Library Resources for Biology 573
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 dopamin*
- Language - limit results to English
If your search retrieves more than 100,000 results, only the first 100,000 will be displayed.
Results:
- Sort by Times Cited - bring the most highly cited articles to the top of the results list.
- 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 biology and life science journals 1969-present. 4 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 dopamine
- Refine search - limit your results by
- Publication type - article
- Language - English
- Taxa notes - Humans will be found as the topic of a study, not necessarily the experimental subject
- Developmental stage of organism - IF you needed to limit to adult, child, embryo, etc.
** Each of these 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 (major concepts, chemicals, gene information, etc.).
Guide to articles published in medicine, biomedicine, public health, etc, 1951 - present. Freely available, provided by the National Library of Medicine.
Searching:
- Type topic: dopamine
- 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)
