Searching the Literature http://journals.plos.org/plosone/ http://aem.asm.org/ October 3, 2016 BIOL 260
Searching tIPS Wildcard searching (*) “strings of text” Look into stringing material together Using Boolean and other search methods What are Boolean searching using AND OR NOT
Venn Diagrams Way to visually think about materials How you use Boolean terms affects the overlap of information Conceptual picture of a set of terms using circles that overlap Show intersection of terms for our purposes What are relative amounts of each.
BOOLEAN Outcomes AND OR NOT You can also use parentheses to combine terms to get multiple results (cats and dogs) NOT (pigs and birds)
Venn diagrams – complexity
CREEDO DATABASE MIND MAPS
Title or citations How do you know if they are a review article or research article? Journal names Length of articles (page numbers) Title of the article Number of authors Volume or issue
Please remember Citation Style Jones, H.T. and J.B. Gott. 2004. Selection of Yersinia pestis YopN mutants that block secretion. Molecular Microbiology. 57(4), 950- 956 Year restriction Must be less than 2 years old. 2014 or newer!