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IB 41: Marine Mammals: Finding Journal Articles

Article Types and Peer Review

Find Journal Articles

Several databases have a check box or filter to limit your search results to peer reviewed research.

Specialized Databases:

Multidisciplinary Citation Databases:

Find Journals and Full Text

  • Use Journal Search to find online or print access to a particular journal.
  • To find full text when searching in an article database, look for links:                 Get it at UC
  • To find full text from a citation, paste the citation into the search box in UC Library Search.

Search Strategies

Building a search

To most effectively find relevant journal articles in Biosis Previews, Web of Science, Scopus, and other databases, see instructions (from Bio1B) on how to develop keywords, build a search, and broaden or narrow a search. In a nutshell, to broaden a search, think about using truncation, combining synonyms with 'OR', or decreasing the number of concepts in your search. To narrow a search, consider introducing concepts to your search by adding additional search terms with 'AND', using more specific search terms, using phrase searching (""), or using filters/limits.

For example, if my topic were how manatees in Florida are impacted by poor water quality, my search in BIOSIS Previews might be: florida manatees AND (red tide* OR harmful alga* OR water quality). [Too narrow? Maybe remove 'Florida' and look at manatees more generally]

Using one good paper to find others

From your search results, you can identify a relevant article and then use the database's tools to help you find more.

For example, here is a relevant 2015 article from my first page of search results:

Sublethal red tide toxin exposure in free-ranging manatees (Trichechus manatus) affects the immune system through reduced lymphocyte proliferation responses, inflammation, and oxidative stress

You can see more recent papers that have cited this paper (citations, 33 papers), view this paper's reference list (cited references, 33 papers), and find similar articles ("View Related Records") using the Citation Network:

citation network