MCB 143: Evolution of Genomes, Cells and Development

• Finding Books
• Finding Articles
• Managing Your References/Evaluating Your Sources

Finding Books

Use a library catalog to find books, journals, magazines, government reports, maps, and other materials owned by the UCB libraries. You can also follow the links on our Electronic Books page, which will take you to Google Books, Open Library, and other electronic book resources categorized by subject. Library catalogs usually do not index the individual articles within magazines and journals.

Resource	Coverage	Unique Features
OskiCat OskiCat Quick Guide (PDF)	Most UCB libraries (more information)	Renew your books online Find course reserves Request checked out or offsite items Restrict your search to a specific library, online items, or available items only.
Melvyl Melvyl Guide	Most UCB libraries and many libraries worldwide, plus citations to selected articles (more information)	Search libraries worldwide Request items UCB doesn't own Create and save lists and add tags to items Automatically format citations
Electronic Books	Links to Google Books, Open Library, and other electronic book resources categorized by subject.	Search the full text of relevant materials Full text may be available online

Finding Articles

Search article databases to find journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. These databases index articles published in selected journals and magazines, papers presented at conferences, and other sources. Most records include citations and abstracts with links to the full text of articles (when available). To access the full text, use the button. (What's this?)

Links to additional biological science article databases can be found here.

Core Life Science/Environmental Science Article Databases	Years Covered	Peer-reviewed Content?
PUBMED The National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database, indexing articles from more than 4500 journals in biology and biomedicine. (Guide: HTML | PDF)	1947-present	Most
WEB OF SCIENCE Indexes core journals in all scientific fields. Allows cited reference searching, which allows you to identify later articles which cite a given author or article.	1900-present	Most
BIOSIS The most comprehensive biological sciences article database; indexes over 6000 peer-reviewed journals. (Guide: HTML | PDF)	1926-present	Most
ZOOLOGICAL RECORD Covers about 4500 international scientific journals plus books, meetings, conferences, reviews, and electronic documents on all aspects of zoology, including systematics, ecology, behavior, evolution and conservation. Searchable by author, subject, geographic area and taxon, with a thesaurus of about 10,000 terms arranged in 80 hierarchies.	1864-present	Most

Managing Your References and Evaluating Your Sources

• RefWorks The UCB Libraries have purchased a site license to RefWorks. Sign up for a free account, and manage your references and format bibliographies with just a few clicks. (Tutorials and Guides)
• Citing Your Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism [UC Berkeley Libraries] Quick guides to APA, MLA, and Chicago-Turabian styles.
• Evaluating Web Pages [UC Berkeley Libraries]