Subject Guides: Biological Sciences: Articles

Evaluating Information

Use the CRAAP Test

Currency - Is it timely?

Relevance - Useful for your purposes?

Authority - Who? What is the source?

Accuracy - References to back it up?

Purpose - Why? Is there a bias?

More detailed information on the CRAAP Test

Library Tutorial

Library Skills for 2nd Year Biological Sciences

This tutorial covers library skills required for students in 200-level Biological Sciences courses. Learn how to identify sources of information, navigate journal articles and search for literature.

Databases for Finding Articles

Web of Science - All Databases This link opens in a new window
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A major multidisciplinary database for the sciences and the social sciences, as well as a great research metrics tool.

Note: search Web of Science - All Databases to simultaneously search Web of Science, MEDLINE, BIOSIS and Zoological Record.

Biological Sciences Databases

BIOSIS Citation Index This link opens in a new window
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A Web of Science database with citation analysis functionality, focusing on life sciences and biomedical research.
Zoological Record This link opens in a new window
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A Web of Science database that covers international research in zoology (1864 to the present), with systematic and taxonomic information for 27 animal groups.

Interdisciplinary Science Databases

Scopus This link opens in a new window
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The world's largest interdisciplinary literature index, including over 67 million journal records. Especially strong in science, engineering, technology, and medicine.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
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Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

Health Sciences Databases

PubMed (with links to UofA e-journals) This link opens in a new window
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A database comprising more than 27 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.