Science Reference Center
Science magazines and encyclopedias for a general audience. Still stuck? Try this general database but you will need to check to make sure the journal is scientific. This resource might also be useful for finding your "other" source.
Academic Search Premier (EbscoHost)
Articles in all subjects from scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers. An all-purpose database and often a good place to start.
ProQuest News & Newspapers
News articles from U.S. newspapers. Includes the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Star Tribune, and many local newspapers.
Popular magazines tend to be very readable, not contain much jargon or technical terms, and often have a story or narrative that accompanies the article. They tend to summarize or review the results of one or more studies rather than conducting their own research.
Examples: National Geographic, Popular Science, New Scientist, etc.
Scholarly journals often have very dense writing with lots of jargon or tehcnical terms, and the articles in them are usually original studies.
Examples: Journal of Applied Chemistry, Biophysical Chemistry, Behavioral Science, etc.
- Do you know the author of the study?
- Do you know the title of the study?
- Do you know the year it was published? Are there any clues ("According to a study published a couple of years ago" or "a study that was just published")? If not use the year the news article or popular science article was published. It has to be before that year.
2. Search Academic Search Premier for the study using the information from above to locate it
Academic Search Premier (EbscoHost)
Articles in all subjects from scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers. An all-purpose database and often a good place to start. 3. Can't find it in Academic Search Premier? Try to find it in Google Scholar:
Google Scholar
Search for academic articles on publisher and other websites. When you use this link to connect to Google Scholar through the Library, your search results will include links to articles available in Normandale Library databases whenever possible. Look for the "Article @ Normandale Lib." links to access the full article through the Library.
Note: Not all articles in your search results will be available through the Library. Need an article we don’t have? Submit an interlibrary loan request.
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Libby Merrill
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