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Biology 130: Finding Articles

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Finding Library Lab Sources

Check out this quick tutorial on finding sources for your library lab.

Finding Academic Articles - Web of Science

Recommended Article Databases

  • Web of Science Tutorial
    Web of Science compiles articles from over 9,300 scholarly journals in all science disciplines. Users can easily find article references and other publications citing a particular work.
  • Embase Tutorial
    Embase covers the most important international biomedical literature from 1947 to the present day and all articles are indexed in depth using Elsevier's Life Science thesaurus.
  • Gale in Context: Environmental Studies Tutorial
    Gale in Context: Environmental Studies offers authoritative content on the development of emerging green technologies and discusses issues on the environment, sustainability and more.
  • MEDLINE (PubMed) Tutorial
    MEDLINE is produced by the National Library of Medicine and indexes over 4700 medical journals and publication, including veterinary medicine. PubMed is the public version of MEDLINE. It is updated daily and has a good search algorithm.
  • Scopus Tutorial
    Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world’s research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
  • CAB Abstracts (EBSCO) Tutorial
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Additional Article Databases

A collection of several bibliographic databases for environmental sciences. Includes Conference Papers Index, TOXLINE, EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements, Ecology Abstracts, and Water Resources. Updated monthly.
  • Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO) Tutorial
  • Agricola (EBSCO) Tutorial
    AGRICOLA is an agricultural sciences database that contains records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Over 2,000 journals and publication series are indexed from 1979 to the present.
  • Agricultural & Environmental Science (ProQuest) Tutorial
    A collection of several bibliographic databases for environmental sciences. Includes Conference Papers Index, TOXLINE, EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements, Ecology Abstracts, and Water Resources. Updated monthly.
  • BioCyc Tutorial
  • GreenFILE (EBSCO) Tutorial
  • MEDLINE (EBSCO) Tutorial
    MEDLINE is produced by the National Library of Medicine and indexes over 4700 medical journals and publication, including veterinary medicine. The EBSCO version of MEDLINE can be simultaneously searched with other EBSCO databases and is updated monthly.

To see if a journal is peer reviewed...

Do a search for the journal name in this database.  Look for the black-and-white referee shirt icon which tells you that the journal is peer reviewed.