Where to look for modern literature for scientific articles
The necessity of writing scientific articles is something that people who are related to science and teaching activities necessarily face in their lives. After all, the publication of scientific articles is the easiest way to make yourself known to the world community, to share your discoveries with the world, to learn the opinion of authoritative scientists about the results of their research and not only. In this case, you can publish materials in collections of abstracts on the results of the conference, specialized scientific journals, which are registered in a particular country, as well as journals that are indexed by international science databases such as Scopus and Web Of Science. The latter are the most influential, but publication in them is accompanied by a number of requirements, including: high requirements for the uniqueness of the material, relevance of the topic, the use of specialized terminology at a high level and more. Among the difficulties it is necessary to note sometimes long terms of verification and placement (in some cases, publication has to wait even a year or two), and not always free placement (it all depends on the journal, but the publication of an article in some can cost even about 3-4 thousand dollars). However, regardless of whether you are writing abstracts for a university conference or planning to prepare material for a Scopus article, it is necessary to approach the writing process extremely responsibly. Plagiarism, paraphrasing and compilation of scientific ideas and thoughts of other scientists are inadmissible here, as it is important that the prepared article has scientific value, practical significance and was original. To do this, it is necessary to select high-quality modern literature relevant to the topic of research. It should be noted that it should not just correspond to the topic of research, but be relevant – published not earlier than 5 years before the date of publication of your article.
Why it is important that 80% of the literature in articles is no older than 5 years
This “age limit” of sources is quite understandable. If you use absolutely all sources for writing articles, what kind of novelty can we talk about? A scientific paper should reflect the results of independent research, analyze existing approaches to solving a problem, consider different views of reputable scientists who have made developments in this topic, etc. In this case, the work should not be an abstract and compilation of other people’s ideas and thoughts. Using old data, it will be difficult to come up with something new and write an original work that will be valuable for science. At the same time, when developing a new topic, it will be extremely difficult to come up with something without having a basis for it. This is why there is still a time period that is “adequate” in terms of the “age” of the literature used.
To make the process of writing a research paper as enjoyable and easy as possible we advise you to check out our list of resources for finding verified literature.
A list of resources where you can find verified literature
- https://scholar.google.com/ – It is a specialized service for searching texts of scientific publications and books from all over the world. In Google Scholar you can find literature in any language you need. The articles found here are divided into two types: some are open access, others are paid. The database contains various publications posted with the help of technology of digitization of previously published scientific works. It should be noted that the search robots of the system scan the network regularly and therefore the database is updated constantly. At the same time, they are “interested” only in those publications that have the format of a scientific article – various reviews, blogs, news articles or art books “fly by”. Also the system is replenished by partner organizations – various magazines and publishers. Literature search in Google Academy is carried out by such parameters: by author, by the name of the publication, by the topic of research.
- https://www.scopus.com/ – It is the world’s largest single abstract multidisciplinary database of Elsevier publishing house. The Scopus database is a source of information on the publication activity of scientists; on the number of articles published by an organization and its rating; on the assessment of the quality of publications in the world community; on the quality of journals of the country in comparison with world publications in the relevant subject area; on the status of an employee, department, whole organization; on the directions of development of science of the country and its achievements. The possibilities of the database are extremely wide: thematic search, associative search of documents, search for authors, search for sources, including for the publication of their works, access to the full texts of documents in the public domain, to the sites of journals, obtaining data on the citation of authors, organizations, journals. The advantages of the database are: completeness and retrospective depth (one of the largest databases existing in the world); possibility of search by many parameters: by surname, keywords, journal title, article, author’s place of work, language of publication, abstract, references, conferences; absence of embargo and appearance of many abstracts before the printed version.
- https://link.springer.com/ – It is the largest web portal with almost 10 million scientific materials of different types. We are talking about books, articles, encyclopedias, etc. The site preserves the archive of journals from 2005. This is a real treasure trove for both teachers and students. Among the advantages of using the portal are: convenient search of the posted materials; availability of publications in other languages; variability of the fields of knowledge, on which the authors conduct research; free access and much more. The site interface allows you to familiarize yourself with the content of the selected article without downloading it beforehand. Clicking on a particular publication opens a separate page, which contains an abstract, brief information about the author, information about the journal and materials. The scientific work itself is usually downloaded in PDF format in just a couple of seconds.
- https://webofknowledge.com – It is a paid search platform that combines several bibliographic and abstract databases of peer-reviewed scientific literature. The collection is based on the Science Citation Index developed by one of the founders of scientometrics, Eugene Garfield, in the 1960s. Access is by subscription. Users can search by title, author names, and year of publication. Results are presented in a list of 10-50 items. If the full text is in the public domain, it can be viewed for free. Document types, authors, source, years of publication, institutions, funding organizations, languages and countries are automatically displayed.
- https://www.jstor.org/ – It is a digital database of full-text scientific journals (in various European languages) as well as books (humanities, English only). Access to the database is paid – individual or corporate (JSTOR corporate subscribers are mainly libraries and publishers). Readers of a subscribing (public) library use the JSTOR database free of charge.
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ – It is a full-text collection of journals including about 1400 titles. The content base provides extensive coverage across disciplines including chemistry, physics, engineering, agriculture, veterinary science, food science, medicine, nursing, dentistry, life sciences, psychology, business, economics, social sciences, arts, humanities. Wiley’s publishing portfolio includes about 230 gold open access journals and more than 1,300 hybrid journals.
- https://eric.ed.gov/ – The database indexes a wide range of journals from different fields of knowledge, more than 80% of articles are related to educational topics. You can familiarize yourself with the articles by following the links in the corresponding journals, which are posted on the site.
All of the above resources will definitely come in handy when you need to prepare a quality research paper. The choice of sources in these databases is simply huge, and a convenient search format provides a quick search for suitable resources.
And to publish the results of research you need to choose a journal that will be suitable for all parameters and will help to achieve the goal set for the scientist. We request scientists to publish in scientific publications in education, economics, law, medicine and philosophy. The list of journals can be found at https://futurity-publishing.com/journals/ .
