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Biology: Subject Guide

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Featured Library Resources: Biology

Never Home Alone (book cover)
The Tangled Tree (book cover)
Experimenting at the Boundaries of Life (book cover)
Ocean Outbreak (book cover)
Discovering Retroviruses (book cover)
She Has Her Mother's Laugh (book cover)

Recommended Databases: Biology

  • Biological Abstracts Best Bet
    The database provides millions of citations and abstracts of life science and biomedical research literature published in more than 4,000 journals.
  • Biological Science Database Best Bet
    This database includes over 370 titles in biology, with more than 325 available in full text.
  • Gale in Context: Science
    This database provides content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files, podcasts and web links on science topics to support high school curricula and university coursework.
    It includes such acclaimed science series, like Experiment Central; it also features curriculum-aligned content to aid educators and enhance student research.
  • Infobase - Science Online
    Presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies, and experiments.
  • Science Database
    This database features over 1,145 titles in both general and applied sciences, with more than 965 available in full text. It all major fields of study, including: physics, engineering, astronomy, biology, earth science, chemistry, and more.
  • ScienceDirect College Editions New
    Elsevier's ScienceDirect College Edition contains almost two thousand peer-reviewed full-text journals in the health & life sciences, physical sciences, and social & behavioral sciences. Coverage for most journals begins in 1996 and runs through the present with no embargo.
Multidisciplinary Databases
  • Academic Search Premier Best Bet
    Academic Search Premier is one of EBSCOhost's full-text databases. It covers full-text articles from nearly 3,200 scholarly publications, and numerous peer-reviewed journals with a coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies, etc.
  • ProQuest Central Best Bet
    ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
  • GALE Research Complete Best Bet New
    Gale Research Complete provides subscription access to the largest package of primary and secondary sources available to libraries today, covering journals, newspapers, eBooks, literature resources and archives. Empowering users at all academic levels, from the undergraduate student to the experienced researcher, and covering nearly every research area and discipline, Gale Research Complete offers high quality, authoritative and unique content
  • Google Scholar
    Google Scholar searches peer-reviewed papers, dissertations, citations, abstracts and reports from a variety of scholarly sources provided by academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and open access publishers.
    Searching Google Scholar from Guarini Library homepage, full text resources that are available from NJCU Library-subscribed databases or electronic journals will be automatically accessible (Gothic ID needed for off-campus access).
  • JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection
    The database contains almost 3,000 journals and primary sources. The renewed name: JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection replaces our previous JSTOR subscriptions with subsections, e.g.: Arts & Sciences III, Arts & Sciences V, Security Studies, and Business & Economics Collections. Please note that our subscription does not include JSTOR ebooks or Artstor beyond what might be open access content.
  • SAGE Premier
    The database provides full-text access to over 645 peer-reviewed journal dating back to 1999. It includes leading international peer-reviewed journals, including high-impact research titles published on behalf of over 245 scholarly and professional societies. Subject coverage includes business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, medicine and many more.

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