Understanding Scientific Literature

Welcome to the Whittemore Library's LibGuide on Understanding Scientific Literature! 

This guide will teach you how to identify primary, secondary, and tertiary sources in scientific literature, and how to tell if an article you are reading is a research article.

"The sciences" are a big place! Anyone from nursing, biology, chemistry, food sciences, math, etc. may find this guide helpful.  

Research support

• Email: reference@framingham.edu
• Phone: (508) 626-4654
• Chat: use the box in the lower right hand corner of this guide!

Library card, book borrowing, and interlibrary loan support

• Email: circulation@framingham.edu
• Phone: (508) 626-4650

Writing support

• eTutoring, from CASA

I.T. support

• I.T. Help Desk Services 

Logging-in from off-campus

• If you are accessing library databases from off-campus, you will be prompted to log-in with your campus credentials. The same credentials you use to access Canvas, myFramingham, etc.
• If you are having trouble with your log-in contact I.T. for help!