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Meg Spencer, Science Librarian (SC)

Sections:

Finding Definitions and Background Information:
Finding Journal Articles:
Finding Books:
Finding Websites:
Citation Information:
InterLibrary Loan & TriCollege Borrowing:

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Biology 119 : Genomics & Systems Biology (Kaplinsky) (SC)

Finding Definitions and Background Information:

ONLINE RESOURCES:

AccessScience @ McGraw-Hill

Provides full-text access to articles, dictionary terms, biographies, research updates and links to related websites in all areas of science and technology. Covers 2000-present.

Encyclopedia of life sciences

KEGG

"Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) is an effort to computerize current knowledge of molecular and cellular biology in terms of the information pathways that consist of interacting molecules or genes and to provide links from the gene catalogs produced by genome sequencing projects."

OMIM

The online version of Mendelian Inheritance in Man.

PRINT RESOURCES:

The dictionary of gene technology

Author: Kahl, Günter.

Publisher: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, 2004.

Cornell Reference QH506 .K333 2004 v.1 & v.2

Encyclopedic dictionary of Genetics, genomics, and proteomics

Author: Rédei, G. P. Rédei, G. P.

Publisher: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Liss, c2003.

Cornell Reference QH427 .R43 2003

Finding Journal Articles:

Look for the

button and click on it to see if you can get online access to the citation's article. If Swarthmore does not have access to the online article, you will be given the option to check Tripod for print access, or it will populate an InterLibrary Loan request form for you.

If you are planning to do any research off-campus, you will need to log in to EZ-PROXY, which is Swarthmore's proxy server. Once you have logged in through the proxy server, your access to IP-linked resources will be allowed.

Web of science

Provider: ISI

This multidisciplinary database can be searched by subject, author, and journal title. Articles that CITE a known author or work can also be searched. Cited reference searching helps identify more recent articles on the same topic. Coverage for the Science Citation Index in WofS now goes back to 1900.

Cambridge scientific abstracts internet database service

Provider: CSA

Offers abstracts and citations of journal articles, conference proceedings, technical reports, selected books and patents. Areas covered include biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Covers 1982-present.

PubMed

Provider: NCBI

Includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

Google scholar

Google Scholar often digs up good resources that the other databases don't. So it is a good database to use in addition to the others. Use the "Check Tripod" and "Find it @ Swarthmore" links to see if we have access to full text.

Finding Books:

Tripod library catalog.

The library catalog of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges.

Ebrary

Academic Complete includes more than 30,000 current e-books from leading publishers, including life and physical sciences (2,400 titles). It spans all subjects.

Note: If you plan to PRINT from eBrary titles, you will be restricted to printing only TWENTY pages at a time, and FORTY pages in one session. If you need to print more than forty pages, you will need to close the browser & then open a new window (but copy the URL of the e-Book before you close, so you can paste it into the new browser window).

Finding Websites:

Google Directory: Genomics

Omics Gateway

Nature Publishing Group's website on all of those 'omics' fields, including genomics...

National Human Genome Research Institute

Check out their 'Brief Guide to Genomics' for a nice overview of the topic.

Public Health Genomics

Website of the Office of Public Health Genomics (OPHG) which "promotes the integration of genomics into public health research, policy, and practice to prevent disease and improve the health of all people." A good source of topics ideas.

Citation Information:

A short guide to writing about biology

Author: Pechenik, Jan A.

Publisher: New York : Longman, c2010.

There is are copies of the most current edition this guide behind Cornell's Circulation Desk on reserve which must be used in the library. You should use this guide for examples on how to cite sources and for other information like taking notes, avoiding plagiarism, writing lab reports, and much more.

InterLibrary Loan & TriCollege Borrowing:

While Cornell Library has a really good collection, obviously there will be times when we don't actually own something you've located in your research. That is when you'll need to borrow from other libraries and to do this you will need Inter-Library Loan (ILL). (For this course, you should be able to get everything you need from within the TriCo Library network.)

Tri-College ILL - BOOKS: If you want a book from Bryn Mawr or Haverford, simply press the REQUEST button at the top of the Tripod screen. Enter your name & barcode, and select WHERE you want to pick up the book. Delivery takes approximately one day library to library.

Non-TriCollege ILL - BOOKS: For books NOT available in Tripod, try E-Z Borrow and request books directly from nearby Pennsylvania & NJ libraries. Books usually arrive within a few days.

JOURNAL ARTICLES: For articles in journals not available from the main libraries in TriCo*, use the online ILL form. You must put the COMPLETE JOURNAL TITLE in your request - do not use abbreviations, or your request will most likely be sent back to you. For complete journal titles, check the book behind the Circulation Desk, or go to Journal Abbreviation Sources.

* Your Swat ID will get you into Penn's libraries, but you cannot borrow directly from them. You must use ILL to get anything from Penn.