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Professor Boyle - Biology 201 - Assignment Worksheet

The Assignment
 
  • Locate two primary research papers from scientific journals.

     
  • Try these databases:
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    EBSCOHost MasterFILE Premier
     http://www.cerritos.edu/library/http://www.cerritos.edu/library/e-resources.html

    You will notice that EbscoHost has several articles on the pupfish but none are at the scholarly, scientific, research level required by Professor Boyle.

    Highwire
     http://highwire.stanford.edu/

    Highwire Press, which comes out of Stanford University, contains over 15 million articles from over 4,500 journals, including 841,262 free full text articles.  You will notice that Highwire contains many articles on the pupfish but not all are free.  Free articles have the indication.  “This Article Is FREE”.

    PubMed
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

    PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.  You will notice that PubMed contains many articles on the pupfish but not all are free.  Free articles have a colored slash on the article icon.

     
  • Sample search terms:
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    pupfish

    cyprinodon

    (pupfish or cyprinodon)

    (pupfish or cyprinodon) and evolution

    (pupfish or cyprinodon) and behavior

     

     

     

     

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