Interdisciplinary Research
Start here to begin your research.
Following are several information sources that report on or provide access to interdisciplinary research articles
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PLOS BlogsFrom PLOS (Public Library of Science) these blogs bring together the most current topics and research in the scientific community. A great place to begin exploring what's happening right now with your topic.
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PLOS OnePLOS ONE is an open access journal that published scientifically rigorous research, regardless of novelty. It includes interdisciplinary and replication studies. Read the abstracts carefully, because PLOS One publishes studies with negative results.
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Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and MedicineAn excellent journal to begin your research for disease, biology and other related topics.
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Discovering Interdisciplinary JournalsScimago is a publicly available portal that includes over 34,000 journal titles along with their indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.).
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Wiley Interdisciplinary JournalsWiley Online Library publishes several interdisciplinary journals covering several disciplines. Use this link to explore the titles.
Finding Articles Using Citations
Following a trail of research through an article's references is a way to discover other sources. You can easily find articles using citations by using Google Scholar (linked through the library ) or the library's QuickSearch. This brief video shows you how.
Interdisciplinary Databases in the Sciences
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ScopusAccess to over 25 million articles from 13,450 journals from more than 4,000 international publishers with access to over 25 million (going back to 1966). Included cited reference searching and other discovery tools.
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Web of ScienceSearch science, social science and humanities resources from journals, conference proceedings and books. Includes cited reference searching and other discovery tools.
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Power Searching ToolsHandout with explanation of Boolean, Google Advanced Searching, Wildcards
About Interdisciplinary Research
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Collective Behavior - From Cells to Societies by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780309373470Publication Date: 2015Collective Behavior is the summary of the 2014 National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference on Collective Behavior. Participants were divided into fourteen interdisciplinary research teams. The teams spent nine hours over two days exploring diverse challenges at the interface of science, engineering, and medicine. This report highlights the presentations of the event and includes the team reports and pre-meeting materials. -
Disciplining interdisciplinarity: integration and implementation sciences for researching complex real-world problems by Call Number: ebookISBN: 1922144274Publication Date: 2013This book provides collaborative research teams with a systematic approach for addressing complex real-world problems like widespread poverty, global climate change, organised crime, and escalating health care costs. -
Interdisciplinary Discourse by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781137470393Publication Date: 2017This book uncovers exactly what is involved when researchers from different disciplines engage with one another in research projects. The authors identify the opportunities and difficulties involved in interdisciplinary engagement.
