Research Guides: Biology: Databases

InterLibrary Loan - Articles

ILLiad Interlibrary Loan

For articles not available online or in the library, use an online form to request it via ILLiad - more info.
Articles are usually delivered online in 3-5 days.

Scholarly Databases

Databases contain collections of articles. Many databases contain only peer-reviewed articles, or allow you to filter to only view peer-reviewed articles. Though many articles will be listed in more than one database, each database contains a different group of articles.

General Science Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Find articles on a wide range of subjects, including peer-reviewed articles.
Access Tips: Also available via mel.org
BioOne This link opens in a new window
Bioscience research journals from societies and other small publishers
Subjects: Biology, Botany, Ecology, Life Sciences, Natural Science, Zoology
Info type: scholarly journals
Google Scholar with EMU Full Text This link opens in a new window
Contains citations for scholarly articles, books, research reports, and patents. It contains references from many disciplines including a large amount of scientific material.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Archive of back issues for many journals, some academic ebooks, and research reports.
Subjects: Covers most subjects
Info type: scholarly journals, professional periodicals, ebooks.
Access Tips: Usually the most recent 3-5 years are not available in JSTOR. However, EMU may have a current subscription. Check the Journal Titles search.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Search for articles in Science & Social Science journals and see which articles cite an article

PLoS: Public Library of Science

Botany, Ecology & Field Biology

AGRICOLA This link opens in a new window
References relating to agriculture, from the USDA's National Agriculture Library.
Access Tips: Also available via mel.org

International Plant Names Index
IPNI records come from three sources: the Index Kewensis (IK), the Gray Card Index (GCI) and the Australian Plant Names Index (APNI). The about page summarizes basic information about each data source and the procedures followed in merging the records so that the user can understand the origin and the limitations of the combined dataset.

Ornithological Research Archive (SORA) This link opens in a new window
Search or browse back issues of key ornithology journals.
Subjects: Birds, Ornithology
Info type: scholarly journals
Access Tips: Does not include recent journal issues.

MarineBio
Database of information on marine species, images, and more.

Human Biology & Gentics

BioMed Central
Contains open access journals which can be browsed by title or by subject.
NCBI's Entrez Gene: gene-centered information
Does not include all known or predicted genes; instead focuses on genomes that have been completely sequenced, that have an active research community, or that are scheduled for intense sequence analysis. Content represents the result of curation and automated integration of data from NCBI's Reference Sequence project (RefSeq), from collaborating model organism databases, and from many other NCBI databases. Records are assigned unique, stable and tracked integers as identifiers.
Public Library of Science
Contains 7 full-text open access biomedical journals.

PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

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