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Peer Review Journals : where to find online?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2002
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Greetings,
I'm doing a big research project for by cognitive neuroscience class and was wondering if anyone knew of places (other than the public library) to find peer review journals?
Are there places online where we could read/find them?
Suggestions?
any help would be great! thanks! 
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Rochester, NY
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Most professional societies that publish these journals only make them available online to members. Luckily, most of them also have cheap student memberships available.
Sometimes, your school also has a online subscription set up with the professional society itself. The school library ought to know more about that.
Google has a scholarly paper search engine now at http://scholar.google.com , but most of the time the link takes you to the society's web site, where you need ot be logged in to get the information.
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Clinically Insane
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Check with your schools library. They ususally make online subscriptions to journals available for students. You probably have to log on through your school's library website.
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Mac Elite
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cszar: that was a good link.
Are there any alternatives that are free?
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
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Peer-reviewed journals are never free. My school, for example, spends 1/2 a million dollars a year to get access to a wide variety of them online.
Seriously, talk to your school library. If they have online access to journals for students at all, they probably have a way to let you access it from home. Most students don't even know what academic journals are, much less how to use them. The librarian will be impressed and give you the $1 tour, not just the dime one!
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I agree check with your school as most schools have the journals available to students. I have ordered many journals from my library and others around the nation. I don't even have to go to the library as just about everything at the library is digitized. My school also has a network in place to where if the journal isn't here it can be ordered from another school and sent right to my email. The library at your school would be your best bet for a free resource.
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Mac Elite
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Are there any online peer reviewed journals that are [relatively] low cost and good content that are for pay that I should look into?
Thanks tooki for the suggestion, I went on my school's site and saw that they DO offer it [via online too], but setting up an account through my school takes 2 days to complete, and since I forgot tomorrow's Veterans day, they are most likely closed. And at the earliest, I wouldn't be able to start on my research until next wednesday! Which is stretching it do you have suggestions for online locations ?
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Clinically Insane
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Originally Posted by badtz
Are there any online peer reviewed journals that are [relatively] low cost and good content that are for pay that I should look into?
Thanks tooki for the suggestion, I went on my school's site and saw that they DO offer it [via online too], but setting up an account through my school takes 2 days to complete, and since I forgot tomorrow's Veterans day, they are most likely closed. And at the earliest, I wouldn't be able to start on my research until next wednesday! Which is stretching it do you have suggestions for online locations ?
Dude, you gotta work on your timing issue.
Are you in grad scholl or undergrad ?
Is this the first time you're looking for online journals ?
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Admin Emeritus Join Date: Oct 1999
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Originally Posted by badtz
Are there any online peer reviewed journals that are [relatively] low cost and good content that are for pay that I should look into? ... do you have suggestions for online locations ?
Honestly? No. They cost a fortune. I think you've got no choice but to sit at your school library in person... (the same as generations of students before you did before they invented the internet).
tooki
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Originally Posted by tooki
Peer-reviewed journals are never free.
Well, there's the Public Library of Science journals: PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine, PLoS Computational Biology, etc. Those are free. But yeah, obviously the vast majority are not.
And many, many journals offer most of their content from the past five to twenty years online, if you're coming from a subscribing university's IP address. Depending where you live, badtz, you could go to the nearest major university and try going to the journal's websites from a WiFi connection!
But the best way, as tooki said, is to hump it up to the library, use citation indexes to collect article references of interest, and then pull the appropriate issues from the shelves...
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