Your Librarian
Interlibrary Loan
If you can't find the full text of an article you can request it through Interlibrary Loan. This service is free, quick and easy. We deliver an electronic copy of the article directly to your ILL account. Click here to sign in or create a new account: https://illiad.wartburg.edu/illiad/logon.html
Articles
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ProQuest Central
Multidisciplinary, mostly full-text database of newspaper, scholarly, and trade articles. -
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. -
BioOne
A full-text collection of select peer-reviewed scholarly journals in biology, ecology, and environmental sciences. -
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.
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:
- For free full text articles, simply click the "Download PDF" link.
- 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).
Indexes and Abstracts
An index is a database containing citation and abstract information. It describes the article but does not contain the full text of articles. If you find an article in an index you will need to locate the full text through the OneSearch or interlibrary loan.
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BioOne
A full-text collection of select peer-reviewed scholarly journals in biology, ecology, and environmental sciences.
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Biological Abstracts
Indexes scholarly journal articles in biology, chemistry, ecology, environmental science and other life sciences. -
PubMed
PubMed comprises over 20 million citations for bio-medical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences.
