PreFreshman Summer Scholars Workshop
http://library.wustl.edu/subjects/life/summer.htmlRuth Lewis: rlewis @ wustl.edu 935-4819
- Campus libraries
- Libraries Home Page [http://library.wustl.edu]
- Becker Medical Library [http://beckerweb.wustl.edu] W.U. School of Medicine
- Possible starting points
- People; Reference books (dictionaries, encyclopedias); Textbooks; "Review" articles
- Catalog [http://catalog.wustl.edu] - includes links to Danforth Campus Catalog; Becker Catalog, MOBIUS and WorldCatalog
- Biology Dictionaries
- A list of search tools
- Quick tips on searching
- Use help?; truncation, boolean operators; Common keyword strategy (Catalog); Boolean Logic (PubMed); Ask
- Use more than one search tool; try specialized sites or selective sites
- Think about your strategy; choose unusual words; be flexible; learn from your results
- Don't believe everything you read; consider the source.
- Use FIND (ctrl-f) if your search words aren't obvious in retrieval
- Web searching: guess URLs; right truncate URLs
- Web searching and other "relevancy ranked" lists: examine only first 15-30 hits
- Journal indexes and other databases
- Short list for biology
- Databases - all subjects
- Fulltext options:
Some databases have links or finding tools built in OR search the
title of the journal, NOT the author or title of the article, in
one of the sources below. Then click on journal site and locate
the article.
- Search in the Biology list of electronic journals or the full Electronic Journals list
- Find in the Becker Medical Library Catalog
- Search in the Library Catalog of Danforth Campus Libraries -- online journals are listed under the title plus online; for example " Journal of biological chemistry online"
- There are a few other options also, so it never hurts to ask!
- Suggested Exercise: locate a recent article by someone in your lab or about your summer research area; if you have time, see if text is available on the web or if journal is in a campus library
- Tutorials - (not exhaustive - just to get you started)