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Chapter 7- Literature Sources - Coggle Diagram
Chapter 7- Literature Sources
Searching The Literature
Know where to find sources
Use sites like Google Scholar to get primary literature that is original and peer reviewed research articles
Bibliographic databases like PubMed as well as university library offer a more reliable and structured way of finding good quality information
Distinguish between primary, secondary, and tertiary sources
Primary - original, peer reviewed publication of a scientists new data, results and theories
Scientific journal articles, theses, dissertations, conference proceedings, speeches
Secondary - analyze and discuss the information provided by primary sources
Review articles; literary criticisms; some textbooks; commentaries
Tertiary - compile and reorganize information provided in mainly secondary sources
textbooks; dictionaries; manuals; Wikipedia
Scientific Reference Databases
Become familiar with the most important science databases
Google Scholar - Free site indexes the full text of most peer- reviewed online journals of Europe and America's largest scholarly publishers
HighWire - Archive of largest free, full - text science articles
MEDLINE - produced by the US National Library of Medicine and is part of the National Institutes of Health. This database covers more than 4,000 journal titles and is international in scope
PubMed - comprises more than 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books
Web of Science - ISI Citation Databases collectively index more than 8,000 peer- reviewed journals
BIOSIS - online version of Biological Abstracts and Biological Abstracts, Reports, Reviews, and Meetings, contain literature references from all of the life sciences
Current Contents - Science Edition covers all the science editions of the Current Contents Search database in one package
Scopus - provides broad international coverage of the sciences and social sciences, indexing 14,000 journals
Source Material
Use appropriate search terms
Search for articles using keywords
If you already know authors, title, date of publication, journal name, volume number. etc. use that to search for article
Select the most relevant references
Relevant references are those that apply to the content of your writing and flow thoughts most directly and elegantly
Higher number of times a paper has been cited compared to others on the topic show the importance
Verify your references against the original document
Ensure every reference in the text is included in the reference list
Ensure citations and references follow the format requested in any instructions
Evaluate Web sources before use
If website is peer-reviewed it contains primary sources that is organizational and societal
Two databases that have full text research peer reviewed articles are BioMed Central or PubMed
Websites that contain reliable information often have a domain extension of ".edu" or ".gov" or ".ac" rather than ".com" or ".net"
Check if the information is recent, the intended audience, and the credentials of the author
Managing Sources
Manage your reference well
List references to help organize and keep track of them
Manage references from the start with programs like EndNote, RefWorks, Mendeley, or Zotero