Databases

In addition to searching the library catalog, the following is a list of databases providing full-text access to scholarly research in ecology.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
An electronic database indexing over 4,500 scholarly publications in all areas of study. Full-text access is available for more than 3,600 journals.
Academic Search Complete contains 18,000+ multidisciplinary titles indexed and abstracted (16,000+ are peer-reviewed) and 9,000+ full-text publications. Strength and weakness: very broad, so searchers are likely to find results, but may be overwhelmed by quantity. INSPIRE.
Agricultural Science Collection This link opens in a new window
This database includes natural science content from searchable tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations from the scholarly research and technical literature.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
A comprehensive directory of open access scientific and scholarly journals in academic disciplines using a scholarly quality control system to guarantee the content. Approximately 145 biology-related journals accessible.
GreenFILE
GreenFILE is an EBSCO collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles including content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database This link opens in a new window
The Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database contains full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.
Environmental Science Collection This link opens in a new window
The Environmental Sciences Collection provides the most complete collection of resources available to support this multidisciplinary field. The collection combines specialist topic resources from disciplines such as engineering, biotechnology, bacteriology, atmospheric science, ecology and biology and features a diverse range of full-text sources including scientific journals, trade journals, new sources, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications.

JoVE - Ecology and Biology
Sections from JoVE's (Journal of Visualized Experiments) database.
JSTOR
Full text access to scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities and the sciences. Coverage dates back to the first published issue of many publications, in some cases dating as far back as the 1800’s.
Science in Context
Science Resource Center is an in-depth, curriculum-oriented science database that provides a one-stop resource for all science-related research needs.

Springer - Full-text Articles This link opens in a new window
Springer Provides researchers with access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols and reference works.

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