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Edward G. Miner Library

Graduate Student Guide: MSI

Information and tools for URMC Ph.D. and Master's students

Welcome

Welcome to IND 420, Mastering Scientific Information.

After this course, students will be familiar with different library tools and resources, be able to build a complex search strategy, use Endnote efficiently, and be aware of available resources to support publishing and tracking citation metrics.

Questions?

Choosing Miner Resources

 

General Information

 

  • Background questions

 

  • What is….?

 

  • Access Medicine – Basic Science textbooks on Biochemistry, Biostatistics, Microbiology, Pathology, Pharmacology and Anatomy
  • Clinical Key – Advanced Basic Science textbooks on Biochemistry, Neuroscience, Signaling, Molecular Biology, Signal Transduction and Cancer
  • E-books – Search by title or subject

 

 

Answers to specific scientific questions

 

  • Foreground questions

 

  • Primary Literature (journal articles)

 

  • PubMed@UR – Includes Medline, the premier database for biomedical journal articles; accessing PubMed via Miner Library’s webpage will give you access to the most free full-text articles
  • Web of Science – Science and social science coverage; includes some PubMed citations; has better coverage of engineering, math and statistics than PubMed.  Good for article citation tracking and journal rankings.
  • EMBASE –biomedical database that focuses on drugs and pharmacology, medical devices, clinical medicine, and basic science relevant to clinical medicine; includes six million+ records and 2,700+ journals that are not covered by MEDLINE.
  • PsycINFO – Primary database for psychiatry, tests and psychology literature and includes some PubMed citations.

 

 

Methods & Protocols

 

 

  • Journal of Visual Experimentation (JOVE) – Peer reviewed, PubMed indexed journal devoted to the publication of biological, medical, chemical and physical research in a video format
  • Protocols IO-free and open access repository for recording and sharing detailed up-to-date research methods and protocols. All public content on protocols.io is open access and free to read and publish.
  • More Protocols, including the Current Protocols series – Comprehensive source for protocols in a number of fields, including cell biology, immunology, molecular biology and neuroscience