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Plant Biology, Ecology, and Evolution: Research at the Library - finding ARTICLES from JOURNALS
Finding scholarly articles
Below are two sets of databases. The first set will provide access to both magazines and journal articles. Make sure you can tell differences between general magazine articles and scholarly articles. See the tab to the left labeled Differences between magazine and journal articles if you can't.
The second set below lists subject specific databases that provide a more thorough treatment of your botany topic. There will be overlap of some content in all of these databases.
General Subject databases
Selected subject databases
The subject databases below will provide more in-depth coverage of your botany research topic, and will provide primarily peer-reviewed scholarly articles.
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SCOPUSScopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
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Science DirectThis database is a scientific research index that contains journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. Most of these are available full text online. (Elsevier publications)
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AgricolaCreated by the National Agricultural Library (NAL), it covers animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences. Coverage: 1970 - present.
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CAB DirectInternational in scope and covers journals, books, and conferences of all languages and countries from 1900 to the present. Its subjects include agriculture, food science, nutrition, and veterinary medicine.
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Google ScholarGoogle's search engine for scholarly research. It indexes citations, abstracts, and full-text articles, books, conference proceedings, theses, online repositories, patents, legal cases, and more.