Library Search Tutorials
- Choosing KeywordsThis guide walks you through choosing effective keywords for research.
- Finding Related SourcesThis guide will walk you through how to find sources related to your topic and the research you are doing.
- Boolean OperatorsThis guide will show you how to use boolean operators (AND, NOT, OR) to narrow or broaden your search.
- Narrowing or Broadening Your SearchThis guide teaches you ways to narrow or broaden your search by using keywords, limiters, and boolean operators, pulling together the information from other guides in this list.
Find Articles and Reports
- Academic Search UltimateThis is a multidisciplinary collection of articles from scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers and other sources.
Tip:
Need the PDF/full-text?
Use Article Linker to search for full-text across all databases. If the article isn't available, choose Request via ILLiad or use interlibrary loan to request a copy from another library.
- ScopusDatabase of peer-reviewed journal articles. Full text is not included, but Article Linker provides access to full-text articles when available.
- GreenFILEArticle database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, includes scholarly and general-interest titles, as well as government documents and reports.
- Center for Disease ControlSearch the CDC site for reports and statistics on a wide variety of topics, from vaccinations, antibiotic resistance, to personal genomics.
Some results link to copies of journal articles from the CDC repository.
Check out the data and statistics they offer as well. - National Human Genome Research InstituteA hub for researching genetic disorders. This site houses its own articles about each as well as other general information about genomics, information about the organization, and programs funded by the NHGRI.
- National Science Foundation (News)Search this site to see how NSF funding has declined over the past several years.
NSF is also a good source for information on a number of topics since they sponsor grants in many areas.
