Peer-reviewed journal articles are important scientific communication tools in Biology. The peer-review publication process helps to ensure that the research findings are trustworthy, accurate, and of value to the field. They often contain the first reports of new research and sometimes contain literature review summaries of past research conducted on a topic that is of current interest.
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database, including peer-reviewed titles from international publishers, Open Access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, quality web sources.
Date Coverage: 1788-present (updated daily)
JSTOR archival journal collections include thousands of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
NOTE: Queen's has purchased the following collections - JSTOR Arts and Science Collections I - XV, the JSTOR Life Sciences Archive, the JSTOR Health and General Science Archive, and the Biological Sciences Archive
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PubMed is a free literature database that contains more than 38 million references to biomedical and life sciences literature. The primary component of PubMed is MEDLINE, which is produced by the National Library of Medicine in the U.S. and contains more than 31 million references from over 5,200 scholarly journals published around the world. In addition to MEDLINE content, PubMed includes citations that are being processed for MEDLINE, citations that are out-of-scope from MEDLINE journals, "ahead of print" citations that precede the article's final publication in a MEDLINE journal, and more. Mobile access is available for PubMed.
The same content in PubMed can also be searched in Ovid MEDLINE .
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Date Coverage: 1946 – present
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If you would like to find a list of all journals for a specific subject, or just a list of the top journals in a specific subject, Scimago Journal & Country Rank is a great search tool. Use the journal rankings tab and then refine by subject area and subject category depending on your research topic.
You can then search for the journal in Omni to see if we have it.