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Electronic and Print Journals at the Graduate CenterSearch the Graduate Center's holdings in electronic and print journals, magazines, and newspapers and browse the electronic titles by subject.
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Electronic Journals at the New York Public LibraryFind electronic journals available both at NYPL and from home.
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Print Journals at the New York Public LibraryPrint periodicals from NYPL (search across all branches or individually).
Best Bets for Biology Research
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Web of ScienceCited references in all disciplines in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Drawn from the top 15% of scholarly journals in more than 250 categories.
Web of Science Core Collection includes: Citation Indexes, Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index–Science, Conference Proceedings Citation Index–Social Science & Humanities, Book Citation Index–Science, Book Citation Index–Social Sciences & Humanities, Emerging Sources Citation Index, Current Chemical Reactions, Index Chemicus.
Other databases included in "All Databases" search:
- BIOSIS Citation Index: covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more.
- Current Contents Connect: tables of contents and bibliographic information from leading scholarly journals and books.
- Data Citation Index: data sets from a wide range of international data repositories
- Derwent Innovations Index: patents and patent citations.
- KCI-Korean Journal Database: managed by the National Research Foundation of Korea.
- MEDLINE: managed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- Russian Science Citation Index: managed by the Scientific Electronic Library (eLIBRARY.RU), Russia's largest research information provider.
- SciELO Citation Index: open access journals from Latin American, Portugal, Spain and South Africa.
- Zoological Record: taxonomic records, oldest continuing database of animal biology.
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Nature Archive and Nature JournalsFull text of the journal Nature content from 1869 to present, as well as many other Nature titles--click more to see list of journals that are accessible.
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Science MagazineFull text of Science Magazine since 1880.
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AGRICOLACitations to literature created by the National Library of Agriculture and similar institutions. Drawn from 1,400 international journals. Covers materials in all formats, including printed works from the fifteenth century. Useful for researchers in biology and environmental science.
Other Options for Biology Research
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General Science Full TextIndexes scholarly, professional, and popular science periodicals published from 1984 to the present in the United States and the United Kingdom. Includes text for 93 publications from 1994 to present.
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GreenFILECovers global warming, energy conservation, natural resources, pollution, and related issues.
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PubMed CentralFree digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM). See this guide for more information about the differences between Medline, PubMed and PubMed Central.
Article & Journal Impact
Article Impact: One measure of the impact of an article is the number of times it has been cited by other articles. These databases offer robust cited reference searching:
Journal Impact: A journal's impact is calculated by analyzing (in different ways by different tools) how frequently its articles are cited. Journal-level metrics are provided by:
For more information, see the Research Metrics guide.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to search broadly for scholarly literature, including journal articles and books. The Graduate Center Library has created a customized version that knows the library’s electronic journal holdings and links you directly to the articles in the library’s databases.
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