Use a library catalog to find books, journals, magazines, government reports, maps, dissertations, and other materials owned by the UCB libraries. Library catalogs usually do not index the individual articles within magazines and journals.
| Catalog | Coverage | Unique Features |
|---|---|---|
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OskiCat Quick Guide (PDF) |
Most UCB libraries |
Renew your books online; find course reserves; request items checked out by another borrower or stored offsite; restrict your search to specific UCB libraries, to online items only, or to available items only. |
| Most UCB libraries and many libraries worldwide, plus citations to selected articles (more information) | Search libraries worldwide; create and save lists and add tags to items; automatically format citations; find selected article citations; easy-to-use, Amazon-like interface. | |
| Nearly all libraries on the UCB campus and the entire UC system (more information) |
Request feature allows you to request items UCB doesn't own; most complete coverage of libraries on the UCB campus. |
Search article databases to find journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. These databases index articles published in selected journals and magazines, papers presented at conferences, and other sources. Most records include citations and abstracts with links to the full text of articles (when available). To access the full text, use the 
button.
| Core Life Science/Environmental Science Article Databases |
Years Covered | Peer-reviewed Content? |
|---|---|---|
AGRICOLA |
1970-present | Some |
| AQUATIC SCIENCES AND FISHERIES ABSTRACTS Aquatic biology, ecology, fisheries, oceanography, limnology and aquaculture. (Quick Reference Card: PDF) |
1978-present | Some |
BIOSIS |
1926-present | Most |
CAB ABSTRACTS |
1910-present | Some |
| ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES AND POLLUTION MANAGEMENT All aspects of environmental issues, including air, land, and water pollution, bacteriology, waste management, water resources and environmental biotechnology. (Quick Reference Card: PDF) |
1981-present | Some |
| PUBMED The National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database, indexing articles from more than 4500 journals in biology and biomedicine. (Guide: HTML, PDF) |
1949-present | Most |
| WEB OF SCIENCE Indexes core journals in all scientific fields. Allows cited reference searching, which allows you to identify later articles which cite a given author or article. |
1901-present | Most |
Related Article Databases |
Years Covered |
Peer-reviewed Content? |
| ACADEMIC SEARCH COMPLETE Multidisciplinary source for scholarly journal and popular magazine articles; indexes and abstracts articles from more than 10,900 English, Spanish, German, French, Italian and Portuguese sources. Full text is available for over 5300 journals. |
1865-present | Some |
| LEXIS-NEXIS Contains full text and abstracts of news, business, and legal information and provides full-text access to nearly 6,000 individual titles. Users can search foreign and domestic newspapers and wire services; radio and television transcripts; and business, industry, and legislative magazines, journals, and newsletters. |
Dates vary | No |
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