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The Research Guides have been developed by librarians to serve as starting points in helping students select appropriate resources for research projects.

Evaluating Sources

How to Evaluate Information Sources

Citing Sources

General Citation Guides
APA Style
ASA Style
MLA Style
Chicago Manual of Style
Turabian
Turabian Citation Guide
Provided by Ohio State University Libraries


CSE Style
American Anthropological Association Style
Citing Specific Databases

Tutorials
Google Guide
"An online interactive tutorial and reference for experienced users, novices, and everyone in between."


Reading Scientific Papers, Flash Tutorial
Provided by Purdue University


Study Skills - How to Study
A free study skills resource site provided by Mangrum-Strichart Learning Resources


Library Research Tools
Databases A - Z
Online Databases available to Albion College faculty, students and staff. To access databases from off-campus, see Access to Electronic Resources from Off-Campus


EndNote FAQ
Addresses common questions regarding the use of EndNote


Find books, videos, and other materials


Find Journal Articles


Find Newspapers


Google Scholar
"Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research."


Recent Acquisitions of the Albion College Library
Recent acquisitions listed by subject. Users can subscribe to RSS feeds to stay updated.


Library Services
Archives Reference Request


Checking Out Library Materials and More FAQ
Circulation Services encompasses the circulation of library materials, wireless laptops, stack management, course reserves, audio-visual services, student employment, and classroom reservation


Government Documents Information


Information for Faculty


Interlibrary Loan Information


Need Research Help?


Software Installation CDs
List of available software includes Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, FrontPage and Publisher), GroupWise and Microsoft XP (for faculty/staff checkout only)


Special Collections (Rare Books and Archives) Information


Biology Research Guide

For research assistance, contact

Mike VanHouten
or John Kondelik
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Find Books & Videos
Albion College Library Online Catalog
The Albion College Library Online Catalog - your one-stop spot to search for books, periodicals, government documents, videos, electronic materials and more!
Bookshelf (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
A collection of of biomedical books available in full text.
MeLCat Online Catalog
MeLCat will help you find books owned by dozens of libraries in Michigan (including Albion College, Michigan State University, Central Michigan University, and many others). Books may be borrowed by using the online request form.
WorldCat
Records of books and any other types of material cataloged by thousands of libraries worldwide. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.
Find Journal Articles & More
Agricola
Provided by the US Department of Agriculture for finding citations to agricultural literature.
Albion College Library - Electronic Journals Home Page
Provides links to more than 2,000 electronic journals available through the Albion College Library.
Article1st (FirstSearch)
Article1st indexes approximately 12,500 journals and magazines, across all subject areas. This database indicates which journal and magazine articles are available in the Albion College Library.
Biological and Agricultural Index
Nearly 250 English-language periodicals in life sciences and agricultural subjects, published in the U.S. and elsewhere. Includes book reviews. July 1983 to the present. Updated monthly.
BioOne
Full-text articles of high-impact bioscience research journals.
BioOne Abstracts and Indexes
Indexes only the journals included in the BioOne electronic journal collection. Provides links to full text articles in that collection.
CINAHL Basic
"Provides indexing for over 2,857 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982."
CogPrints
An electronic archive for self-archive papers in any area of Psychology, neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science (e.g., artificial intelligence, robotics, vison, learning, speech, neural networks), Philosophy (e.g., mind, language, knowledge, science, logic), Biology (e.g., ethology, behavioral ecology, sociobiology, behaviour genetics, evolutionary theory), Medicine (e.g., Psychiatry, Neurology, human genetics, Imaging), Anthropology (e.g., primatology, cognitive ethnology, archeology, paleontology), as well as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition.
Electronic Collections Online
Electronic Collections Online provides indexing and full-text from academic journals in many disciplines. Articles can be viewed online or printed.
Expanded Academic ASAP
Balanced coverage is available through 3,000 indexed and 1,900 full-text titles in a wide variety of disciplines including: social science journals, humanities journals, science and technology journals, national news periodicals, etc.
Full Text Finder
Many journals, magazines, and newspapers are available in full text through online databases. To search for availability of full text articles from a particular source, look for the title of the journal, magazine, or newspaper by following the appropriate links.
General Science Abstracts
Journals and magazines from the U.S. and Great Britain, covering such subjects as anthropology, astronomy, biology, computers, earth sciences, medicine and health, and much more.
GrayLit Network: A Science Portal of Technical Reports
"The GrayLIT Network is the world's most comprehensive portal to Federal gray literature."
HSTM: History of Science, Technology & Medicine
International bibliography of history of science, technology, and medicine.
JSTOR
Provides indexing and full-text from scholarly journals in many disciplines. Unique, in that coverage for each journal begins with the first volume.
Online Databases - Complete List
A comprehensive list of all online databases.
PubMed
"PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources."
PubMed Central
"PubMed Central is a digital archive of life sciences journal literature, developed and managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)."
Science Citation Index & Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science)
Web of Science provides keyword and citation searching of scholarly journals in the sciences & social sciences from 1986 to present.
WilsonSelectPlus (FirstSearch)
WilsonSelectPlus Full Text contains indexed and abstracted articles from over 1300 periodicals, all with ASCII full text online.
Online Resources
Academic Info: Biology and Biological Sciences
BiologyBrowser
A free web site offering resources for the life sciences information community.
BioTech Life Science Dictionary
Covers terms in biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, cell biology, genetics, ecology, limnology, pharmacology, toxicology and medicine.
BRENDA - The Comprehensive Enzyme Information System
BUBL LINK
Catalogue of Internet Resources using the Dewey Decimal System as the primary organisation structure.. Selected internet resources covering all academic subject areas.
Enzyme Nomenclature Database
INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
"INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information." Provided by University of California Riverside
MicrobeLibrary
"Over 2,000 original, peer-reviewed resources for teaching undergraduate microbiology!"
PIR - Protein Information Resource
Scirus
"Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. ...Scirus searches over 167 million science-specific Web pages"
Taxonomy Browser
Provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information
TRAIL: Technical Report Archive and Image Library
A collaborative project to digitize, archive, and provide persistent and unrestricted access to federal technical reports issued prior to 1975.
Print Resources
Writing papers in the biological sciences
STOCKWELL 110 - QH 304 .M36
Reference Sources
Dictionary of biology
REFERENCE COLLECTION QH 302.5 .D5 2000
Dictionary of modern biology
REFERENCE COLLECTION QH 302.5 .R83 1997
Facts on File Dictionary of Astronomy
REFERENCE COLLECTION - QB 14 .I42
Facts on File dictionary of biology
REFERENCE COLLECTION QH 302.5 .F38 1999

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