BI205 - Readings & Writing

Instructor:  Facey & Weaver
Librarian:Steven Burks
Office: Library 210
Phone: ext 2354
Email: sburks@smcvt.edu
My Reference Hours: Variable, I  work Tuesday evenings this semester: 7:30 - 9:00 pm
Appointments: Contact me via phone or email
General Reference Hours: Mon to Thurs (10 am - 9:00 pm) Fri (10 am - 5 pm) Sunday (1 pm - 7 pm)
     		 


Capsicum - active component of chili peppers
Chemical structure of capsaicin

Things to Consider for Research in Biology:

1. Choose the Appropiate Database for your topic

See Research by Subject : Medline, SciFinder, JSTOR, Google Scholar, ....

2. Subject Thesaurus - Use a subject thesaurus to find appropiate keywords for your topic

See MESH (Medical Subject Headings) - in MEDLINE

3. Search Results - Look over search results and understand if they are displayed by chronology or relevancy

4. Author Searching: See what else the author's of the article has published.

5. Use the Biology Quick Search or Medicine Quick Search interface to search a suite of databases in one search.  Use this tool as a starting point for your research.

6.  Works Cited - Look over the works cited in a research article.  Find the full text of a reference list citation.

See Journal Finder

7. Forward citing:  If you have an article on a topic - see who else has cited it.

See Citation Searching

*Darwinian Gastronomy: Why We Use Spices

8. Organizing and Downloading your journal citation

- MYEbscoHOST.  Set up an account in an Ebsco database to save citations, searches, and set up alerts.


- RefWorks allows you to import references from online databases, organize your references into folders, and then create bibliographies. 

Access

1. Getting Full-Text of your article

2. InterlibraryLoan - UVM

3. Off-Campus access to databases