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BIO-471: Biology Capstone (Symington & Reid)

Research guide for BIO 471

Use Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a free web-based search engine that locates scholarly materials such as books, articles, conference proceedings, patents, theses, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports. Google Scholar generally excludes non-academic websites, and its coverage tends to be stronger in the sciences, and weaker in the humanities. Use Google Scholar as an alternative starting point for your research, however, please note that many of the items listed in a set of results will not provide full-text access. Be sure to configure your computer to map results from Google Scholar to available items from subscription databases at McKillop Library! You also want to search McKillop Library's databases directly to ensure comprehensive coverage of your topic.

Does Google Scholar index all of McKillop Library's subscription research databases and provide the full-text of articles from all of these databases?

No. While Google Scholar will allow you to find articles from some of McKillop Library's subscription article databases, it does not index all of our databases. For access to all of the library's databases, see the Databases A-Z list or the Databases by Subject list. For a list of our available journals, see the Journals A-Z list.

Find Articles in Select Ebscohost Databases...

PLoS: Public Library of Science