Research Guides: Botany: Article Databases

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Start with these Databases

The following three databases are the best starting point for research related to botany:

Agricultural Science Collection This link opens in a new window
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GreenFile This link opens in a new window
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ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
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Need More Options?

If you didn't find everything you were looking for in the three recommended databases, do some searching in these additional databases or peruse the A-Z List:

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window Full-text articles from over 4,600 publications, covering almost every academic subject.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
PNAS This link opens in a new window Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Coverage in PNAS spans the biological, physical, and social sciences.

Botany Journals

Open Access Journals

Open access journals are online scholarly journals that are available without a subscription.

Directory of Open Access Journals This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.