Social Ecology E112 Julia Gelfand
Public Issues in Biotechnology Science Library 228
Winter 2007 jgelfand@uci.edu
949-824-4971
Most of the materials you will use for this class will be available either online or at the Science Library. Your assignment to participate in a group research project and write a research paper will require conducting research in databases to find journal articles, conference papers and appropriate websites. This handout will lead you to selected sources.
FINDING BOOKS
ANTPAC - Library holdings for UCI
MELVYL - Library holdings for all 10 UC campuses, the Regional Storage Facilities of SRLF & NRLF, Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
WORLDCAT - global inventory of member library holdings - UCI's holdings are noted
SUBJECT GUIDES - A number of different subject guides may be useful for these assignments: Biology, Social Ecology, etc
Library of Congress Subject Holdings - to search by subject, the following examples of subject headings may be appropriate for higher relevance searching (remember, when searching by keyword, searches subject headings in addition to elements in the title & citation and notes field):
Agriculture
Biotechnology
Biotechnology - Public opinion
Biotechnology - Research
Biotechnology - Social aspects
Nanotechnology
REFERENCE WORKS - increasingly available online there are still many titles in the Science Library Reference Room in the Call Number ranges of T174, TD and TP 248. Some examples of titles include:
AccessScience - online equivalent of McGraw-Hill
Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
Encyclopedia
Britannica Online
Wikipedia
- no peer review content in this encyclopedic resource; all contributed to
voluntarily
FINDING ARTICLES
Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management
Engineering Index - Compendex
Annual Reviews - especially Environment & Resources
SPECIALIZED JOURNALS
Electronic Journal of Biotechnology
MAJOR PUBLISHERS & SOCIETIES - consult http://www.lib.uci.edu/online/collection.html for online access
CABI - British
Elsevier ScienceDirect, includes Academic, Pergamon, etc
Springer/Kluwer Link
Emerald
GOVERNMENT INFORMATION - much of it is increasingly available online, but you can also consult ANTPAC and find print resources usually located in the Langson Library Basement - you can also consult the Government Information Subject Pages and choose for Federal or California resources and information.
INTERNET SEARCHING
Search Engines vs. metasites - evaluate resource - consider domain - .edu, .com, .gov, .org, etc.
Consider "Thinking
Critically about World Wide Web Resources" http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/index.htm)
1.
Authority control - authorship - who, affiliation, where
2.
Currency - note the date, the update, does it reflect the right period of
time
3.
Evaluate the source - establish criteria that is meaningful to covering
the topic
4. Citing
Internet resources - URL & date of the search
5.
Capturing and citing
6. Copying
ABOUT PRESENTATIONS
For assistance in preparing presentations you may find the following resources helpful in preparing a Powerpoint presentation that can capture your ideas with some visual elements including images, graphs, photographs, etc. For some background in creating an appropriate presentation, consider the needs of your audience and play to that group. You may find the following resources and tutorials helpful:
Mastering Powerpoint 2000 - Science Library Bar T385 .M8863 1999
And tutorials
at: http://www.hostos.cuny.edu/library/HHCL_New_Web/Teach_Learn_tutor_ppoint.htm
http://www.cew.wisc.edu/accessibility/tutorials/pptscratch-text.htm
Sources for images
include: Google Image Search
and other search interfaces
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION - You have several options and you can: