Spalding University Library: BIO-447: Biology Seminar: Recommended Sources

Recommended Spalding Library Databases

EBSCO Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A scholarly, multi-disciplinary database providing indexing and abstracts for thousands of journals and other publications. EBSCO Academic Search Complete includes full-text access to peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for magazines, monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. The database features some PDF content going back as far as 1867, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 journals.
Agricola This link opens in a new window
Containing bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library, coverage for AGRICOLA dates back to 1970 and includes more than 2.5 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
GreenFILE provides a collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles and covers content about the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments as well as what can be done at each level to minimize these effects.
MEDLINE This link opens in a new window
MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine® (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains more than 22 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine, life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering needed by health professionals and others engaged in basic research and clinical care, public health, health policy development, or related educational activities. A distinctive feature of MEDLINE is that the records are indexed with NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®).
PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed comprises more than 25 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
CINAHL Complete provides broad content coverage including 50 nursing specialties, speech and language pathology, nutrition, general health and medicine and more. CINAHL Complete is compatible with EBSCO’s point-of-care resources including Nursing Reference Center (NRC) and others.
Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine Collection provides access to academic journals and magazines covering the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine. The database offers a wide spectrum of information, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research, and more.

Databases A-Z List
Full list of databases available through the Spalding Library.

Internet Sources

Open Source Journals

ABC Chemistry Directory
Directory of free online peer-reviewed chemistry journals and statistics.
BioMed Central
Database contains over 100 Open Access journals in the life sciences and medicine. Also searchable via PubMed.
BioOne Complete
BioOne Complete is BioOne's database of 207 high quality, subscribed and open-access titles focused in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences published by the American Institute of Biological Sciences.
BioScience
Open access 2000-2013
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. All DOAJ services are free of charge including being indexed in DOAJ. All data is freely available.
PLOS ONE
Open Access

Find Full Text through Journal Finder

To find the Full Text access for a specific journal, use the Journals by Title search under Tools on the Library's homepage.

1. Enter the title of the journal:

2. Search results will appear below the search bar. Once you locate the correct journal, see the "Full Text Access" section of the record. This will show you the full text access to this journal provided by Spalding's Library, including database providers and date ranges for each database.