Biological Sciences Subject Guide

Article Databases

 

14 resources available
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Comprehensive Databases


AGRICOLA restricted Covers agriculture, forestry and animal science, includes food science and nutrition. Coverage 1970 - present. Updated monthly.

  • RefWorks Info: For Import filter, choose "OCLC FirstSearch". For Database: choose, "AGRICOLA".


Librarian's Comment: Includes applied ecology topics such as pest control, global warming etc.

Biological and Agricultural Index restricted Indexes popular and professional journals in agriculture, biology, forestry, and ecology. Coverage: 1983 - present. Updated: monthly.

  • RefWorks Info: For Import Filter, choose "OCLC FirstSearch". For Database, choose "BioAgIndex".


Biology Digest restricted Indexes non-technical life sciences articles for undergraduate and high school students. Coverage: 1989-present. Updated monthly, September-May.

  • RefWorks Info: Biology Digest will export marked citations directly into your RefWorks account. (You will be prompted to login.)


BioOne restricted Covers over 200 high-impact, peer-reviewed full-text journals, in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. Includes The Arabidopsis Book. Most titles indesed are published by societies and non-profit scholarly publishers. Coverage, 2000-date. Continuously updated.

  • RefWorks Info: Medline will export marked citations directly into your RefWorks account. (You will be prompted to login.)


BIOSIS Previews restricted Comprehensive index with abstracts to periodical articles, reviews, and meetings in all the biological sciences disciplines. Coverage: 1969-present. Updated weekly.
This subscription is limited to three simultaneous users. Please logout when finished.

  • RefWorks Info: For Import Filter, choose "ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)". For Database, choose "BIOSIS".


Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest) restricted Indexes virtually all doctoral dissertations and many masters theses produced in the U.S. since 1860 and many from foreign schools as well. Abstracts available from 1980. Full text for most dissertations available from 1997. Some authors choose to not make their dissertations available. Print and microfilm copies are offered for a fee, but check out Interlibrary Loan before paying for a copy.

  • RefWorks Info: Dissertations and Theses (Proquest) will export marked citations directly into your RefWorks account. (You will be prompted to login.)


Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management restricted Multidisciplinary index with abstracts of journals, conference proceedings, reports, books and government publications in the environmental sciences. Coverage: 1967- present. Updated monthly.

  • RefWorks Info: Imports checked citations directly into RefWorks.


LexisNexis Environmental restricted Indexes environmental content in journals, conference papers and proceedings, federal and state government reports, newspapers, trade magazines, newsletters, law reviews, administrative codes, case law, regulatory agency decisions, and waste site and hazardous material data.

Medline (FirstSearch) restricted The major index to medical research, from clinical medicine to cellular and biomolecular biology. Produced by the US National Library of Medicine. Coverage: 1965 - present. Updated daily.

  • RefWorks Info: Medline will export marked citations directly into your RefWorks account. (You will be prompted to login.)


Librarian's Comment: A invaluable database for biochemistry and biomedicine. This FirstSearch MEDLINE interface shows the journals to which WMU subscribes, and provides links to online text when available, to WMU's catalog for print access and to interlibrary loan.

Medline (SciFinder Scholar) restricted SciFinder Scholar allows you to search the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE and Chemical Abstracts simultaneously.

One-time registration is required for Web-access. Web-based access is limited to four simultaneous users. Please logout when finished.

Librarian's Comment: MEDLINE can also be searched via FirstSearch and PubMed.

PubMed open access Is the National Library of Medicine's interface for searching MEDLINE, the major index to medical research, from clinical medicine to cellular and biomolecular biology.  Free citations and abstracts, limited full text. Coverage: 1966 - present. Updated weekly.

Tips for using PubMed effectively are found in the NLM PubMed tutorial and UFL PubMed tutorial.



Librarian's Comment: MEDLINE can also be searched via FirstSearch which provides direct links to: full text online when available, WMU's catalog and interlibrary loan.

Science Citation Index restricted
Covers major scholarly journals for science, medicine and engineering. Cited Ref. search feature finds articles that cited a specific author or publication. Coverage: 1900 - present. More info

Scopus restricted Scopus is a very large abstract and indexing database primarily covering scholarly literature in science and social science. Use this to get extensive inter-disciplinary access to journal articles and also to find out which articles are being cited by other scholars. Scopus includes 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers. Coverage from 1995. Tutorial

  • RefWorks Info: Scopus will export marked citations directly into your RefWorks account. (You will be prompted to login.)


Web of Science restricted Contains three major databases: (1) Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-present), (2) Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present), and (3) Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present). Cited Ref. Search allows users to search for articles that cite a particular author or work.   Tutorial

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RefWorks Info: For Import Filter, choose "ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)". For Database, choose "Web of Science".

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