How to Find and Use in the Life Sciences

Pages created for various classes or to help with research process

• Biology Literature Search Help
• Ruth's Research Guides
• Library intro for grad students
• Bio112: Problem Based Learning in Biology
• PreFreshman Summer Scholars Workshop
• Bio4031: Biological Clocks
• Bio280 DNA: a Hands-On Workshop
• Bio3191: Molecular Mechanisms in Development: Suggestions for Literature Search for Paper Assignment
• Bio3501: Evolution: Suggestions for Literature Review (for Term Paper assignment)
• Bio3651: Med-Prep (formerly EM-STAR): Library Tips
• Bio 393: Practical Skills in Environmental Ecology Research
• Bio419: Ecology: Suggestion from Library for Term Paper
• Bio 458: Readings and Research in Biomedical Sciences - Handout
• Educ400: Selected Topics in the History of Science Education: Some Library Starting Points
• General Studies 121: Researching Research
• Genetics Ethics Law and Policy, Fall 2011 Seminar course in Law
• Research Help - general pages, not focused on life sciences.

How to

• Library Lingo from Bio14: Library Research, Tufts University.
• Where can I Find Listings of Book Chapters. In addition to sites listed on this page, both the Catalog to Danforth Campus Libraries and MOBIUS Catalog also include some KEYWORD-searchable contents/chapter titles of books.
• How to know where to browse. LC Classification outlines:
  Q - Q [pdf] - R - R [pdf] - S - S [pdf]
  How to know where to browse at the Medical School Library. National Library of Medicine (NLM) Classification
• How to Read a Paper Full-text collection of articles from British Medical Journal
• National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Education

  Includes tutorials on BLAST and on searching in Entrez systems, such as, Nucleotide, PubMed and Molecular Structure databases, and other helpful bioinformatics links.

  • Bioinformatics Tutorials - from European Bioinformatics Institute
  • Plant Genome Databases - a Tutorial
  • Ten Reasons Why the Internet is No Substitute for a Library, by Mark Herring, American Libraries, April 2001, pp. 76-78.

• A Student's Guide to the Medical Literature - tutorial, statistics glossary, critical appraisal guide, from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center library

Saving searches

• Catalog
  • Bookmark or create links to CATALOG records or searches
• PubMed
  • Bookmark or create links to PUBMED records or searches
  • Saving a Search Strategy in PubMed, using My NCBI
  • BioMail - a free service to regularly get new references from PubMed sent to your email; also includes some other free alert sites.
  • PubCrawler
• Web of Science
  • Saving File for Future Sessions in Web of Science
• Find it!
  • How do I set up a search alert?
• Health & Wellness Resource Center
  • Connect to database; click on Help - Search; read about InfoMark's.
• JSTOR
  • Instructions on Linking to JSTOR articles
• Synergy journals
  • How to create a link to a Synergy journal article

Bibliographic management software

• Catalog
  • Endnote Information
• Find it!
  • Does Find it! work with EndNote or other citation managers?
• Medline - Pubmed & Ovid Online
  • Exporting Citations into Reference Management Programs [PubMed Help]
  • From PubMed using Reference Manager
  • From PubMed(National Library of Medicine) using EndNote - use NLM/PubMed.
  • Using File Management Software with Ovid Online
• Web of Science
  • Instructions for using EndNote with Web of Science
• OCLC FirstSearch databases
  • Instructions for using Endnote with FirstSearch databases
• SciFinder Scholar
  • Exporting SciFinder Scholar Data to Bibliographic Programs
  • Exporting SciFinder Web to EndNote

• Using the Biological Literature: Web Resources, from Using the Biological Literature, 3rd ed.
• National Library of Medicine Guide to Finding Health Information and NLM Health InfoQuest - Suggestions on how to find information on particular types of questions; created by the National Library of Medicine. Topics include Cancer - Diseases, Disorders, Conditions - Health Care Providers - Health Statistics - Homework Assignments - Medical and Assistive Devices - News - Parenting - Prescription Drugs / Dietary Supplements - Procedures and Therapeutic Options - Support and Discussion Groups - Terminology - Tests.
• NLM Frequently Asked Reference Questions
• Current Bibliographies in Medicine; resource lists and bibliographies from the National Library of Medicine.
• Bibliographies and resource guides from the National Agricultural Library.
• Internet Public Library : Pathfinders, including Finding Statistics, Animal Species Classification, and Endangered Species