CONTENTS Articles Books Interlibrary Loan
Web Resources Citation Help Additional Research Help ARTICLES
The databases below are especially helpful for accessing articles and citations in your discipline.
If you are off-campus, use the link for off-campus access to our databases provided at the end of each description on the Find Articles page.Academic Search Premier - large interdisciplinary database, with much full-text content
AccessScience - McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology online
Cambridge Histories Online - full-text content on history of science and other areas
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences - from Wiley InterScience
General Science Full Text - large science-related database, with much full-text content
GreenFILE - scholarly, government, and popular information on the environment
JSTOR - large, interdisciplinary full-text database
OmniFile Full Text Mega - multi-disciplinary database, with much full-text content
Science Direct - selected fulltext scholarly content from the Elsevier publisher
Wiley InterScience Journals - fulltext scholarly journals in biology and other disciplines
Click here for
all Ryan Library databases.
Also try
Google Scholar to search for scholarly articles.
BOOKSThe databases
NetLibrary Collection and
Oxford Reference Online have full-text books online.
Below is a representative list of
subject encylopedias at Ryan Library.
Encyclopedia of Animal BehaviorEncyclopedia of Bioethics Encyclopedia of BiodiversityEncyclopedia of Evolution Encyclopedia of MicrobiologyGrzimek's Animal Life EncyclopediaNature Encyclopedia of the Human Genome Penguin Dictionary of Biology
Check
Phineas, Ryan Library's onlline catalog, for more books.
INTERLIBRARY LOANUse
InterLibrary Loan (LINK+ and ILLiad) to access books and articles not held at Ryan Library.
WEB RESOURCESBiology and Science
Intute: health & life sciences (formerly BIOME) - excellent biology portal / search engine
JoVE - Journal of Visualized Experiments - biological research in video format
Science.gov - search engine for U.S. government science information
Scirus - comprehensive science search engine
Directories
Librarians' Internet Index InfoMineBUBL LinkSearch Engines
Google Advanced - provides more options for your search strategy.
Google Scholar - Search for scholarly articles.
Google Book Search - Search for books on your topic.
Zuula - A meta-search engine that searches more than one search engine at a time.
CITATION HELP
EndNote Web is a Web-based tool for managing and citing references in papers and creating bibliographies. EndNote has many citation styles including APA, MLA, Chicago (Turabian). EndNote is available to current members of the PLNU community.
ADDITIONAL RESEARCH HELP
Dr. Frank Quinn, Director of Ryan Library and Biology Liaison
Ryan Library, Room 208D
619-849-2338
FrankQuinn@pointloma.edu 
Phyllis E. Fox, Instructional Services Librarian for Graduate Studies
Ryan Library, Technical Services
619-849-2409
PhyllisFox@pointloma.edu Contact the Reference Desk at:
reflib@pointloma.edu Ask A Librarian IM/Chat
619-849-2337
Also contact PLNU s
Biology Department.
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This page was last updated 08/26/08.