scholarly articles for biology
Databases are used to locate journal, magazine, and newspaper articles about a topic. A subject's premier databases are the ones that are usually the most helpful and are often a good place to start.
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Academic Search Elite
Subject: Multidisciplinary.
Academic Search Elite is a multidisciplinary database covering both popular and scholarly journals. This database is most useful for students in the early stages of research, because searches return a broad range of article results
Medline
Subject: Sciences > Nursing.
Medline provides access to scholarly articles covering nursing, medical, and life science topics; it is another user interface for the National Library of Medicine's PubMed. While the content is the same, some people find this interface (the same as Web of Science) easier to search. This version also has links to the journals that are owned by Reeves, through the Check Reevevs button, which PubMed does not.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Subject: Multidisciplinary
The Directory of Open Access Journals is a selection of freely available full-text journals in a variety of subjects. Their search page is one way to find articles that are freely available.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Subject: Sciences > Nursing.
Health Source provides access to scholarly and consumer level nursing, medical, and health related article from over 615 journals.
HighWire Press Stanford University
Subject: Multidisciplinary.
HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1054 journals and 4,343,436 full text articles from over 130 scholarly publishers. Some articles are available in full text.
JSTOR
Subject: Humanities. Social Sciences. Sciences.
JSTOR provides access to core scholarly journals covering many liberal arts disciplines: African American Studies, African Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Asian Studies, Biological Sciences, Business, Classical Studies, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Economics, Education, Finance, Geography, History, History of Science & Technology, Language & Literature, Latin American Studies, Mathematics, Middle East Studies, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, and Statistics.
PubMed Free Search
Subject: Sciences > Nursing; Biochemistry; Biology. Social Sciences > Psychology.
PubMed Free Search provides access to scholarly articles covering nursing, medical, and life science topics. This site is sponsored by the U.S. Government and searches for MEDLINE® and other life science journals.
ScienceDirect
Subject: Sciences.
ScienceDirect provides access to scholarly articles covering virtually all science and technology related fields. Contains abstracts and full-text access to articles in journals to which Moravian subscribes, dating back to 1999. Ask a librarian how to limit your search to only full text.
Web of Knowledge
Subject: Sciences. Social Sciences.
Web of Knowledge contains the two databases: Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Science Citation Index. These databases are core to science and social science research.
Wiley Interscience
Subject: Sciences. Social Sciences. Business & Industry.
Wiley Interscience provides access to scholarly articles covering virtually all science and technology related fields, business, and some social sciences. Contains abstracts and full-text access to articles in journals to which Moravian and other local colleges and universities subscribe, dating back to 1997.
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