How do I find free articles?
Free full-text articles can be approached in the following ways.
- Medknow Publications.
- PubMed Central and PubMed.
- Directory of Open Access Journals.
- Electronic Resources in Medicine Consortium and National Medical Library.
- Google, Google Scholar, and Yahoo.
- The Cochrane Library.
- Public Library of Science.
- Free Medical Journals.
How do I find scholarly sources on Google?
To access the advanced search option, click on the three line icon in the upper left corner of the Google Scholar search page. Click on Advanced search. From the Advanced search pop-up box, choose the search option(s) you need.
Are all articles on Google Scholar scholarly?
Unfortunately Google Scholar doesn’t have a setting that will allow you to restrict results only to peer-reviewed articles. If you find articles in Google Scholar, you would have to look up the journal the article is published in to find out whether they use peer review or not.
How do I find a scholarly article?
Scholarly articles are often found in journals, which compile several peer-reviewed articles on similar topics in the same place. You will often find these articles in online databases or in the periodicals section of your library, but it is still valuable to find pertinent information in actual, physical, books.
Where to find scholarly sources?
Go to a university library website. Many universities have a more open approach to providing scholarly articles to the general public. You may be able to access scholarly articles through the library’s website even if you aren’t a current student at that school. Check colleges and universities near you as well.
How do I find scholarly journal articles?
To find scholarly articles, you need to look in a database. A research database lets you search across the text of millions of articles published in thousands of academic journals. General databases have a little bit of everything (like a big retail store). Examples of general databases include Google Scholar, the library articles search, or JSTOR .
Is everything in Google Scholar peer reviewed?
It’s very important that you critically evaluate the quality of the information you find in Google Scholar. Not everything is peer reviewed, and unlike the library databases, there is no option to limit to only peer reviewed articles. To access articles, click on the PDF or “Find It!