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Scholarly & Academic Research: Finding Journal Articles
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Looking for scholarly or academic research articles? Ordinary search engines are great for researching business and popular culture, but they're not very useful for finding academic research papers or scholarly journal articles. Not to worry. These resources abound online, and can be found using the tools listed below. Journal articles are available in a variety of formats, ranging from citations or brief abstracts to full text delivered electronically or in hard copy. Some articles are provided free. Often, a fee is required, or access is restricted in some way. You may have some success locating journals via search engines or web directories. Check out the tools below or try the Google search above. Simply add the word journal or the phrase "electronic journal" to your search term. In directories, look under your respective discipline. Yahoo, for example, lists eleven journals under Science/Biology/Cell Biology and twelve under Arts/Humanities/Literature/Poetry. Academic information may also be available through the Internet's many library gateways, listed at right below. You may also want to try our invisible web resources, useful for searching databases.