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Comprehensive Guide to Online Resources for Scientific Articles and Research Papers

Discover valuable online resources that provide access to scientific articles and research papers. This guide covers various databases and journals, such as ScienceDirect and Blackwell Synergy, highlighting their offerings. Many platforms provide free abstracts and some full-text articles, though full access often requires payment. Learn how to effectively search for relevant journals and document your research process. Enhance your text analysis skills and reading comprehension with appropriate articles from related fields, general science journals, and specialized repositories.

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Comprehensive Guide to Online Resources for Scientific Articles and Research Papers

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  1. Online text resources • websites that provide specialized articles & papers

  2. Notes • Many of these sites provide abstracts free. • Some provide a few full-text articles free, too. But usually you have to pay by credit card for full articles.

  3. Notes (continued) • In general, abstracts are sufficient for text analysis. • If you can find one or two full-text articles, use them for reading comprehension AND text analysis.

  4. Notes (continued) • You should take some time near the beginning of the course to visit these sites and find the best journal for you. • If you cannot find a journal in exactly the same field as yours, don’t worry! A journal from a related field is good, too.

  5. Notes (continued) • General, serious science journals, such as Nature, are also good. And popular science magazines like New Scientist are good, too. • For many students, the AWL Gapmaker, used on abstracts, may be an important part of your project work.

  6. Notes (continued) • You should document your search for journal articles: • where did you look? • did you browse or search? • what words did you use to search? • what journals did you find that were not appropriate for you?

  7. ScienceDirect, from Elsevier • www.sciencedirect.com • This has more than 1700 journals in 23 major classifications: agricultural & biological sciences; civil engineering; earth & planetary sciences; environmental science; and materials science. • Click on the Journals tab and Search for a Journal title.

  8. Choose a category here or type a word here

  9. A search for “building” found these four journals.

  10. Registering gives you more options, such as email alerts for new content.

  11. Links to abstracts (and some full text) are clickable.

  12. ScienceDirect • www.sciencedirect.com • Probably the leading online science resource. • Most journals have one or two free issues (marked in yellow). • Nearly every journal has free abstracts. • Keep up-to-date in your field by looking at the titles in TOC emails.

  13. Blackwell Synergy • http://www.blackwell-synergy.com • Not as big as ScienceDirect, but some useful journals, e.g. Ecological Research

  14. Other titles on Synergy • Lakes and Reservoirs: Research and Management • Fisheries Science • Aquaculture Research • African Journal of Ecology • Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

  15. More journals on Synergy • Engineering Construction & Architectural Management • Ecosystem Health • Environmental Microbiology • International Journal of Food Science & Technology • Journal of Human Nutrition & Dietetics • Waste Management & Research

  16. Directory ofOpen Access Journals • www.doaj.org • Free, full-text journals in: • Agriculture & Food Sciences • Biology & Life Sciences • Earth & Environmental Sciences • Arts & Architecture . . . etc.

  17. Springer Science Online • www.springer.de • Environmental Sciences • Life Sciences • Geoscience • Engineering . . . etc.

  18. Some journal titles • Wood Science & Technology • Stochastic Environmental Research & Risk Assessment • Journal of Marine Science & Technology • Environmental Engineering & Policy • Environmental Management

  19. More journals from Springer • Ecosystems • Archives of Environmental Contamination & Toxicology • Clean Technologies & Environmental Policy • . . . etc.

  20. Inter-Research Science Publisher • www.int-res.com • Marine Ecology Progress Series • Climate Research • Diseases of Aquatic Organisms • Ethics in Science & Environmental Politics • Aquatic Microbial Ecology

  21. Highwire • http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl • More free online journals. Most are in the medical field, but some others, too, e.g.: • Journal of Environmental Quality • Journal of the American College of Nutrition • Health Policy and Planning • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

  22. BioMedNet • Lots of information in biology and medicine • www.bmn.com

  23. www.bmn.com It is best to register

  24. BioMedNet for Life Sciences Some of the major fields covered

  25. Limnology & Oceanography www.aslo.org/lo/index.html

  26. EEE Gateway Elsevier’s Ecology, Evolution and Environment Gateway on BioMedNet http://www.bmn.com/ecology-evolution Sign up for monthly email alerts.

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