CORNELL LIBRARY RESEARCH ORIENTATION CLASS



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Library Research Guide

for BioG 125

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|Camille Andrews | |Mann Library Reference Desk |

|Instruction Coordinator | |Telephone: 255-5406 |

| | |E-mail: mann_ref@cornell.edu |

|Tel : 255-8673 | | |

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|e-mail: ca92@cornell.edu | | |

I. Research Strategies

o Choose topic and determine aspect from which the topic is to be researched

o Break topic into concepts

o Think of synonyms and related terms

o Determine what kinds of resources you will need: Popular sources? Scholarly/scientific sources? Primary research articles or reviews?

II. Library Gateway:

• Portal to all of Cornell University Library’s resources (24/7 access on-campus or off-campus w/NetID)

o information about the library, its services and sites as well as research help through Ask a Librarian

o access to research tools and resources (such as Find it!, the Library Catalog and Find E-journals)

• Find it! – simultaneous search within hundreds of electronic database holdings and Library Catalog (most like searching the Web)

o Quick Search for articles, books, and images

o Look for databases in a subject area or find a particular database by title and search within

o Use these resources when you want to find articles (and books) in a subject area whether or not Cornell owns them

• Library Catalog,

o Use this to find out what the 20 libraries at Cornell own or have access to

o You can’t find articles directly or “Search inside the book,” only find book, journal or database titles; for articles, use Find it! or an individual database

• Find e-journals – only for electronic journal titles (not the contents); see Catalog for both e-journal and print titles

III. Quick Search for Articles (Find it! Articles)

o Quick Search

o for a simple search for general articles and books

o Enter a single word or phrase, choose whether to search general databases, the Library Catalog, and/or image databases

o Using Your Results

o You can View the abstracts or use Get it! Cornell to find the full text of articles

o Click the checkboxes beside the results on each page to email, print, or export them to a citation management program like EndNote or RefWorks

IV. In-Depth Search for Articles (Find it! Databases)

o Choose database(s) to search

o Under “Select a Subject Area to Search” choose a subject category (e.g. Biology) and search many of the databases in that subject area. This can show you which databases will give you the most results.

o Under Quick Search select databases and look for a database title (e.g. Web of Science) or broad subject area (e.g. Biology)

o To choose databases from several areas use the “A-Z List of Databases”

o Other ways to locate appropriate databases

o Ask a Librarian

o Subject Guides:

o Web of Science—good general scholarly scientific database (covers top 10% of highly cited journals)

o General Search

• Search for flatulence AND seed*

• Sort by Times Cited

• Click number to view citing articles

• Search for (Oligosaccharides OR flatulence) AND seed*

• Refine by Subject Category, Document Type, Publication Year, etc.

• Search History allows you to access, combine and save past searches and register to send yourself alerts on new results

• Analyze Results by Author

o Cited Reference Search

• Search for cited references for Peterbauer T and Richter A. (2001) Biochemistry and physiology of raffinose family oligosaccharides and galactosyl cyclitols in seeds. Seed Science Research. 11(3): 185-197

• Peterbauer T* in Seed Sci Res (must use ISI journal abbreviation) from 2001

• Shows Times Cited (may have several citations because of incorrect database entry or citation)

• Choose article(s) and Finish Search to see citing articles

o Other Features

• Citation Reports-times cited, citations per year, etc.

• Journal Citation Reports- impact factors for journals in a subject area (impact factor= the number of times articles published in previous two years were cited in indexed journals during third year/ the number of articles, reviews, proceedings or notes published in third year.

• Use with caution! These can be skewed because of a field’s publication and citation practices or a journal’s subject, language or type; can’t be used across fields; and are not full measures of quality.

o Other Databases

o BIOSIS for biological topics

o AGRICOLA for agriculture (US focus)

o CAB Abstracts for agriculture (international focus, particularly Commonwealth countries)

o Food Science and Technology Abstracts for food processing and food microbiology topics

To get the full-text article:

o Choose Get it! Cornell or Search Cornell Library Catalog links. These should automatically connect you to the article but it may take a few clicks.

o Or go to the Library Catalog’s Basic Search and search by Journal Title or Journal Title Abbreviation

o Library Catalog

o Basic Search-best when you are looking for an existing source

▪ Search for Journal Title or Journal Title Abbreviation if you don’t know exact title

▪ Look at records for library, call number (location of resource; see maps in library for guidance), availability

▪ Red Networked Resource box indicates e-access

▪ Find e-journals on the Library Gateway will only find electronic journal titles

(not the contents)

o What if it’s not at Mann or at Cornell? (links in catalog and Gateway)

▪ Interlibrary Loan (ILL-get free resources from other national and international libraries)

▪ Borrow Direct (get free books from Ivy League libraries)

▪ Requests (get free books from other Cornell libraries)

▪ MyDocumentDelivery (for articles and chapters at Cornell to be scanned and sent to you-for a fee except for material from off-campus libraries like Annex and Geneva)

V. Finding Books, Journals, etc. in the Library Catalog

• Guided Keyword-when you want to see what Cornell has on a subject

- flatulence (as a Keyword)

Under long view look at the subject headings

- Oligosaccharides as Subject

VI. Save and Cite Your Results

Though you can always write down, print out or e-mail yourself citations, a bibliographic citation management program like RefWorks (web-based) and EndNote (desktop based) will allow you to save the results you find in a databases and to easily and nearly automatically cite them in your paper and create a bibliography

o EndNote & Refworks citation management programs:

o See the University of Berkeley Libraries’ guide to importing citations from Web of Science into RefWorks:

o Citation tools: APA citation style quick guides at link above and full manual at reference desk

o The College of Arts & Sciences tutorial on recognizing and avoiding plagiarism

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