Contents:
CLIO
Finding Articles
Web Resources
Library Services
USING CLIO TO FIND BOOKS AND
JOURNALS
You can enter
CLIO from the
Barnard Library home page or from the
Columbia University LibraryWeb.
- CLIO (Columbia Libraries
Information Online) is the on-line catalog for the Columbia University Libraries and includes Barnard Library's
holdings.
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Title search:
leave off the initial article (The, An, La, etc.)
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Author search: put
last name, then first name
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Keyword search:
use and, or or not between the terms, or quotes for a phrase, and use ? for truncation (to find
variant endings of a word)
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Limiting to books in Barnard Library:
use the More Limits or Post Limits options
- Finding a book about a person or a subject:
start with a Keyword search using the most distinctive words associated with the topic. Then look for useful
subject headings and do a Subject search.
- Note that although the Barnard
Library is in Lehman Hall, CLIO location Lehman means the Social Sciences library at Columbia; Barnard books
have the location Barnard.
FINDING ARTICLES USING DATABASES
AND INDEXES
These databases/indexes are all on the
Databases list on the
Barnard Library homepage or Columbia
LibraryWeb
Finding articles using an index or database is a two-step process:
1. Find relevant citations in the index;
2. Find the article itself, by a) clicking on "e-link" to find the full-text article, if we have it, or b)
searching CLIO for the title of the journal.
There are many databases other than those listed below that can be
useful in the field of biology -
on the Databases page, limit to
databases in the field of science by using the drop-down list next to "Browse Subjects:"
or you can see a complete
A-Z list of
all databases.
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Agricola |
- an OCLC FirstSearch Database with citations and abstracts for articles in
animal science, chemistry, energy, entomology, food science, forestry, life sciences, natural resources, and plant
diseases, published from 1970 to the present
- use quotes to search for a phrase
- for truncation, use * (saturat* will find saturate, saturated, saturation,
saturations)
- there is a FirstSearch subscription to Medline; you can switch databases
and repeat your searches by using the drop-down list next to "Search in database:"
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Biological Abstracts |
- an Ovid database with citations and abstracts for articles in biology,
plant and animal science, ecology, paleontology, pharmacology, biochemistry, biophysics and bioengineering,
published from 1969 to the present
- multiple words together are taken as a phrase
- for truncation, use * (saturat* will find saturate, saturated, saturation,
saturations)
- for an author or title search, click on the icons at the top
- to combine previous searches, click on the "Combine" icon at the top
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BioMed Central |
- current full-text articles from journals in the biological and biomedical
sciences
- click on Advanced search, then select Citation+Abstract from drop-down list
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BioOne |
- full-text journal articles focused on the biological, ecological and
environmental sciences
- click on Search at the top, and enter terms in the Abstract field
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JSTOR |
- more than 600 scholarly journals from various publishers, from their first
issue up to a few years ago
- useful for historical research; contains ecology and botany journals dating
back to the early twentieth century that are not indexed in other databases
- no issues from the last 3 to 6 years, depending on the journal
- multiple words together are taken as a phrase
- no truncation symbol - use OR (saturated or saturation)
- a particular journal or set of journals must be designated in your search -
choose the botany, ecology and general science journals
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Medline |
- an Ovid database with citations and abstracts for articles in biomedicine,
including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, published from 1966 to the present
- search functions are the same as for Biological Abstracts
- you can switch between Ovid databases and repeat your searches using the
"Change Database" icon at the top
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Science Citation Index |
- a Thomson-ISI Web of Science database that lists all the citations used in
every article in the database
- limit document type to "Review" to obtain articles that provide an overview
of a topic
- "Times Cited" is a rough measure of how influential the paper is in the
field
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LIBRARY LOCATIONS AT COLUMBIA |
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ENDNOTE
EndNote, a program that helps you to organize and use references from
databases and catalogs, is available for downloading, free of charge, to all current Barnard and Columbia students from
the AcIS software server at
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/software/endnote. The page "EndNote
Bibliographic Software at Barnard and Columbia" gives an introduction to the use of EndNote.
WEB RESOURCES
Here are some links to useful Web resources in virology: |
- All the Virology
on the WWW includes The Big Picture Book of
Viruses and links to many other virology Web sites
- The American Museum of Natural History
homepage
- Columbia's Biology Library provides a list of
Biology Internet Resources
- The National Biological Information
Infrastructure (NBII) is maintained by the Center for Biological Informatics of the U.S. Geological Survey
- PubMed is the National
Library of Medicine database of citations and abstracts for articles in MEDLINE, additional life science journals,
and the integrated molecular biology databases included in the National Center for Biotechnology Information
retrieval system (including DNA and protein sequences, 3-D protein structure data, and assemblies of complete
genomes) and has links to articles which usually require payment for full text; however, Columbia subscribes to
most of these journals, so use Columbia databases instead to obtain full text
- The Tree of Life is a
project containing information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their history and characteristics; the
information is linked together in the form of an evolutionary tree
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Virus World from the Institute for Molecular Virology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, includes many virus
images, virus structure tutorials and topographical maps.
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CONSULTATIONS WITH REFERENCE
LIBRARIANS
Click here to complete a form you can e-mail to the
library requesting a consultation if you are having difficulties with your research. You are welcome to come to
the Reference Desk on the second floor at any time (Reference
Desk Hours). We'll be happy to assist you in using our resources.
You can also contact a reference librarian by sending an e-mail to
refdesk@barnard.edu or by calling 212-854-3953.
Last Modified 1/25/05
Lois Coleman
Reference Librarian
Barnard College Library
