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 windowUse to find scholarly articles in natural science and social science. Contains full-text articles and abstracts from peer-reviewed scholarly journals.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowUse to find what is happening in research throughout the world in the fields of science, technology, social sciences, medicine and arts and humanities. Contains abstracts and citations from peer-reviewed journals, books and conference proceedings. Must use links to access full-text.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowUse to find interdisciplinary articles from academic publishers, professional societies, institutional and preprint repositories 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. Contains full-text and abstracts of scholarly articles.
How to Use - BioOne Complete This link opens in a new windowUse to find articles in biology, ecology, and environmental science. Contains full-text peer-reviewed articles.
- PubMed This link opens in a new windowUse to find a free and accessible version of MedLine from the National Library of Medicine, a database that contains references to peer-reviewed articles about life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. Contains citations and abstracts from over 4000 medical and biomedical journals in the U.S. and other countries. Sourced from the National Library of Medicine.