LITERATURE GUIDES
- Guide to reference and information sources in plant biology (Reference Room - Z5351 .G85 2006)
- Using the biological literature: a practical guide (Reference Room - QH303.6 .D38 2002) - Plant Biology section (pages 271-316)
DATABASES
Identify keywords and terms and develop a search strategy:
- Developing a search strategy
- Tips for keyword and subject searching
- Use Boolean searching and truncation in a database search to focus results
Google Scholar -- Searches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed articles, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and reports across many disciplines and sources. Freely available; however, many of the links that lead to full text resources are not. On your first visit go to Scholar Preferences and use the Library Links box to set CSUN as the source for no-fee access to many full text articles. [Search for CSUN and select the CSU, Northridge - SFX Find It at CSUN option and select Save Preferences.]