LibGuides: Biology Courses & Research: Find Articles

Articles

BioOne
A full-text collection of select peer-reviewed scholarly journals in biology, ecology, and environmental sciences. Covers the most recent two to five years.
BioMed Central
Peer reviewed, open-access scientific, technical, and biomedical publications. All original research articles published by BioMed Central are peer-reviewed and made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication.
ProQuest Central
Multidisciplinary, mostly full-text database of newspaper, scholarly, and trade articles.
GreenFILE
Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles (some full-text), as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the ways humans affect the ecology by connecting environmental research with disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Scholarly coverage of medical topics. Includes AHFS Consumer Medication Information on drug patient education. Some full-text.
JSTOR
Multidisciplinary full-text academic journals, books, and primary sources (usually excludes the past 2-5 years).
PLOS (Public Library of Science)
PLOS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. Peer-reviewed articles in Biology, Medicine, Genetics, and other disciplines are available online through their website.
ScienceDirect
A full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from nearly 2,500 journals and more than 30,000 books, it includes the physical and health sciences, math, computer science, and some social sciences.

NOTE: to download full text articles from ScienceDirect, first create an account using your Wartburg email address.

ScienceDirect (Requesting Articles)

How to request an article through ScienceDirect:

To download full text articles from Science Direct:

Create an account by clicking on the "Register" link at the top of the page.
Once registered, you can download the full text of an article in one of two ways:
1. For free full text articles, simply click the "Download PDF" link.
2. For other articles, click the "Get Access" link.
  Click on the green "Order Document" link above the article:
  
  Fill out the form and submit.
  We will respond within 2 business days.

If you encounter any issues during your search or within the requesting process, please contact the science librarian, Todd Vandenbark, by phone or email (319-352-8244; todd.vandenbark@wartburg.edu).

Websites & Search Engines

Encyclopedia of Life
free, online collaborative encyclopedia intended to document all of the 1.9 million living species known to science. It is compiled from existing databases and from contributions by experts and non-experts throughout the world.
The Cell Image Library
A freely accessible, easy-to-search, public repository of reviewed and annotated images, videos, and animations of cells from a variety of organisms, showcasing cell architecture, intracellular functionalities, and both normal and abnormal processes

Google Scholar
Search across disciplines and sources to locate articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities, and other web sites.

Integrated Taxonomic Information System
Provides authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.
National Library of Medicine
World's largest medical library with more than seven million books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts, microfilms, photographs, and images on medicine and related sciences, including some of the world's oldest and rarest works.
National Science Foundation
US government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering
NOAA Habitat Conservation
The NOAA Fisheries Office of Habitat Conservation protects, restores, and promotes stewardship of coastal and marine habitat to support our nation's fisheries for future generations. Their website documents their efforts, and is rich with information on these areas.
ScienceResearch.com
Searches over 300 free, authoritative science and technology collections
Wellcom Library
A collection of materials on the history of medicine and the medical humanities. It houses over 2.5 million items of extraordinary range and diversity, including books, films, archives, manuscripts and artworks from around the world.

ICUN Red List of Threatened Species
Provides taxonomic, conservation status and distribution information on plants, fungi and animals that have been globally evaluated to determine the relative risk of extinction.
PubMed Central
Free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).