Guides: Course Guide ~ BIO 100H / Disease Ecology: Research Databases

Research Databases

Articles - Science & Medicine

Web of Science
Index of articles from over 10,000 journals in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. In addition to multidisciplinary searches, Web of Science provides tools to track citations to individual articles from their date of publication to the present. Now includes Book Citation Index and Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Coverage: 1900-present.

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ScienceDaily.com
News articles report hot topics and science “breakthroughs”. A link at the end of the article will often take you to data analysis and research methods.

Boolean Searching: AND, OR, NOT

Citation Style for the journal ECOLOGY

Example:

Bauer, J. E., E. R. M. Druffel, D. M. Wolgast, S. Griffin, and C. A. Masiello. 1998. Distributions of dissolved organic and inorganic carbon and radiocarbon in the eastern North Pacific continental margin. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 45:689–713.

Evaluating Sources

In order to evaluate sources, try the ACCORD method.

Briefly, ACCORD means:

A - Agenda - What was the author's purpose?
C - Credentials - Is the author creditable?
C - Citations - Does the author cite the work of others?
O - Oversight - Did someone have to approve the publication?
R - Relevance - Does the source fit your needs?
D - Date - How recent is the source?

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