LibGuides: Biology Subject Guide: Articles

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Print Articles

Journals that Maag Library receives in print are found on Maag's sixth floor. Search for them through MaagNet or browse by Library of Congress (LC) call numbers.

Electronic (Online) Articles

Many Biology journals are available through online subscription databases, which allow access by current YSU faculty, students and staff from off campus; a few are on-campus use only. Use the resources listed below to start your research.

Find Maag Library journal access through the Maag Journal Finder. Search for a specific journal by title or ISSN or browse under the Biology or Life Sciences general discipline categories. Once one of these categories has been selected, filter the search by selecting specific topics from the the left-side subjects listings.

AGRICOLA (U.S. National Agricultural Library)
Database for the National Agricultural Library (NAL) as well as agricultre and allied disciplines (plant sciences, forestry).
Indexed publications and resources encompass all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, alternative farming practices, and food and nutrition. Auxiliary subjects that support NAL's Information Center activities, such as agricultural trade and marketing, rural information, and animal welfare are also included.
arXiv
Open-access to e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Quantitative Biology.
BIOSIS Previews (Web of Science)
The only biology-specific database index.
Includes citations from Biological Abstracts and Biological Abstracts/RRM.

Directory of Open-Access Journals (DOAJ)

Electronic Journal Center (OhioLINK)
Full-text article repository. Do definitive searches in other databases and then retrieve article/s through the EJC.
Includes the full text of more than 7000 online research journals covering many subject areas. Most electronic indexes available to the Ohio academic community link from article citations to the full text in the EJC.
Environment Complete (EBSCO)
Covers ecosystems, ecology, energy, natural resources, marine & freshwater, pollution & waste management, environmental technology & law as well as public policy, social impacts, and urban planning.
Covers applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. The database indexes approximately 1,200 domestic and international journals, as well as 100 monographs and provides full text to the conference papers of the North American Association of Environmental Education.
JSTOR
Indexes up to the last 3-5 years of journals. In Advanced Search use any of the following categories: "Biological Sciences," "Botany and Plant Sciences," "Developmental and Cell Biology." "Ecology and Evolutionary Biology," or "Zoology."
With 50 million pages digitized, and an additional 3 million pages added each year, JSTOR includes more than 2,000 academic journals, plus thousands of monographs and other materials relevant for education.
MEDLINE (PubMed)
National Library of Medicine (NLM) database; includes pre-print publications.
Provides access to MEDLINE, the NLM database of more than 11 million bibliographic citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences. Includes access to additional selected life sciences journals not in MEDLINE. Links to the full-text of articles at participating publishers web sites. Links to the molecular biology databases maintained by NCBI. Interface developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Links to full-text of selected articles are available using this URL to access PubMed.
ScienceDirect (Elsevier)
Access to approximately 3,000 journal titles. While some titles and ebooks are not available to YSU students, others may be found in OhioLINK's Electronic Journal Center (EJC).
SciFinder
First-time users must register for a SciFinder account:
HOW TO REGISTER FOR A SCIFINDER ACCOUNT
American Chemical Society. The choice for Chemistry research.
SciFinder Training

SciFinder Registration Directions
How to do first-time registration with SciFinder.

Web of Science
Indexes, abstracts, and cited references for articles in the sciences.
Using Web of Science Guide
Basic Web of Science training
More Extensive Web of Science training

Biology Subject Guide: Articles

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