Assignment Three: Finding Review Articles

1. Go to www.refworks.com and follow the link to "Sign up for an individual account" (I suggest that you use your GroupWise login and password, just to keep things simple). You'll use RefWorks to accumulate and manage bibliography, and eventually to format your final bibliography. This is really wonderful...

   Once logged in, go to the Folders ==> Create New Folder dropdown, and make a bio182 folder to hold items for this course.

2. Use ALL 3 of the databases demonstrated in class to search for REVIEW articles, using the search terms you've found to be effective in earlier searches (and any others you can think of). I want you to develop basic familiarity with these databases, and anticipate that at least one of them will be fruitful for you. If you find ZERO, try a more general search.

3. In dated log file entries, report (a) your search terms, and (b) useful things you found, in a narrative (a story, a description, a chronology) of your exploration of the 3 databases.

4. Choose what seems to be the one best review article (closest to your topic, most recent, etc... your choice of "best") that you can get in full text (either because it's available online, as recent Annual Review articles are, OR because it's available in print journals/volumes that we have [check Annie to find out if we HAVE a title]) and make yourself a copy (print it, photocopy it, whatever). READ IT.

   If you REALLY just can't find anything, (1) look through the first paragraph(s) of primary articles you found for Assignment 2 in search of reviews, and (2) if that doesn't work come and see me, or (3) ask your faculty mentor for help.

5. Include in your log file a citation for the one you've decided is the best, in something like this format:

   David A. Holway, Lori Lach, Andrew V. Suarez, Neil D. Tsutsui, and Ted J. Case
   THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF ANT INVASIONS
   Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 2002, Vol. 33: 181-233

The databases:

• Annual Review of... (link on the Resources for Biology page)

  (Click on the Search button. If your terminology doesn't get any results in Article title or Abstract, try a phrase in quotes in full text.)

  Add any you find to your RefWorks database manually: go to www.refworks.com, login, and use the References ==> Add New Reference dropdown menu, being sure to fill in the asterisked fields (you may also want to paste in the article's Abstract in the appropriate field, for future reference)

• Web of Science (link on the Resources for Biology page, or http://isiknowledge.com)

  (Click on 'Web of Science', then 'General Search'. At the bottom of the page under 'Restrict search by languages and document types', set document types to Review. You may also want to try the Find Related Records button --though the results of that won't be limited to Review articles)

  You can click in boxes to SELECT items to be SAVED to a text file, and you can IMPORT the resulting file into RefWorks using References ==> Import, setting the Import Filter to ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) AND Database to Web of Science, then browsing to the saved file and clicking Import

• CSA Biological & Medical Sciences(link on the Resources for Biology page)

  (To limit to REVIEW-type articles, type review in one of the boxes,and choose "Publication Type. PT=" from the Anywhere drop-down box)

  You can click in boxes to SELECT items to be SAVED to RefWorks, then click on 'Save, Print, Email', and then click the Export to RefWorks button at the bottom of the screen. If you are logged in to RefWorks, your items will be saved with no other effort!