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Ecology - BIOL 231 - Research for Literature Reviews
Research Databases for Finding Scientific Articles
These databases will include both primary and secondary scientific literature. Primary literature are the original research studies published in peer reviewed journals by researchers. These are the types of sources you will want to find for your literature review.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowThis Elsevier database provides mostly full-text access to over 14 million scientific, technical and health publications from over 3,800 journals and more than 35,000 books.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowA multidisciplinary, scholarly database containing digitized back issues of academic journals, books, primary sources, and current issues of journals.
- Science Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowThis ProQuest database provides mostly full-text for scientific journals in physics, engineering, transportation, astronomy, biology, earth science, chemistry, computers, telecommunication and the military.
- Biology Database This link opens in a new windowA ProQuest database that provides access to a wide range of biology topics including biological chemistry, biophysics, botany, cytology, genetics, histology, environmental studies, microbiology, microscopy, neurology and zoology.
- Environment Complete This link opens in a new windowAn EBSCO database the provides full-text materials in applicable areas of environmental studies, including agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, environmental law, environmental technology, geography, marine & freshwater science plus more.
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowA multidisciplinary EBSCO database offering scholarly and non-scholarly material on a wide variety of subjects.
- Proquest Central This link opens in a new windowA multidisciplinary database that provides access to ProQuest databases across all major subject areas.