Cell Biology and Genetics

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Cell Biology and Genetics
Information Skills for Poster Assignment
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Cell Biology and genetics

• Assignment Overview

• Choose a sub-topic of one of the following
• Cell Division
• Cell Metabolism
• Cell Signaling
• Cell Motility
• Find 5-6 Research Articles (and then read them ?)
• Published in 2013
• From the 11 journals
• Choose one article to focus on
• Find other academic literature to support and
  explain the journal article

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• Journal list

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Cell biology and genetics

• Academic Literature

• What is a Research Article?

• A persons or groups original research. They are
  often divided into the following sections
• Abstract
• Introduction
• Method
• Results
• Discussion Conclusion
• In general journal articles are very specific and
  hard to understand. You will probably need other
  literature to understand them.
• Review Articles
• Books
• Encyclopaedias

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Cell biology and genetics

• Finding Research Articles

• Log into database Web of Science Core Collection
• Choose a topic and the search terms
• Search Terms
• Truncation ()
• For example genetic genetic, genetics,
  genetical, genetically
• Phrase e.g. stem cell
• Boolean Operators (AND / NOT / OR)
• Narrow results by Date, Research Articles and
  Relevance
• Download research papers
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Cell biology and genetics

• Topics Search Terms

• 1. Cell Signaling
• Cell Signal AND Kinase
• 2. Cell Division
• Cell Division
• Cell Division AND Stem Cell
• Meiosis
• 3. Cell Metabolism
• cell metaboli AND protein
• cell metaboli AND (cancer OR tumor OR tumour)
• 4. Cell Motility
• (cell motility or cell movement ) and (actin
  filament or microfilament)
• (cell motility or cell movement ) and
  microtubule 

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• Journal list

• journal of cell biology OR journal of cell
  science OR cell biology international OR european
  journal of cell biology OR plant cell OR gene OR
  microbiology OR cell OR cell calcium OR cell
  biochemistry and biophysics OR developmental cell
• Connect journal titles with OR if search
  in Web of Science Core Collection

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• Web of Science Core Collection

• SEARCH ARTICLES AT ONCE FROM ALL REQUIRED
  JOURNALS
• VIDEO
• HTTP//YOUTU.BE/P57XXZ_XE3W

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• FIND DATABASE TOOL

• Log into Web of Science Core Collection

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• Web of Science core collection

• Search articles on a topic from 11 journals that
  published in 2012

Step2 type in search terms for your topic
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Step3 type in journal titles
Note Connect each journal name with OR, remove
The from The journal of cell biology
Step1 Add Another Field
Step4 choose a specific year, e.g. 2012 for a
timespan
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• Web of Science core collection

• Refine results for Research Articles

Step1 Sort by Relevance or Times Cited
Step2 Tick ARTICLE, then click Refine
More options Refine results to an individual
journal articles
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• Web of science core collection

Citing articles, Cited References and Related
Records will help you understand this article

• Go through an article

Click on Full Text, then SFX to get access to
article full text
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• SFX

• Access to Full text

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• Full Text

• Read article in journal website

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Cell biology and genetics

• Finding supporting literature

• Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias
• Henderson's dictionary of biology
• Access Science
• Books
• Catalogue keyword search and Subject (91161)
  resources search
• Medicine BioSciences Study Guide
• Search review articles in Web of Science
• Remove date range and specific journals
• Additional keywords from your article
• Refine the results to the review articles
• Related articles and Cited references / Citing
  articles from your article

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• WEB OF SCIENCE

• Search Review Articles on your topic

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• WEB OF SCIENCE

• Refine the results for review articles

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• WEB OF SCIENCE

• Go through review articles

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• Catalogue

• SEARCH FOR AN INDIVIDUAL JOURNAL
• VIDEO
• HTTP//WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?VJEAGFFY3M3C

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• CATALOUGE SEARCH

• Finding an individual journal

Type a journal title in, then Search
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• CATALOGUE SEARCH

• Click on the journal title you are looking for.

Click on the journal title
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• CATALOGUE SEARCH

• Log into journal

Click on Elsevier SD, log into Cell webpage
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• JOURNAL WEBPAGE

• Browse articles by Volume(Year)

Using Advance Search for subject articles
Browse articles by Volume(Year)
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• JOURNAL WEBPAGE

• Advance Search

Step1 Choose Journals search module Step2 Type
search query in search box and choose Abstract,
Title, Keywords for search field Step3 Type
journal title in and select Journal Title for
search field Step4Select Article for document
type Step5 Choose Date Range, e.g. 2010 to
2010 Step 6 Click on Search
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• JOURNAL WEBPAGE

• Limit results to the journal you need

Step1 Tick the box next to Cell under
Journal/Book Title Step2 Click on Limit to
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• Online Tutorial

• Youtube

• Cell Biology - Finding articles using a database
• http//youtu.be/p57xXz_XE3w
•  Cell Biology - Searching a single journal to
  find articles
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vjeAGFfy3m3c