Microbiology Three Suggested Databases
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Medline (EBSCOhost)
topics covered include clinical and experimental medicine; microbiology; pathology; pharmacology; physiology; reproductive biology; toxicology; and veterinary medicine.
Coverage Dates: 1950 - present -
Web of Science
The web version of Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI). The Web of Science accesses a multidisciplinary database of topics include all science disciplines, includes cited reference searching
Coverage Dates: 1970 - present -
Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM)
covers environmental sciences topics, and contains a subset of databases that focus on microorganisms, microbial degradation, antibiotic activity and production, microbial toxins, soil microorganisms and environmental pollution.
Coverage Dates: 1967 - present
How to Read a Journal Article
The following websites give some tips on how to read scientific journal articles:
My brief advice for reading journal articles is to keep a pen handy to write notes to yourself in the margins, and always write a summary of what you learned from the paper at the top of the paper or on a post-it note immediately after you finish reading the paper.
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Worksheet for Evaluating a Journal Article
You can use this worksheet to guide you through the process of reading a scientific article.
MB 420 What is this page
This page was created to support your work in MB 420/520. It includes information on how to find articles within the library and resources for improving your article reading and writing skills.
Finding E-journals
Step 1: Identify specific articles of interest using the searching for journal articles on a topic directions.
Step 2:
- Click on the E-Journals list to see if the journal you need is available online (use the link above or go to e-journals in the center of the library's homepage under "quicklinks."
- Enter the journal title (not the article title) in the search box at the top of the page.
- If you get multiple results, choose the journal listing that has the date range that includes the time frame when your article was published.
- Click on the blue publisher's link to get to the ejournal.
- Navigate to the correct volume, issue and page number for your article by using either the date links, the previous issues link, or the volume links (each e-journal interface looks a little different).
Step 3: If the journal is not online, find the call number for the journal(s) in which the article is found. (Use the OSU Libraries Catalog for this step.) Find the article in the library and make a photocopy.
Last Update: September 25, 2009 15:52 | Tagged with: microbiology
