• Finding Articles
• Finding Books
• Reference Resources
• Web Resources
• Research Tips

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Finding Articles

Online Journals Available at WSU

To determine whether the Stewart Library has electronic access to a specific journal, please check the Full Text Electronic Journals & Newspapers list. 

Article Databases

To find articles on your topic you need to use article databases, also known as periodical indexes. Each database usually covers a group of subject related journals. Search by subject or keyword in these indexes.  Science databases may be found at http://library.weber.edu/articledatabases.

Article Databases Available for Microbiology

Article databases provide references, abstracts and sometimes the full article from journals, magazines, books and other published literature.  

Biological Abstracts

References and abstracts to research journals in all areas of the Life Sciences. 1996 to 2002.   Select publication years to search. To search 2003 on, please use BasicBiosis.

Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management   
Provides references and abstracts to publications on ecology, pollution, bacteriology, toxicology, risk assessment,  waste management, water resources, policies and regulations.   1982-present

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition  
Over 500 scholarly full text journals covering the health and medical areas. Abstracts and references for over 500 additional journals.

GPO (Government Printing Office) Monthly Catalog    
Indexes governmental agency publications, including EPA and CDC reports.  1976 - present 

MEDLINE (EbscoHost)   
References and abstracts and some complete journal articles from all fields of medicine and biomedicine. 1966- present  Some full text articles.

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Finding Books

Using Catalogs: 

Search the Stewart Library web catalog to find books, videos, and journals available in the Library.  Most of the books on Botany are located on level two of the library in the General Collection under the call numbers QK, SB.

• WSU Library Catalog - Use Alphabetical Browse to search for exact journal, author, title
• Utah Library Catalogs
• World Library Catalogs

Interlibrary Loan:

If we do not own a particular book or article you need, we will borrow it for you from another library through Interlibrary Loan .

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Reference Resources

Reference resources include encyclopedias, dictionaries and other materials you use to "refer" to and can be found in the reference area of the library. Use these resources for background information on a topic.

Dictionaries

• Dictionary of Microbiology and Molecular Biology  Ref  QR 9 .S56
• Dictionary of Biotechnology Ref TP 248.16 .C66
• Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary  Ref R 121 .T18

Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia of Immunology - Ref QR 180.4 .E53 1998
• Encyclopedia of Microbiology  Ref  QR 9 . E53
• Encyclopedia of Virology  Ref  QR 358 .E53 

Handbooks and Atlases

• Atlas of Immunology - Ref QR 182 .C78 1999
• Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology  Ref QR81 .A5
• Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology  Ref  QR 81 .B46
• Color Atlas of Diagnostic Microbiology  Ref  QR 67 .D44 1997
• Handbook of Microbiological Media  Ref  QR 66.3 .A85
• Manual of Clinical Laboratory Immunology - Ref RB 46.5 .M36 1997
• Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy - Ref Table 8B - RC55 .M4 - Also available (most chapters) at: http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/
• Physicians' Desk Reference  Ref Table 8B - RS 75 .P5 
• Scientific American Medicine - Ref Table 8B - R129 .S35
• Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater  Ref  TD 380 .S8

Style Manuals

• ASM Style Manual - Ref Table 1B - QR11 .A512 - Also available at Reserve Desk (lower level)

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Web Resources

• All the Virology on the WWW
  Excellent list of virus-related sources on the Web.
• Microbes.info

A microbiology information portal.

• American Society for Microbiology
  Extensive list of microbiology internet resources as well as information about the ASM.
• Cells alive!
  Heavily focused on microbiological and immunological topics--even 'MicroGrams"
• Environmental Microbiology Webliographies from the journal Environmental Microbiology.  To find the articles, search this journal using "web" as a search term in the Article Title field.
• Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins Handbook
  The "Bad Bug Book" from the USFDA has information about foodborne organisms.
• Genomic Art
  Art and genetics
• ASM Journals
  View and search ASM Journals online.  Off-campus access requires set-up of proxy server access
• WSU Microbiology Department

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Research Tips

• Clearly identify your information need
• Identify key words and search terms to match your topic
• Develop search statements using advanced search techniques
  • Boolean logic, adjacency searching and truncation
• Use the Stewart Library catalog to find books
• Use the Science and Technology article databases to find journal articles
• Go back to the online catalog to see if the journals are in Stewart Library and where they are located
• Use interlibrary loan to get materials that are not in Stewart Library
• Use search engines to find Web information
• Carefully evaluate the information you find for usefulness and quality
• Revise your search terms and strategy to expand or narrow your results, be creative, look in other areas
• Once you have found information from an Internet site you can email the documents to yourself, 
  print or save them to a floppy disk  
• Use appropriate style to document and cite research
• Ask for Assistance at Reference, via phone (801- 626-6415 or 877-306-3140) , or email
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