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An overview of the literature on a topic or To learn more about a specific article |
A citation index*
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The full text of a citation or Articles from a specific journal |
A publisher database* |
* Find these on the A-Z Databases list (log into Okta if prompted)
Citation indexes can be broad in subject, such as Scopus and Web of Science, or more narrowly focused on a discipline.
Scopus and Web of Science track how papers are cited through a large but select list of academic journals, and it is through this citation analysis that you can get a sense of what people have written and what, based on the citations, are considered important papers in the field.
For CH 189, you can select the one you like best; however, as you become more familiar with literature searching, it's best to use both to make sure you're catching everything.
CHEMISTRY: SciFinder is useful as a means of finding articles based on subjects in chemistry and related subjects because it has search capabilities that allow chemistry researchers to connect the substances and reactions they're working on to the research written about them. Look for the "Full Text" link for each citation to read the articles you're interested in.
BIOMEDICAL: PubMed will occasionally link to the full text of articles, either in PubMed Central (a repository of open access articles) or on the publisher website/database. If you can't find full text that way, take the title of the article you want and search for it (in quotes) in the Library search bar to find out if we have access to it through our subscriptions.
You may find the articles you need in a citation database like Scopus or SciFinder, but if tracking the full text from those databases keeps leading you to a publisher's database, consider searching directly in those sources.
Look here for access to journals provided by the journal publishers. Searching a publisher database can be more useful than one of the broader-topic databases if you know that the subject you're looking for is a major focus for a particular publisher, as these databases will have current coverage of some journals we may only have with an embargo in other databases.
