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Is It a Magazine or Scholarly Journal?

Magazine or Scholarly Journal?
Wondering whether that wonderful article you found is scholarly...or not? This guide will help you decide.

Find a Journal
TRY THIS FIRST -- Search by journal or magazine title. If we have it in one of our databases, follow the links to the specific issue and article you need.
InterLibrary Loan
TRY THIS NEXT -- Request the article to be sent to you from another library.

Did you know most databases will allow you to create a search alert?

Each time an article is added to the database matching your search terms, you will be notified.

Create an account or login for your database and look for instructions. Or ask a librarian to help you.

Biological Science Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
With thousands of articles available online, ProQuest Biology Journals includes some of the most popular information resources for users in academic, government, and public research environments.
General Science Full Text This link opens in a new window
Indexes and abstracts of articles from popular science magazines and professional journals, plus the full text of 98 periodicals.
Environment Complete This link opens in a new window
Journal articles and more in the field of ecology, environment, energy, agriculture, etc.
Science & Technology Collection This link opens in a new window
Scientific research and peer-reviewed articles from more than 830 full-text journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Archive holds the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, some dating as far back as the 1600s.
MedLine with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Index and abstracts of journal articles in the health sciences; full-text from 1990.
BioMed Central This link opens in a new window
An STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher of 276 peer-reviewed open access journals. The portfolio of journals spans all areas of biology, biomedicine and medicine.
AGRICOLA This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Covers every major agricultural subject.

GALILEO This link opens in a new window
GALILEO is Georgia's virtual library, with electronic books, periodicals, journals, magazines, newspapers, such reference materials as encyclopedias, and special collections, and access to Georgia's library catalog

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Discover scholarly articles published on the Internet. Be sure to change your "Settings", "Library Links" to include "Middle Georgia State University" to see full text that is available through MGA.

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