Yvonne Nalani Meulemans
Sciences and Nursing Librarian
Kellogg Library 3421
ymeulema@csusm.edu
760-750-4375
Office Hours:
Tues & Wed 12-1
also by appt. or when in office
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In this course, students are developing the practical skills
to present and publish their scientific research.
One area of these practical, fundamental skills is the ability to navigate
the literature in a particular field. The focus of the 9.19
class session will be to develop the skills to assess and
use literature databases and introduce the concept of 'grey
literature.'
While students may have used databases before, this session
will ask students to make sophisticated analyses of the
features and functions of some key databases in biology and
biomedical research.
Considering
databases
During the session at the library, students will compare the
features and functions of three databases.
| Comprehensive or
publisher database |
Comps cover a
field of study. Publisher databases include
only the publisher's titles.
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Controlled
vocabulary
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Allows for more
precise, efficient searching. |
Limiters
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Allows for more
precise, efficient searching. |
Author
indexing
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Ensures complete publication history of author
is retrieved.
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Default sorting and
sorting options
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Default sorting
may be of little use; can you change how your
results are sorted? Customized sorting can
make searching more efficient.
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Download/saving options
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Download to Endnote/RefWorks?
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Search save and
alert options
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Useful for staying
up-to-date with new literature. |
Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS)
A complete collection of bibliographic
references covering life science and biomedical
research literature published from more than
4,000 journals internationally. Provides access
to
ScienceDirect and
Wiley Interscience.
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1969→current |
PubMed @ CSUSM
The premier database of world biomedical
literature on clinical medicine and preclinical
research.
Medline provides a more user-friendly
interface, but less updated content.
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1966→current |
GoogleScholar
Search the research literature using Google.
Does not link to our library's collections
when accessed outside of the campus network.
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unknown |
Grey literature
Grey literature can be defined as:
"“that which is produced on all levels of government,
academics, business and industry in print and electronic
formats, but which is not controlled by commercial
publishers”.
--New frontiers in gray
literature. Fourth International Conference on Gray
Literature: GL 1999. Proceedings; 4–5 Oct 1999; Washington,
DC, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands: GrayNet, 1999.
The list below includes selected
sources that may or may not be useful to your particular
project. There is an enormous amount of such collections
particular to specific fields of studies and specialties.
These are provided as examples of the types of grey
literature collections that exist.
Citing your
information
The Council of Biology Editors produces a guide to
appropriate scientific style.
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Scientific style and format : the CBE
manual for authors, editors, and publishers.
6th ed. New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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If you need some quick help, the following are web sites on
CBE citation style:
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