Research Guides: Biology 128: Getting Started with Research

Bio 128 Project Worksheet

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Search for Primary Scientific Literature with Scopus

Scopus
Sciences and social sciences.
CogPrints
ArXiv.org
OAI
US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
European Patent Office
Japan Patent Office
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
UK Intellectual Property Office

SCOPUS offers coverage from 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from over 4,000 international publishers including 531 Open Access journals. in addition Scopus offers coverage of relevant scientific information on the Web, including author homepages, university sites, corporate information and other resources such as Preprint servers, CogPrints, ArXiv.org, OAI compliant resources, as well as the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the European Patent Office, the Japan Patent Office, the World Intellectual Property Organization and the UK Intellectual Property Office.

Changing Climate Library Resources

Climate Change Impact Information From the IPCC

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an intergovernmental scientific body established to aggregate, review and publish scientific, technical and socio-economic information regarding climate change. This information is frequently provided in the context of the local and global impact of that change. You can learn more about the IPCC here.

Below you will find links the homepage for the IPCC site as well as to selected content provided therein.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Web Site
http://www.ipcc.ch/
This link will take you to the IPCC gateway.

IPCC Reports Portal
https://www.ipcc.ch/reports/
This link will take you to the portal for all IPCC reports.
IPCC Data Portal
https://www.ipcc.ch/data/
This link will take you to the portal for all IPCC data.
IPCC Fifth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2014 (AR5): Synthesis Report
http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/
This provides a synthesis of the fifth in a continuing series of reports describing the current knowledge of climate change and its impact.
The Regional Impacts of Climate Change: An Assessment of Vulnerability
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/the-regional-impacts-of-climate-change-an-assessment-of-vulnerability/
A link to the PDF version of the complete document.

Try Searching in An Article Index:

An article index is like Google Search if it only searched journal articles. Below you will find several article indexes that should help you find your primary scientific research article.

Scopus
A powerful discovery tool for finding primary scientific literature.

SCOPUS offers coverage from 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from over 4,000 international publishers including 531 Open Access journals. in addition Scopus offers coverage of relevant scientific information on the Web, including author homepages, university sites, corporate information and other resources such as Preprint servers, CogPrints, ArXiv.org, OAI compliant resources, as well as the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the European Patent Office, the Japan Patent Office, the World Intellectual Property Organization and the UK Intellectual Property Office.
PubMed
National Library of Medicine's version of Medline. Mid 1950s to present
general science
chemistry
medicine
nursing
dentistry
veterinary medicine
health care system
preclinical sciences

PubMed is a database of citations and abstracts for millions of articles from thousands of journals in the areas of general science, chemistry, medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. It includes links to full-text articles at several thousand journal web sites as well as to most of the articles in PubMed Central. PubMed does not have citations for certain types of PubMed Central material, such as book reviews.
Annual Reviews Complete A-Z List
Great source of summaries of significant publications for a wide range of scholarly topics.

Each year Annual Reviews provides authoritative, analytic reviews of significant primary research literature in over 30 focused disciplines within the biomedical, physical, and social sciences, guiding one to new contributions in each field.
Academic OneFile
Full text journals and magazines across disciplines.

Try Searching in a Single Journal:

If Bates has access to a specific journal, you can search within it very easily!

From the Ladd Library home page, select the "CBBcat" button.
Select the "Journal Title" search button.
Enter the title of the journal you want to search within and click the magnifying glass.
Use the resulting search box to search within the specified journal.

A VERY Small Sample of Periodicals Accessible From Ladd Library:

Nature Climate Change
dedicated to publishing the most significant and cutting-edge research on the science of climate change, its impacts and wider implications for the economy, society and policy.
Access: 10/01/2010 to present
Climate Dynamics
Coverage includes original paleoclimatic, diagnostic, analytical and numerical modeling research on the structure and behavior of the atmosphere, oceans, cryosphere, biomass and land surface as interacting components of the dynamics of global climate. Contributions are focused on selected aspects of climate dynamics on particular scales of space or time.
Access: 1986 to present
Climate of the Past Discussions
CP covers all temporal scales of climate change and variability, from geological time through to multidecadal studies of the last century. Studies focusing mainly on present and future climate are not within scope.
Access: 2005 to present

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The main subject areas are (1) reconstructions of past climate based on instrumental, historical and proxy data (including ice) archives, (2) improvements of the precision and accuracy of proxy data, and (3) simulation of past climate and model-based interpretation of palaeoclimate data.
Research Journal of Environmental and Earth Sciences
The Research Journal of Environmental and Earth Sciences publishes original research papers on main aspects of Earth and Environmental Sciences such as Atmospheric/Climate, Oceanography, Palaeoclimate, Palaeontology, Planetary Geology, Solid Earth Sciences, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Biology, Ecology Geoscience and Environmental Physics.
Access: 2009 to present
Journal of Climate
Climate research concerned with large-scale variability of the atmosphere, oceans, and land surface, including the cryosphere; past, present and projected future changes in the climate system (including those caused by human activities); climate simulation and prediction.
Access: 01/01/1988 to present.

Helpful Hint:

Want to know whether Bates subscribes to a journal? You can perform a "Journal Title Search" from the CBBcat search on the Ladd Library home page.

In edition to the large number of physical books about climate change located in the Ladd Library stacks, you also have access to many more electronic books on the subject. To see a complete list, search the Bates library catalog. Several good examples are provided here:

Understanding Earth's Deep Past : Lessons for Our Climate Future
https://cbbcat.net/record=b3608330
Monitoring Climate Change Impacts: Metrics at the Intersection of the Human and Earth Systems
https://cbbcat.net/record=b3509366
Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change
http://cbbcat.net/record=b3349816
Climate change: inferences from paleoclimate and regional aspects
https://cbbcat.net/record=b3390794