Scientific Article Discovery - Biology 195A - Marine Biology in a Changing Ocean

Useful Article Databases for Bio 195A

Try Searching In An Article Index:

An article index is like Google Search if it only searched journal articles. Below you will find several article indexes that should help you find your primary scientific research article.

Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

Scopus This link opens in a new window
Sciences and social sciences journal article citations. Searchable by author affiliation and citation count.
CogPrints
ArXiv.org
OAI
US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
European Patent Office
Japan Patent Office
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
UK Intellectual Property Office

Scopus Orientation Video
Brief screen capture video highlighting many of the useful features of the Scopus article index.

PubMed This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 37 million citations and abstracts of literature in biomedicine and health fields, and related disciplines such as life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering. [From the publisher]
general science
chemistry
medicine
nursing
dentistry
veterinary medicine
health care system
preclinical sciences
It does not include full text journal articles; however, links to the full text are often present when available from other sources.
Semantic Scholar This link opens in a new window
Over 214 million papers from all fields of science, with filters such as journals and conferences, authors, publication types, and date range. The "Highly Influential" feature identifies citations where the cited publication has a significant impact on the citing publication and can make it easier to understand how publications build upon and relate to each other. [From the publisher]
Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
Biomedical, physical and social science literature reviews.

Try Searching in a Single Journal

If Bates has access to a specific journal, you can search within it very easily!

From the Ladd Library home page, select the "Journals by Title" link beneath the Library Search box.
On the resulting new page enter the title or ISSN of the journal you want to search.
Select your desired journal from the search results and then use the "Search Inside" box to search for articles within the journal.