This guide is for BIO 1025 students. It is designed to help you find quality sources for your projects.

Click on any of the tabs to navigate this guide. Don't hesitate to contact a librarian if you have any questions.  Librarians are available in the Research Center on the 2nd floor of McQuade Library.  

Good luck with your research!

C.J. Wong, M.S., M.S. (biology, library info sci)
Science and Engineering Liaison Librarian

If you need to get to Scientific American for off campus, you'll need to set up your library password.  It is different from your IT password.  I made a little 1 minute video on how to do this.  It is posted in the box below. 

McQuade subscribes to Scientific American.  If you click on the 1st link below you can get right into the contents.  You can search for a topic right on that page and see if you get any articles long enough.  If you are having problems getting a long enough article then continue to the next step.

In order to find an article with a specific page length in Scientific American, you'll want to use the 2nd link below.  

Click on the top link for Academic Search Premier.

Click where it says Search within this publication.

Leave the top box filled in for JN "Scientific American"

AND _________ (put your topic in here)________

Scroll down and for Number of Pages click "greater than" then type in 6.  

You can also limit the dates if you want at this point.

Once you find an article that suits you, copy the title and search for it in the top Scientific American link below. That link will take you to our e-journal of that title.  You'll be able to get the PDF of your article there whereas you'll only get the HTML version if you go through Academic Search Premier.   

If you are an auditory learner, you may like to listen to your article.  In ASP you can click listen and the article will be read to you!