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TIP: In each of the open access sources, take a few minutes to look at the search help pages. It will be worth your time.

PubMed

 

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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Open access journals defined as "journals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access."

Quality Control:

The journal must exercise peer-review or editorial quality control to be included.

Research Journal:

Journals that report primary results of research or overviews of research results to a scholarly community.

Periodical:

A serial appearing or intended to appear indefinitely at regular intervals, generally more frequently than annually, each issue of which is numbered or dated consecutively and normally contains separate articles, stories, or other writings.

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Scirus (www.scirus.com)

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Information types: Articles
Subject areas: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

 

Library Databases (subscription-based; password access required)

AccessScience

Browse Biological & Biomedical Science or keyword search

Advanced Search lets you limit by source type (i.e., News, Research Update)

Mostly encyclopedia articles; some entries contain links to brief articles from Science News

The AccessScience database is valuable in providing topic suggestions.

Academic OneFile

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