Finding Articles
Databases are the first place to look for articles. Databases usually have information about an article (such as the title, author, name of the journal or magazine in which the article appeared) and they may also contain a summary (abstract) of the article.
Some databases have a complete copy of the articles (called full text). In this case there is a link to an HTML or PDF document.
The following are some suggested subject terms to use when searching:
Search Tips
Use truncation (*) to find word variants. Adolescen* retrieves adolescent, adolescents, adolescence. Use quotation marks (") around phrases to search for exact phrases. Example: "As you like it"
Google Scholar
Databases
Begin your search in these recommended databases:
- Academic Search UltimateContent include academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos which meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more. Full text is provided for over 10,000 peer-reviewed journals.
- American Chemical Society (ACS)Site stocked with Chemistry updates, news, research and career information.
- Arxiv.org e-Print archiveOpen access to 1,169,897 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics
- DOAJ - Directory of Open-Access JournalsFree, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering a variety of subjects and languages.
- Energy Citations DatabaseThe Energy Citations Database (ECD) contains energy and energy?related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research & Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The Database provides access to DOE citations from 1948 through the present.
- GPO - U.S. Government Publishing OfficeIndex to U.S. Government publications on all topics.
- GreenFILEA research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports.
- SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data SystemThe SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a Digital Library portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant. The ADS maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 12.2 million records covering publications in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and the arXiv e-prints. Abstracts and full-text of major astronomy and physics publications are indexed and searchable.
- Science.govScience.gov searches over 60 databases and over 2200 selected websites from 15 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information including research and development results. Science.gov is governed by the interagency Science.gov Alliance
Interlibrary Loan
Find an article we don't have at Mercyhurst? You can request articles and other materials through document delivery services provided by Mercyhurst libraries.
Interlibrary Loan
Our ILL service allows you to request articles, books, chapters from books, and conference proceedings to request from libraries all over the country. Choose the material you'd
like to request, log in using your Name and Mercyhurst ID Number, then
fill out the form as completly as possible and click 'Submit This
Request'.
*Please check the holdings at Mercyhurst libraries before requesting materials through these services!
