Guides: Neuroscience: Articles

Major Neuroscience Databases

PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed comprises more than 23 million selected citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content, or a "Middlebury Links" to check to see if access through the library is possible.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Its content falls most heavily in the physical and life sciences, but it also covers social sciences and humanities literature. Look for the "Full Text Options" to check to see if access through the library is possible.

-Contains more than 47 million records, 70% with abstracts, more than 19,500 titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide. 70% of content is pulled from international sources. Includes MEDLINE.
-Records since 1996 include searchable cited references.
-Shortcut: go/scopus (on campus) or http://go.middlebury.edu/scopus (off campus).
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Search psychological literature from the 1800s to the present. Utilize the advanced aearch options to add filters for various psychology methodologies.

General Science Databases

LibrarySearch
Middlebury Library's search engine. It searches nearly everything we own or have access to, including books, articles, films, reference materials, primary sources and more. (go/LibrarySearch/)

Gale Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary index covering over 10,000 scholarly and popular journals and magazines. Full text is available, but not in a formatted pdf.

Google Scholar
Finds scholarly sources including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other organizations. Remember to add Middlebury to Library Links, under Google Scholar settings, to check if you have access to an article from your Middlebury login.

JSTOR All Collections This link opens in a new window
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Generally more historic in science content, utilize the advanced search and add journal filters to search content specific to subjects relevant to your search.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Journal, newspaper, and magazine articles on topics from all major subject areas. Click "Change databases" to add or subtract relevant content.
SocINDEX This link opens in a new window
Sociology research database encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study. It features abstracts for more than 720 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895, data mined from more than 530 "priority" coverage journals as well as from over 2,800 "selective" coverage journals, and extensive indexing for books/monographs, conference papers, and other content sources.

Recommended Journals

Browse these journals to get a sense of topics of current interest.

Are you doing research for a paper? If so then you probably don't want to limit yourself to just one journal! Instead, search for your keywords in one of the indexes and databases above.

ScienceDirect Journals This link opens in a new window
This is a collection of journals published by Elsevier. The Middlebury College Libraries has access to many of the journals.

Annual Review of Neuroscience
Longer-than-usual journal articles that review the past 3 - 10 years of research in a topic. Covers the significant developments across the entire field of neuroscience, including molecular and cellular neuroscience, neurogenetics, development, plasticity and repair, systems neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, behavior, and neurobiology of disease, with occasional reviews in history of neuroscience and ethics. Full text issues 2014-Present available.
Nature Neuroscience
A monthly journal publishing the best neuroscience research from all areas of the field. 2000-Present (Full text delay 1 year)
Neuron
A major journal in the field of neuroscience, focused on presenting interdisciplinary strategies that integrate biophysical, cellular, developmental, and molecular approaches with a systems approach to sensory, motor, and higher-order cognitive functions. Full text issues 1988-Present available.

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