Biological Resources at UT

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Biological Resources at UT
Donna Braquet Life Sciences Librarian braquet_at_lib.
utk.edu This powerpoint will be posted
at http//www.lib.utk.edu/people/braquet.html
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Databases
Biological Abstracts (1969)-4000 biology
journals-7.7 million records-Print 1926 PubMed
(1965)-4800 Biomedical Journals-12 million
records-Print 1960
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Databases (cont.)
Web of Science (1970)-5900 science
journals-cited reference searching-print
1964 Scifinder Scholar (1907)-9000 chemical
journals-structure searching
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Reference Materials
Electronic Materials Home databases
dictionaries, encyclopedias handbooks -Encyclop
edia of Life Sciences -Current Protocols-Oxford
Dictionary Collection-Chemistry, Physics, and
Engineering Handbooks Tables Print
Materials-Some listed on Subject Guides-Use
Advanced Search in Catalog (limit to Hodges
Reference)
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PubMed

• Assumes AND
• Use ( ) and AND/OR to combine concepts
  osteoporosis and (vitamin D or calcium)
• Skin cancer exposure skin cancer and
  exposure unless you put, skin and cancer and
  exposure
• Authors serpersu e serpersu eh au to turn
  off truncation nose a au if name may be
  interpreted as a term

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PubMed
Automatic Term Mappingwill match it with MeSH
terms skin cancer"skin neoplasms"MeSH Terms
OR skin cancerText Word TruncationUse to
get alternate endings of word chemical tox
toxins, toxic, toxicants, toxics, toxicity,
toxicological, etc.note turns off Automatic
Term Mapping Phrase SearchingUse double
quotes to indicate a phrase Health Planning
will include records with this term will not
do automatic mapping
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PubMed Results
Display citation, abstract Sort by author name,
journal or publication date Send to e-mail,
file, clipboard (temporary) New records may not
have abstracts Use to discover
full text or print Related Links title,
abstract, and MeSH terms
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PubMed Results
Limits Preview History (temporary)- combine
searches, insert search Clipboard (temporary)-
collect records Cubby Details lets you see
what it actually searched
To pubmed
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Biological Abstracts
Truncation any number of characters? one
or none (behavio?r behaviour or
behavior) Proximity With in the same field
(abstract, title, etc.)Near in the same
sentence
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Controlled Vocabulary
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links
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Web of Science

• What is it?
• 3 databases
• Science Citation Index Expanded
• Social Science Citation Index
• Arts Humanities Citation Index

Using Web of Science 10/06/2004 1000-1100
Evaluation of Scholarship using Web of
Science 9/21/2004 400-530
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Web of Science
Two types of Searching 1. General Search by
Topic, Author, Author Group, Source Title,
Address 2. Cited Reference Search What
articles cite an author? What articles cite an
article since its publication? Who found this
article important? Who is working in this
research area?
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Record with Abstract
Find Related Records
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SFX to find options for full-text
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Tip Use the cited author index
Tip Use the journal abbreviations list
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