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Physical Sciences: Finding Journal Articles

Finding Journal Articles

Use the library discovery layer, Bearcat Search, to start your search for scholarly peer-reviewed articles, essays, reviews, and other periodical publications. It's a powerful tool that uses the keywords you input to search across all of our journal databases at once.  Below is a search box just for articles as well as tips for using Bearcat Search.

 

Bearcat Search: Articles

 

      

Not every database will appear in your search results. Be sure to check out our standalone databases too.

Article Records in Bearcat Search

Use Citation Mining to Find More Sources

Bearcat Search

Step 1: Locate an article in Bearcat Search that works well for your topic.

Step 2: Use the article record's citation mining icons to locate similar articles.

 

Google Scholar

Step 1: Locate an article in Google Scholar that works well for your topic.

Step 2: Use "cited by" link to find articles which have cited the article you are looking at.

AND/OR/NOT for keyword searching

Use AND between keywords to narrow your search.

Example: pirates AND sea

Use OR between keywords to expand your search.

Example: (pirates OR piracy) AND (sea OR maritime)

Use NOT between keywords to exclude irrelevant results from your search.

Example: (pirates OR piracy) NOT copyright

Order Articles from Other Libraries

Order full text articles from other libraries using Interlibrary Loan.  The request page is located on the top nav of our website.