BIO111 – General Biology I
Fall 2016
Librarian: Olga Verbeek
Email: [email protected]
Using the Library
• Call Us at (401) 341-2289
• Email Us at [email protected]
• Chat with Us – salvelibrarian
• Text Us at (401) 324-9LIB (401-324-9542)
• Visit Us at the information desk.
http://library.salve.edu
Library Resources for Biology
• Library home page
• http://library.salve.edu
• Biology Resources:
• http://salve.libguides.com/sub-bio
• BIO 111 course guide:
• http://salve.libguides.com/bio111
• (will be available shortly – being updated)
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Order of Library shelves:
Finding material in library
Call numbers starting with: Q – Science
• Discovery (Library catalog) - starting point
• locates physical items in libraries
• go to our shelves to find
• request from other HELIN libraries when needed
• Interlibrary loan – if the material you need is
not available in HELIN
GC- Oceanography
GE- Environmental Sciences
• locates online resources
Scholarly Journals vs Popular Magazines
Primary vs Secondary Sources:
 primary source if the author(s) publishes the findings of
original research or experimentation
Popular
 secondary sources if the authors review research conducted
by others in the field
Scholarly Journals may have a mixture of primary and
secondary sources within a publication
• Video
Many databases offer limiters such as “peer‐reviewed” which means the search will find scholarly journal articles only. • https://youtu.be/NQ0wvoquq3s
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Staying Current in the Field
• Primary Literature
• Nature - online
• Science - online till 2004 and in library
• JAMA - online and in the library
• NEJM - online and in the library
• Conservation Biology - online
• Integr. Physiology & Behavioral Sc.
• (online abstracts only – use ILL for articles)
To find articles, use a research database
Examples for Biology:
• EBSCO Academic Search Complete
• EBSCO General Science Index
• BioOne.1 and BioOne.2
Staying Current in the Field
• Secondary Literature
• American Scientist – online and in library
• Scientific American
- online and in library
• Quarterly Review of Biology
- online and in the library
• Science News - online and in the library
• Physiological Reviews
– online 1 yr delay
Searching a database
• “crabs (green crab, asian shore crab) competition in the
intertidal zone”
Hemigrapsus sanguineus
Asian shore crab
• ScienceDirect
• PubMed
• SciFinder
Carcinus maenas
green crab
• Google Scholar
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Searching a database - keywords
To find articles, use a research database
• “crabs (green crab, Asian shore crab) competition
in the intertidal zone”
Full text results are in:
PDF or html format
• Synonyms for competition:
Interspecies interactions
• Synonyms for intertidal zone:
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Foreshore, seashore,littoral zone
• Using scientific names for the crabs
•
Hemigrapsus sanguineus Asian shore crab
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Carcinus maenas green crab
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Examples for Biology:
• *EBSCO Academic Search Complete
• * EBSCO General Science Index
• BioOne.1 and BioOne.2 (hint: use one
main keyword or two only)
How to check if the library has a specific article
To find articles, use a research database
JOURNALS link on library webpage:
http://library.salve.edu/serials.html
Examples for Biology:
Enter the journal title from the
citation (NOT the article title)
• * ScienceDirect
• PubMed (hint: Look for
on
article-level results)
• * SciFinder (hint: only 4 simultaneous
users)
• Google Scholar (hint: add Salve Regina
as a library link in Settings for access to
articles)
• If a journal is available online, this list will tell you which library
database contains the full-text, and for which years we have the
full-text available.
• You can browse the electronic journal issues by clicking on the
database name
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Located online in various
databases (collections)
Various coverage dates
Evaluate Websites
http://salve.libguides.com/sub-bio/biology/websites
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