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Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience

Journals and journal articles

Journals are the main way in which scientists present their research findings and open up their work to the scrutiny of others.

The Library purchases access to a huge number of these journals across all subjects.

Where journal articles are included in a resource list, you can click on the link to access the full text. Otherwise, if you know the specific journal you want, you can find it through Library Search or from the Library's Find an ejournal page: search by the name of the journal and then follow links to the year, volume number and page number of the article you want.

Alternatively, if you are looking for a specific journal, you can search by title or subject at Browzine.

You can also search for a journal article using the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) or PubMed ID:

Lookup a journal article by DOI or PMID

 

Access

If you are on campus you can access most databases and ejournals directly.

For off-campus access, follow the links provided on Library pages to ensure you can access all of our subscribed content. You can also install a browser plugin to help such as EndNote Click which helps you to access the full text of journal articles from journals where the Library has purchased a subscription. When you are on campus, EndNote Click automatically detects our subscriptions, based on your IP address. For off-campus access, you will need to log in using your UoB username and password the first time.

 

Doing your own research

When you want to find out for yourself what has been published in journals on a particular topic, you can use tools like Google Scholar for quick searches, but for more precise or thorough searching, it's best to use a library database. See the Databases section for more information.

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Help and advice on accessing the Library's resources both on and off-site.

Find an ejournal

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Find an ejournal

You can find all the ejournals the Library subscribes to here. Search by title or keyword.

Keeping up to date

Many bibliographic databases allow you to set search alerts which will automatically inform you of new publications issued on topics that are of interest to you.

To set up a search alert you will normally have to take 4 steps:

  1. Set up a personal account on the database you wish to use, this will allow you save searches and alerts.
  2. Create your search and run it to check the results.
  3. Save the search as an alert.
  4. Set up the details of the alert by indicating how you would like to receive the alert (via E-mail or RSS feed) and with what frequency.

Citation Alerts

Citation alerts can be set to automatically notify you when a particular research article or conference paper is cited by a new publication appearing in a bibliographic database.

Current Awareness Services (CAS)

You may wish to use one of the following platforms to help you discover the latest papers on a topic or from a particular journal as soon as they are published online:

Want to know who is citing you?

Some databases also allow you to set up citation alerts to an author rather than a single publication. You can use citation alerting to help you keep track of who is citing your own work. Citation alerts can be set up on scientific literature databases such as SCOPUS and Web of Science.