 |
Immunology BIOL 357
Dr. Rena Bacon
February 6, 2008
Guide for finding sources at the George T. Potter Library
Marcia Sexton
x7362
- Provides access to the catalog (OPAC), databases, interlibrary loan forms, etc.
II. Electronic Resources
- Some useful Databases for your projects:
| MEDLINE via OVID | Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE contains all records published in Index Medicus and corresponds in part to the printed International Nursing Index with significant material from Index to Dental Literature. Coverage is worldwide, but most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts. Abstracts are included for about 52% of the records. MEDLINE covers a broad range of medical topics relating to research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services. Subject content includes anatomy; communication disorders; microbiology; paramedical professions; pathology; physiology; psychiatry; toxicology; dentistry; parasitology; reproductive biology; epidemiology; gene therapy; surgical and pharmaceutical intervention; nursing practice; ethical and legal issues; institutional operations; laboratory techniques and procedures; diagnosis and management; clinical research trials and experimental treatment protocols; legislation and regulation; allied health specialties; continuing education; investigational drugs and new drug uses, and some veterinary medicine. MEDLINE on OVID contains over 11 million citations and abstracts from more than 4,600 journals as of January 2003 and is updated daily. |
| MEDLINE via EBSCO | MEDLINE® provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. Included are citations from Index Medicus, International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, HISTLINE, SPACELINE, PREMEDLINE®, AIDSLINE®, BIOETHICSLINE®, and HealthSTAR®. Many journals are linked with the Biomedical Reference Collection and are available full-text. Access is provided by the New Jersey Knowledge Initiative. |
| PubMed Home (free) | PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources. |
| HighWire Press | "A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1102 journals and 4,642,841 full text articles from over 130 scholarly publishers. HighWire-hosted publishers have collectively made 1,839,281 articles free. With our partner publishers we produce 71 of the 200 most-frequently-cited journals." |
(Scholarly/Peer Reviewed/Refereed articles have been reviewed by a selected panel of experts in the discipline covered by that journal).
Tips
- Use Boolean Operators-AND, OR, NOT when running a search. For Example: immune system and infertility.
- Some databases provide additional subjects or terms that can be used to broaden or narrow searches. For example: infertility see Infertility, female immunology (MEDLINE via EBSCO).
- Always check your Spelling if the database results are Zero.
- PubMed and MEDLINE via EBSCO link to some full text articles.
III. Interlibrary Loan
Both of these links can be found under QUICK LINKS on the library's homepage.
- Interlibrary Loan: allows students to borrow a book or article that the Potter library does not own. There is a link from the Journal Finder page.
- Journal Finder: this provides information regarding if a journal is available full-text online, in print in the library, or available on microfilm.
Need more help? Visit or call the Reference Desk: 201.684.7574
Use QandA NJ a 24/7 virtual chat with a reference librarian.