Online Protocols
Electronic Books
Faculty of 1000
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Faculty of 1000
Identifies important biology and medical papers based on the recommendations of leading
scientists. Particularly useful for biomedical graduate students and researchers.
Patent Databases
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Patent Search Resources lists freely
accessible, searchable websites for finding patents that have been filed in the U.S. and
worldwide.
Web Search Engines
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Every body uses it, but are you using it WELL?
Discover some quick tips for
better searches at GoogleGuide.
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Google Scholar searches through the full text of many author, publisher, and open access
sites for quality research materials. Look for the "Discover at UIUC links" when using Google
Scholar-- you'll be linked to full text provided by the Illinois Library!
Tips for effective searching.
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The focus of Scirus is on "science" websites.
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Use Entrez to search multiple NCBI databases at once, including PubMed, GenBank, PubChem,
Nucleotide, Protein, etc.!
TIP: If you're a Firefox user, you can add search engines to the search box
on the Firefox toolbar (where the default search engine is Google). To find and add search
engines, go to the
Mozilla Mycroft Project page.
Among the search engines available:
PubMed U of I full text; Google Scholar; Scirus; Amazon; Wikipedia; U of Illinois Easy
Search; YouTube; and many, many, more!
To switch to use one of your chosen search engines, just click on the dropdown arrow, select
the search engine, and type in your query!
General Guides for Life Sciences Researchers
How to Use Databases
How to Set up Auto-alerts
Auto-alerts are emails that are sent to you from citation databases or the publishers of
journals. Alerts help you keep up to date on published research in a particular topic, keep track
of your colleagues' research, or enable you to receive the table of contents of selected journals.
Go to our
Keeping Current page to learn how to set up
auto-alerts.
Ten Simple Rules Collection
Written by
PLoS Computational Biology Editor-in-Chief Philip E. Bourne, sometimes with collaborators,
the "
Ten Simple Rules" provide
a quick, concentrated guide for mastering some of the professional challenges research scientists
face in their careers. Topic include:
