BioOne is a database of high quality, subscribed and open-access titles focused in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. As a nonprofit organization, BioOne exists for the benefit of the scientific community.
Web of Science (WoS) indexes leading scholarly journals, books, proceedings, and other formats. Its major subject areas include the natural and social sciences and arts and humanities, with coverage for all areas back to 1900. The heart of WoS is the "Core Collection," which contains records of articles from the highest impact journals worldwide—including open access journals.
These video tutorials teach aspects of searching, analyzing results, creating a researcher profile, and more.
PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). It contains more than 5 million full-text records, spanning several centuries of biomedical and life science research, from the late 1700s to present.
Science Direct is the search engine for journals published by Elsevier, the world's largest publisher of science, technical, and medical journals. Access to articles is different for this database. Because there is a charge for each article downloaded, students need a professor or librarian to retrieve articles.
Science Direct is a leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from peer-reviewed literature in physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences. This includes hundreds of thousands of topics pages and over a million open access articles.
The Hekman Library has access to every article available from Science Direct via the Elsevier Article Service, which allows current faculty and staff at their discretion to purchase individual articles for approximately $24 each.
For more help with this database, look at these tutorials.
Here's a reminder of how to get started searching for journal articles using Hekman's Primo search.