WNCLibrary: Biology: Databases &amp; Journals

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For guidance on finding appropriate databases, journals, and articles, we have these guides and tutorials:

For information regarding expanding or limiting your search results, please see these guides:

Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
provides full text coverage for nearly 4,700 scholarly publications, including more than 4,000 peer-reviewed full-text journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study.

PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

PubMed Central
a subset of PubMed, provides 5 million free, full-text articles from government sponsored research grants published in life sciences journals. Produced by the National Library of Medicine.
AccessScience
is the online equivalent of the most current edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, which also includes biographies of scientists, recent science-related news articles, study guides, and web site links.

Science Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Science Reference Center contains the full text for hundreds of science magazines, journals, encyclopedias, reference books and a vast collection of images.
MasterFILE Complete (Ebscohost) This link opens in a new window
provides indexing and abstracting to approximately 4,600 journals and general-interest magazines - more than 2,300 in full-text. It also includes hundreds of full-text books, thousands of biographies, historical documents and photos, maps and flags.

Open Journal of Medical Microbiology
Open Journal of Medical Microbiology (OJMM) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in Medical Microbiology.
Animal Cells and Systems
Animal Cells and Systems publishes open access research into animal science and biology, evolution, ecology, biochemistry, genetics and genomics.
Mycobiology
Mycobiology publishes research on the biology, biochemistry and lifecycles of filamentous and lichen fungi, yeasts, moulds, oomycetes, and mushrooms.
Communicative & Integrative Biology
Researching in biological sciences such as animal, plant, microbial communication, signaling, cognition, consciousness, evolution, ecology & behavioral ecology.

These tutorials from Niche Academy provide an excellent overview of how to use the various databases you have access to through the library.