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GE Cluster 71 ABC:
Biotechnology and Society


Librarian: Lise Snyder  


This page will help you identify, locate, and evaluate information for your class.

Getting Started

Topic Overview
Use a subject encyclopedia for background information on your topic.  Most encyclopedia articles include a list of additional sources of information.
  • Encyclopedia of biomaterials and biomedical engineering http://www.dekker.com/sdek/issues~db=enc~content=t713172959

  • Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal, and Policy Issues in Biotechnology 
    John Wiley & Sons, c2000. 
    Biomedical Library Reference:TP248.16 E56 2000 
     
  • The Concise Encyclopedia of the Ethics of New Technologies 
    Academic Press, c2001.
    Biomedical Library Reference:W 13 C7427 2001
     
  • Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
    Nature Publishing Group 2001.
    http://www.els.net/ 


  • Encyclopedia of Bioethics
    • Simon and Schuster and Prentice Hall International, c2004
    College Library Reference, YRL Reference, Biomedical Library Reference: 
    QH 332 .E52 1995

  • New dictionary of the history of ideas
    Thomson-Gale

  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
    Metaphysics Research Lab at Stanford University 2002.
    http://plato.stanford.edu/

  • Encyclopaedia Britannica
    Encyclopædia Britannica, c2001
    http://search.eb.com/

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Books
  • Find books through the UCLA Library Catalog  Learn how to use it. 
  • More information on finding books 
  • Useful subject headings and call numbers: 
    • bioengineering  TA 164
    • bioethics  QH 332
    • biomedical engineering  R856
    • bioremediation  TD192.5
    • biotechnology  TP248
    • genetic engineering  QH 442

    Locate books
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  • ENVIROnetBASE

    • Full text searching of CRC Press handbooks in the field of environmental science. Facts, figures, charts, tables, illustrations, and formulas dealing with environmental science are in this database. Each chapter is a pdf file and is full-text searchable.

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Articles

You can access the UCLA Library databases from off-campus by using the BruinOnline Proxy Server. For more information, check the BOL Proxy Server webpage at http://www.bol.ucla.edu/services/proxy/.

  • Find article indexes by subject. 
  • How to evaluate journal articles
  • Useful article indexes:

    • Expanded Academic ASAP
      Contains records for articles from popular magazines, general interest journals, and scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and general sciences. Many full text articles from 1980-present.

    • BIOSIS Previews
      The BIOSIS Previews database lists citations from over 6,000 journals, books, conference proceedings, and technical reports, in all areas of the life sciences and biology. Many citations include abstracts. 1985-present.

    • Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management  (Help!)
      Contains more than 1.1 million abstracts from more than 4000 sources, including journal articles, conference proceedings, monographs, technology reports, and books covering all aspects of the environmental sciences. 

    • GeoRef   (Help!)
      Indexes 3,500 journals in 40 languages in the fields of geology, geophysics, and the history of the earth  and contains over 2.6 million references from journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses.

    • Philosopher's Index
      Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the  areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.
       
    • PubMed (Help!)
      National Library of Medicine service that provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related biomedical literature resources. 
    • TOXLINE  (Help!)
      Provides citations and abstracts to journal articles, monographs, technical reports, theses, letters, meeting abstracts, papers and reports covering all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens.

    • Web of Science
      Covers thousands of journals in a wide array of disciplines. Search by topic, author, journal title, or cited author (to identify articles  which cite that author's article). Includes three indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded; Social Sciences Citation Index; Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

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Periodical Shelving Locations
  Locate journals, magazines and newspapers in UCLA libraries.

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Links to web sites, libraries, publications, electronic journals, and more...
Think critically when choosing web pages for research.  Test your thinking skills with the following exercises:

"Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!"   

  • The Internet Public Library: Science & Tech
    http://www.ipl.org/
  • Internet Scout Project
    http://scout.wisc.edu/archives/
    Quality websites selected weekly by librarians and subject experts. Use the advanced search with the subject headings listed above
  • Librarians' Index to the Internet   
    http://lii.org/ 
    Web sites selected and reviewed by librarians.

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Using Information Effectively
Before you begin that paper, a word of caution on plagiarism and student conduct & discipline from the UCLA Office of the Dean of Students.

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Resources selected by: Alice Kawakami, revised by Deborah Costa
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Last updated: January 6, 2006