Reading Articles
Reading your Article
These articles are often very difficult to read! Here are strategies to help:
· Re-read abstract
· Ask your professor
· Search for a “review” article
· Ask classmates
· Do more background reading using
· textbook
· AccessScience
Using Articles
Using Your Article
Cite your source using a format such as APA (American Psychological Association), CSE (Council of Science Editors) or your professor’s recommendation!
· Library Website
· Library Guides
· APA website (American Psychological Association)
· CSE website (Council of Science Editors)
· Ask a librarian for help!
What is a Scholarly Article?
Scholarly articles are written by experts in the field and, additionally, reviewed by a panel experts in the field. They tend to include a lot of research and data, and the information in the article is backed up by a list of references.
Example of a Journal with Scholarly Articles


Popular articles are often written by journalists for a general audience and are not reviewed by experts in the field. Popular articles rarely include references.
Example of a Magazine with Popular Articles
For more detailed information on what a scholarly article looks like, see the excellent tutorial Anatomy of a Scholarly Article.
Finding Articles
Finding Scholarly, Refereed Articles on Cell Biology
- www.canadacollege.edu/library
- Locating Articles
- On or Off Campus
- Health and Wellness or Proquest Biology Journals or Expanded Academic ASAP
- Limit to Full Text
- Limit to Refereed
- Type your words (Not too many) (Use asterisk to “truncate” for example musc* will get muscular, muscle, muscles, muscularity, etc.)
- Print or e-mail
Off campus
Using a database off campus? You need a library card from any library in San Mateo County. Don't have one? Get one at the library!
Important Journals in Cell Biology
Important Journals* for Cell Biology
(and a few for general science)
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Journal |
Abstract |
Full Text |
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Bioscience |
X |
X in Proquest |
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American Journal of Botany |
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Ask a librarian for help with getting articles from this journal |
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Biochemistry |
X from 1992 in ASAP |
Ask Librarian |
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Cell |
X from 1993 in ASAP |
Ask Librarian |
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Ecology |
X from 1989 in ASAP |
X ’91-’00 in Proquest |
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Genetics |
X from 1992 in Proquest |
X from 2004 –current Proquest |
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Integrative and Comparative Biology |
X from 2002 |
X from ’97 to 6 months ago in Proquest |
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Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews |
X from 1997 in ASAP |
Ask Librarian |
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Physiological Reviews |
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X from ’93 in ASAP |
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X from ’92 in ASAP |
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Quarterly Review of Biology |
X from 1989 in ASAP |
X from 1997 in ASAP |
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“It is considered one of the places to publish scientific efforts.”* |
X |
X from 1990 to one year ago in Proquest; we have this one in print! |
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Science “To keep up with the advances and news of the scientific community, most practicing scientists turn to Science.”* |
X |
X ’84 to ’04 in ASAP. We have it in print! |
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Scientific American |
X in Proquest and ASAP |
We have in print going back decades! |
* LaGuardia, C. (Ed.). (2004). Magazines for libraries, 13th edition.
Google Scholar
Try doing an advance search using some of your keywords.
(search results open in a new window)
What we love about Google Scholar: Who DOESN'T love Google: powerful, fast, and bountiful!
What drives us crazy about Google Scholar: Many of the articles in Google Scholar are not full-text unless you pay money. Hint: We have found that citations with a "PDF" on the right side of the screen usually are full-text.
Not able to find the full-text for free? E-mail the citation (the basic information) to me, and we will try to track down the article. Never pay for an article! If we can't get it for free, we might be able to pay for it, but you should never pay for an article!
My Profile |
Links: Profile & Guides |
Need help?
Michelle Morton, Librarian
mortonm@smccd.edu
(650) 306-3393
Dave Patterson, Librarian
pattersond@smccd.edu
(650) 306-3476
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Getting a Library Card
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