Basic Search Strategies
- use quotation marks when searching for a phrase
- this will force the database to search for the words in your phrase in the order you type them, with no words in between
- in most databases, entering a lengthy phrase or question will return very limited or very inappropriate results.
- ask yourself the question you are researching, then pick out the most important words; these are the "key words"
- if you search a database for 15 minutes and don't find appropriate results, contact Mary Abdoney. Don't waste time!
Suggested Databases
- indexes 10,000 journals, chemistry specific
- search for patents
- information on 33 million organic and inorganic substances
- deep backfile (article citations dating to the mid 1800's)
- client-based
- search by molecular structure
- 30 million records in all sciences
- citation analysis
- look at how a particular article has been cited over the years
- author searching
- follow who is citing whom
- 17 million citations in biomedical sciences
- product of the National Library of Medicine
- some full text links
Finding the article
Just because you find an article in a database that we subscribe to does not necessarily mean that we subscribe to the journal as well. Follow these steps to find the full text:
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