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Access to all databases and electronic journals and books available to MIT is through Vera.
Try these databases for articles on your topic. (Among MANY other journals, they all index Science and Nature.)
Journal articles in high-impact science, social science, engineering, arts and humanities. 1973 - present.
Major feature: Cited reference searching retrieves papers that have referenced earlier works by a specific author.
Are they at MIT? Barton is the MIT Libraries' Catalog and contains the location of all library materials. Remember, it contains titles, authors, and subject headings for books, journal names, and conference proceedings - NOT the titles and authors of articles contained within them. VERA is the MIT Libraries' list of electronic journals and databases you can search for journal and conference articles. Check here for journal titles if you can't find them in Barton. If not... If MIT doesn't own it, you can get it for FREE through Interlibrary Borrowing.
Are they at MIT?
Barton is the MIT Libraries' Catalog and contains the location of all library materials. Remember, it contains titles, authors, and subject headings for books, journal names, and conference proceedings - NOT the titles and authors of articles contained within them. VERA is the MIT Libraries' list of electronic journals and databases you can search for journal and conference articles. Check here for journal titles if you can't find them in Barton.
Barton is the MIT Libraries' Catalog and contains the location of all library materials. Remember, it contains titles, authors, and subject headings for books, journal names, and conference proceedings - NOT the titles and authors of articles contained within them.
VERA is the MIT Libraries' list of electronic journals and databases you can search for journal and conference articles. Check here for journal titles if you can't find them in Barton.
If not...
If MIT doesn't own it, you can get it for FREE through Interlibrary Borrowing.
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