BIOL 490: Animal Digestion Adaptations (Hubbard): Home

Article Search @UW is a new tool that allows you to search articles from thousands of scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals, magazines, newspapers, and other types of publications. Many are full-text online. For those that are not, use the InterLibrary Loan (ILL) service to request a copy for your research.

1. Develop your topic sentence.  For example, I am interested in the digestive system of white-tailed deer.
2. Develop a search strategy using keyword searh terms from your topic sentence.

Keyword search terms:  digestion, white tailed deer

Hints:   Other keywords could include scientific names.  For example:  Odocoileus virginianus which is the scientific name for white-tailed deer.

Try using the truncation symbol (*)  to expand your results.  A truncation symbol will cause the search algorithim to look for the root word and for variations in the spelling in the ending of a word after the *.  For example, using digest* will return results with digest, digested, digestive, and digestion.

Below is a selection of subject databases you can search individually. Content in these databases overlaps with the Article Search @UW above, but each offers unique coverage. Be sure to explore these databases for your research needs.

Follow similar search strategy as discussed above under Article Search @UW.

Look up your Journal title in Ulrich's to see if it is a scholarly or popular periodical.