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Watch the video below to learn how to figure out whether the source you found is a "peer-reviewed" article.
The databases below will have the best information for vertebrate biology:
| Database | Disciplinary Coverage |
| Biological Abstracts | Life sciences, ranging from botany to microbio to pharmacology |
| BioOne | Biological, ecological, and environmental sciences |
| JSTOR | Multi-disciplinary literature |
| Google Scholar @ CSUSM | Multi-disciplinary literature |
| ScienceDirect | Multi-disciplinary literature, mainly in the sciences and medical fields, limited to Elsevier published research (Note: make sure you don't *only* search ScienceDirect, since you will only find research published by a single publishing company) |
**Note: We may not have full-text access to all of the journals in this list, so if you are interested in a particular article you may need to submit an Interlibrary Loan (ILL) request.
| Topic | Journals |
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| Fishes |
Biological Oceanography Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Copeia (about both Ichthyology & Herpetology) |
| Amphibians & Reptiles | |
| Birds | |
| Mammals | |
| General |
Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Biological Journal of the Linnean Society Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Integrative and Comparative Biology Journal of Comparative Physiology A Journal of Comparative Physiology B Journal of Experimental Zoology A Journal of Experimental Zoology B Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Molecular Biology and Evolution Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution Physiological and Biochemical Zoology Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |
| Tips | Examples |
| Use keywords, not long search phrases |
Instead of searching for "How does intraspecific competition affect the growth rates of plants?" break down your search into the main keywords: intraspecific competition, growth rate, plants |
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To get more focused results: Use quotation marks (" ") to keep phrases together Use AND to combine different keywords Try adding species names to find species-specific information |
"intraspecific competition" AND "growth rate" AND plants AND Brassica |
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To get broader results: Use OR to combine similar/associated keywords Truncate words that have a variety of endings with a * |
("intraspecific competition" OR "exploitative competition") AND "growth rate" AND plant*
plant* includes plant and also plants |
| Look for ways to limit your search in the database |
You can often limit by type of article (scholarly and peer-reviewed) & year of publication |
