BIO 500: Independent Study: Articles

A good database for biology.

Searching for slightly older biological information? Try JSTOR.

Focusing on biochemistry? Try SciFinder. New Users must register first.

You must use your LVC email address to register. Access for current faculty, students and staff.

Complete full-text archive of 179 research journals in the biological sciences. JSTOR does not provide access to current issues; it provides full-text of journals typically 1-5 years prior to the current date. It is somewhat difficult to search.

Useful for biochemical literature. Will need to create a SciFinder account to login.

This link will take you to a registration page which will allow you to set up a user account with SciFinder. Access for current faculty, students and staff. You must use your LVC email address to register.

Agriculture, biology, forestry, and ecology. Part of OmniFile Full Text Mega.

Multi-purpose general database.

A free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

Searches scholarly journal articles. Will be useful for citation searches--finding which articles have cited one of your good articles found in another database. Run a search of the title of your good article--if GS pulls up the good article in the results, you'll see a CITED BY link--that'll provide you with a list of articles in GS that have cited YOUR article.