Try some of the following websites for general information about specific species.
These databases contain mostly scholarly articles from many science disciplines. Some databases may also contain trade and popular articles.
Want another perspective on your topic? Try looking for scholarly articles from another field or subject area. Common subjects are listed below.
Find more perspectives on your topic by looking outside of scholarly sources. Search for opinion and viewpoint pieces, summaries of topics, or background information.
If you are starting your search, trying use keywords, rather than full sentences.
Examples:
If you are searching for a phrase, such as spontaneous combustion or genetically modified organism, put the entire phrase in double quotes. This will tell the search engine to only find results that contain the exact phrase, rather than one or two of the individual words.
If you have two or more words or concepts that you want to find, use AND (must be capitalized) to tell the search engine to only look for items that contain both words.
Often, there is more than one way to talk about your topic. For example, you might want to find articles on climate change or global warming, etc. Some phrases might be better than others. If you want to try looking for multiple variations of the same word or phrase in a single search, including common and scientific names for species, use OR (all capitals) to tell the search engine to find material with any of the words you've included.
You can even get fancy and use both AND and OR:
