Guides: Biological Sciences Research Guide: Articles and Research

Article Databases

Academic Search Premier
A favorite for the social sciences, humanities, fine arts, medicine, and education, ASP indexes 8,200 periodicals. Full-text articles from 3,750 peer-reviewed, scholarly journals are found here, plus a number of popular sources.

Additional search help is available at: https://help.ebsco.com/interfaces/EBSCO_Guides/EBSCO_Interfaces_User_Guide
Google Scholar
The academic side of Google is here, retrieving articles, chapters, books, and reports from university presses and other sources. Books out of copyright are here in full text. From the Settings, select "Library Links" to add Regis and see “Full Text @ My Library” among your search results.
PubMed
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service that provides access to over 10 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases, with links to participating online journals. See PubMed User Guide for more information.
ScienceDirect (Elsevier)
This collection includes the full-text for over 1,600 Elsevier journals in the areas of science, technology and medicine. Over 6.5 million articles are available from all fields of science. Full-text is available from 1995 for most journals, however, a full-text for a sub-set of the titles begins in 1993.
SciFinder Scholar
Chemical Abstracts is now available via SciFinder Scholar. This database covers a variety of scientific disciplines, including Agriculture Science, Biology and Life Sciences, Engineering Sciences, Food Sciences, General Chemistry, Geological Sciences, Material Sciences, Medical Sciences, Physics, and Polymer Science. Access now includes the substructure module.
Wiley Online Library
This collection of 279 journals includes the full-text of articles. Coverage includes titles in business, finance & management; chemistry; computer science; earth science; education; engineering; law; life and medical sciences; mathematics & statistics; physics; and psychology.

Environment & Agriculture

AGRIS
Sponsored by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nation, this database contains information on agricultural science and technology papers, data, statistics, and multimedia materials.
EcoTox
ECOTOX is a source for locating single chemical toxicity data for aquatic life, terrestrial plants and wildlife.
GreenFILE
PubAg
PubAg covers all of the core topics of the agricultural sciences including nutrition, food safety, food quality, animal and crop production and protection, natural resources, sustainable agricultural systems, rural development, agricultural economic and policy issues, agricultural imports and exports, agricultural statistics, extramural research, and Extension education.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
A federal department that provides leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, rural development, nutrition, and related issues based on public policy, the best available science, and effective management.

Top Journals

Access Nature
The international weekly journal of science. Search for full text articles, jobs, news and research.

Annual Review of ...
Full-text annual reviews from the areas of biochemistry; biophysics; ecology, evolution and systematics; genomics and human genetics; medicine; microbiology; neuroscience; physiology; psychology; physical chemistry; anthropology; and sociology.

BioMed Central
BMC publishes 300 peer-reviewed journals, from research communities in science, technology, engineering and medicine. BMC offers open access publishing which allows free distribution of and access to published articles.
Cell Press Journals
Cell Press publishes research and review journals on the topics of cell biology, medicine and plant science. Articles are available through Elsevier.
DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ is a community-curated list of open access journals. Its goal is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals, thereby promoting their increased usage and impact.
Ecology (the journal)
Find full-text articles in the journal "Ecology."Click on the "Ecology" box, the click on the Advanced Search link near the upper right side of the next page. Once you are at Advanced Search use the pull-down menu on the right to search only the journal "Ecology."
PLOS: Public Library of Science
PLOS is a multidisciplinary open access journal that reports on original research from all disciplines within science and medicine.
PubMed Central
PMC is a free full-text repository of biomedical and life science literature available through the National Library of Medicine.