Research Guides: Microbiology & Bacteriology: 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

AGRICOLA
References relating to agriculture, from the USDA's National Agriculture Library.
Access Tips: Also available via mel.org
Academic Search Complete
Find articles on a wide range of subjects, including peer-reviewed articles.
Access Tips: Also available via mel.org
BioOne

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
Search for scholarly materials on any topic
Info type: scholarly articles, books, research reports, theses, working papers, cited sources
Access Tips: Use link above to get access to EMU subscriptions with Findtext+ links.
If this link does not work and you receive an error message from Google then use this alternate link to Google Scholar and also set your Google Scholar preferences to show EMU library access links.
Search Instruction: Google Scholar Video
JSTOR

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
Search for articles in Science & Social Science journals and see which articles cite an article

PLoS: Public Library of Science

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.