- Gather keywords when you perform background research
- Search and browse through registries, indexes and controlled vocabulary resources like the CAS Registry via SciFinder or MESH.
- Use both keywords and index terms when searching
- Use Boolean operators to broaden (OR) or narrow (AND, NOT) your search
- Use wildcards to truncate search terms (often *) in order to capture search results with variations on a word stem (e.g. biomechanic*)
- Quickly review the "Help" resources for the database you are searching
Journals frequently used at Lehigh University in chemical/bioengineering research.
Use Interlibrary Loan to request a PDF of an article that isn't available at Lehigh or a scanned PDF of a print article that Lehigh owns. You will get an email when the article is ready for download.
These magazines feature short, less jargon-laden articles, and are written for practicioners in core and related fields. If you're still sorting through topic ideas, magazines are a good place to start looking.