Biol 4278: Finding Primary Literature in Biology
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The document discusses finding primary literature sources in biology. It introduces EndNote citation management software and describes how to conduct effective searches in research databases to locate full text primary sources, which are peer-reviewed reports of original scientific research published in scholarly journals. The document also discusses using keywords, wildcards, and limiters to search more broadly or narrowly for relevant research articles.
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