Soon students will be coming in looking for primary source articles for biology. This basically means experiments. The best place to find these articles is: EBSCO Academic Search Premier, Gale Expanded Academic ASAP, or Gale's General Science Collection.
Use a keyword that describes what they are looking for and the keywords "Research" AND "Methods" AND "Results" and limit to "peer reviewed." Wait to limit to full-text until after you search, that way you get a sense of if there is a lot, or a little, available on a subject. If there isn't much, dig into what you get and see if the articles are available full-text in another database, or see if the student can wait a few days for an ILL.
Limiting to an article type doesn't work well. There isn't a specific article type for what we're looking for in these databases.
EBSCO's Science Reference Center is not a good source for this type of article. This database is geared more towards K-12 and has few research reports.
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