BIOSCI 358 Nutritional Science 
LIBRARY RESOURCES

Useful Information
Course Material 
Reading List
(with hyperlinks to lecture readings)

Electronic Resources:
  * eJournals
  * eBooks
  * eReference
Essay Assignment Help :
   * Relevant Databases
   * Referencing & EndNote

 

John Lavas
Subject Librarian:
Biological Sciences

Science Information Services 
Room M15, Level M
The University of Auckland Library
Ph 09 3737599 ext. 85772
j.lavas@auckland.ac.nz


Useful Information 

Locations

Resources


Course Material

There are a number of items available for BIOSCI 358 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 catalogue, scroll down the alphabetical list of courses to find the entry for BIOSC358 and click on the Search tab.
The items are in alphabetical order by title and may include books and individual articles. 


ElectronicResources

To access these electronic resources refer to the Accessing Electronic Resources instructions.

Electronic Journals

This is a small selection of the journals available, click on the links below for further related journals.  The lists below are a mixture of print and electronic journals, which are held either in the General Library or the Medical and Health Sciences Library (Philson):

Electronic Books

This is a small selection of the electronic books available, click on the links below for further titles:

Electronic Reference

Dictionaries Encyclopedias

Relevant Databases for the Essay Assignment

MedLine / PubMed | User Guide

Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the Medline database is widely recognized as the premier source for bibliographic coverage of biomedical literature. Medline encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index, as well as other sources of coverage in the areas of communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology. More than 11 million records from more than 4,600 journals are indexed and abstracted. Medline uses OVID software.

PubMed is the free version of MedLine that exists on the web and covers the exact same material as MedLine. The advantage of using MedLine over PubMed is that MedLine has been customised for the University of Auckland and links through to all available electronic journals. As PubMed is a free database on the Internet customisation for the University of Auckland is not possible.

Biological Abstracts | User Guide

Biological Abstracts is an international database on biology, clinical and experimental medicine, biochemistry and biotechnology. It indexes and abstracts articles in 6,500 serials from over 100 countries and is produced in the United States by BIOSIS.

Scopus

Scopus is the largest and most powerful database subscribed to by the University. It includes the same content as does Medline (but without the thesaurus feature) and has over 27 million science items from over 15 000 peer-reveiwed journals from 4000 publishers. Abstract records begin from 1966 and most citations have links to full text via Science Direct. Times cited information (cites from 1996 on) are given for most articles.

Web of Science | User Guide

Also known as the Science Citation Index, The Web of Science is a mutlidisciplinary database listing 20 million items from over 8000 journals. Most items are in the Sciences, but it is also useful for the Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities. Web of Science now also includes the database Current Contents.

Complete listing of all Biological Sciences Databases 

The Internet as an Information Source

Avoid citing internet sources - they may contain useful information and images but are not peer reviewed and should therefore be interpreted with caution.  However, the Internet can provide useful background reading for unfamiliar topics.

You can still use scientific journals that are published on-line.

  • The following online internet tutorials will help you in your use of the internet for research:
  • The following electronic book also contains some useful information on using the internet for research: 
    Dussart, G. (2002). Biosciences on the Internet. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  

Contact: j.lavas@auckland.ac.nz
File Last updated: 12.02.09