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Ecology & Evolutionary Biology: Best for Articles

Covers general resources on biodiversity, ecology, evolutionary biology

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Use the best databases for articles, reports, papers, government documents. Start with databases listed below, use this link for many more, http://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/bioscience-databases

Selected Databases for articles

BIOSIS Previews
Articles, conference papers, and books on biological and biomedical topics, Literature reviews.  [1926 - present]

CAB Abstracts
Agricultural literature and from more than 100 countries. [1910 - present]

Environment Complete
Journal articles and books on a wide variety of environmental topics. [1888 - present]

PubMed
Biomedical literature citations from MEDLINE, journals, mbooks. [1950 - present]

Scopus
Journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, and book series+.

Web of Science
Best for article and cited reference searching. [1900 - present]

Best Databases

Google Scholar

  • Search articles, books, preprints, reports+. (Specialized databases will provide depth to your search).
  • Use with UC-eLinks to access the full text of many articles; click on "Settings", click Library Links search "Berkeley", and select "University of California Berkeley - UC-eLinks."
  • Listings may include links to related articles and to other sources that cite the item

JSTOR
Full-text articles, Current issues from journals (most recent 3-5 years) may not be available in JSTOR.

JSTOR Global Plants
Community-contributed database of high resolution plant type specimen images and other materials from herbaria around the world.

 

Statistics and Unique Data

My NCBI: search all databases, for books, articles, data.

Statista
Portal integrates data from reliable topics. UCB access

Preprints


bioArxiv.org
search by preprints of articles by subject, updated daily