Recommended databases

 Web of Science

PubMed

Biological Sciences (CSA)

Biosis - Biological Abstracts & Zoological Record

• http://www.dialogweb.com/
• logon with username: 155693 or 155694 and password given in class
• Do not share the password and have a search strategy (ANDs and ORs) ready because...
• The Libraries pay per use/time/and records printed
• Select database 0005 for Biosis Previews (=Biological Abstracts) or 0185 for Zoological Record
• Watch checkbox that says search within last result set (often have to turn off)
• After you have entered concepts (with optional ORs) as individual searches, you can AND results together
     e.g., s1 and s3 and s5
• Be sure to LOG OFF when you are finished (see below for exporting records to Refworks)

RefWorks

Tutorial: http://www.refworks.com/tutorial/

Create account/Login: https://www.refworks.com/refworks/

Or select Refworks from the quicklinks menu in the upper right corner of the Libraries Home Page

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To download Web of Science records into Refworks:

• After marking records, go to and then in the Field Tagged format.
• Open the file, and select all and copy the text (even if it seems garbled), and open your Refworks Account.
• Select import from the reference menu, then select: Import Filter/Data Source: ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)
• Under Database: select Web of Science
• Then paste into the Import Data from the following Text window, click and Voila.

The records are now a part of your database along with those handy buttons.

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To download PubMed records into Refworks (and add easy access to electronic full text):

• In PubMed, after you’ve selected the records you want select MEDLINE and click Display.

MEDLINE Summary Brief Abstract Citation ASN.1 XML UI List LinkOut Related Articles Cited in Books CancerChrom Links Domain Links 3D Domain Links GEO DataSet Links Gene Links Genome Links GEO Profile Links HomoloGene Links Nucleotide Links OMIM Links PMC Links Cited in PMC PopSet Links Protein Links SNP Links Structure Links UniSTS Links  Show:  5 10 20 50 100 200 500 Sort Author Journal Pub Date Text File Clipboard E-mail Order

• Then Send to Text.  Then select all in browser window, copy the text, and open your Refworks Account.
• Select import from the reference menu, then select: Import Filter/Data Source: NLM PubMed
• Then paste into the Import Data from the following Text window, click and Voila.

The records are now a part of your database along with those handy buttons (even though they’re not in PubMed).

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To download Biological Sciences (CSA) records into Refworks, just follow the instructions in the database -- it’s easy!

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To download Biosis - Biological Abstracts or Zoological Record records into Refworks (and add easy access to electronic full text):

• After you select the records you want, choose destination: Email/Fax/Postal and click
• Output as Text with tags, and format for email addresses No attachment support
• Under addresses, create new email, enter your username, then email address, and select Email Software Generic (no attachment support)
• Then, you’re stuck because of a bad user interface.  Click back 2x and then refresh.
• Check the box next to the email address you just created and click and then Send now
• After 5 min or so, you’ll receive an email with the records in text form
• Select & copy the text from the email Starting with ’Record - 1... to the end of the last record ending in ...||’
• Then
  • open your Refworks Account.
  • Select import from the reference menu, then select: Import Filter/Data Source: Dialog (Tagged Format)
  • Under Database: select Biosis
  • Then paste into the Import Data from the following Text window, click and Voila...

  ...the records are now a part of your database along with those handy buttons.

  (Note that as of 9/1/04 the biosis filter did not work quite right with Zoological record.  Records from this database will require some editing.)

• Remember to logoff once they’re in.

GOOD Advice on writing your thesis:

Writing it: tips on getting through & making it effective: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~bsc/srthesis.htm

The Structure, Format, Content, and Style of a Journal-Style Scientific Paper: http://abacus.bates.edu/~ganderso/biology/resources/writing/HTWsections.html

Help is available from your friendly neighborhood librarian/professor:

(Author of this page)  Jason Price  jprice@libraries.claremont.edu   http://libraries.claremont.edu/jprice

09/01/2004