Biology Information Literacy Part I: Resources & the Library: Finding Journal Articles

STEP 1) LOGIN

STEP 2) SEARCH

STEP 3) IDENTIFY ARTICLE TO DOWNLOAD

STEP 4) CLICK THE FULL TEXT LINK, THEN THE FIND IT LINK

STEP 5) CLICK THE FULL TEXT AVAILABLE LINK

STEP 6) DOWNLOAD THE ARTICLE PDF

There are an estimated 24,000 scientific journals publishing over 1 million articles a year.  When hunting through the published literature for articles to support your research, you need to figure out where to look. Using databases, you can sort through many records to find the few relevant articles out of the millions of published articles.

Many of the journals and article databases linked to in this guide are restricted for use by UH Mānoa students, faculty, and staff.  UH Web Login Service is used to provide access outside of the Library to authorized users.

Much like the catalog is used to find books, databases are used to find journal articles.  Here are some databases to check out when getting started on a topic:
(For a more comprehensive list of scientific article databases see SciTech Databases A-Z.)