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Math 4: Applications of Calculus to Medicine and Biology Winter '08
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| Print and digital books, magazines, journal titles, and other materials available through all the Dartmouth College libraries can be found by using the Dartmouth Library Catalog. Search by author, title, subject headings or keyword; the Library Catalog will give you the call numbers and locations of the print items, and the URLs for the digital materials. Choosing Resources - Points to consider when choosing resources to use in your research: —-> Dates covered (many online or Web indexes and databases go back to the mid-80's; consult the print version for materials before the online index began; find print index by title in the online catalog or consult a librarian) —-> Subject areas covered —-> Types of source materials indexed. Does the index cover popular magazines or scientific journals? —-> Types of material within the source indexed. Does the index include conference paper abstracts, editorials, corrections, and other matter outside of the full research reports or articles? —-> Numbers of source publications indexed-this gives you an indication of how much you may have to limit a search due to large retrievals. —-> Language-English only or many languages? You may need to limit a search to English-language-only materials in databases that contain foreign language material. —-> Are there special searching features that you might need such as cited reference searching, citation links, geographic search features, limits to review articles? —-> Are you searching full-text in the database or reference information only? Are there links to full-text? |
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| FINDING ARTICLES IN SCHOLARLY JOURNALS Academic Search Premier Large scholarly, multi-disciplinary, mostly full text database. You can limit your results to peer reviewed journals, as opposed to magazines. |
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| Biological and Agricultural Index Biological and Agricultural Index (BAI) cites articles from more than 240 English-language periodicals. Periodical coverage includes a wide range of scientific journals, from popular to professional, that pertain to biology and agriculture. About 45% of the focus is on agriculture. This file begins with the July 1983 issue of Biological and Agricultural Index and is updated monthly. (Licensed for use at Dartmouth/DHMC only.) |
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| Environmental indexes from CSA Summarizes and indexes significant findings in ecology research. Included are relevant papers on evolutionary biology, economics, and systems analysis as they relate to ecosystems or the environment. |
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| Google Scholar The Google search engine indexing the more scholarly material for which the basic descriptive information is freely available, such as title, author and abstract. Generally, the coverage of the material in Google is less consistent, less thorough, and less reliable than the coverage in the other indexes |
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| MathSciNet A database of bibliographic information and reviews (summaries) for mathematical research literature created and maintained by the American Mathematical Society. Includes books, 1700 journals and serials, conference proceedings. |
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| PubMed Provides coverage of biomedical literature, including the biological and physical sciences. | ||
| Search360 Search360 is an interface that allows you to simultaneously search multiple article indexes. Right now there are approximately 50 article indexes included in Search360. | ||
| WoS Web of Science indexes about 8000 journals in all subject areas. Web of Science offers the unique Cited Reference Searching which allows you to search forward in time based who has cited a paper. Most material in WoS is peer reviewed. | ||
FINDING ARTICLES ELSEWHERE |
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| AccessScience Contains access to articles, dictionary terms, and research updates in all areas of science and technology. Also includes biographies of leading scientists, updates of breakthroughs and discoveries in science and technology, and links to related websites. | ||
| Encyclopedia of life sciences | ||
| eResources in Biological Sciences | ||
| eResources in Environmental Studies | ||
| eResources, Math for a listing of indexes, databases, and other electronic resources licensed by Dartmouth in Mathematics. | ||
| eResources in Medicine and Health | ||
| Math Research Guide This guide provides a selection of core reference resources (both print & electronic) in Mathematics | ||
| MathWorld A free authoritative resource similar to an encyclopedia | ||
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Selected Web Resources Internet Searching Guide -- Go to this Dartmouth site to find descriptions, links, and evaluations of different search engines BiologyBrowser Bibliography of Lake Malawi Biology (with emphasis on fish systematics, ecology, and evolution) Compiled by Michael K. Oliver, Ph.D. "This extensive, online Bibliography of Lake Malawi Biology is part of a larger scientific website titled The Cichlid Fishes of Lake Malawi, Africa. The Bibliography "provides links to hundreds of literature abstracts and dozens of full text downloads." |
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EVALUATING, CITING, & MANAGING SOURCES
"Life Cycle" of Scholarly Information "Testing the Surf: Criteria for Evaluating Internet sources." This 1997 article provides a time-tested list of criteria that you should apply in considering using any information resource. Critical Evaluation of Resources, a guide from the UC Berkeley Library that covers issues like determining bias and objectivity in a source. How do I find out if a journal is peer reviewed/ refereed: "How to Read a Paper" BMJ series. Includes: Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research) ; Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses); Papers that tell you what things cost (economic analyses); Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests; Papers that report drug trials; Statistics for the non-statistician. II: "Significant" relations and their pitfalls; Statistics for the non-statistician; Assessing the methodological quality of published papers; Getting your bearings (deciding what the paper is about); The Medline database
Sources Their Use and Acknowledgement (Dartmouth College)
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