Chemistry 1001 Research Paper  Tags: chemistry  

Articles are good sources for:

♦ current research on a topic
♦ coverage of very narrow topics
♦ coverage of current events
♦ contemporary accounts of past events and research

For the types of journals that Dr. Ryan recommends for this assignment (journals such as Nature, Science, and Chemical & Engineering News), we suggest the following databases:

• ProQuest Research Library
• Academic Search Elite

The Libraries subscribe to over 24,000 journals, most in electronic format. There are a variety of ways to find out if the Libraries subscribe to the journals you need.

If you already have the citation to an article:

• Use MARQCAT. Search by Title and enter the title of the journal, NOT the title or author of the article.
  

If you are looking at citations from within a database:

• Use the FindIt@MU icon in the citation you are interested in. This will open another window and do one of two things

  • Display a list of databases with links. This indicates the FindIt widget may have found a source for electronic copy of the article. Click on the link to determine if a full text option is located.
  • Display only a link to MARQCAT. Click the MARQCAT link to search the catalog. The journal may be available in print or fulltext through a source not searchable by the FindIt widget.

If the database record does not have the FindIt@MU icon, use the first method above: searching MARQCAT directly.  If neither method works to locate the article here, request the article through Interlibrary Loan. This can be done directly from the article citation within some databases.

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