Getting Started with Research - FYS 496 - Racial Formation in Biomedical Science

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American Sociological Association Style Guide:

American Sociological Association Style Guide
Location: Bates Reference HM 569 .A54 2014
This manual contains guidelines for style, formatting, and references of articles submitted to ASA journals. It is derived mostly from the author-date citation system of the Chicago Manual of Style "but departs on certain points."

Ladd Library OneSheets:

Looking for quick start guides for some of the Library's most used resources? Maybe a OneSheet will do the trick.

Disease Project Research Worksheet:

This research worksheet can help you organize both your searches and their results. We used this in our second library session.

Feel free to use either the Google Docs version or the MS Word Doc.

Some Specific Library Resources to Try:

Newspapers

ProQuest News and Newspapers
Newspapers, broadcast transcripts, and wire service reports including NYT, Boston Globe, LA Times and Washington Post. 1850 to Current; varies with each title
Times Digital Archive (London)
Full-text, searchable digital copy of The Times of London. Includes every headline, article, editorial, announcement, image and advertisement. Coverage: 1785-2008
Wall Street Journal (1984-current)
Text only, no images. For stock quotes, data, graphs, or illustrations see microfilm 1975-1983.

Reviews

Annual Reviews
Biomedical, physical and social science literature reviews. Coverage: 1930-present

Article Indexes

JSTOR
Humanities, social sciences, and science full text journals. Coverage: Archive and Embargo: 3-6 years
Scopus
Sciences and social sciences journal articles.
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.

Try searching within 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.