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

Biological Sciences Databases

BIOSIS Citation Index
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A Web of Science database with citation analysis functionality, focusing on life sciences and biomedical research.

Interdisciplinary Science Databases

Web of Science - All Databases
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A major multidisciplinary database for the sciences and the social sciences, as well as a great research metrics tool.
Scopus
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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
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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.