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====== Information Retrieval with Library Systems- BME325 ======

Christy Hightower presented several resources to retrieve information on research topics.
[[http://library.ucsc.edu/subjects/biomolecular|http://library.ucsc.edu/subjects/biomolecular]]

The following are the websites and topics that she covered in her lecture.  These are taken directly from her pdf: {{:lecture_notes:informationsourcesbyformatforwiki.pdf|InformationSourcesbyFormatForWiki.pdf}} and 
{{:lecture_notes:strategies235.pdf|Strategies235.pdf}}

===== Background Information and Vocabulary =====

  * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page|Wikipedia]]
  * [[http://www.els.net.oca.ucsc.edu/|Encyclopedia of Life Sciences]]
  * [[http://mrw.interscience.wiley.com.oca.ucsc.edu/emrw/9780470011539/ggpb/toc|Online Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics]]
  * [[http://www.crcnetbase.com.oca.ucsc.edu/page/statistics_ebooks?cookieSet=1|STATSnetBASE: Statistical Sciences Handbooks]]
  * [[http://library.ucsc.edu/help/howto/use-uc-elinks|How to Use UC E-Links]]

===== Journal Articles =====

  * [[http://apps.isiknowledge.com.oca.ucsc.edu/|Web of Science]]
  * [[http://scholar.google.com/|Google Scholar]]
  * [[http://www.scopus.com/home.url|Scopus]]
  * [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.oca.ucsc.edu/pubmed|PubMed]]

Please note that [[http://www.scopus.com/home.url|Scopus]] is a new resource that the library is evaluating.  Christy asked that we try it out and compare it to [[http://apps.isiknowledge.com.oca.ucsc.edu/|Web of Science]], as the library wants to know which one we prefer.

===== Conference Articles =====

  * [[http://scholar.google.com/|Google Scholar]]
  * [[http://www.scopus.com/home.url|Scopus]]
  * [[http://apps.isiknowledge.com/BIOSIS_GeneralSearch_input.do?product=BIOSIS&search_mode=GeneralSearch&SID=2Ca4cLE2CLaDJ3g9ef1&preferencesSaved=|BIOSIS]]

===== Theses and Dissertations =====

  * [[http://library.ucsc.edu/help/howto/find-ucsc-theses-and-dissertations|How To Find Dissertations at UCSC]]
  * [[http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb|ProQuest Theses and Dissertations Database]]
  * [[http://cruzcat.ucsc.edu/|CRUZCAT]]
  * [[http://scholar.google.com/|Google Scholar]]

Notes on Google Scholar:  While a very powerful tool, Google Scholar has some serious issues.  Many of them are elucidated in this article:  [[http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mcb/264/2010/00000034/00000001/art00011|Metadata Mega Mess in Google Scholar]].

===== Protocols =====

  * [[http://cshprotocols.cshlp.org.oca.ucsc.edu/|Cold Spring Harbor Protocols]]
  * [[http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/browse/?type=CURRENT_PROTOCOL&subject=LS30&titles=true&CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0|Current Protocols in Cell and Molecular Biology]]
  * [[http://www.nature.com.oca.ucsc.edu/nprot/archive/index.html|Nature Protocols]]

===== Patents =====

  * [[http://www.google.com/patents|Google Patent Search]]
  * [[http://www.scopus.com/home.url|Scopus]]
  * [[http://apps.isiknowledge.com/BIOSIS_GeneralSearch_input.do?product=BIOSIS&search_mode=GeneralSearch&SID=2Ca4cLE2CLaDJ3g9ef1&preferencesSaved=|BIOSIS]]

===== Books =====

  * [[http://cruzcat.ucsc.edu/|CRUZCAT]]
  * [[http://melvyl.cdlib.org/|Melvyl]]
  * [[http://books.google.com/|Google Books]]

Google Books is currently in negotiations to release the scanned book collection of UCSC as well as those of other institutions.

===== Websites =====

  * [[http://www.google.com/|Google]]

===== Government Information =====

  * [[http://www.science.gov/|Science.gov]]