BIO 427 Research Guide

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Choose a database?

Find Science Books and Journals at JMU?(pdf)

Background Information

Access Science: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

The Cochrane Library

Cross Disciplinary Databases

Scopus

Indexing, abstracts, and citation searching for science and social science scholarly literature...

Academic Search Complete

Index and full-text source for scholarly journals and magazines ...

OmniFile Full Text Mega

An index with abstracts and some full text covering all subjects, including humanities and social sciences.

Newspaper Source Plus

Selected full text for U.S. and international newspapers...

Biology Specific Databases

BIOSIS Previews (includes Biological Abstracts)

Indexes and abstracts journals, patents, conference reports and books in the Life Sciences.

PubMed

A medical and health database developed at the National Library of Medicine (NLM). [tutorial] [basic info pdf]

SciFinder Scholar

[tutorial] Indexes and abstracts periodical articles in chemistry...

Quertle

Quertle uses a semantic, relationship-based search to retrieve articles from PubMed, PubMed Central, MEDLINE, BioMed Central, NIH RePORTER, and TOXLINE.

Science Internet Searches

Science.gov

Science.gov searches over 50 databases and over 2100 selected websites from 13 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative US government science information including research and development results.

Scirus

This is a science-specific search engine for the Internet

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...

JMU Resources

JMU 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.

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