Library Resources for Biology 552
Background info (names, distribution, reproductive biology, etc.) for creatures in the animal kingdom. Online and in the library Reference Room at
QL3 .G7813 2003. 14 volumes.
Citation index -- links each article to other articles citing it from 1956-present. Indexes over 8,000 science and social science journals. 8 concurrent user limit. * to truncate, "phrase search." More info in animated tutorials at http://scientific.thomson.com/support/recordedtraining/wos/
Searching:
- General Search - find articles on your topic, for instance frog* AND embryo*
- Language - limit results to English
Trouble getting enough results? Review the use of AND, OR, and wildcards/truncators.
Results:
- Sort by Times Cited - bring the most highly cited articles to the top of the results list
- Analyze - see the authors who have published most of the articles in your results
- Article title link leads to more info about each result
- Place a check next to citations that you'd like to keep, hit Add to marked list.
- Marked List button will appear at the top of the window, hit it to email or save your list of citations.
Under each result: follow the Journal Finder link to see if the library subscribes to the journal you need.
Guide to journal, newspaper, magazine subscriptions. To find a journal, follow the link under a citation in a database OR open Journal Finder from the library home page and type the JOURNAL NAME.
- Journal Finder search results:
- I did not find any titles...- Check your info and search again or use InterLibrary Loan
- Journal title with a computer icon - Hit computer icon for years included in the online version.
- Journal title with book icon - Hit book icon for years included in and location of the print version.
Guide to articles published in 4,000 biology and life science journals 1969-present. 3 concurrent user limit. * to truncate. Automatic phrase searching unless your search includes Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT. More info.
Searching:
- Type your topic, for instance frog
- Refine search - limit your results by
- Developmental stage of organism - IF you needed to limit to adult, child, embryo, etc.
** Each of the search filters will reduce the number of results. If you do not get enough results, remove one or more limits**
Results:
- Hit Add folder (right side of each citation) to create a marked list; get to the marked list by hitting Folder link above results on the right side.
- Hit Journal Finder link under each citation to find out whether the library owns the journal your article was published in.
- Hit linked article title to read abstract and view/click on controlled vocabulary (organisms).
Guide to articles published in medicine, biomedicine, public health, etc, 1951 - present. Freely available, provided by the National Library of Medicine.
Searching:
- Type topic: frog AND embryo
- Limits tab: English
- Hit Go
Results look like this:
Author, I. Author, I. Author, I.
Abbreviated J Title. Year; Vol (Issue): pp – pp
- Hit linked author name for abstract and other info about the article
- To choose citations: place check mark, Send to Clipboard
- Hit Clipboard tab to see your choices
To look for the text of the article:
- Open Journals Database (sidebar of PubMed)
- Search the abbreviated journal title from your citation
- When you’ve found the full journal title, highlight and copy it
- Paste the full journal title into Journal Finder (library home page)
