Locating Journal Articles

Description

Begin your biology assignment with these short library tutorials to help you get started on finding articles for your research.

This short tutorial will focus on locating journal articles. You will discover selecting appropriate databases to help you locate journal articles that are relevant to your research.  

By the end of the tutorial the following questions will be addressed: 

  • Why should I use library databases in comparison to other ones that are available?
  • What features do these more credible databases have in common? 

Take a screenshot of the summary page if you are completing this tutorial for a course.  

Take Other Tutorials 

Other tutorials in the University of Toronto Scarborough First Year Biological Sciences Library Tutorial Series include: 

Get ahead on library research with these tutorials to help you find primary sources needed for your assignment. 

This tutorial is developed by Sarah Guay, Sarah Shujah and Jasmine Wemigwans. 

Locating Journal Articles © 2024 by Sarah Guay, Sarah Shujah and Jasmine Wemigwans is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 

Keywords
Database searching
scholarly articles
scholarly databases
scholarly sources
Google Scholar
Web of Science
information literacy
research skills
biology
first year courses