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Welcome to Your Library
BIOL 4206
Your Library
• 2 million volumes
• 15,000 serials
• 250 databases
• 36 individual group study rooms
• 3 Branch Libraries• Arch/Art
• Music
• Optometry
Class Objectives
1. Able to understand and navigate Library’s web site and locate research databases
2. Understand what Peer Reviewed articles are and know how to locate them
3. Able to distinguish between primary, secondary, and tertiary literature.
4. Able to use RefWorks to compile a bibliography for a paper.
5. Understand how to formulate a computer database search and to know what databases to use
Services• Remote access– CougarNet account• Full text Journal articles• Cougar One Card• Cougar-net account• VPN account• Inter Library Loan [online]• Library Provides 500 free pages of prints• IT Central Site also 500 free prints (Library Basement –
own entrance)• Free Photocopying or you can email or save on a
flashdrive
Peer Review
Peer Reviewed Articles
• Stated in preface pages of the Journal• Contains list of cited references• Many databases provide a “peer review” limit
option• Can check in Ulrich’s database–uses “refereed “• Popular works, such as magazine and newspaper
articles, are written for the general public– and are not Peer Reviewed.
Other experts in the field reads and reviews the article to assess professional merit
Types of Research Literature
How to Distinguish Between
Primary
• Secondary
• Tertiary
• Literature
Primary Sources
• Source material that is closest to the information.
• A source with direct personal knowledge of the events being described. It serves as an original source of information about the topic. A person with direct knowledge of a situation, or a document created by such a person.
• E.G. Case Reports, Clinical Trials, Original reporting articles…1st person
Secondary Sources
• Cite, comment on, or build upon primary sources.
• Involve generalization, analysis, synthesis, interpretation, or evaluation of the original information. If an article discusses old documents to derive a new conclusion, it is considered to be a primary source for the new conclusion
• E.G. Review Articles, meta-analysis [most peer review articles report new findings and thus are considered primary resources]
Tertiary Sources
• More peripheral
• Bibliographies, library catalogs, directories, reading lists and survey articles.
• Compilation of data…E.G. Red Book, PDR, Martindale Extra Pharmacopeia
• Longer lead time in publishing…..
Boolean Searching
Think Boolean
Deeror
1802000
Articles on the management of deer in the Southwest U.S.
Manage*Southwest
Texas
Colorado
or
or
Ecologyor
Diet or
Arizona
670
Think Boolean
12
Articles on the management of deer in the Southwest U.S.
Deer
ManagementSouthwest
Citation Searching
Citation Searching
e.g. POPULATION-DYNAMICS OF WHITE-TAILED DEER (ODOCOILEUS-VIRGINIANUS) ON THE WELDER WILDLIFE REFUGE, TEXAS by KIE JG; 1985
– If we look up the list of references at the end of Kie’s article they may be useful --but the problem is that they will all be older than 1985….. And I want current articles on the topic?
– So I can look for articles since 1985 who “cited” Kie’s article by doing a “citation search”
– And we find the latest article was published in 2009
Assumed subject relevancy between the original paper and the references that paper cites
Traditional Search Citation Search
1984
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Citation Searching
1980
19751970
2011
1963
2010
1998
2010
2008
Now, let’s look at our
Specific Databases
and begin