Best Bets for Finding Scholarly Biology 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...]
How to Get the Full Text of Articles
1. Click on any link for "Full Text" to see if it will bring you to the full article. Also try links like "Find at Le Moyne Library"
2. Check the Journal Finder to see if the library subscribes to that e-journal. If we do, simply click through to the correct issue and then the correct article. (Look at your citation to find this information).
3. If neither of those two options gets you full text, use interlibrary loan to request the article. It's free, easy and quick!
4. You can always email Kari at zheheikm@lemoyne.edu and ask for help with getting full text!