Stan State library link adds a code (?otool=cacsuslib) to tell PubMed to add a Find It! link to let you access Stan State library subscriptions or an Interlibrary Loan request form for an article.
Readers' Guide Full Text Mega This link opens in a new window
Readers’ Guide Full Text Mega includes indexing for periodicals as far back as 1983 and searchable full text of articles as far back as 1994. PDF page images of full-text articles provide access to illustrations, photographs and other graphical content from the original article.
Subject coverage includes antiques, arts, business, computers, education, entertainment, film & television, gardening, health & medicine, history, home improvement, literature, news & current events, photography, popular & classical music, politics, popular culture, religion, science, sports & fitness, transportation, travel and much more.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Full-text of articles published in 900+ selected Elsevier journals (1998 - present).
Providing access to peer-reviewed scientific, technical, and health journals that span major scientific disciplines. Articles published open access are peer-reviewed and made free for everyone to read, download and reuse in line with the authors' choice of user license.

Journal Listings: Biological Sciences

Catalog listing of biology journals
This list includes print and online journals
Catalog listing of science journals
Includes print and online journals
Catalog listing of ecology journals

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