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BIOL 373 (Fadayomi)

This guide links you to resources to support learning and instruction for Biology 373.

Locating Primary Sources in ScienceDirect

Locating Primary Source Articles in ScienceDirect

  1. Enter your search term.  Don't forget to use quotes to keep words together that must appear next to each other in your search.  Use AND, OR & Not (Boolean Operators) to connect search concepts.  Boolean operators must be capitalized.  
  2. Enter a date range if you are interested in a certain publication date range (ie. 2013-2018)
  3. Try "Research Articles" and "Case Reports" as Article type selections.
  4. Before choosing your articles, make sure they are the primary source types of interest by reading the abstract.

Images shows a way to locate primary source literature in ScienceDirect.  

  • ScienceDirect is a great source of secondary sources in science also.  Consider changing the "Article Type" limits to "Review Articles", "Encylopedia" entries, "Book Chapters" or other secondary source types of interest.