Research Guides: Biology: Find Articles

Topic Discussions

Issues and Controversies This link opens in a new window
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Essays on today’s crucial issues and hot topics in politics, business, education, the environment, medicine, and more. A great resource for overview and persuasive papers and speeches.
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale) This link opens in a new window
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This series takes a pro-con approach to today’s social issues and hot topics in politics, business, education, the environment, medicine, and more. It's the perfect resource when you have to take one side of a debate or have to write a persuasive essay.

Grey Literature

bioRxiv
bioRxiv (pronounced "bio-archive") is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences.

Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1861 to the present day and offering full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997.

National Service Center for Environmental Publications
You can search, retrieve, download, print, and order US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) technical, scientific, and educational materials from this site
USGS Publications Warehouse
The Pubs Warehouse provides access to over 160,000 publications written by United States Geological Survey (USGS) scientists over the century-plus history of the bureau.

Get Started with Scholarly Articles

Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus uniquely combines a comprehensive, curated abstract and citation database with enriched data and linked scholarly content.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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The premier research platform to find and analyze scholarly research literature on Sciences, Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities. Includes proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions.

More Article Databases

AGRICOLA (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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From the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library, this source provides access to journal articles, book chapters, theses, and more on agricultural topics.
Agriculture Science Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Iincludes agricultural science related full-text articles, granular access to figures and tables within articles, and the entire range of bibliographic records from AGRICOLA

Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community. BHL also serves as the foundational literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).

Biological Science Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Provides comprehensive coverage of biological science fields including animal behavior, aquatic life and fisheries, chemoreception, biochemistry, ecology, plant science, toxicology, virology, microbiology, immunology genetics, health and safety science, oncogenes, entomology, and endocrinology neuroscience.
Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
An interdisciplinary resource of quality, includes content from scholarly journals, trade journals, conference proceedings, and other sources.
Environment Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
This leading full-text database offers extensive coverage in the areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, and affiliated areas of study. Offering full text and indexing for journals, books and monographs, it is an invaluable resource for students and scholars across all environmental disciplines.
Environmental Science Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Provides the most complete collection of resources available to support this multi-disciplinary field. The collection combines specialist topic resources from engineering, biotechnology, bacteriology, atmospheric science, ecology, and biology.

Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
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Offer comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews on Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences. Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited scientific literature as indexed by Journal Citation Reports.
Science Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
A definitive resource for students studying both the applied and general sciences. With coverage dating back to 1986, features over 1030 titles, with more than 760 available in full text. Search over 2.7M records, dating back to the mid 1980s.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
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Elsevier's platform for access to Scientific journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals and more than 11,000 books.
Science Reference Center (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Designed to meet every student researcher's needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science magazines, journals, encyclopedias, reference books and a vast collection of images.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus uniquely combines a comprehensive, curated abstract and citation database with enriched data and linked scholarly content.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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The premier research platform to find and analyze scholarly research literature on Sciences, Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities. Includes proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions.

PubMed This link opens in a new window
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PubMed comprises more than 22 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Provides indexing for more than 2,700 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health.
Medline (Ovid) This link opens in a new window
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Medline comprises more than 20 million citations for biomedical literature from life science journals.
ClinicalKey This link opens in a new window
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Full text access to selected medical texts, medical journals, practice guidelines, drug information, patient handouts, and CME materials.

Unlimited user access to all titles.

More Medical Databases
Databases of articles, ebooks, and clinical information in medicine provided by CMU Libraries

Journal Citation Reports This link opens in a new window
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Single access point for two editions: JCR Science Edition contains data from over 7,300 journals in science and technology; JCR Social Sciences Edition contains data from over 2,200 journals in the social sciences. JCR is an excellent source for discovering journal impact factor.
Institute for Scientific Information Citation Databases / ISI This link opens in a new window
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Science citation index expanded from 1900 to the present , Social sciences citation index from 1956 to the present, and Arts & humanities citation index from 1975 to the present

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