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Orientation for PY410: Senior Seminar Class Fall 2009 Professor: Alain Brizard |
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The following simple search statement can be broken down to searchable
terms. Each term can be broken down to synonymous, broader, or narrower terms.
photoin* AND intercala* AND (dna OR deoxyribonucleic acid) - Academic Search Premiere photoin* AND "electron transfer" AND (dna OR deoxyribonucleic acid) - Academic Search Premiere (photoin* AND "electron transfer" AND (dna OR deoxyribonucleic AND acid)- Medline Photoinduced Electron Transfer AND Intercalated DNA -Medline The Boolean Term AND narrows your search
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| There can be many possible searches
using the above terms in computer database searching. The Boolean Term AND narrows your search |
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| Reference Materials | Reference Materials in the Sciences can be found in the
section: Q to T. This can be a good place to look for science
specific encyclopedias or dictionaries, statistical sources, Internet guides, and research
guides in different areas of the sciences. Some sources to start with:
Access Science-
Physics See
PhotoInduced Electron Transfer See
Intercalated DNA REF QC5 .D53 2004 Encyclopedia of
physics / Encyclopedia of the solar system Encyclopedia of weather and climate Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy and
Spectrometry CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics Statistical Record of the Environment
Britannica Online |
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| Searching the SMC Online Catalog: | ||||||
| Subject and Keyword Searching |
*Note -- We often will order books on your research subject. Just contact me. Other Library Catalogs: UVM*, WorldCat *Note -- SMC students may take books out from UVM with their KnightCard. WorldCat The OCLC Online Union Catalog, containing over 50 million records of books, Web resources, and other material owned by libraries worldwide. It is the the world's largest database of bibliographic information, and represents 4,000 years of recorded history. Searching for Books and Materials in the Library Catalog using Subject and Keyword Searching: [Use the LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings to find subject headings] Searching for Books and Materials in the Library Catalog using Subject and Keyword Searching: [Use the LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings to find subject headings] **SUBJECT SEARCHING (FOR BOOKS) - possible headings (not
exhaustive)
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| Science Indexes and Full-text Databases Truncation symbols for different databases | ||||||
| Science Indexes and Full text Databases |
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Example : Find who cited the following article below: Shchedrina, V., Novoselov, S., Malinouski, M., & Gladyshev, V. (2007, August 28). Identification and characterization of a selenoprotein family containing a diselenide bond in a redox motif. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104(35), 13919-13924. Retrieved September 10, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703448104 Use the following Citation [See Results]
Also - Some journal publishers and journal databases are now providing forward citing of article from their website. For example, see Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Other publishers that offer advanced searching on their journals include Science and Nature
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F. Assignment in Class - The following Questions (1-5 ) refer to the journal article: 1. Use the Periodical
Title Abbreviations in the Reference Section (REF Z 6945 .A2 ) or
PubMed @
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=journals to answer the
following question -- #12
2. Find out if the SMC and UVM Libraries carries the journal issue cited in the following references. Give the years the journal is carried at each institution. -- #1 -- #12 -- #46
3. Give a citation of the PNAS article using APA or ACS format. Use two methods - RefWorks and the citation from the database. a). -- b) --
4. Give a citation # and title from the References list of the article that is a book, not a journal. Explain how you can tell the difference. A) Does SMC or UVM have the book?
5. Find journal articles that cite the article given for Citation #1 (Use Google Scholar and PubMed) a) How many times is citation #1 cited in Google Scholar? b) How many times is citation #1 cited in Pub/Med?
6. Write out a search statement in sentence form that you might consider for your Research Proposal. Note - You may change your topic later after conferring with Professor Brizard --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Identify the two or three main concepts in your search statement and break them down into synonymous, narrower, or broader terms: Concept 1
and
Concept 2
and Concept 3 2 2 2 3 3 3 For the above search statement find a total of 8 sources that could be used for your
research: Required: Use RefWorks to get ACS citations for your journal articles 4) - 1 Internet sources on your topic 5) - List 2 points about the research process or this assignment that was frustrating or confusing
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