LibGuides: ENG 3312: Writing in the Natural Sciences: Articles

Recommended Databases

CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
Contains journal and magazine articles, continuing education units (CEUs) articles, plus dissertations on nursing and related subjects.
Medline Complete This link opens in a new window
Contains citations to over 27 million journal articles in over 5,000 biomedical journals. In 2,200 of these journals, the entire articles are available in the database.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed® comprises more than 37 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

Other Useful Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
This database covers many subjects found at colleges and universities. Contains articles from thousands of journals, magazines, news sources, and videos from the Associated Press.
AGRICOLA This link opens in a new window
Compiled by the U.S. National Agricultural Library (NAL) this comprehensive source contains agriculture and life science journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audio-visual materials, and technical reports.
Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
Includes reliable evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more.
General Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
A science index aimed at high school and beginning college students. Contains more than 250 journals, 70 magazines. The term full text in the title indicates that for some articles, the entire article is available within this database.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR offers journals, ebooks, and primary source collections, allowing researchers to retrieve high-resolution scanned images as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The resources archived in JSTOR span many disciplines.
ProQuest SciTech Collection Premium This link opens in a new window
The SciTech Premium Collection includes the Natural Science Collection and the Technology Collection and provides full-text titles from around the world including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.
Gale in Context: Science This link opens in a new window
Provides information on hundreds of science topics. For each topic, there are topic overviews, magazine and journal articles, encyclopedia articles, images and videos, and experiments. There are also biographies of important scientists.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL)

Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
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