Livingston Lord Library

Biology 236 Introduction to Microbiology 
Dr. Kathryn Wise

Library Instruction Handout
Stacy Voeller
Electronic Resources Librarian/Assistant Professor
Library 119--(477-2348)
voeller@mnstate.edu

Directions for MSUM's New LibProxy (to access databases from home).

MSUM's A-to-Z, online serials directory - EBSCO
This directory will guide you by title or subject to the library's collection of online journals, and tell you whether or not we subscribe to them in paper, or if they are available electronically online in one of our databases.
Off-Campus Access

1. Gale - Professional Collection.     Part of the Gale/IAC databases suite, the Professional Collection is a custom selection of more than 300 full-text journals for educators that is updated daily and provides 24-hour access from school or home. It offers balanced coverage for any professional educator in the following areas: arts and humanities; child and adolescent psychology and development; drug and alcohol abuse; health/nutrition/fitness; learning disabilities; literature; school law; science and technology; social sciences; and sports/athletic training.
   Off-Campus Access
2. EBSCO - Academic Search Premier
   This resource contains full text for nearly 3,400 scholarly publications. This collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
   Off-Campus Access
3. EBSCO - MasterFILE Premier
   Provides full text for 1,830 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and a wide variety of general interest topics.
   Off-Campus Access
   
   
4. ProQuest - CINAHL  (Internet access)
   Designed specifically for nursing programs in academic institutions as well as hospital libraries, CINAHL PlusText covers a wide range of topics, including nursing, allied health, alternative therapies, biomedicine, consumer health, and health administration. This database offers over 1,200 titles (with more than 260 in full text) and coverage from 1982 to the present.
   Off-Campus Access
   
5. Science Direct 
   Collection of over 1 million articles from 1995 to present covers a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines, including:  Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Business & Management Science, Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, Earth Sciences, Economics, Engineering & Technology, Environmental Science, Materials Science, Mathematics & Computer Science, Microbiology & Immunology, Neurosciences, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Physics, and Social Sciences. Full-text access to over 687 journals subscribed to by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities Library. 
   Off-Campus Access
   
   
6. FirstSearch Databases (Internet access)
   OCLC FirstSearch gives you access to a variety of databases you can search to find books, articles, films, computer software, Internet resources, and other materials on the subjects you need.  The Library currently allows access to 49 of their databases, and there are four databases which might be particularly relevant for this assignment.
   Off-Campus Access

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B.  Internet Search and Evaluation Criteria

Internet Searching
General
Tips for Searchers

Evaluating Internet Resources
General
Reasons to Evaluate
Evaluation Criteria
Review Tools 

Additional resources available across the Internet
Search Engines Features Chart by Greg R. Notess

C.  Internet Search Directories and Engines

Yahoo! -- Try one of Yahoo's categories to narrow your search.  Review by Greg R. Notess
Google! -- Uses "link popularity" to rank results. Receiving high marks from users!  Review by Greg R. Notess.
Metacrawler -- Simultaneously searches Lycos, WebCrawler, Infoseek, Excite, Thunderstone, AltaVista, GoTo, and Yahoo!.  Then MetaCrawler organizes the results into a uniform format.  Review by Eyal Rabinovitch from ZDNet and PC Magazine Online.

D.  Additional Journal Indexes

1. PubMed 
   From the National Library of Medicine. PubMed provides access to 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating online journals), and other related databases. 
2. Ingenta  
   Ingenta is a database of current article information taken from well over 28,950 multidisciplinary journals. Ingenta contains brief descriptive information for over 17,000,000 articles, chapters, reports, and more.  Provides access to table of contents of journals via keyword, author or journal title.
3. AGRICOLA
   Created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators, AGRICOLA covers materials dating from the 16th century to the present. The records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, alternative farming practices, and food and nutrition. Organized into two bibliographic data sets, which must be searched separately, one data set is the Online Public Access Catalog, known as "Books, etc.," that contains citations for books, audiovisual materials, serial publications, and other NAL and cooperator holdings. The other data set is the Journal Article Citation Index, known as "Articles, etc." It includes citations for journal articles, book chapters, reports, and reprints, selected primarily from the materials cataloged in Books, etc. Both data sets are updated daily with newly cataloged and indexed materials.

E.  Book materials

1. WebPALS at http://www.pals.msus.edu/webpals/
2. University of Minnesota’s catalog can be accessed through the Minnesota Library Information Network

A microbiology information portal containing a vast collection of resources including articles, news, frequently asked questions, and links pertaining to the field of microbiology.

As the name "meta directory" implies, Hardin MD is a "list of lists" - Its purpose is to provide easy access to comprehensive resource lists in health-related subjects. It includes subject listings in large "one-stop-shopping" sites, such as MedWeb and Yahoo, and also independent discipline-specific lists. Hardin MD subject pages indicate the length of lists in each subject, making it easy to see at a glance which lists are most comprehensive - These are often not the lists from the "one-stop- shopping" sites, but those developed by people within the field, which are well-known and frequently cited within the field, but not well-known outside it.

MEDLINEplus

This directory site is designed to lead the user to resources containing information that will help with researching their health questions. It includes information from MEDLINE, links to self-help groups, medical dictionaries, directories of doctors and hospitals, access to National institute of Health consumer-related organizations, clearinghouses, health-related organizations, and a search databases section with dozens of databases on topics such as clinical trials, nutrition, AIDS, cancer, etc.

Annotated directory of Internet resources relating to vaccination. Includes separate sections for parents, adults, practitioners, and researchers. In addition, there’s a directory of vaccine sites by country, a what’s new page, and it’s searchable. From the UniScience News Net, a goud source for science news.

A good overview of the relationship between genetics and various diseases. There are several sections: Cancer: Immune system: Metabolism: Muscle and bone: Nervous system; Signals; and Transporters. Each section covers several diseases and each disease page also provides a gene map, related links, and addresses for appropriate associations. Additionally, a line to the new, searchable gene map of the human genome is available at the top of every page.

A detailed collection of anatomical images and surgical techniques. Developed for medical students and physicians, primarily surgeons, but will be of interest to upper-level high school and college biology students. The Image Archive covers 16 areas of the human body, and the Clinical Folios section, listed by topic (including: breast, heart, hernia, musculoskeletal, spleen, stomach, surgical knots) includes narrative, sketches, and text illustrating a specific procedure, and transparencies ("Layered images show a constructive view of anatomy and procedures.") QuickTime and Shockwave are needed for the transparencies.

Last updated 10/30/2007 by slv