1. Welcome to Your Library
BIOL 4206

2. Your Library
• 2 million volumes
• 15,000 serials
• 250 databases
• 36 individual group study rooms
• 3 Branch Libraries
•Arch/Art
•Music
•Optometry

3. Class Objectives
1. Able to understand and navigate Library’s web site and locate research
databases
2. Understand what Peer Reviewed articles are and know how to locate
them
3. Able to distinguish between primary, secondary, and tertiary literature.
4. Able to use RefWorks to compile a bibliography for a paper.
5. Understand how to formulate a computer database search and to know
what databases to use

4. Services
• Remote access– CougarNet account
• Full text Journal articles
• Cougar One Card
• Cougar-net account
• VPN account
• Inter Library Loan [online]
• Library Provides 500 free pages of prints
• IT Central Site also 500 free prints (Library Basement –
own entrance)
• Free Photocopying or you can email or save on a
flashdrive

5. Peer Review

6. Peer Reviewed Articles
Other experts in the field reads and reviews
the article to assess professional merit
• Stated in preface pages of the Journal
• Contains list of cited references
• Many databases provide a “peer review” limit
option
• Can check in Ulrich’s database–uses “refereed “
• Popular works, such as magazine and newspaper
articles, are written for the general public– and
are not Peer Reviewed.

7. Types of Research Literature

8. How to Distinguish Between
Primary
• Secondary
• Tertiary
•

9. Primary Sources
• Source material that is closest to the information.
• A source with direct personal knowledge of the events being
described. It serves as an original source of information about the
topic. A person with direct knowledge of a situation, or a document
created by such a person.
• E.G. Case Reports, Clinical Trials, Original reporting articles…1st
person

10. Secondary Sources
• Cite, comment on, or build upon primary sources.
• Involve generalization, analysis, synthesis, interpretation, or
evaluation of the original information. If an article discusses old
documents to derive a new conclusion, it is considered to be a
primary source for the new conclusion
• E.G. Review Articles, meta-analysis [most peer review articles
report new findings and thus are considered primary resources]

11. Tertiary Sources
• More peripheral
• Bibliographies, library catalogs, directories,
reading lists and survey articles.
• Compilation of data…E.G. Red Book, PDR, Martindale
Extra Pharmacopeia
• Longer lead time in publishing…..

12. Boolean Searching

13. Think Boolean
Articles on the management of deer in the Southwest U.S.
Southwest
Manage* Deer or
or
Texas
Ecology or 2000
or Colorado
180
Diet or
Arizona
670

14. Think Boolean
Articles on the management of deer in the Southwest U.S.
Deer
Management 12
Southwest

15. Citation Searching

16. Citation Searching
Assumed subject relevancy between the original
paper and the references that paper cites
e.g. POPULATION-DYNAMICS OF WHITE-TAILED DEER
(ODOCOILEUS-VIRGINIANUS) ON THE WELDER WILDLIFE
REFUGE, TEXAS by KIE JG; 1985
– If we look up the list of references at the end of Kie’s article they
may be useful --but the problem is that they will all be older
than 1985….. And I want current articles on the topic?
– So I can look for articles since 1985 who “cited” Kie’s
article by doing a “citation search”
– And we find the latest article was published in 2009

17. Citation Searching
Traditional Search Citation Search
2011
2010 2010
1984 1998
2008
1984
1980
1975
1970
1963

20. Now, let’s look at our
Specific Databases
and begin