COD Library: BIOLO 1110: Examining Biodiversity Issues: Find Articles

Finding Popular Articles

Use the following links to search for popular (magazine and newspaper) articles about your subject. Remember to be specific when searching: for example, try searching for wildfires and biodiversity and California rather than just biodiversity.

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete has a wide variety of magazine articles as well as newspaper articles.
U.S. Newsstream
Search the full-text of newspapers around the country from the 1980s to the present. Learn what local journalists have written about your biodiversity topic. One hint: make sure that your search results are ranked by relevance, rather than by date.
New York Times Digital Edition
Set up a NYT account linked to your COD email, and search and read articles related to biodiversity. (Account setup info is in the linked page.)

Finding Scholarly Articles

Scholarly articles are checked before publication, and are often more detailed than popular articles. Your professor may not require you to use scholarly articles, but if they do, the sources below are good bets:

Science Direct
Science Direct is a full-text scholarly article database. Don't hesitate to be specific when searching and use the limiters on the left side of the screen.
Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete also has a number of scholarly articles focused on the sciences. Try the same search words that worked for popular articles and make sure you check the icon to see scholarly resources.

Not sure how to search for, identify, or read scholarly articles? Check out the guides below:

Requesting Articles

FInding a citation for an article you'd like, but no full-text (or you're being asked to pay for the article?) Follow the steps below to see how to best access the article:

Start by searching Journal Locator by the journal name. (Check out this video for step-by-step instructions.)
If the results give you a database name, great! Click on the link and search by article title.
If there are no relevant results, head to the Article InterLibrary Loan form. (Find more info about Interlibrary Loan.)
Fill out the Article form. In about 5 -10 business days, you should get an electronic copy of the article in your email.