IB Biology - Scientific Investigation (first assessment 2025): Resources for Background Research

Links to WSA databases for research in the natural and applied sciences, mathematics, and technology. Each database has information on "Why search here?", "What's included?", and "How do I cite it?"

Provides high quality online resources in the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Search by grade level, subject (STEM) and resource format. Users need to register with the site to download and save resources.

Search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature, based at the Allen Institute for AI. Semantic Scholar collaborates with industry partners from around the world (publishers, university presses, and scholarly societies) to achieve their mission of timely, open access to relevant scientific research. NEW: TLDRs (Too Long; Didn't Read) are super-short summaries of the main objective and results of a scientific paper generated using expert background knowledge and the latest GPT-3 style NLP techniques - available in beta for nearly 60 million papers in computer science, biology, and medicine.