Finding Full Text
Within a journal database, look for the PennText link or button. Click on PennText to open a page with options for obtaining the full-text.
Biology Related Video
Henry Stewart Talks: lectures by leading world experts
Example: A systems approach to implementation of personalized cancer therapy
Prof. Gordon B. Mills – MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Prof. Gordon B. Mills – MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
JoVE Science Education videos
Example: An Introduction to Molecular Developmental Biology
Databases for Biology
Literature Databases
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PubMed PlusPubMed is the public access version to Medline, the premier database for biomedical literature.
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Web of ScienceIndexes journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Allows for cited reference searching
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ScopusIndexes most peer reviewed journals in science, technology, and medicine, and many in the social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Bioinformatics Resources
Ecology/Sustainability/Environmental Resources
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AGRICOLAThe topics covered in this USDA database include: agriculture, agronomy, animal science, biology, biotechnology, botany, breeding, chemistry, conservation, crop management, dairy science, ecology, entomology, farm management, feed science, fertilizers, food and nutrition, forestry, horticulture, hydrology, hydroponics, microbiology, nutrition, pesticides, physiology, plant science, pollution, soil science, water quality, and zoology.
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Agricultural & Environmental Science DatabaseThe principal bibliographic abstracting service for the scholarly, professional, and policy literatures on the environment.
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Birds of the WorldFormerly BNA Online, Birds of the World provides comprehensive life histories for birds from all over the globe
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CAB Abstracts (complete)This database comprises international coverage of veterinary medicine, agriculture, forestry and related bio-science fields, including: human health; human nutrition; animal health; and resource management and conservation.
Other Helpful Services and Resources
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Fast Full TextHow to quickly get to the full text of an article.
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Using electronic resourcesThis guide instructs on how to use PennText and obtain the content you need.
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Digital Scholarship and Data ServicesThe Penn Libraries Research Data & Digital Scholarship team facilitates data-driven and data-literate research and scholarship across the disciplines and fosters informed and ethical data communities at Penn.
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ScholarlyCommonsThis guide will help you to become more familiar with Penn's institutional repository, ScholarlyCommons, and the various services provided by the ScholarlyCommons team.
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NIH Public Access PolicyThe information in this guide will help with several of the compliance issues that University of Pennsylvania authors will need to address and is organized around three steps to compliance: addressing copyright, submitting to PMC and citing PMCIDs in NIH
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Data Management PlansThis guide provide information and resources to assist researchers in data management planning process.
