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Biology 260 Research Guide

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Background Information

Access Science: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

General Databases/ News Articles

Scopus
Indexing, abstracts, and citation searching for science and social science scholarly literature...[more info]
Academic Search Premier
Index and full-text source for scholarly journals and magazines ...[more info]
General OneFile (InfoTrac)
Index and full-text source for newspaper, magazine, and journal articles on a wide range of topics...[more info]
WilsonWeb OmniFile
An index with abstracts and some full text covering all subjects, including humanities and social sciences...[more info]
Newspaper Source

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