LibGuides: McNair Scholars: Reading Scientific Articles

Getting Started

Reading and understanding scientific articles can be difficult. Just remember: you CAN do this! You just need to keep building your skills.

Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
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Updated quarterly. Covers words from across the English-speaking world and offers etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and phonetic pronunciation. Corresponds to the print Oxford English Dictionary published in 1989 and the three Additions volumes published 1993-1997.
Gale in Context: Science
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Provides contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. Merges Gale's authoritative and continuously updated reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.