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Welcome to the BIO 118 library video.
If you�re enrolled in BIO 118, The Chemistry of Life, then you most likely took BIO 110 or 111 last semester.
A librarian visited your lab section to help introduce you to the published literature in biology. Hopefully you remember one of these friendly faces! Let�s review the material we went over a few months ago in 110 or 111.
We started by reviewing the parts of a scientific paper, with special emphasis on where the literature review fits. Do you remember which section contains the lit review? If you need to review the parts of a science paper, visit this website. It is interactive, so more detail about each section appears when you mouse over it. By the way, the lit review is part of the INTRODUCTION.
We talked about different types of biology publications, especially articles, and placed them within the larger context of the biology literature. Do you remember this graphic? The librarian might have called it �the wheel of science.� Scientists talk about �the primary literature� a lot. Remember, that generally means original scientific research published for the first time in scientific journals. There are lots of things listed in the blue section on the right, but you will be most concerned with the journal article.
We talked about what is meant by �peer-reviewed� or �refereed.� What makes a journal scholarly? How do you know if an article is peer-reviewed? To refresh your memory, you can watch the Peer Review in 5 Minutes video again.
We also talked about different types of journal articles. It�s important that you be able to distinguish a REVIEW article from a RESEARCH article. REVIEW articles summarize the state of research on a particular topic. They have very long bibliographies, which can be helpful. RESEARCH articles report on original ideas and research in the lab or in the field. The authors include a literature review, methods, data, and results (just as you will when you write lab reports for this class).
We learned how our library intersects with the body of published literature that exists in the world. The most definitive way to determine if OUR library has access to a specific article is to use the Journal Locator and to search by the journal title (not the article title).
Links for everything mentioned in this review are available on the Musselman Library research guide for BIO 118. Now you�re ready to begin finding articles for the lit review sections of the lab reports you'll write for Bio 118.