Best Bets are databases and journals Welder Library subscribes to or allow for open access. Please start your research using these resources. Other resources found here are available at Welder Library or on the internet. Use our Interlibrary Loan service to request the article you are looking for.
Tips
- In the databases, look for PDF links or HTML full text links when searching CINAHL, MEDLINE, etc.
- If full text is not available through the databases, articles can be requested through Interlibrary Loan. The article will be delivered to your UMary email and will take about 3 to 4 business days.
Best Bets:
- PsycInfo - Resource for abstracts for scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in behavioral science and mental health.
- PubMed - PubMed comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher websites.
- MEDLINE with Full Text - Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences found on MEDLINE, plus the database provides full text for more than 1,470 journals indexed in MEDLINE.
- Google Scholar - Google Scholar is an online, freely accessible search engine that lets users look for both physical and digital copies of articles. It searches scholarly works from a variety of sources, including academic publishers and universities looking for peer-reviewed articles.
Other Resources
- PsycArticle - Definitive source of full-text, peer reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology.
- Academic Search Ultimate - This database provides access to more than 30,000 active full text journals and magazines cited in key subject indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law, literacy, mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more.
- TandF Online: Taylor & Francis Group publishes quality peer-reviewed journals from leading scientists and researchers, to scholars and professionals operating at the top of their field.