Where do you go to get your scientific articles?

[CrazCo]

I need to find some articles on biology/medicine and I am wondering if you know any magazines/websites I could find some off. They have to be current. The reason I ask is I don't want an unreliable website.

[Pangloss]

That's what academic journals are for. Unfortunately many of them are subscription-based, but in most fields there are many journals that can be accessed without spending money. I'm afraid I'm not familiar with biology or medicine, but perhaps someone here can help out.

[PhDP]

If you're looking for something free;

 

Public Library of Science

[ajb]

The arXiv has a Qualitative Biology section. Sorry, that is all I can think of.

[MedGen]

For open-access your best bet is PLoS, as linked above. Alternatively you can try Google scholar, it usually throws up a few good results. Ultimately though I would say PubMed is the gold standard for biology and medicine related journal articles:

 

PubMed Central

 

If you do not have experience reading technical journals then they can be a real handful as they assume a certain level of understanding and knowledge, i.e. to the level that the authors are.

[Livingstone]

I use http://www.scirus.com most of the time as search engine, filter the results to journal only and it usually comes up with a goog results.

 

Otherwise our university is subscribed through a bunch of journals through the athensams.co.uk but you could also pull up some relevant *NEW* stuff from

 

sciencedirect.com has some free ones too Blackwell-synergy PubMed group etc! Also people talk alot about not using google, but youll get some good leads with google aswell if you phrase your sentences properly as though you were writing a paper yourself!

[iNow]

...more specifically, google scholar.

 

scholar.google.com

[CharonY]

Also take a look at BMC articles.

http://www.biomedcentral.com/

[CrazCo]

I thank you all. These ALL helped enormously. If you have any specific articles you particularly find interesting let me know at your convenience as well!

[MedGen]

I thank you all. These ALL helped enormously. If you have any specific articles you particularly find interesting let me know at your convenience as well!

 

That's a little general. There are hundreds of thousands of articles on each of those sites for each area of medicine or biology.

[ajb]

It could be useful if you state what areas of research you are interested in.

[Entropy]

PubMed Central

 

I agree. This is where I go to first to find quality peer reviewed articles.

[iNow]

For open-access your best bet is PLoS, as linked above. Alternatively you can try Google scholar, it usually throws up a few good results. Ultimately though I would say PubMed is the gold standard for biology and medicine related journal articles:

 

PubMed Central

 

I just came across this and was very impressed:

 

 

http://scienceblogs.com/transcript/2008/09/pubget_the_next_step_in_the_ev.php

Pubget - The next step in the evolution of academic search engines

 

This website

is order of magnitude better then Pubmed. I am totally converted!

 

 

http://pubget.com/

 

 

And a YouTube video of same:

[MedGen]

This website is order of magnitude better then Pubmed. I am totally converted![/indent]

 

 

http://pubget.com/

 

 

And a YouTube video of same:

 

That's pretty awesome. It'd be nice to see them getting more access to other journals in the future.

[ChemSiddiqui]

one can always try rsc website because it has got very good articles about any area that related to chemistry;;

 

http://www.rsc.org