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Albert S. Cook Library

BIOL 483: Vertebrate Morphology in the Digital Revolution (Longo)

Resources to help BIOL 483 students with their research

Science, Technology, and Math Librarian

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Elisabeth B. White
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Contact:
Email: ebwhite@towson.edu
Phone: (410) 704-5326

Getting Full Text Articles

If you do not see a full text article link look for the Cook Library Find It button in order to:

  • Access online full text (when available)
  • See if the journal is available in print (library catalog)
  • Request a pdf of the article if full text is not available online (Interlibrary Loan)

If you have the citation for the article you are trying to access, search the Journal List to check if the library subscribes to your specific article.  

Databases

Accessing Articles Later

If you find an article that you would like to come back to, do not copy and paste the URL from the top of your web browser. Database URLs change frequently as articles are added and removed, so the URL you copy may not work later. The safest option is always to find and download the PDF and save it in a safe place. However, you can also create a permalink, which is a stable URL that will work for you later. 

Creating permalinks in Cook OneSearch or an EBSCO database is easy: on the article page, look under the Tools column on the right and click on the word permalink. Then, copy and paste the URL it creates into a safe place.

Other databases may not have a permalink icon for you. If you find an article and you don't see an option to save a permalink, you can use the Cook Library's Proxy Builder to create your stable URL. Copy and paste your URL into the first box, and a stable URL will be created for you in the second box.

Individual Journals

In addition to searching in a database, you can also try searching withing individual journals that publish research in your topic area. Here are a few that we have access to that may be helpful in this course:

Open Access Journals

In addition to searching the databases that the Cook Library subscribes to, you can also find scholarly articles in biology in open access journals. These articles are freely available online and do not require a TU login.