Finding Cell Biology Journals and Articles 

Cell  http://www.cell.com/content
 - Excellent journal for finding a research article for this assignment!  
- Article over one year old available for free online. 
- Make sure to choose from the RESEARCH ARTICLES section of the journal!
- Want to print the data, graphs, etc along with the article?  Chose the PDF version.
- These may take awhile to download – they are BIG files.

Search Millions of Articles Simultaneously Using the Library Databases
1)  Go to the Pierce College Library web page www.pierce.ctc.edu/library
2) Click Articles and Database on the left under FIND
3) Search in the Academic Search Premier or ProQuest databases.  Look at the Academic Journals or Scholarly Journals sections.

• ProQuest. This database contains millions of articles from thousands of publications. ProQuest has scholarly journals, magazines and an emphasis on newspapers and news magazines. It also includes a helpful "Suggested Topics" feature that assists you in refining your search. Click here for tips on searching the ProQuest database
  

• EBSCOhost's Academic Search Complete. This database is similar to ProQuest, but has a greater emphasis on scholarly, peer-reviewd journals. Click here for tips on searching the ASC database.

TIP!  It's extremely important to search with cell biology vocabulary in order to find articles that are really about cell biology concepts!!!!!!
For example--- cloning nucleus  --- is a much more effective search than a search for ------ cloning

Search for Specific Cell Biology Journals in EBSCO ASP database
Biochemistry and cell biology                          Canadian journal of microbiology
DNA and cell biology                                         Histochemistry and cell biology
Immunology and cell biology                            Journal of cell and molecular biology
Journal of Molecular Evolution                          Nature cell biology
Plant journal: for cell and molecular biology



Here's how to find the Cell Biology Journals in EBSCO Academic Search Premier...
1) As above, start at the Pierce College Library home page, click Articles and Databases on the left, and open EBSCO.
2) Click the publications link. (Highlighted in pink and blue below)
3) Enter the journal’s name in the Publications box (highlighted in pink below) and click Browse button.
4) After it searches, click the name of the journal you'd like to search.



Search Options…Highlighted in yellow below
Option A – Click on an issue of the journal and look through all the articles for that issue.
Option B – Search all the issues of a journal for a specific topic.  Use the “Search this publication” link in the green bar just above the All Issues year list.

Other Good Magazines or Journals That Aren't focused on Cell Biology
Printed copies of these are available at the library , too!
Scientific American  - available online in EBSCO from 1995 - now
Nature - available online in ProQuest from 1990 - 1 year ago (articles are available 1 year after they are published)
Science - Sorry - not online!  The printed magazine is available in the library at Ft. Steilacoom. Search for abstracts of articles in ProQuest or EBSCO databases.

Introductory Biology Dictionaries in the Library

Book Title	Call Number
The Facts on File Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology	QH575 .F33 2003 REFERENCE section
Oxford Dictionary of Biology	QH302.5 .D5 2000 REFERENCE section
The Facts on File Dictionary of Biology	QH302.5 .F38 1999 REFERENCE section
World of Biology (actually it’s a small encyclopedia)	QH302.5 .W67 1999 REFERENCE section

Online Biology Dictionaries

Cell & Molecular Biology Online http://www.cellbio.com/dictionaries.html

Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology http://www.mblab.gla.ac.uk/dictionary/graphic.html

Biology Online  http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary.asp

Google Special Feature – the Define Command

Google can search only for definitions.  In the search box, type define:word you want to look up

Example:  define:translocation

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