Plant Biology, Ecology, and Evolution: Research at the Library - finding ARTICLES from JOURNALS

Finding scholarly articles

Below are two sets of databases. The first set will provide access to both magazines and journal articles. Make sure you can tell differences between general magazine articles and scholarly articles. See the tab to the left labeled Differences between magazine and journal articles if you can't.

The second set below lists subject specific databases that provide a more thorough treatment of your botany topic. There will be overlap of some content in all of these databases.

General Subject databases

Selected subject databases

The subject databases below will provide more in-depth coverage of your botany research topic, and will provide primarily peer-reviewed scholarly articles.

SCOPUS
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
Science Direct
This database is a scientific research index that contains journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. Most of these are available full text online. (Elsevier publications)
Agricola
Created by the National Agricultural Library (NAL), it covers animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences. Coverage: 1970 - present.
CAB Direct
International in scope and covers journals, books, and conferences of all languages and countries from 1900 to the present. Its subjects include agriculture, food science, nutrition, and veterinary medicine.
Google Scholar
Google's search engine for scholarly research. It indexes citations, abstracts, and full-text articles, books, conference proceedings, theses, online repositories, patents, legal cases, and more.

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Research is a conversation

Conversations in research are occurring through blogs, newspapers, magazines, conferences and academic journals. For your research paper you are required to have a majority of your sources from academic journals. Scholarly journal articles are unique in that they require authors to document and make verifiable their sources of facts, ideas and methods used to arrive at their insights and conclusions, unlike magazine articles or postings on the web.

To find relevant journal articles look at the list of databases. Some databases, like Wal-Mart, are good for having a wide variety of items or topics. These databases have journal, magazine and newspaper articles. Other databases are more specialized, like a Lowe's or a snow-cone stand, offering more, in depth sources from journals on narrower topics.