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 4^th 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 3^rd 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 Schally’s current address? __________________________________________________________

(5) How many publications by R. Guillemin
are listed in PubMed for 01/01/95 to 12/31/05? __________

(NOTE: Don’t 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 4^th
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 5^th 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 4^th 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 5^th 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 4^th 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 scientist’s
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 “1^st-Author”
of a paper.

(4) Now, determine the total number of times the
Faculty Member’s 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.” (What’s 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 1^st
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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