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Animal Science: Articles

Best Databases for Animal Sciences

General/Interdisciplinary Databases

Academic Search Premier

  • Excellent cross-disciplinary database
  • Broad coverage means that Academic Search Premier is a great place to start your research

Proquest Central

  • All-purpose database that allows the user to search through all of Proquest's databases
  • Covers scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, and more

Web of Knowledge

  • Contains cross-disciplinary content from several thousand journals that are carefully selected for quality and reputation of authors
  • Great tool for tracing an article's sources back to other works, and learning how often a particular article has been cited by others

Other Specialized Databases

Locate an Article by its Title

One way to locate an journal or periodical article is to do a search for the title in the QuickSearch box on the UW libraries' home page.  Place the article title in double quotation marks to search as an exact phrase (to reduce the number of false hits in the results list).  You may only need to search on the first few words if the title appears to be fairly unique.  Omit any subtitles (i.e., words following a colon) as those words do not always get indexed as part of the title in the article record (i.e., in the metadata). 

Example:

QuickSearch box

If you are unable to locate the article using this approach, try searching for the journal title and/or article using the eJournal search method.  If it appears that the UW Libraries' collection does not include the desired article/journal, an InterLibrary Loan request can be submitted.

Search QuickSearch Scopes

UW Libraries QuickSearch: includes the collections of the University Libraries, UW Law Library, and the American Heritage Center. Searches almost everything.

Use this QuickSearch link to search Books, E-Books & Media.

Lastly, use this QuickSearch link to search Course Reserves.

Interlibrary Loan: UW students, faculty and staff can request books, journal volumes, journal articles and other materials, regardless of whether it is available in the UW Libraries, online or in libraries around the world. A free service! Interlibrary Loan link.