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Welcome to the library research guide for Biological Sciences.
Here, you'll find the best resources (articles, books, and more) to help you succeed in your program.
Use the menu to get started!
Content: Scholarly journals, academic content, periodicals and videos covering a broad range of academic disciplines.
Purpose: A good starting point for research with coverage across many disciplines and fields.
Special Features: Text-to-speech listening feature. Tool to help discover citing articles.
Content: Reviews, abstracts, and bibliographic information for mathematical sciences literature.
Purpose: Indexes and tracks over 550 journals so researchers can easily find literature in the mathematical sciences fields.
Special Features: Search by Mathematics Subject Classification, author, title, or topic.
Content: Comprehensive male and female 3D gross anatomy models, select microanatomy of tissues and organs, cadaver slices and diagnostic images that are paired with 3D cross-sections, and interactive animations of muscles and bones.
Purpose: Allows students to view structures and interact with gross anatomy within a virtual environment.
Special Features: Choose from multiple views, animations, and quizzes.
Note: If you have problems opening the 2018 atlas, it works better if you use Chrome (https://www.google.com/chrome/) or Microsoft Edge as your internet browser.
Content: JSTOR is a digital library of journals, academic ebooks, images, and primary sources. National University subscribes to these JSTOR Arts and Sciences Collections: I - IX.
Purpose: JSTOR is an archive of core research journals containing the full text of scholarly journals. Some of the journal issues go back to the 19th century, but there is a gap of typically 1 to 5 years between the most recently published journal issue and the content available in JSTOR. To locate recent issues of a journal, use the Library Catalog or Online Journal List.
Special Features: Create an account to sign up to try JSTOR’s interactive research tool in beta.
Create an account to sign up to try JSTOR’s interactive research tool in beta.
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