Biology 230 Cell Biology Staples 

Reading your Article

These articles are often very difficult to read! Here are strategies to help:

·         Re-read abstract

·         Ask your professor

·         Search for a “review” article

·         Ask classmates

·         Do more background reading using

·               textbook

·               AccessScience

Using Your Article

Cite your source using a format such as APA (American Psychological Association),  CSE (Council of Science Editors) or your professor’s recommendation!

·         Library Website

·         Library Guides

·         APA website (American Psychological Association)

·         CSE website  (Council of Science Editors)

·         Ask a librarian for help!

Scholarly articles are written by experts in the field and, additionally, reviewed by a panel experts in the field.  They tend to include a lot of research and data, and the information in the article is backed up by a list of references. 

Example of a Journal with Scholarly Articles

Popular articles are often written by journalists for a general audience and are not reviewed by experts in the field.  Popular articles rarely include references.

Example of a Magazine with Popular Articles

For more detailed information on what a scholarly article looks like, see the excellent tutorial Anatomy of a Scholarly Article.

Finding Scholarly, Refereed Articles on Cell Biology

• www.canadacollege.edu/library
• Locating Articles
• On or Off Campus
• Health and Wellness or Proquest Biology Journals or Expanded Academic ASAP
• Limit to Full Text
• Limit to Refereed
• Type your words (Not too many) (Use asterisk to “truncate” for example musc* will get muscular, muscle, muscles, muscularity, etc.)
• Print or e-mail

Using a database off campus? You need a library card from any library in San Mateo County. Don't have one? Get one at the library!

Cañada College Library’s

Important Journals* for Cell Biology

(and a few for general science)

* LaGuardia, C. (Ed.). (2004). Magazines for libraries, 13^th edition. New Providence, NJ: Bowker.

 

Try doing an advance search using some of your keywords.

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What we love about Google Scholar: Who DOESN'T love Google: powerful, fast, and bountiful!

What drives us crazy about Google Scholar: Many of the articles in Google Scholar are not full-text unless you pay money. Hint: We have found that citations with a "PDF" on the right side of the screen usually are full-text. 

Not able to find the full-text for free? E-mail the citation (the basic information) to me, and we will try to track down the article. Never pay for an article! If we can't get it for free, we might be able to pay for it, but you should never pay for an article!

Michelle Morton, Librarian
mortonm@smccd.edu
(650) 306-3393

Dave Patterson, Librarian 
pattersond@smccd.edu
(650) 306-3476

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