Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that allows you to search for scholarly resources in a variety of formats and disciplines.
Before beginning a search select the menu from the upper left hand corner 
and then select Settings. On the next screen select Library Links from the left hand menu and then search Lone Star College in the search bar provided. Once you search a new checkbox will be provided below. Select the box and click Save. Now any future searches will show results available through Lone Star.
Databases: Find Research Articles, Videos, & E-books
Quick Link: Research Databases
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowFull text of articles from journals, magazines and newspapers, plus image collections. Users can limit results to scholarly material.
- Gale in Context: Science This link opens in a new window(Gale) Articles, experiments, videos, and podcasts on the most significant science topics of today. Contains magazine as well as academic journal and news articles.
- Gale Interactive: Science This link opens in a new windowManipulate 3D interactive models to visualize and understand concepts in biology, chemistry, earth, and space science.
- Science Online This link opens in a new windowThis full-text, weekly multidisciplinary scientific journal publishes original peer-reviewed research and noteworthy science news (1997 to the present).
- SciTech Premium Collection This link opens in a new window(ProQuest) Full-text from an international collection of scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.
- Sustainability Reference Center This link opens in a new windowProvides full text for industry-leading journals, magazines, books, trade publications on sustainability initiative management
- Public Library of Science (PLOS)PLOS provides access to 215,000+ peer-reviewed articles that are free to access, reuse and redistribute. Select the Biology option from the main web page to discover works in all areas of biological science, from molecules to ecosystems, including works at the interface of other disciplines, such as chemistry, medicine, and mathematics.
- BioMed Central (BMC)Open access resource providing research in science, technology, engineering and medicine. CLICK ON THE SEARCH ICON LOCATED AT TOP OF THE BMC HOME PAGE.
- PubMedPubMed comprises more than 28 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
- Biodiversity Heritage Online (BHL)BHL is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives.
- Gale in Context: Science This link opens in a new window(Gale) Articles, experiments, videos, and podcasts on the most significant science topics of today. Contains magazine as well as academic journal and news articles.
- Ebook Central (LSCS) This link opens in a new window(ProQuest) Over 100,000 ebook titles covering a full range of academic topics. General reference works are also included.
- EBSCO eBook Collection (LSCS) This link opens in a new windowSearch complete electronic books. Set up a free account and download to your PC, Mac, Nook, Sony, Android, iPhone, or iPad.
- Academic Video Online (AV) This link opens in a new windowThis streaming video source has 45,000+ titles covering: Science, Anthropology, Counseling & Therapy, Fashion, Business & Economics, Nursing, Diversity Studies, Education, Allied Health, Engineering, History, Music & Dance, News & Current Events, Theater & Drama, Criminal Justice.
- Films on Demand This link opens in a new windowHigh-quality, educational streaming video from companies such as Films for the Humanities, BBC, and PBS. Note: Disable Compatibility View under Tools menu in Internet Explorer if the films do not play on your IE browser. Compatible browsers include: IE 8.0+, Mozilla Firefox 4.0+, Google Chrome 3+, Apple Safari 4.0+.
- Kanopy This link opens in a new windowClassic cinema, independent films, and top documentaries in streaming video. Includes Media Education Foundation Collection.
Tips for Selecting & Searching Databases
Determine what types of sources (journal articles, magazine articles, newspapers articles, books, etc.) you need for your assignment. Different databases contain different items. Knowing what you need will help you choose an appropriate database.
Our databases are organized by general subject. Also consider if your topic falls under more than one subject area. For example, research on the effects of Ritalin on the academic performance of students might fall under either "Education," or "Health and Medicine."
Boolean Operators: AND | OR | NOT - Combine these operators to improve your search results.
AND and NOT narrow your results, while OR expands your results. Examples:
- Therapy AND gait = articles about both "therapy" and "gait."
- Dementia OR memory = articles that are related to "dementia" and "memory". but not necessarily both in the same article. OR is often used between two words that have the same meaning.
- Dementia NOT Alzheimer's will remove articles related to Alzheimer's from your results list.
Combine these terms to create more complex searches. Example:
- (therapy AND (dementia OR "memory")) NOT Alzheimer's
Phrase Searching: Put quotations around multiple words to search them as a single phrase. Example:
- "therapy for dementia"
Truncation: In many databases, you can use * at the end of a word to search for multiple forms of the word. Example:
- thera* = therabolin, therapeutic, therapeutically, therapeutics, therapist, therapy, therapies
For more information on database powersearching, take a look at our Database Powersearching video.
Find out if the database you're using has a "subject search" option. For some topics, subject searching works better than keyword searching. Use the results of a keyword search to discover subject headings (descriptors) used in the database.