Librarian
Monty McAdoo (Edinboro)
Contact:
Baron-Forness Library
Room 271
PennWest: Edinboro
Edinboro, PA 16444
Room 271
PennWest: Edinboro
Edinboro, PA 16444
814-732-1070
Subjects: Biology & Geosciences
Welcome!
Welcome to the Biology & Geosciences Research Starter. This guide will help get you started with research for your assignments and projects. If you need assistance, please visit the Help page.
Research Starters
Looking for a good place to start your research? Try one of these recommended resources from the Libraries:
- Environment Complete This link opens in a new window Contains more than 2.4 million records from more than 2,200 domestic and international titles going back to 1888.
- Agricola This link opens in a new window Containing bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library, AGRICOLA dates back to 1970 and includes more than 4.8 million citations.
- GreenFILE This link opens in a new window Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment, and provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,000,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 15,000 records.
Other Databases
- JSTOR Collections This link opens in a new window A full-text archive of over 1,700 of the best scholarly journals in social sciences, humanities, and life sciences disciplines. Includes access to ARTStor and JSTOR Primary Sources
- MEDLINE Complete This link opens in a new window Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more, dating back to 1857 with full-text back to 1865. MEDLINE Complete is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for over 1,800 journals.
- OneSearch This link opens in a new window OneSearch combines most of the library's resources into a single database. Rather than search databases separately, you can do just "one search." OneSearch includes articles, ebooks and books, and more.
- SciFinder-n (CAS) This link opens in a new window
BEFORE you can use SciFinder-n, you need to REGISTER for an account by creating your own username and password. Once you are registered you can use the SciFinder-n link to access the database.
