ESPM 108B Library Skills Lecture

ESPM 108B: Library Instruction Session Heather Thams, Bioscience Library Fall 2009 [email_address] www.lib.berkeley.edu/BIOS

What we’ll cover:

Quick intro to the Bioscience Library

New ways to find books – OskiCat, NextGen Melvyl

Important article databases for forest genetics

Effective searching techniques

Finding an article from a citation

RefWorks

This is YOUR help session – what do you need to know??

Scholarly Articles = Peer Review Articles are found in Journals = Serials = Periodicals = Magazines intended audience : general public. content : general information and entertainment. written by: staff writers, journalists, no peer review. advertising : heavy; geared towards consumers; glossy. intended audience : members of a specific industry, profession or organization. written by: professionals, staff writers. content : articles specific to particular industry trade or profession. No peer review. advertising : moderate; geared towards profession, job listings. intended audience : scholars, researchers, professionals. written by: scientists, scholars, researchers. content : original research; peer-reviewed , bibliographies . Articles often written in a specific format incorporating methodology, results, conclusions and footnoting. advertising : little or none. Popular Trade Scholarly/ Peer Reviewed

Finding Articles

Article databases index the contents of journals, magazines and newspapers.

Searchable by author, title, journal, keywords and subject descriptors.

Some contain the full text of the articles, others give you only a brief description.

Different databases for different subject areas ( electronic resources by subject ).

Use UC-eLinks to access the electronic full text of the articles, or find the location of the printed version.

From off-campus, log in through UC Berkeley proxy server to have access to full text.

Finding Articles: All aspects of bioscience

Scientific articles from peer-reviewed bioscience journals

1926 - present

UCB access only

Indexes over 6,000 journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings

Citations only - use UC-eLinks to access the electronic full text of the articles, or find the location of the printed version.

BIOSIS Previews

Finding Articles: Forestry (int’l focus)

Scientific articles from peer-reviewed agriculture/forestry/ environment journals, plus governmental/NGO reports and conference proceedings

1910 - present

UCB access only

Indexes over 7,000 journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings from over 100 countries

CAB Abstracts

Finding Articles: Forestry (US focus)

Scientific articles from peer-reviewed agriculture/forestry/ environment journals, plus conference proceedings, trade journals, USDA/USFS and state agricultural research reports

1970 - present

UCB access only

Focus on US sources, but includes wide variety of other publications - about 5M records

Agricola

Finding Articles: All scientific fields + cited reference searching

Articles from major peer-reviewed journals in all scientific fields

1900 - present

UCB access only

Main feature is cited reference searching, which lets you see what articles have cited a given article

Web of Science

Finding Articles: Quick & Dirty

Indexes scholarly material found on the web, much of it peer-reviewed

Unknown dates of coverage

Freely available, but must have UCB authentication to access full text of most articles

Unknown scope

Can customize “Scholar Preferences” to show UC-eLinks

Great for quickly finding a known item; not so great for a comprehensive search

Google Scholar

How do you find the full text?

Bjorklund, M. 2003. Test for a population expansion after a drastic reduction in population size using DNA sequence data. Heredity 91: 481-486. DOI 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800309.

Lots of ways to find the full text: