LibGuides: Biology Research Guide: Find Articles

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Search Discovery

Use the Discovery Search to cast a wide net among our resources, or to search for a specific citation, copy and paste the title of your article in the search bar.

(Note: Discovery does not search everything, but it does include most of our databases!)

Subject Databases

Best Bet Databases:

PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
PubMed Central (full text archive) This link opens in a new window
PubMed Central is a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM). With PubMed Central, NLM is taking the lead in preserving and maintaining unrestricted access to the electronic literature, just as it has done for decades with the printed biomedical literature.
MEDLINE This link opens in a new window
MEDLINE indexes the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care.

Other Databases

AGRICOLA This link opens in a new window
AGRICOLA encompasses all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, agricultural engineering and technology and earth and environmental sciences.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR's archival journal collections include more than two thousand journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Data.gov This link opens in a new window
Data.gov captures a variety of metrics on the participation of the 165 agencies and sub-agencies and 709 publishers that supply datasets to Data.gov. For a list of organizations and agencies that provide these data sets, visit data.gov/metrics
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) Database This link opens in a new window
An Environmental Impact Statement is a report required by the federal government that would detail the impacts from significant changes made to the environment. This includes records of all EISs received by the EPA since 1987, EPA comment letters on EISs since 2001, and electronic (PDF) versions of EISs received by EPA since October 2012.
Environment Complete This link opens in a new window
Environment Complete (created by the International Academy at Santa Barbara), Environment Index offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy resources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.
EPA NSCEP This link opens in a new window
Search, retrieve, download, print, and order EPA technical, scientific, and educational materials from this site
ERIC This link opens in a new window
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
UNdata This link opens in a new window
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) launched a new internet based data service for the global user community.
WorldCat Dissertations and Theses This link opens in a new window
All dissertations, theses and published material based on theses cataloged by OCLC members, including all subjects.

Online Journals

Journals through the Library

For a full list of online biology journals, look through these online journals. (Use your 950- number to log in from off-campus.)

BMC Evolutionary Biology
Publication Date: 2001-Present
ISSN: 1471-2148 (online)
Journal of Biological Education
Publication Date: 1990-Present
ISSN: 0021-9266 (print), 2157-6009 (online)
Journal of Experimental Biology
Publication Date: 1930-Present
ISSN: 0022-0949 (print), 1477-9145 (online)
Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews : MMBR. by American Society of Microbiology
Publication Date: 1997-Present
ISSN: 1092-2172 (print), 1098-5557 (online)
Molecular and Cellular Biology by American Society of Microbiology
Publication Date: 1981-Present
ISSN: 0270-7306 (print), 1098-5549 (online)
The Quarterly Review of Biology by Baltimore : Williams & Wilkens
Publication Date: 1926-Present
ISSN: 0033-5770 (print), 1539-7718 (online)
Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)
Access Dates: 2006-2018
ISSN: 1940-087X

Open Access Journals

Nature Communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
New England Journal of Medicine
ISSN: 1533-4406, 0028-4793
PLoS Biology
Publication Date: 2003-Present
ISSN: 1544-9173, 1545-7885
PLoS Computational Biology
Publication Date: 2005-Present
ISSN: 1553-7358, 1553-734X
PLoS Genetics
Publication Date: 2005-Present
ISSN: 1553-7390, 1553-7404
PLos Medicine
Publication Date: 2004-Present
ISSN: 1549-1277, 1549-1676
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Publication Date: 2007-Present
ISSN: 1935-2727, 1935,2735
PLoS ONE
Publication Date: 2006-Present
ISSN: 1932-6203
PLoS Pathogens
Publication Date: 2005-Present
ISSN: 1553-7366, 1553-7374

Interlibrary Loan

Interlibrary loan is the borrowing of materials (books or photocopies) that are not found within the MUW collection for current faculty, staff, and students of Mississippi University for Women. Click "Request through Interlibrary Loan" to submit the request with your online account.