This section has three parts as listed below. Finding an article is usually tied to looking in a journal. You might go right to an individual journal in some cases, or you might go to a database that contains thousands of journals and do a search through all of the journals.

• Overview: Journal articles are a form of scholarly communication. Researchers use journals to share their work with others interested in the field. When your professors do research, they plan and execute it carefully, then they write up the results and insightful conclusions in a manner that is accepted, and expected, by others in the field. Examples of chemistry journals are Journal of the American Chemical Society and Inorganic Chemistry, which can be found on the American Chemical Society (ACS) homepage. 
• WCSU Databases: Databases relevant to chemistry. The main chemistry databases are SciFinder and Reaxys, however Academic Search Premier, Science Reference Center, Medline, and PubMed index many chemistry journals. Databases may contain items such as journals and/or journal articles, books, conference proceedings, and chemical data. Some contain full text of articles, but often they do not and an alternate way of obtaining it must be found. For example, you may find an article in SciFinder or PubMed that links to the full text at a publisher site such as Wiley or Elsevier. Or you may have to use interlibrary loan to obtain the full text. 
• WCSU Journals: Ways to locate individual journals.