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BIO 4120 - Comparative Physiology

Recommended Databases: Comparative Physiology

Web of Science
Thousands of journals covering the life sciences spectrum. The full database Biological Abstracts is included in Web of Science.

Scopus
A comprehensive scholarly database that covers the life, social, physical, and health sciences.

Google Scholar
A good option for looking up articles and seeing how many times they have been cited..

ScienceDirect
Covers more than 1000 Elsevier Science journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences.

JSTOR
Full text access to back issues of a wide range of scholarly journals, including biological, zoology, health, and botany & plant sciences.

Empirical Articles

An empirical article reports the results of a study based on data gathered from observation or experimentation. The are written by the researchers who conducted the study. Therefore, they are primary sources.

They can be identified easily. They have the following sections: Summary/Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, and References.

Examples of comparative physiology e-books

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