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Journal Indexes for Articles
Academic OneFile 1980 - current. Interdisciplinary index covering over 10,000 scholarly and popular journals and magazines. Most references include full-text or links to full-text. Contains all of Expanded Academic Index ASAP. Coverage of scientific journals is limited. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted.
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- Enclose phrases in quotes " " .
- Truncate search terms with an asterisk * .
- For more tips, click "Help" in the upper-right of the search screen.
Basic BIOSIS
Current and four previous years. Covers approximately 370 core scholarly life science journals found in college libraries. Offers effective searching by scientific name. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. (For references to articles published 1926-1993, see Biological Abstracts, Armstrong Library Ref Index QH301 B34.)
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> More tips at Using FirstSearch: Search Statements.
Environmental Policy Index
1950s-current. Very selective coverage of journal and magazine articles related to environmental policy. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted.
Geobase
1980-current. Covers major commercially published journals as well as books, monographs, conference proceedings, and reports. Very selective current file in geography, geology, ecology and related fields. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted.
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JSTOR
1600s-five years ago. JSTOR is an archive of several hundred core scholarly journals in numerous disciplines. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted.
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- Enclose phrases in quotes " " .
- Truncate using an asterisk * .
- More tips at JSTOR Help Topics.
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PubMed
1950s-current. A major source for scholarly biomedical literature.
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> If a phrase is not recognized by the Automatic Term Mapping (ATM) feature then instruct PubMed to bypass ATM and search for a phrase by enclosing it in quotes " ".
> PubMed assumes the AND operator between concepts. When using Boolean operators, enter them in uppercase.
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> To focus your search by using controlled vocabulary, consult the MeSH Browser.
> To find the full title of a source journal when you have an abbreviated title, search the PubMed Journals Database.
> More tips at Searching PubMed.
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Web of Science (Science Citation Index)
1985-current. Together, the Science Citation Index and the Social Sciences Citation Index cover several thousand scholarly journals worldwide. The Science Citation Index segment covers core science and technology research journals. Special features include cited article searching and discovery of related articles through common terms. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. (For references to articles published 1974-1989, use SciSearch via Dialog on Library computers; ask the Science Librarian for assistance.)
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> Truncate terms using an asterisk * .
> For more tips, see Web of Knowledge Help or the online Tutorial.
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More Journal Indexes
Government Agency Web Sites
Web Search Engines
Google Scholar
Searches for many types of primarily scholarly sources including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other organizations. Some documents will be available for free while others require a subscription or a one-time access fee.
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> To link to Midd Full-Text, including our online subscriptions, from your Google Scholar results: 1) Click on "Scholar Preferences," 2) In the "Library Links" section, search for "Middlebury," and 3) Select "Middlebury College" and then "Save Preferences."
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Scirus
Searches for science-related and primarily scholarly sources including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other organizations. Some documents will be available for free while others require a subscription or a one-time access fee.
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> To link to Midd Full-Text, including our online subscriptions, from your Scirus results: 1) Click on "Search Preferences," 2) For Library Partner Links, click "Enable," 3) Click "M" and then select "Middlebury College" from the drop-down list, and 4) Click "Save Preferences."
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Definitions
Background Information
Provides authoritative information for non-specialists on a wide variety of science-related topics. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your username and password when prompted.
Find Books, Articles and More
Have only a citation? Here's how to locate the article or book online or in print.
Articles
- If you've found the citation in a journal index (e.g. web of Science) and the article is not available there, look for a link to full-text. These links vary but usually say something like “Find…” or “Link to…”. A new window will open; follow the links it provides to find the journal online or in print.
- Alternatively, go to the Print and E-Journals A-Z list and search for the journal title. Follow the links it provides to find the journal online or in print.
- If we have the journal only in print, follow the MIDCAT link for location information:
a. In MIDCAT, look at the column labeled "Location." The Armstrong (Science) Library is in McCardell-Bicentennial Hall. The Main Library is on Storrs Avenue. The Music Library is in the Center for the Arts.
b. Once you're in the library, find out where the call number (see the column labeled "Call No.") is located. Ask for assistance at any desk. - If we don't subscribe to the journal, request it from another library through NExpress (see NExpress at Middlebury for details). If the journal is not available in NExpress, request it through traditional interlibrary loan using the Illiad form.
Books
If your book is available in MIDCAT:
- In MIDCAT, look at the column labeled "Location." The Armstrong (Science) Library is in McCardell-Bicentennial Hall. The Main Library is on Storrs Avenue. The Music Library is in the Center for the Arts.
- Once you're in the library, find out where the call number (see the column labeled "Call No.") is located. Ask for assistance at any desk.
If your book is not available in MIDCAT:
- In MIDCAT, click on the
button to request it from another library (see NExpress at Middlebury for details). - If the book is not available in NExpress, request it through traditional interlibrary loan using the Illiad form.
Schedule a follow-up consultation! Contact Carrie Macfarlane, Reference and Instruction Librarian for the Sciences, 206 Armstrong Library, x5018, cmacfarl@middlebury.edu.