Library Research

UNC’s library system has CONSIDERABLE online and print sources. I recommend bookmarking the main library website as soon as possible. http://library.unc.edu/

But navigating the library’s website can be a bit tricky.

Here’s a few tips and tricks:

  • If you need to find something in a particular discipline, I recommend accessing the “E-Research by Discipline” just below the enormous library search field. Here you can see what online resources are available in different fields of study.
  • You can also access specific academic journals by using the e-journal finder.
  • Not all Science journals are created equal! In the sciences there are a number of well-respected interdisciplinary journals:  PNAS (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.), Nature, Science, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Physical Review Letters, J. American Chemical Society, Physical Review B, Astrophysical Journal, Journal of Speech, Language, Hearing Resources, New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affair, Applied Physics Letters, to name a few. I recommend starting with these before looking to more obscure e-resources or random websites.

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