BIOL 1401 General Biology

Hello Biology Students!

Welcome!  My name is Mario Leyva, Research and Instruction Librarian, and I am your library liaison for Biology.  This research guide provides resources that will assist you with finding and working with scholarly scientific information. This guide will be available to you 24/7 and you can begin by using the yellow navigation links on the left.

 

 

Learning Objectives

The Student Will Learn:

 

The difference between peer-reviewed journal articles and other articles.

 

How to search science/medical databases, including how to choose key search words.

 

Which science/medical databases they have access to, and how to tell if the search results are giving them access to the entire journal article versus just the abstract.

 

How to access the entire journal article if only the abstract is available on-line.