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Getting Started...
- Choosing a topic
- Pick something that interests you
- Think of a topic
- Think about the different aspects of a topic
- Start to ask questions
- Find background information
- provides terminology
- overview
Structure of a Research Article
From: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-structure-of-research-papers-article
Features of journal articles
- Structure
- Experimental research article: IMRaD
- Review article: sections with topic headings
- Authors
- Affiliation: from a university, research institution, industry
- Credentials: education
- Peer-reviewed
- Traces of peer-review: date accepted, reviewed, online
- References
- In-text citations
- Bibliography at the end
- Language
- For a particular audience
You don't have to read from start to finish. Read strategically to answer specific questions.
Key Journals
- Nature biotechnology
- Trends in biotechnology
- Current opinion in biotechnology
- Biotechnology advances
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Critical Reviews in Biotechnology
For Literature searching
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Search Terms
- Identify the main ideas from your research topic
- Research Topic: How do articifical enzymes made from nanomaterials work? How can they be used?
- Main Ideas:
- nanomaterial, articficial enzymes
- Synonyms:
- nanomaterials, nanotechnology
- articifical enzymes, enzyme mimic, enzyme-like
- Combining search terms
- Boolean operators:
- AND (for combining main ideas, finds fewer results)
- Example: nanomaterials AND enzyme
- OR (for combining synonyms, finds more results)
- Example: artificial enzyme OR enzyme mimic
- NOT (for removing irrelevant results that use the same term)
- Example: enzyme NOT signaling
- AND (for combining main ideas, finds fewer results)
- Phrase searching: "artificial enzymes"
- Truncation: nano*
- Brackets: (isolate main ideas), (gather together synonyms)
- Boolean operators:
- Example
- Identify the main ideas from your research topic
(nano*) AND ("artificial enzyme" OR "enzyme-like" OR "enzyme mimic")
- Author search
- Author keyword search
- Controlled vocabulary
- Similar/Related articles
- Citing/Reference tracking
- Review articles
- Citation Counts
- Search History
For Drug identification
- CAS registry number
- Pubchem ID
- Substances (Pubmed)
For Patent information
- WO Patent number (WIPO)
- US Patent number (USPTO)
Databases for literature searching
- Pubmed
- biomedical
- Web of Science Core Collection
- general science
- citation tracking
- Scifinder-n
- chemistry
- pharmaceuticals
- Google Scholar
- general science
- Engineering Village
- engineering
- Scopus
- general science
- citation tracking
- Library Search OMNI
- multidisciplinary
Databases for drug searching
Databases for patent searching
Worksheets
- Identifying Search Terms
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