BIOLOGY 100--INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGY: GUIDE TO INFORMATION RESOURCES--Sept. 2014
1. Wardman Library Homepage
a. General Information--"My Library Account"; hours and directions; policies; and staff directory
b. "Find Books & Articles and More"
1. Select "Library Catalog"--features include "My Account," chat, access to databases and journals; ILL and Link+
c. "Services & Support" for students: book renewals; description of library services
2. Select Biology Research Guide
a. "Reference Sources"--what is a reference source? Answer: dictionaries; encyclopedias, atlases. The newer the reference source, the better!
b. "Find books"--use keyword, title, author, or subject searches; Link+ offers speedy delivery service
c. "Find articles"--Science Direct: Health and Life Sciences Collection and PubMed (or Medline) are highly recommended sources. AcademicOneFile and OmniFile Full Text are good "general" databases
Note: we are running a trial demonstration of EBSCO Discovery System (EDS)--named "DubSearch" on our homepage
3. dubSearch--EDS searches multiple databases simultaneously
a. Search topic: "immunization education" search results = 23,708
1. Limit--"peer reviewed" [note assignment = 10 primary research articles required] search results = 2,238
i. OmniFile - AmJrPubHealth
ii. ScienceDirect - Preventative Medicine
v. ILL request
2. Limit - "Full text" search results = 1,766
v. "Vaxed Project..." - select open access
x. "Influence of maternal education..." Print--E-mail--Download
Demonstrate dubSearch features:
1. This system searches all of our online resources plus the library catalog
2. Useful limits: date; peer-reviewed; full text; source types (e.g. "all results"; books; academic journals; news; magazines; conference materials)
3. Describe Link Resolver
4. Searching ScienceDirect
a. Select “Advanced Search”
b. Refine you search: check “Journals” and most importantly, “Subscribed publications”. This directs you to our full text holdings in the “Health and Life Sciences Collection”
c. Limit by years
