Useful
Information 
Locations
Resources
Course
Material
There are a number of items available
for BIOSCI 208 in the Short Loans Collection which is
located on level 1 of the Kate Edger Information Commons.
To see the full list of items, go to the
Course Materials search
page on the library page, scroll down the alphabetical list of courses to find
the entry for BIOSC208 and click on the Search tab.
The items are in alphabetical order by title and may include books and
individual articles.
Assignment
Help
Tips for
doing the assignment:
Do part 1 of the
assignment last, the skills you learn in parts 2 and 3 will help you
with part 1.
Annotated Bibliographies:
- Refer to Dr Sewell's guidelines in the Assignment
sheet.
- Some useful web
sites on preparing Annotated Bibliographies:
Primary Literature:
How to Search for Papers
- Work through the steps in InfoQuest,
the Online Guide to Finding Journal Articles using Library
Databases.
- Remember to search for the common and
scientific names of the Phylum you have chosen (if
applicable). You can check this kind of information in the Guide
to the Animal Kingdom for Students
(A basic who's who in the Animal Kingdom).
Selecting a Database:
- Refer to the section on
Accessing
Electronic Resources
before you begin using databases.
- Dr Sewell suggests using the following
databases:
- Biological
Abstracts | Help
sheet
An international database on biology, clinical and experimental
medicine, biochemistry and biotechnology.
- Aquatic
Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts | Help
sheet
An international database on science, technology and management
of marine, brackish and freshwater environments.
- Scopus |
Highly recommended. Includes data (mostly full text) from more than 35 million items from over 16,000 peer-reviewed journals from 4,000 publishers.
Filling in the Gaps - part 1 of the assignment
- Dr Sewell has provided you with references that
are missing vital pieces of information.
- A complete reference would normally include:
author, title of paper, name of journal (sometimes this will be
abbreviated), volume number of journal, page numbers and year of
publication, as in this example:
Francis, R. I. C. C.; Jellyman, D. J. 1999: Are mean size
data adequate to monitor freshwater eel fisheries? Marine and
Freshwater Research 50: 355–366.
- You will need to work out which piece or pieces of information are
missing from the references given.
- Then decide which database
would be best to look for these references in.
- You will need to do separate searches using the
pieces of information you've been given and then combine those
separate searches to find the missing pieces.
- For Example, if you already know the author
name and the title of the paper but you don't know the name of the
journal that the paper was published in:
- Start with an author search using
the authors name.
- Then try a separate title search using
keywords from the title of the paper.
- Lastly combine the author and title
search to get a list of all papers by the author mentioning
keywords from the title - hopefully there should only be one
paper that matches!
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