Library Resources for Your Subject
"How to find sources for topics that you know less about"
"Where to find useful sources"
"I feel like I do not know how to use digital libraries to find relevant and useful resources"
If any of these describe you, one place to start is to find the library subject guide for your research area. It will contain links to the best databases for your research, contact information for your librarian, and other tips and resources.
Finding Sources
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One really useful way to find current articles is "citation tracking". Scopus is one of the primary science and social science databases and makes citation tracking easy. You can follow citations forward or backward.
1) To follow citations backward: If you find an article useful for your topic, you can look at their references to find older resources useful to your topic.
2) To follow citations forward: Use Scopus (our primary science database) or Google Scholar (a search engine) to find newer articles that have cited the article you started with.
- SCOPUS This link opens in a new window
An abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed journals in top-level subject fields: life science, social science, physical science and health sciences.
1. Search for an article
2. Once you find a useful article, click on the "View all citing articles" link that is on the right of the screen (see screenshot below). This link will redirect you to a list of all of the articles that have cited the original article since its publication.
1. Search for an article
2. Once you have found a relevant article, click the "Cited by" link (see screenshot below). This link will redirect you to a list of all of the articles that have cited the original article since its publication.
