Library Guides: General Microbiology PMB / MCB C112: Finding Journal Articles

Finding Journal Articles in Microbiology

Search article databases to find journal articles, conference proceedings, and book chapters.

To access full text:

Note: For 2019- Elsevier journal articles (as well as articles in other journals that the Library does not have subscriptions for), alternative access methods include searching for open access copies using browser plugins like Unpaywall and Open Access Button.

Top Choices for Finding Articles:

PubMed
Search biomedical literature citations from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. [1950 - present]

Access to citations from MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, other journals in the field of medicine and life sciences, and links to NCBI's integrated molecular biology databases including nucleotide sequences, protein sequences, 3-D protein structure data, population study data sets, and assemblies of complete genomes in an integrated system.
The link above goes to a specially configured version of Pubmed for UC Berkeley users. To use the free public version, please click here.

Note: Use the UCB-specific URL to see a customized version of PubMed that includes UC-eLinks.
New PubMed: Searching Tips & More - guide to using the new PubMed interface

BIOSIS Previews
Citations for journal articles, conference papers, and books on a wide variety of biological and biomedical topics. [1926 - present]

Indexes journals, books, and conference proceedings are indexed on a wide variety of biological and biomedical topics. An electronic version to the print counterparts, Biological Abstracts and Biological Abstracts/RRM.
Scopus
Indexes journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, and book series in the sciences and more.

Contains over 50 million records with more than half the content originating from outside North America. Indexes over 21,000 journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, and book series in the sciences, technology, medicine, arts, and humanities.
Web of Science
Indexes leading journals in the arts, humanities, sciences and social sciences. Allows cited reference searching. (ISI Web of Knowledge) [1900 - present]

Provides links to footnoted citations as well as sources that have subsequently cited an article. Includes the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (from 1975), Science Citation Index (from 1900), and Social Sciences Citation Index (from 1900).
Google Scholar
Search across many disciplines and sources including articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

Lists journal articles, books, preprints, and technical reports in many subject areas (though more specialized article databases may cover any given field more completely). Can be used with UC-eLinks to access the full text of many articles.

Advanced search: access via upper left triple bar (hamburger) button: search authors, article titles, journal titles, date ranges, more.
Show UC-eLinks in your results list:
- Click on Settings (under triple bar) > Library Links
- Search for "berkeley"
- Choose "University of California Berkeley - UC-eLinks," then Save

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Review and Tips from Bio 1B

Scientific Literature
Material from Bio 1B covering primary literature, literature reviews, peer review, etc.
What is Peer Review?
Peer Review in 3 Minutes (Video)
Searching by topic
Material from Bio 1B on how to find articles on a topic. Includes choosing keywords, broadening a search (truncation, etc.), narrowing a search, and more.
Finding full text
Material from Bio 1B on finding the full text of articles.

Using Alerts

To help you stay current, set up automated alerts by topic, author, citation, or journal using these tools:

Citation Alerts in Web of Science or BIOSIS
How to get notified whenever a document you choose has been cited by a new document that has been added to the database.
Citation and Search Alerts in Scopus
Citation and Search Alerts in Google Scholar
Search Alerts in PubMed

Borrowing items not available at UC Berkeley

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General Microbiology PMB / MCB C112: Finding Journal Articles

Finding Journal Articles in Microbiology

Review and Tips from Bio 1B

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