Periodicals
Why choose periodicals?
Periodicals (journals, magazines, and newspapers) are published in regular intervals, and are the best sources for current information to support research. They are found in print or in databases.
MC Libraries organize their databases in two ways: Databases by Subject: Boxes contain databases by type of resource (i.e. encyclopedia, newspaper, etc.) or by the subject the database covers. For broad research, start with the first 5 databases listed. This is the best portal to use if you are not sure which database to search. A to Z List of Databases: Lists all the library's databases in alphabetical order. If you want to browse the databases or already have a favorite database and want to link to it, access them from this portal.
Databases: Journal & Magazine Articles
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- Full Text Journals - Biological Sciences This link will take you to a list of the full text journals available through MC library's databases and print journal holdings. Scroll down the list to see journals is all areas of biology.
- Biology Journals Database This database has full text articles from over 250 biology journals.
- Cell Cell, a scholarly journal, is available here and through the ScienceDirect database.
- Environment Complete Offers coverage in areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law.
- Nature This is the online edition of the weekly international science journal and has archives going back to 1950.
- Science Online access to the journal Science with articles dating back to 1997.
- Science Direct ScienceDirect indexes more than 7 million journal articles in the sciences and applied sciences. Through the MDL consortium, we have access to the full text of many of these articles through a shared title list.
- Science Resource Center This database includes "thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations...and the latest scientific developments...covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites."
- Academic Search Complete This is a very large collection of articles and other media that covers a range of topics.
- Academic OneFile Another very large database that covers a wide range of topics, including biology and related subjects.
- ALL MONTGOMERY COLLEGE DATABASES The complete list of subscription databases available to Montgomery College students.
Search Tips: Articles
When searching for articles, construct a Boolean Search expression using these components:
- keywords, the nouns that describe your topic
- Boolean operators, (AND, OR)
- quotation marks for phrases
- parentheses for OR statements
Here are some examples:
"human genome" AND cancer
"chesapeake bay" AND pollution
"global warming" AND (oceans OR "marine life" OR coast)
(mutation OR mutate or error) AND DNA
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