Best Bets for Finding Articles
These are the five databases to help you find scholarly articles for Biology.
They are listed in the order that I would recommend you try them for your assignment:
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowYou can search across 2,000+ full text scholarly journals. You will also occasionally get results that are not available in full text, and you can use Interlibrary Loan to request those if necessary.
- PubMed This link opens in a new windowFree and accessible version of MedLine database, from the National Library of Medicine. Focus is on biomedical and health related topics. Free full text is sometimes available for an article, or you can click on "Le Moyne Full Text" to see if our Library has full text.
- BioOne Complete This link opens in a new windowA small, but completely full text, collection of biology journals.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowScopus is a large, comprehensive database of peer-reviewed literature, including scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings. You can view citations and abstracts in this database; and also click on the link "Locate Full Text in Library" to access full text.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowGoogle Scholar is an interdisciplinary search engine that includes articles from academic publishers, professional societies, institutional and pre-print repositories, and scholarly articles posted on the web. Use the "Find @ Le Moyne Library" links in the search results as well as other links provided by the search engine to locate the full-text of articles. [More...]
Browse a specific journal
Search for a journal by the first few words in the title (title begins with), any word in the journal title, by exact title, or ISSN.
For example, you could type in Cancer or the Journal of Cell Biology and then browse recent issues of those journals online.
To Get Full Text of Articles
1) Click on any links in your abstract that say "Full Text" to see if it will bring you to full text.
2) Check the Le Moyne e-journal holdings to see if we subscribe to that e-journal. If we do subscribe to that e-journal, simply click through to the correct issue and then the correct article (see your citation).
3) If neither of those options gets you full text, fill out an interlibrary loan form. Depending on your article, you could receive it via email (At the address you specified) in a few hours or a few days—but is' quick!