Library First Year Seminar 127

Databases: Find articles, book chapters, e-books

• PubMed (1966 to present)
  Premiere biomedical index, includes MEDLINE and links to molecular biology databases.
• Web of Science (1984 to present)
  Search thousands of journals across the sciences and social sciences and track cited references to locate more recent articles.
• PsycInfo (1887 to present)
  Covers the academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including psychiatry, sociology, education, and other areas.
• Global Newsstream (ProQuest)
  Search the most recent global news, including major US dailies, with archives that stretch back into the 1980s from over 2,700 news sources that include newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, blogs, and more in full-text format.
• Academic Search Premier (date coverage varies)
  Full-text articles from over 3,600 journals in the social sciences, arts and humanities, and sciences.

Journals

Here are a few science journals that include articles written for a general audience. If you are looking for ideas about what topic to choose, you might consider searching here.

Scientific American
Nature
Science Magazine
Science News

Find Encyclopedias & Other Reference Works

• Reference Universe
  Searchable index of the library's entire reference collection, both print and electronic.

Research Help

Need help with any part of the research process?  Please feel free to make an appointment with a Research & Instruction Librarian!

Citing Sources

Consider using a reference manager to collect and keep track of your citations.  Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free application that collects, manages, and formats citations and bibliographies. Zotero also helps organize your research by allowing you to attach PDFs, notes, and images to your references. You can arrange your sources into collections for different projects and tag them for easy searching.

For more information about how to appropriately use sources in your work, visit these guides:

The Writing Center's Using Sources Guide

Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison Writer's Handbook on Avoiding Plagiarism