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Chemistry & Biochemistry Research Guide

FInding Journal Articles and more

Ways to Find Journal Articles


1. Use Library Databases

The Library subscribes to many databases that have or link to scholarly articles

♦  Multidisciplinary databases, such as Academic Search Ultimate and Web of Science Core Collection.
    These index articles in scholarly journals as well as other types of publications.
    You can limit your search results to only journal articles.

♦  Discipline-specific databases, such as BIOSIS, PubMed, CABAbstracts, Zoological Record, and SciFinder
   take a broad view of the scholarly/professional literature and also index publications types such as
   dissertations, books and book chapters, conference proceedings, and technical reports.
   Most of these databases will allow you to
limit your results to only journal articles.

2. Use Google Scholar

Indexes a variety of publication types including scholarly journal articles.

Does not have a way to limit results to only scholarly journals, so pay attention to what you have retrieved.

3. Follow the Citation Paths from a Known Item

 Look backwards in the literature by looking up references from the works cited section.

 Look forward in the literature by seeing who cited an item. Web of Science databases, Google Scholar, and some other databases and publisher websites give you Cited By references.

Web of Science Core Collection (Clarivate Analytics)

Multidisciplinary & very current.
Citations from ~8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world.
Also provides cited reference searching: navigate forward and backward through the literature from a specific article.
 

Academic Search Ultimate

Index to news magazines and scholarly journals in a wide variety of subjects.
• You can limit your search to scholarly journals by checking the box: Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals

Google Scholar (with Fresno State library access links)
Peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.  Also includes patents.