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Last Updated on Saturday, 22 October 2011 16:32
Written by Kevin McGrath

Most original studies (primary sources) published in scientific journals such as Nature, Science, or The New England Journal of Medicine are not available for free. Subscriptions for most science journals cost hundreds of dollars each. The good news is you can access full-text articles from many of them for free through libraries. College libraries offer the broadest range of scientific journals. Many of these subscriptions are also available through the NNHS Library Learning Commons:
Science in Context
 Science in Context (Gale)
A library of scientific information [about]
Salem Science
 Salem Science (Salem Press)
Forensic Science, Global Warming, and The Solar System [about]
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 General Science Collection (Gale)
Peer-reviewed journals [about]
JStor icon
 JStor (ITHAKA)
Journal articles, including The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Science. [about]
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 Questia School (Questia)
An online library that includes journals [about]
InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP
 InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale)
Peer-reviewed journals, including Science News (1985 to present)
NNHS Tiger
 NNHS Library Learning Commons Databases 
Continue your search.
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 Science Pathfinders 
Library guides for NNHS Science projects.
 

Free on the Web
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Search or browse through hundreds of scientific journals. As of January 2006, includes 2000 journals; more are being added.
HighWire Press (Stanford University)
HighWire Press is a division of the Stanford University Libraries, which produces the online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly content. HighWire partners with scholarly societies, university presses and publishers to produce 71 of the 200 most-frequently-cited journals publishing in science. HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of free full-text life science articles in the world, with 1,490,430 free, full-text articles from 264 journals. (paraphrased from http://highwire.stanford.edu/about/)
Google Scholar
Search using the familiar Google interface to find scholarly articles and even chapters of books that are available for free online. Some results link directly to JStor. The Advanced Scholar Search feature allows you to narrow your search by discipline (for example, search only in Biology, Life Sciences, and Environmental Science)

Scirus: the Science Search Engine
Scirus is "the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches over 250 million science-specific Web pages."
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Gale Powersearch PowerSearch (Gale)
Search across Gale collections [about]
icon_questia Questia School (Questia)
An online library [about]
JStor icon JStor (ITHAKA)
Journal articles [about]
Virtual Reference Library Virtual Reference Library (Gale)
A digital reference collection [about]
EBSCO Icon MAS Ultra (EBSCO)
Magazines, journals & more [about]
SIRS Icon Knowledge Source (SIRS)
Magazines, journals & more [about]
brainpop BrainPOP (BrainPOP)
Exciting animations! [about]
Opposing Viewpoints Opposing Viewpoints(Gale)
Two sides of many issues [about]
Britannica Icon Britannica (Encyclopedia Britannica)
The entire encyclopedia and more [about]
Marshall Cavendish Marshall Cavendish Digital (Marshall Cavendish)
Specialized encyclopedias [about]

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Science Databases

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