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... a commonsense approach to help you find relevant, quality information--for writing a paper, preparing a presentation, working on a lab experiment, answering a question, etc.
... questions to ask; how appropriate and valuable is the information? A worksheet to go along with the questions.
Seek information, not affirmation
Source + Motivation = Value
Dig deeper–do not rely on just one source
Primary and Secondary Literature:
Secondary literature looks like this or this ...
Primary literature looks like this, this, or this ... (note the format--Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, References)

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New York Times
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PressReader
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Questions? See Kevin (engelk@grinnell.edu)
... what is the question(s) you are trying to answer? These secondary sources can help you --
*understand concepts
*answer fact questions
*discover search terms, phrases, and names
*focus a research question
Remember, true research is rarely a straight path.
Database -- topic ideas, and Science news and analysis ...
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Contains reference material covering all major scientific disciplines with articles drawn from McGraw-Hill encyclopedias, dictionaries, and yearbooks, as well as videos, curriculum materials, and links to primary source documents.
Open-access peer-reviewed online journal covering a broad range of topics in research on Arabidopsis thaliana and related species, supported by the American Society of Plant Biologists.
Provides basic information about raising, handling, and maintaining cultures of bean beetles, Callosobruchus maculatus, for faculty who teach undergraduate laboratory courses.
Cold Spring Harbor Mongraph Series, Vol. 33
Editors: Donald L Riddle, Thomas Blumenthal, Barbara J Meyer, and James R Priess.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press; 1997.

MEDLINEplus -- United States National Library of Medicine; a guide to thousands of prescription and over-the-counter medications, and herbs and supplements.

For easy-to-understand, authoritative information about human diseases and disorders.
The full text of 900+ well-known biology and other science textbooks, reports, and other materials. In addition, check the textbooks available on Reserve and in the Reference area of the Science Library.
Print Location: print/online
Read summaries of research in --
Advances in Applied Microbiology
Advances in Botanical Research
Advances in Marine Biology
International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology
Methods in Cell Biology (online)
Methods in Cell Biology (print)
Methods in Enzymology (online)
Methods in Enzymology (print)
Annual Reviews
SGD is a database of the molecular biology and genetics of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is commonly known as baker's or budding yeast.
Database maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Library of Medicine, providing classification and nomenclature for all of the organisms in the public sequence databases, representing about 10% of the described species of life on the planet.
"WormBook is a comprehensive, open-access collection of original, peer-reviewed chapters covering topics related to the biology of Caenorhabditis elegans and other nematodes. "
Xenbase provides "the international research community with a comprehensive, integrated and easy to use web based resource that gives access to the diverse and rich genomic, expression, and functional data available from Xenopus research."
Search the Library Catalog to find good, readable overviews of topics in books and other publications; look for clues in this information to help you find primary literature.
... these sources can help you find evidence to answer your question or validate/invalidate an answer.
Includes articles, book chapters, and images that have been used and cited by multiple Grinnell students and have been highly cited in the scientific literature.
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This database offers a comprehensive, up-to-date, and easy-to-use resource for serious academic research. Includes nearly 14,000 indexed periodicals and journals covering the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and other many subjects in a variety of languages. Full-text articles are available in either PDF or HTML formats.
SGD is a database of the molecular biology and genetics of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is commonly known as baker's or budding yeast.
Xenbase provides "the international research community with a comprehensive, integrated and easy to use web based resource that gives access to the diverse and rich genomic, expression, and functional data available from Xenopus research."


Search these 3 databases at the same time; a good way to start searching for primary literature about almost any topic in Biology.


1809-present (with greater coverage beginning in the 1940's). One of the premier sources for bibliographic coverage of medicine, medical research, health care, molecular biology, physiological psychology, bioethics, and much more. Accessed through ProQuest.
The full text of journals, magazines, newspapers, and books available online through the Grinnell College Libraries.
Includes links to resources available through Grinnell College (from computers on campus).
= Restricted resource
= Images
= Video files
= Audio files
= Scholarly articles
= Quantitative data
= Newspapers
= Highly recommended

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