BIOLOGY 

Article: A written piece on a specific topic found in a journal, periodical, magazine, or newspaper

Peer Reviewed Process: When an article is submitted to a scholarly journal, it is evaluated by experts in the field who examine the article's originality, quality of research, clarity of presentation, etc. and determine if the article falls within the scope of the publication. Also known as refereed, scholarly or academic.

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See Remote Access instructions.

When in a database, click on an icon:

 oror  = Full Text

  Links to:

• full text in another database or
• the periodical title in the Library Catalog, if it is available in the Periodicals Area on 2nd floor or
• the Interlibrary Loan/Illiad form to request from another source if the article is not available full text online nor in the  library 
• More info: Find It! FAQ  

When you have a journal title:

• use Periodicals Holdings List
• More info: Finding Periodicals

 Use the Indexes and Databases to identify articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers. Many indexes provide full text articles.

Indexes/Databases to try first:

• Agricola (National Agricultural Library) citations/abstracts
• Biological Abstracts
• BioOne
• EBSCOHost + Flash Tutorial | Instructions 
  • Academic Search Complete
  • Environment Complete
  • GreenFILE
  • Masterfile Premier
  • Science Reference Center
• FirstSearch  +  Instructions 
  • Agricola (National Agriculture Library) citations/abstracts
  • BioDigest
• Turfgrass Information File (TGIF)
• Web of Science: Science Citation Index Expanded 
• WilsonWeb   + Flash tutorial | Instructions
  • Applied Science Full Text
  • General Science Full Text
  • Biological and Agricultural Index Plus
  • OmniFile

Health Related Indexes/Databses to try:

• Annual Review of Nutrition
• CSA Illumina: Health and Safety Science Abstracts and Risk Abstracts  
• BiomedCentral Free access to science, technology, and medicine; scholarly journals
• Directory of Open Access Journals Free access to scholarly journals includes the sciences 
• EBSCOHost + Flash Tutorial | Instructions
  • Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic
  • CINAHL Plus with Full Text
  • MEDLINE
  • Nursing and Allied Health Collection: Basic
  • PsycArticles
  • PsycInfo
  Food Science and Technology Abstracts
• Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews-Human Nutrition (CabDirect)
• PubMed 

Other Indexes/Databasses to try:

• ArXiv Free access to preprint papers in quantitative biology
• SuperSearch searches several vendors/databases simultaneously.  Flash Tutorial | SuperSearch FAQ
• Free Online Databases Available to All

Selected periodicals available on the second floor of the Library.

• American Biology Teacher
• Audubon
• Environment
• Journal of Nutrition
• Quarterly Review of Biology (microfiche)
• Journal of Chromatographic Science
• Journal of Environmental Health
• Journal of Food Biochemistry
• Nature
• Science
• Scientific American

 Nature Publishing Group provides these scholarly/peer-reviewed journals:

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