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Science Research Guide
Databases
- Covers life, physical, technical and social sciences.
- Full text coverage from 1995 to the present.
- List of journals available
- Create your own personal login to keep track of journals and articles you use frequently
Web of Science
Contains references to over 6,650 major journals covering 150 scientific disciplines, including agriculture, mathematics, pharmacology, psychiatry, and zoology. Some full text.
DISCUS — Expanded Academic ASAP
- Covers all subjects, but does include some of the key scientific journals.
- View \”Title List\” for list of journals available (shows indexing dates and FULL-TEXT if available).
- Limit your search to \”Refereed Journals\” and you will find articles in scholarly journals.
Search Tips
- Write down a list of keywords from your question and their synonyms.
- Combine the author’s name with those key words.
- Do an Author Search when you find an author who has written about your topic. Most likely you will find other articles, written after the ones in your assignment.
- Note the subject headings. Databases often assign different words to topics.
- Start your own list of key journals and where they are located.
Internet Resources
Tree of Life Web Project Tree of Life Web Project is an online database that compiles information about “biodiverity and the evolutionary relationships of all organisms.” Use to locate information about groups of organisms, identification keys, figures, phylogenetic trees, and other systematic information about organisms. It funded the the U.S. National Science Foundation and the University of Arizona’s Agricultural and Life Sciences Library.
Animal Diversity Web Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an �online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology that provides access to thousands of species accounts about individual animal species. These may include text, pictures of living animals, photographs and movies of specimens, and/or recordings of sounds. You can find descriptions of levels of organization above the species level. Students write the text of these accounts, and we cannot guarantee their accuracy. The site is sponsored in part by the Interagency Education Research Initiative, the Homeland Foundation, and the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.� (Info taken from their home page.)
Journal Title Abbreviations
- Journal Abbreviation Sources A list of many web sites that provide complete names of journals.
- Journal Abbreviations from the National Library of Medicine A searchable list that includes thousands of science journals.
Last modified on: February 07, 2008, at 01:31 AM