LibGuides: Biology: Find Articles

Article Databases and Indexes

These are the best places to start looking for articles in Biology. You can also see our full list of Electronic Resources.

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Huge multidisciplinary index of articles in over 8,500 journals, from 1989 to the present. (Includes: Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index)
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to articles from 1,700 Elsevier journals covering the subject areas of science, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
SpringerLink This link opens in a new window
Huge collection of full-text articles from over 1,500 journals in many subject areas (e.g. life sciences, chemical sciences, geosciences, computer sciences, mathematics, physics & astronomy, engineering, environmental sciences, economics).
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Over 1.5 million scholarly articles relating to scientific research as well as many humanities and social science disciplines.
CSP (Canadian Science Publishing) Journals This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to the 23 journals published by Canadian Science Publishing. (Formerly NRC Research Press Journals)
* Full text articles
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text collection of scholarly journals in multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections.
Tip: Use 'Advanced Search' to limit to the subject collections appropriate to your search.

Key Journals in Full Text

Professional/Scholarly Biology Journals available in fulltext:

Conservation Genetics

Economics and Human Biology

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Invertebrate Biology

Marine Biotechnology

Molecular Genetics and Metabolism

Nature

Systems and Synthetic Biology

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Open Access Journals

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