Whittemore Library: Social Issue: Abortion: Scholarly Articles

Obtaining Articles about Abortion from...

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Getting More Full Text

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If not, then use the 'Full Text Finder' link
Even if the database you found an article citation in doesn’t have the full text right there, click on this link to check for full text in other library databases
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Criminal justice articles from 150 journals.

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Finding Journals at FSU:

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Please request articles NOT currently available full-text at FSU by using our Interlibrary Loan Form

Selected Journals Containing info about Abortion

Bioethics
Peer reviewed articles on the ethical questions raised by current biomedical research and issues.
Family Planning Perspectives
Covers topics such as: family planning, abortion, population studies, maternal & child health.
Feminist Studies
Articles that focus on women's experience and on gender as a category of analysis of a critical, scholarly, speculative and political nature, poetry and art, reports from the women's movement and strategies for change.
Issues in Law and Medicine
Devoted to providing technical and informational assistance to attorneys, health care professionals, educators and administrators on legal, medical, and ethical issues arising from health care decisions.
Journal of Medical Ethics
Promotes ethical reflection and conduct in scientific research and medical practice.
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
Peer reviewed articles for professionals in the fields of family planning, population studies & maternal & child health on a variety of subjects including contraceptive practice & research, adolescent pregnancy, abortion & legal issues.

Google Scholar

Google has a specialized search that allows you to limit your search to scholarly articles
- NOTE: There is no way to limit Google Scholar search results to be just peer-reviewed
- If you find a journal online, the journal website/home page will tell you if it is peer-reviewed, in one of these 2 areas:
  - the 'Info for authors' area
  - the 'about this journal' area
Follow the links (when available) on the right hand side of the Google Scholar results listing to retrieve full text of search results
Below each search result there is an icon of double quotes that links to citation information
Check FSU for full-text of citations found online: Run the complete article title as a phrase search in RamSearch
Request articles NOT currently available at FSU via our Interlibrary Loan Request Form.

FSU students can receive from other libraries, at no cost to themselves, copies of articles that are NOT available full text at FSU
While searching library databases, if our site does not have access to article full text, you will have an option to request that item through interlibrary loan.
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) requests can be submitted and managed through the ILL My Account page.