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Delta College Library
Entry #6 Using Reputable
Science Periodical Articles
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One of the things to keep in mind for this "Entry #6" assignment is that you need to find a standard article or editorial from a reputable science journal such as Science, Nature, Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, or JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association. You are not looking for a research article or case study.
It may help you to take a look at one explanation of the difference between a standard article and an article based on scholarly original research.
Science and Nature journals seem to have more standard articles than original research articles. Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, and JAMA will have standard articles but they seem to have quite a few more research articles than Science and Nature.
Medline, the index/database, will allow you to ask specifically for "editorials." This is explained farther down this page.
FirstSearch's Medline and GenSciAbs will be the two indexes (databases) that you will want to use. Use Medline, first.
Once you are in FirstSearch, you should see a long list of indexes/databases. Scroll down the page to click on Medline.
Step 1: You need to get into FirstSearch.
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Step 2:
- Make sure that you are searching the correct database, such as Medline or GenSciAbs.
- Type your keywords (topic) in the box next to "Search for:"
- Make sure the search box, next to the box where you typed your topic (stem cells), says "Keyword."
- Within the box on the next line under your topic (stem cells), type in the title of the periodical that you want to search. For this example, we will search the journal, Science.
- You must tell the computer (FirstSearch) that Science is the Source (journal) that you want to search. The default word in the white box next to where we typed "Science" will say "Keyword." You need to click on the down arrow within the box. You will be presented with a long list of options. Scroll down the list to click on "Source Phrase."
- The following image shows what the search boxes should look like IF you are using the index Medline to search for articles about stem cells in the source (journal) by the name of Science.
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Step 3: Click on the "Search" button and the computer will perform the search.
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Step 4: In Medline, you can scroll through quite a few citations that have something to do with stem cells that are in the journal called Science.
- If you click on the title of the article, you may be presented with an abstract (summary) of the article.
- Almost none of the citations will give you the full-text from Science. However, Delta Library subscribes to the print form of Science. Once you find the citation that you want, go to the magazine and journal section of the library and select the correct issue of Science according to your citation.
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Step 5:
- If you do not find what you want in Science, then choose one of the other periodicals, and start the process over again.
- If you do not find what you want in Medline, you can choose GenSciAbs, and then start the process over again.
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Step 6:
If you do not find a "standard" article, this Entry # 6 assignment allows you to use an editorial. Medline will allow you to ask for just editorials.
Below the search boxes, look for "Article Type Phrase."
"Article Type Phrase" will have its own search box. Click on the down arrow associated with this box in order to choose "Editorial" from the list.
When you click on the "Search" button with "Editorial" chosen, Medline will find just editorials within whichever journal that you asked Medline to search.
