How do I read a scientific article?

This movie from Purdue can step you through it.(Thanks to Michael Fosmire, Purdue University)

Finding Journals

Look for and use the following icons while searching article databases:

	Link to full-text online when available.
	Request an electronic copy of an article. Delivery is usually within 1 to 2 days if the journal is available at JMU. May take longer if it must be ordered from another library.

Use the databases below to find scholarly research articles.

Comprehensive science database, including cited reference searching, patents, web resources. [more info]

Campus/Remote

Premier database covering medicine and life sciences. Contains over 12 million citations, dating back to 1966. [more info]

Internet

A scholarly journal collection focused on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences... [more info]

Campus/Remote

Indexes and abstracts journals, patents, conference reports and books in the Life Sciences. [more info]

Campus/Remote

A collection of databases providing journal indexing and article abstracts... [more info]

Campus/Remote

[tutorial] Indexes and abstracts periodical articles in chemistry... [more info]

Campus/Remote

General index including popular and selected scholarly science journals.
[more info]

Campus/Remote

PubGet

Pubget is a search engine for life-science PDFs. [more info]

Internet

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