BIOLOGY 3449: LIBRARY ASSIGNMENT
BIOLOGY 3449: LIBRARY ASSIGNMENT Due November 6, 2007 NOTE: Each student is expected to carry out this assignment independently of other students. (Sign the oath on this report.) Please be careful not to pester the librarians at the Health Science Center. Only ask about using the computers, etc. NOTE: "PubMed" is comparable to a biomedical search engine called "MEDLINE." Access this search engine by going to www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/ on any internet computer. However, you need to go to the Medical Library to use "OVID." NOTE: The first item on the list is designed to help you understand the advances in library search methods. 1. Before 1960, one had to go directly to each journal and look at the Subject Index to find topics of interest. To understand this: (1) Go to the journal, Endocrinology, Vol. 66 & 67, 1960, on the 4th floor of the library, and determine how many manuscripts these two volumes for 1960 contain on the topic of hypothalamus. Ans: __________ (2) The first major advancement in library science came around 1960, when they began publishing the Cumulated Index Medicus. Go to the 3rd floor of the library and locate Volume I, 1960, and determine how many articles (±5) are listed under the subject word hypothalamus. Ans: __________ (3) The next major advancement in library science was the computerized search engine called PubMed/Medline. How many English articles on the hypothalamus can be found in PubMed for 1960? Ans: __________ (NOTE: To get English-only articles, click on Limits and select English.) 2. Based on PubMed: (1) How many articles were published in 1960 by R. Guillemin? __________ (2) How many articles were published in 1960 by A.V. Schally? __________ (3) How many articles did these two scientists publish together in 1960? __________ (4) How many articles did they publish together during their careers? __________ (5) Over what span of years did these two Nobel Laureates publish together? _______________________ 3. Guillemin versus Schally: (1) How many publications by A.V. Schally are listed in PubMed for 01/01/95 to 12/31/05? __________ (NOTE: At PubMed, click on the "Limits" tab, go to the Dates box menu and click on Specify date range) (2) What is the title of Schally's most recent publication? ___________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ (3) What is the title of Schally's most recent publication in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. ? _______________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ (4) What is Schallys current address? __________________________________________________________ (5) How many publications by R. Guillemin are listed in PubMed for 01/01/95 to 12/31/05? __________ (NOTE: Dont be fooled by names! Look at titles of article to be sure the individual is an endocrinologist.) (6) What is the title of Guillemin's most recent publication in which he is the first-author? __________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ (7) On the back of this page, write a couple of sentences in which you address the professional dedication of each of these two scientists who won the Nobel Prize. Which one was the most dedicated? Explain! 4. Complete the following scavenger hunt to become more familiar with the medical library: (1) Go to the periodical shelves (on the 4th floor) and find the article by Espey in Endocrinology 141:2385, 2000. In this article, note reference #1, and go to the books area on the 5th floor and find this review article. (NOTE: you might need to use the library computer to find the "call number" for this book.) (2) In the above review article, note reference #413, and go back to the periodicals on the 4th floor, and find this publication in the American Journal of Physiology (AJP) in 1986. (3) In the above AJP article, note reference #5, and find this paper published in 1980. (4) Look through the alphabetized reference list at the end of the above 1980 publication and note a 1975 publication by L.L. Espey. (5) Get the call number for the book containing this 1975 publication and go to the 5th floor to find the article. (6) In the above book, look at the reference list at the end of this article and note the report by Espey and Lipner in 1963. (Return the book to its proper place on the shelf, so that other students can find it.) (7) Go back to the 4th floor and find this 1963 publication. What is the principal conclusion of this article? ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ (NOTE: for the following Ovid and PubMed exercises, limit your searches to articles in English, only.) 5. At a Med Library computer, click on the "Internet Explorer" icon, then click on MEDLINE (Ovid), and at the Ovid News page, click Continue. Then, click on Ovid MEDLINE(R) 1950 to Present with Daily-Update. (1) a. enter the Keyword "prostaglandins" as the search subject and perform Search. b. check "Include All Subheadings" and check "Explode," and then click again on "Continue." c. look at "Results" and record how many articles you found for prostaglandins. Ans. __________ (NOTE: for this series on keywords, click on include all subheadings and on explode.) (2) Repeat the above keyword search using the subjects: a. protein kinases __________ b. fibroblast __________ c. How many articles would you have found if you had used fibroblast.mp," instead? __________ (3) Click on Combine Searches at the base of the Search History section. a. combine PROSTAGLANDINS (probably search #1) AND FIBROBLASTS (probably search #3) and determine how many articles cover both of these topics. __________ b. How many of the articles in this combined list are Review articles? __________ (4) Now, go to PubMed and find articles that key on both fibroblast and on prostaglandins. Enter fibroblast AND prostaglandins into the search engine and record the number of hits. __________ (5) Now, let us pretend that you are interested only in review papers that cover both the topics of "fibroblast" and "prostaglandins" during only the past 10 years, i.e. from 09/01/97 to 09/01/07. Go back to the "Limits" tab at the top of the PubMed page. On this Limits page select "Review," and Specify date range. How many Review articles were published on Fibroblast AND Prostaglandins during these 10 years? __________ (NOTE: Did you spot the convenient tab that already showed you the number of review articles?) (NOTE: This is the kind of 'focusing' on relevant manuscripts you will want to do for your term report.) 6. In this exercise, you will learn one of the ways to evaluate the significance of a scientists research. You will select any three members of the Biology Faculty (except Espey) to perform this evaluation. The names and initials are as follows: Blystone RV, Brodl MR, Healy FG, King JM, Koppenheffer TL, Livingstone KD, Lyons KG, Pope DS, Ribble DO, and Shinkle JR. However, you want to be aware that there are multiple scientists with the names JM King and DS Pope. Therefore, if you select one of these two Faculty, you will need to distinguish which articles were published by the Trinity scientist and which were published by someone at another institution and/or in a different field of biology. (NOTE: This final activity requires the Web of Science. Go to the Trinity Library HomePage and click on Articles & More near the top of the screen. Next, click W in the alphabet list. Select Web of Science. (1) Click on Author Finder, enter the name of one of the Faculty listed above, and click on NEXT. (2) Using the first line underneath Record Count, enter in the table, below, the total #Articles by that Faculty. (3) Click on FINISH NOW, and examine the list of publications by that Faculty Member. Enter in the table below, the number of times during the past 10 years that the Faculty Member was 1st-Author of a paper. (4) Now, determine the total number of times the Faculty Members publications have been cited by others. First, go to the box on the right side of the screen and click on CITATION REPORT. From the right side of the screen, enter the Sum of the Times Cited into the table below. Also, enter the h-Index. (Whats this?) (5) On this same page, scroll down to find the Most Cited Article and enter the first three words of its title. Faculty Member #Articles 1st Author Times Cited h-Index Most Cited Article ___ ______________ _______ ________ __________ _______ ______________________________ ______________ _______ ________ __________ _______ ______________________________ ______________ _______ ________ __________ _______ ______________________________ (6) On the back of this page, write a short paragraph on how the WEB of Science might be useful to you if you were responsible for hiring, or promoting, a scientist at your institution. On my oath, I have neither received nor given assistance on this assignment: _______________________________
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