Research Guides: BIO 184: Plants and People: Databases

Off-Campus Access

From off-campus, Lehman users will be prompted to log into databases, e-journals, e-books, and other subscription resources via their CUNYFirst Credentials.

Your CUNYFirst Credentials are the same as your BlackBoard Credentials. Using Firefox as your browser is recommended.

To login, enter your CUNY Login Credentials, which are you CUNYFirst or BlackBoard Credentials
You must have an active CUNY First Account
To report a problem, please select Forget Username or Forget Password
If you do not have CUNYFirst credentials and should have off-campus access, please fill the report a technical problem form

Top Plant Information Library Databases

Gale Ebooks
A collection of electronic reference books (e.g., encyclopedias) covering everything from the arts and history to medicine and the sciences. Good database for background information for lab reports.
Oxford Reference Online
Good source for looking up words in articles you do not know or understand.
General Science Full Text This link opens in a new window
Provides access to articles from English-language popular science magazines as well as professional journals. It also provides access to The New York Times Science Section (published weekly on Tuesday).
JSTOR
Good source for scholarly articles on plants and ecology.

ScienceDirect
Access to 765 full-text journals covering scientific, technical, and medical research. One can browse or search for specific articles. This is a good source for scholarly and peer reviewed articles.
SCOPUS
Largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources. One can search for articles by topic, author, or university. Also, one can quickly find important and influential articles by sorting articles by the number of citations.

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines, formats, and sources, including theses, books, abstracts, and articles. Google Scholar sorts articles weighing the fulltext of each article, author, publication in which article appears, and how often the piece has been cited in other scholarly literature.

If you encounter issues off-campus, use the regular https://scholar.google.com link.
Go to settings, select Library Links, do a search for Lehman, save it. Then perform a new search. You should see results with Full Text at Lehman.
Go to https://libguides.lehman.edu/google/scholar for more information.

Additional Plant Information Library Databases

AGRICOLA (National Agricultural Library Catalog)

Agriculture Collection
With broad coverage of agriculture and its related fields, this collection provides a comprehensive view of this growing body of knowledge.
Gardening, Landscape & Hortculture Collection
Serves horticultural enthusiasts of all levels with more than 3.6 million articles from more than 100 journals, as well as more than 20 reference titles from Delmar, including: Handbook of Flowers; Foliage and Creative Design; Computer Graphics for Landscape Architects; and more.
General Science Collection
Researchers can remain current with the latest scientific developments in particle physics, advanced mathematics, nanotechnology, geology, and hundreds of other areas. More than 350 full-text, non-embargoed journals are covered. Updated daily, this collection includes more than 1.6 million articles to satisfy almost every scientific inquiry. Key subjects include biological sciences, computing, engineering, and technology.