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Research Guide: Biology |
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Finding Background Info [help]
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these sources for quick overviews, to develop vocabulary for searching and/or for more sources |
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Oxford Reference Online Database -
access to over 140 online reference books
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Annual Review of Biochemistry |
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Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology ---
Ref QR 81 .B46 1984/2001 v.1-4 |
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The Prokaryotes --- Ref QR 72.5 P76 1991 v. 1 - 4 |
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Finding Articles [help]
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Open Source Portals |
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PubMed Central --This is the open access portal for all government funded research
publications after six months |
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BioMed Central
-- Online publisher of free peer-reviewed scientific articles in
all areas of medical research and biology |
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Public Library of Science
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Peer-reviewed, open access scientific and medical journals that include original research as well as timely feature articles |
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Biological Abstracts --
a complete collection of bibliographic references covering life science and biomedical research literature published from more than 4,000 journals
internationally. This database contains more than 10 million archival records from as far back as 1969, with more than 370,000 citations added each year |
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MEDLINE --
provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more |
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ScienceDirect College Edition - Health & Life Sciences
Journal Collection -- access
to peer-reviewed health and life sciences journal articles |
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Science Citation Index
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Researchers can search citation data (from the footnotes of each article), taking
a known, relevant paper or work and finding other, more recent papers that cite it. |
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Finding Books [help]
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Library Catalog -- search by subject,
keyword, author or title! |
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Tip: use the advanced search feature to
search by subject and title. This is a good way to start a
search w/out knowing a specific title.
example: "ethics" as title and "biology" as subject. Find a book that
looks promising and navigate through the catalog using the subject
headings in the box on the right on the screen!
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Web Resources |
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Mitomap: a human mitochondrial genome
database -- Genome database of polymorphisms and mutations of the human
mitochondrial DNA
National Center for Biotechnology
Information --
Includes, among many other resources, PubMed ,
BLAST ,
OMIM
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Taxonomy Browser , and the NCBI Structure Group .
National Human Genome Research Institute --
provides information on genetics, inherited
disease research, genetics and rare diseases, online resources, and
the ethical, legal, and social issues related to genetic research.
There is also information on grant funding, careers and training,
educational resources.
National Institutes of Health
-- General health information, publications,
news, and events; grants and funding opportunities; health
resources; and an annotated directory of the more than twenty-five
individual medical and research organizations that make up the US
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine
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Includes, among many other resources, the specialized databases
US Drug
Information and
AIDS info , and a
Chemical Information with information on drugs, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and other
potential toxins.
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