<p>I'm supposed to be doing research and I really need to find more articles to read concerning my topic, and since I know a lot of students on here have done research, how were you able to access all these academic journals? I've typed my inquiries into PubMed and soooo many articles have popped up that I want to read but most of them are in very, very specific journals and I cannot access them. My high school doesn't have a subscription to anything, and EBSCOhost only has the most prominent publications.</p>
<p>There is also an arrangement in the works for me to go to the library of the hospital across the street to find more articles but that hasn't worked out yet. Do you think I could go to a local college's library and be able to find things or is that only reserved for their students? Anyone ever have this experience before?</p>
<p>Perhaps you can ask your teacher whether they have a personal subscription to any databases? Maybe he/she has some other resources that he could introduce you to?</p>
<p>Another option, if any of your friends go to the local college, ask them if you could have them sign you into a computer at their library, I'm pretty certain you'll be able to access the databases then.</p>
<p>Yeah PubMed is annoying like that. What I found out is that usually if you search Google Scholar they might have multiple copies. In one of them in a PDF you can usually open it. Or check the main author's website. Sometimes thye like to post PDF's of their own reserch. Got a lot of good papers that way.</p>
<p>contact your school library, or local library, or local university library, and see if any can offer you membership and thus access to these databases. many times libraries have access to these resources but may not necessarily advertise them - ask around.</p>
<p>I definitely second using Google Scholar. I always use Ebsco, but a lot of the time have difficulty finding full journal articles. I realized that Scholar has most of the articles that other databases have, and usually in an easily accessible pdf format. If this doesn't work, I would try asking school or local librarians, as they usually have access to college/university libraries.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies! I've been using mostly wikipedia references to find my best articles . . . it may not be the most dependable source but it links to lots of full articles. I've used Google before and some of Google Scholar, but I haven't found it as useful as most people have claimed. Maybe I'm not taking the full advantage of it.</p>
<p>My hs is dual-enrolled with local colleges so I might even have a student ID already, I'll have to ask my guidance counselor about that. Thx for the tips everyone.</p>
<p>Just a tip with wiki - make sure that the articles you're getting from there are not conducted by major corporations or anything of the sort - their results are completely biased as they're presenting them in favor of the corporation.</p>
<p>i'm taking an independent research class and this has helped tremendously. not all of the articles are free, but you might be able to find stuff you want on here. </p>
<p>another option would be to head over to your local state university and check out the library there.</p>