Find Journal Articles - BIOL 182 - General Biology II - LibGuides at Central Washington University

A note about databases

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The following is a list of suggested databases for your class emphasis. You can also find these databases by scrolling down in t his alphabetical list.

Journal Databases

PubMed
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PubMed lets you search millions of journal citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences

Academic Search Complete
A scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals, and indexing and abstracting for more than 9,300 journals.
JSTOR
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Contains the complete back issues of over 600 core scholarly journals in the natural and applied sciences, as well as the arts, humanities, and the social sciences.
ScienceDirect
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ScienceDirect is Elsevier’s platform for ebooks and peer-reviewed journals in the areas of physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities. It contains indexing, abstracts, and tables of contents for over 2,500 journals and over 35,000 ebooks. Full text access is available for those titles to which CWU subscribes.
SpringerLink
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Full text of journal articles back to 1999 from over 800 journals in the theoretical and applied sciences, technology and medicine, and other disciplines.
Web of Science - Science Citation Index Expanded
Science Citation Index Expanded is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences. It fully covers major journals across 178 scientific disciplines and includes all cited references captured from indexed articles. Coverage: 1995-present
Wiley Online Library
Full text of journal articles back to 1997 from journals in science and technology, as well as other disciplines.

BioMed Central

BioMed Central open access journal articles
We are an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher with a large portfolio of peer-reviewed open access journals. Our journals span all areas of biology, medicine and health, including broad interest titles such as BMC Biology and BMC Medicine alongside specialist journals, such as Malaria Journal and BMC Infectious Diseases.

All original research articles we publish are made freely accessible online immediately upon publication. Authors retain the copyright to their work, licensing it under the Creative Commons Attribution License which allows articles to be re-used and re-distributed without restriction, as long as the original work is correctly cited.

BioMed Central is owned by Springer Nature.