The Library subscribes to many databases that have or link to scholarly articles
♦ Multidisciplinary databases, such as Academic Search Ultimate and Web of Science Core Collection
These index articles in scholarly journals as well as other types of publications.
You can limit your search results to only journal articles.
♦ Discipline-specific databases, such as CAB Abstracts, CINAHL, FSTA, Education Research Complete,
PubMed, BIOSIS, and SciFinder-n, take broader views of scholarly/professional literature
and also index publications types such as dissertations, books and book chapters, conference proceedings,
and technical reports.
Most of these databases will allow you to limit your search results to only scholarly journals.
♦ Find a variety of publication types including scholarly journal articles.
♦ Does not have a way to limit results to only scholarly journals, so pay attention to what you have retrieved.
♦ Look backwards in the literature by looking up references from a publication's works cited section.
♦ Look forward in the literature by seeing who cited an item.
Web of Science databases, Google Scholar, and some other databases and publisher websites give you Cited By references
(the ones they see in their own universes) so you can identify more recent articles that cited the one you like.
Index to news magazines and scholarly journals in a wide variety of subjects.
• Limit your search to scholarly journals by checking the box: Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals
Multidisciplinary & very current.
Citations from ~8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world.
Also provides cited reference searching: navigate forward and backward through the literature from a specific article.
CAB Abstracts [Ebsco]
International coverage of agriculture, environmental sciences, food & nutrition, etc.
Citations to journal articles, books, conference papers, and reports.
• Limit your search results to academic journals
Agricola [Ebsco]
Covers material acquired by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and cooperating institutions in the agricultural and related sciences. Citations are primarily to journal articles and books, but include other type of resources.
• Limit your search results to academic journalss
BIOSIS Citation Index [Web of Science/Clarivate Analytics]
Citations with abstracts to worldwide biological and medical literature. Content from journals, meetings, patents, and books.
MEDLINE Web of Science/Clarivate Analytics interface to the National Library of Medicine's biomedical literature database
PubMed (this is the Library's link to PubMed)
U.S. National Library of Medicine database with citations to biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
• Includes links to open-access full text articles and other related resources.
• Going to PubMed via Fresno State Library gives you access to more resources via 
Zoological Record [Web of Science/Clarivate Analytics]
Zoological and animal science literature, from biochemistry to veterinary medicine.
NAL SEARCH - National Agricultural Library
All aspects of agriculture and related disciplines, SEARCH Everything for results from the Catalog and Articles database (AGRICOLA), PubAg, and the NAL Digital Collections (NALDC), or limit your search to specific collections.
♦ NAL SEARCH is not linked to what is available via Fresno State Library.
If the item isn't Open Access, search for it by title in OneSearch
May be searched individually or select All Databases from the search form.
Web of Science databases provide times cited & cited reference searching: navigate forward and backward through the literature from a specific article.
BIOSIS Citation Index
Worldwide biological and medical literature, from journals, meetings, patents, & books.
MEDLINE
Web of Science interface to the National Library of Medicine's biomedical literature database.
Zoological Record [Web of Science/Clarivate Analytics]
Zoological and animal science literature, from biochemistry to veterinary medicine.
The most comprehensive discovery tool for chemistry and related sciences.
To use SciFinder-n, you must first create an account using this link.
♦ Introduction to SciFinder-n
♦ Export multiple references into Zotero
U.S. National Library of Medicine database with citations to biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
♦ Going to PubMed via the Library's link gives you access to more resources via
Comprehensive geoscience database indexing journal articles, books, government reports, and other sources.
linking does not work well from GeoRef for theses & dissertations, books, and government reports (such as USGS Professional Papers). Search the title in OneSearch for books and reports; use the Theses & Dissertations tab on this guide to search for those titles.
Indexes a variety of publication types, including academic journals, focused on aspects of human impact on the environment.
International coverage of agriculture, environmental sciences, food & nutrition, etc.
Citations to journal articles, books, conference papers, and reports.
• Limit your search results to academic journals
Citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports in the field of psychology.
and the psychological aspects of related disciplines.
• Limit your search results to Peer-Reviewed Journals
• Limit your search results by Methodology (e.g. Empirical study)
• You can also limit to specific Age groups and by Gender
Peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Also includes patents.
If Google Scholar's links don't get you to the article text or you are asked to pay for the article, use the Find It @ Fresno State link:
it will connect to our e-subscriptions, catalog, and our Interlibrary Loan form.
If the Find It @ Fresno State link does not appear, click on the 
double arrow on the end of the last row of the reference entry
Note the type of content you can find via Google Scholar. Library's FAQ What is this citation for ... ? if you don't know if it is a citation to a book, article, or book chapter.