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Biology 427 Research Guide

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Background Information

Access Science: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

The Cochrane Database

Food/Nutrition Databases

Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews
Notice: Off-campus access to Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews is currently only available through the VPN Client.  We are working to restore off-campus access via the proxy server.
Index and abstracts on all issues related to food and health...[more info]
Nutrition and Food Sciences
Indexes and abstracts to nutrition and food science research...[more info]
CSA Nutrition Collection
Indexes and abstract journal articles about nutrition...[more info]
American Dietetic Association
The American Dietetic Association is the nation's largest organization of food and nutrition professionals. ADA serves the public by promoting optimal nutrition, health and well-being.
[more info]
American Society for Nutrition
The American Society for Nutrition (3,500 members) is the premier research society dedicated to improving the quality of life through the science of nutrition.
[more info]
Agricola
Indexes and abstracts journal articles relevant to all aspects of agriculture....[more info]
Agricultural & Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts journal articles relevant to agricultural products involving both plants and animals..[more info]

Biology Specific Databases

BIOSIS Previews (includes Biological Abstracts)
The interface to this product will be changing January 3, 2008.
Indexes and abstracts journals, patents, conference reports and books in the Life Sciences.[more info]
CSA Illumina
Provides journal indexing and article abstracts for the following science fields: biology, the environment...[more info]
PubMed
A medical and health database developed at the National Library of Medicine (NLM).  [tutorial][more info]
Web of Science
[tutorial]  The interface to this product will be changing January 3, 2008.
Citation index for science and social sciences...[more info]
SciFinder Scholar
[tutorial]
Indexes and abstracts periodical articles in chemistry...[more info]

Science Internet Searches

Science.gov
A gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies...[more info]
Scientific Commons
ScientificCommons.org aims to provide the most comprehensive and freely available access to scientific knowledge on the internet.[more info]
Scirus
This is a science-specific search engine for the Internet[more info]
Google Scholar
Search the Internet for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research...[more info]

JMU Resources

Leo Library Catalog - Find Books and Videos available at James Madison University Libraries.

Periodical Locator - Find specific (known) journals articles at JMU.

Citing your Sources

  • RefWorks - Manage your references or work cited pages by creating your personal database of citations.  Need to export from databases into RefWorks?
  • CheckCite - Check your citation style for papers and speeches.

Contact the Science Librarian, Meris Mandernach.

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