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Biology

Welcome to the Biological Sciences resource page! This guide points to the main databases for finding scholarly literature, and a few specialty sources.  Also, on the left side is a tab discusses a few tips for identifying, searching and reviewing scientific research. 

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you need help with anything related to biology resources. 

Primary Databases

OneSearch - The Library's do-everything search.  Can find scholarly articles to newspapers, books to videos.  After doing a search, filter results to articles, but not peer review as it misses some articles that are scholarly and includes "imposters" that aren't (see video for more explanation).  

 

Google Scholar - Scholarly articles in all sciences.  Make sure to use this URL if off-campus and using an Internet provider other than NMU (e.g. Charter). Otherwise, you will not see the link to our holdings in the results, which allows you to retrieve the full articles based on Library subscriptions to academic journals.

PubMed - Journal articles covering biomedical research and the clinical sciences. Also good coverage of literature in cellular and molecular biology and biochemistry. Use link above or you will not see the  icon under the full text links, which connects you to our holdings for a journal. Just because the NMU icon is present doesn't mean we own the article, but that you can click on it to find out. 

Additional Resources