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Finding Articles Online
        Yahoo's Search Subscriptions *

      • It includes both summaries of scientific/technical journal articles
        and selected science-oriented web pages.
      • (You can also choose to search only articles or only WEBSITEs.)
      • If you click the link to an article from the search results screen, you
        will be taken to a web page through which you can purchase a PDF
        copy of the full text.
      • In the case of Web material, you can click through to see the full text
        of the item.
      • The search results page also includes suggested words and phrases
        that can help you narrow your search.
      • Since this list is generated automatically, some of the phrases may
        be more useful than others.
      • You can also click a box on the left side of any of the search result
        items and then click the "Email checked results" or "Export checked
        results" to produce a list of the articles you have selected.

      • PubMed is the well-known database built and maintained by the US
        National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.
      • Very few of the records within this database are in full text; on the
        other hand, this is a very in-depth collection of medical research,
        dating back to the 1950s.
      • There are links within selected article summaries that will take you to
        a free, full text archive.
      • Look for a link labeled "Free full text article".
      • Be sure to click the "Help | FAQ" link for detailed information on how
        to conduct focused searches and limit your results to just the types
        of information you need.

      • CiteSeer and SMEALsearch provide access to summaries of scientific
        and business literature, respectively.
      • What is particularly intriguing about these two databases is that they
        let you look for articles that reference a particular article, thus letting
        you track down articles related to your topic.
      • Individual records list the articles that cite that record ("Cited by:")
        as well as a list of "Similar documents" and "Related documents",
        calculated by analyzing the articles themselves.
      • These two databases are built by specialized search engine spiders
        that scour the web for full text articles, so you can download the full
        text of any of the articles retrieved in CiteSeer or SMEALsearch.
      • Because of the requirement that all articles are in full text, these are
        smaller databases than Scirus or Pubmed.

      • OAIster is an index to academically-oriented "digital resources"
        available for free from close to 600 libraries and other organizations.
      • These digital resources range from images at the Library of Congress
        to audio files, reference books such as dictionaries, articles from
        online journals, and electronic books.
      • You can search for any word within the document, or you can limit
        your search to the document title, author, subject or type of material
        (audio, video, text and so on).
      • The search results page includes a description of each item, along
        with a link you can click to get a copy of the item.
      • There is also a link next to each listing, "add to bookbag".
      • Click this link and the item is added to the equivalent of a shopping
        cart (except that there is no charge for any of the material retrieved
        through OAIster).
      • When you are finished with your searches, click the link
        "View Bookbag" and you can then select to have the OAIster records
        emailed to you or downloaded.
      • Note, however, that what you receive is simply the OAIster record,
        not the "digital resource" described.
      • You'll still have to click the link in each record in order to view the full
        text of the resource.

            NOTE:

      • Some publishers are making the full text of their articles available for
        free on their WEBSITE, even to people who don't subscribe to their
        publications.
      • Newspapers and general-interest magazines such as Newsweek and
        Car & Driver usually make all or most of their articles available on their
        site, although they may offer a limited archive of articles from prior
        issues.
      • Gradually, more of the academic, medical and sci-tech publishers are
        also beginning to make their publications available on the web.
      • One striking example is the Public Library of Science
        (http://www.plos.org), which publishes six peer-reviewed journals on
        the Web; you can pay $175/year to have a print subscription mailed to
        you, but the expectation is that readers will download and print the
        issues themselves.
      • Other examples of free, high-quality publications include the
          IBM Journal of Research and Development,
                (http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/) and
          JAMA (http://jama.ama-assn.org),
                the journal of the American Medical Association.

    * Source:   Search Tip of the Month, January 2006,   www.BatesInfo.com/subscribe.html

            BioMed Central **

      • Provides free access to full text articles from over 100 Open Access
        journals
      • In biology and medicine
      • This site requires free registration

            Directory of Open Access **

      • Provides an advanced search for finding articles among the 347
        journals searchable this way
      • Various academic topics are included among those journals

            FindArticles.Com **

      • Provides access to over 900 publications and over 5.5 million articles
      • Provides both basic and advanced search options

            Highwire **

      • Free online full text science articles
      • Most articles will be available in full text format

            PubMed Central **

      • A large digital archive of biomedical journal articles

    ** Source:   John Jaeger - Dallas Baptist University Library

Updated November 1, 2006

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