CSSLibraryGuides: Biology: 3. Articles

Searching for Articles in Databases

The CSS Library has many online databases to help you with your research. They contain primarily articles from periodicals such as journals.

There are two types of databases including general databases, which contain articles on all types of topics and specialized ones designed for a specific subject area such as nursing, education, psychology, business, etc.

If you are off-campus, you will be prompted to log in using your CSS login - the same as what you use for Brightspace, my.CSS, and your CSS Gmail.
All databases to which the CSS Library subscribes

General Databases

SOLAR
"Google" all the Library's great resources.
Academic Search Premier
Our database with the broadest coverage of all disciplines.
MNLINK
The “SOLAR” of the Minnesota public library world.

Science-Related Databases

Agricola
A public resource for agricultural and biological information provided by the National Agricultural Library.
Science Direct Journals
Scholarly journals in a wide range of scientific disciplines.
Science (Gale OneFile)
A collection of over 1000 peer-reviewed journals in the sciences.
GreenFile
Journals, magazines, & government documents focusing on the relationship between humans & the environment.
Science Reference Source
Full-text content of nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. + 250,000 science related images.
SORA
SORA indexes seven key journals in the field of ornithology.

Human-Animal Interactions
Open access resource for research in fields related to interactions between non-human animals and their human counterparts. Also discoverable in SOLAR.

Sample Primary vs. Secondary Articles - Spring 2025

Tutorials

Need help searching the databases? The Library has created step-by-step tutorials to help you.

Step-by-Step Guides:

Solar - just for Biology
Science Direct
SOLAR
Instructions on how to use the Library's discovery system