Database Guides : New and Updated Resources

ProQuest's Biological Science Collection includes immediate access to the full-text of articles from over 1000 current or recent biology and biomedical journals. In addition, it allows for searching of a wider range of biological science journals, including medical journals, with links to access the text via other library services.

Search Tip - Useful Limiters

• Use the Peer reviewed and Full-Text limiters to get immediate access to high-quality journal articles.
• Use the Peer reviewed limiter alone to search for all scholarly/research reviewed material in the database.

Source types include:

Most of the content is from scholarly journals, but dissertations are also common. The other sources will appear less frequently in the results.

Full text:

About 25% of the content (from over 1000 current journals) is available immediately in PDF from ProQuest.

Full text links:

   indicates full text is immediately available.

  should link to the full text available in another library service.

  may link to full text immediately available in another library service, or to a request form for articles the library does not own.

Citing an item from this collection:

• Click the button to generate a citation in APA, ASA, Chicago, MLA or Turabian styles.
• The Cite button is found to the right of an entry on the search results page; in the upper right menu of an individual record).
• Always double-check citation information provided by an online sources.

Email:

• Click thebutton to send the item via email.
• The email button is found to the right of an entry on the search results page.  On an individual record, click "All Options."
• You can choose whether to include a citation and/or the full-text of the item.

Saving:

• Click button to save a PDF.
• The download PDF button is located on the top / upper right menu on an individual item record.

Linking

• Click the button to generate a link you can copy and paste elsewhere.
• The Copy URL button is found on in the top / upper right menu of an individual record screen.
• The link will include library "proxy" information so it should work for all State State users (even if they are off-campus).

Platform: ProQuest

Electronic Resource Type: Mixed (functions as aggregator with selective full-text)

Includes four separate databases:

• ProQuest Biological Science Database: Aggregator full-text collection (with embargoes)
• ProQuest Biological Science Index: Abstract & Indexing database
  • MEDLINE: Abstract & Indexing database
  • TOXLINE: Abstract & Indexing database

Subscription source: CSU Stanislaus Library Subscription

Library Database URL: https://library.csustan.edu/proquestbioscience

Library PURL:  https://libpurl.csustan.edu/s/purl.php?2455

Vendor/publisher guide: ProQuest LibGuide for Biological Science Collection

Title Lists

• Title list in Excel, HTML, or PDF
• Title list with links to individual journals within the ProQuest interface