Finding Information for Biosciences

Guide Introduction and Overview

This guide offers a range of activities aimed at helping you to find literature for Biosciences using specific databases and search tools. It also covers the referencing software EndNote Online. The guide is divided into a series of activities so that you can choose the ones that are most helpful to you rather than doing them all.

The activities are divided into sections as follows:

• Developing a Search Strategy: Separate guide - opens in a new browser tab
• Activity 1: Searching databases.  Finding information with Web of Science, Medline and other subscription databases such as Proquest Biological Science, as well as the Google Scholar search engine and open-web PubMed gateway
• Activity 2A: EndNote Online - Getting Started
• Activity 2B: EndNote Online - detailed user guide
• Library Services Homepage

A separate guide provides an overview of relevant resources, including journals and databases.

• Biosciences subject guide

A further guide provides detailed help with searching biomedical / medical and health topics, but including aspects of Life Sciences as well.

• Literature searching for Medical and Dental Sciences

Referencing Information

For more information about why and how to reference, please consult the following.

• Cite them right online - login top right as University of Birmingham if prompted.  Guidance on academic practice relating to referencing, tutorials, basics, and many individual examples in different referencing styles.  Publisher resource from Macmillan / Bloomsbury
• iCite Guide - UoB Library pages with examples in different styles