Online Protocols
Electronic Books
Faculty of 1000 Biology
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Faculty
of 1000 Biology
Identifies important biological papers based on the recommendations of leading scientists.
Particularly useful for biology 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:
Ten Simple Rules To Combine Teaching and Research
Ten Simple Rules for Organizing a Scientific Meeting
Ten Simple Rules for Aspiring Scientists in a Low-Income Country
Ten Simple Rules for Graduate Students
Ten Simple Rules for Doing Your Best Research (Hamming)
Ten Simple Rules for a Good Poster Presentation
Ten Simple Rules for Making Good Oral Presentations
Ten Simple Rules for a Successful Collaboration
Ten Simple Rules for Selecting a Postdoctoral Position
Ten Simple Rules for Reviewers
Ten Simple Rules for Getting Grants
Ten Simple Rules for Getting Published
Find out about upcoming conferences
PapersInvited
- consists of information and deadlines about calls for papers for forthcoming conferences and
special issues of scholarly journals. These calls for papers are issued by professional bodies,
journal editors and other conference organizers in all disciplines and from all over the
world.
Writing Papers
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Journal Abbreviations - Translate full journal titles into
their proper abbreviations and translate from the journal title abbreviation into the full
title.
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RefWorks - A web-based citation
manager. With it you'll be able to create a database of citations (by exporting citations into
RefWorks from databases such as PubMed and Web of Science). Then you'll use your RefWorks
database when writing papers, to put your references into the style required. Visit the
Illinois RefWorks Support Site for help.
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EndNote - Many researchers are using EndNote to manage their citations. It
does the same things as RefWorks, but the program usually resides on your computer. For power
users, it is more customizable and has more "styles" than RefWorks. Visit the
Illinois EndNote Support Site for help.
Subject Guides
FAQ for the Bio-Ag Researchers
(pdf) - Learn about new U of Illinois Library services / Auto alerts / Off-campus access /
RefWorks / etc.
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