BIOL 309 - Journal Articles

For your assignment, you need to find 3 scholarly articles on your topic. Use the library's article databases to locate what you need. 

  • PubMed - START HERE! PubMed is the premier database of world biomedical literature on clinical medicine and preclinical research. Search by keywords, such as: "H5N1" AND epidemiology.
  • Biological Abstracts - A complete collection of bibliographic references covering life science and biomedical research literature published from more than 4,000 journals internationally.

Search Tips:

  • To find the full text of an article, look for icons for PDFs, full text links, or "Get It!". 
  • Finding too much? Try adding additional keywords or limiting your search by date (for instance, only the last 5 years).
  • Finding too little? First, make sure you're spelling everything correctly. Still not finding enough? Remove some keywords or combine similar terms with "OR". For example, search for: "bird flu" OR "H5N1" OR "avian influenza".
  • Can't tell if an article is "scholarly"? Check this guide from the Rutgers Library.