Research Guides: BIOL 1921: The Nexus Between Art and Biology: Home

Finding Sources

Web of Science
A comprehensive interdisciplinary collection of journal article citations. Subjects generally covered are within science and technology, arts and humanities, and social sciences.
BIOSIS (Biology)
Via Web of Science, BIOSIS covers life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more. Access content from journals, meetings, patents, and books.
PubMed
Searches MEDLINE, which is the primary source of journal articles for the health sciences (fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, public health, health care systems, and basic sciences). Coverage is from the 1940s to the present.

Oxford Art Online
The most comprehensive online resource for all visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day.
International Bibliography of Art
Search journal articles, magazines, reviews, and more on western and European art from late antiquity to the present, American art from the colonial era to the present, and global art since 1945 including painting, sculpture, drawing, video, installations, new media, decorative and applied arts, museum studies and conservation, archaeology, folk art and material culture, classical studies, antiques, architectural history.
ARTstor
ARTstor is a cross-disciplinary image database. It offers collections of approximately 300,000 art images and descriptive information covering art, architecture and archeology.

UMN Digital Image Collections
Start with this library guide to free and licensed photographic (and other image) collections. Includes images related to biological sciences, environmental sciences, and health sciences.

Google Scholar (UMN setup required)
To gain off-campus access to articles from library journal subscriptions, change the Library Settings to University of Minnesota Twin Cities in Google Scholar (see this tutorial) Use Google Scholar to find articles from academic publishers, professional societies, research institutes, and scholarly repositories from colleges and universities. Look for the "FindIt@U of M Twin Cities" links in your Google Scholar search results to access library subscriptions. Learn more: Google Scholar FAQ
Library Search Tips
A brief introduction to/refresher of boolean searching, including AND, OR, NOT, phrases, truncation and parentheses.

Tutorial: What are citations?
Understand what citations are, why they are important, and how to create and use them.
Citation Managers
If you are interested in using a citation manager like RefWorks, Zotero, or Mendeley to organize your citations and create your bibliography, use this link and talk to your librarian to learn more.
Citation Guides and Style Manuals
A guide to different citation styles.

Last Updated: Nov 11, 2020 6:13 PM