2. Starting your search for
peer-reviewed
journal articles
Dean Walton
Science Librarian
University of Oregon
Office # 346-2871
dpwalton@uoregon.edu
Reference Desk # 346-2661

3. Developing Key Words
Animals
Animals
Invertebrates
Poisonous = Venomous = Toxic
Cnidarians = cnidaria = coelenterates = jellyfish
Jellyfishes
Common name Scientific name
Sea wasps Chironex fleckeri
Stingers Nematocysts

4. Web of Science
search results
Jellyfish Cnidarians Cnidaria Coelenterates
1,323 480 1,394 214

5. Power of Google
All text searching
versus
Key word searching
But are there problems?
X

6. How about Google Scholar?

7. How about the Library’s
services?
X

8. But what is good (vetted) and
Free?
How about the National Library
of Medicine’s
Entrez Database Suite?
X

9. BREAK!