BL 1251 General Biology I
Research on Succinic Acid Dehydrogenase Enzymes in the Krebs Cycle. It doesn't matter what enzymes you decide to research and work with in lab. You need to manipulate variables to see how the variables influence enzymatic activity. Key words: temperature, pH, enzyme, succinic acid dehydrogenase, succinic acid, fumaric acid, electron acceptor, redox reactions Krebs Cycle, TCA cycle, Citric Acid cycle (3 names for the same cycle).
Dr. Haskins, Dr. Felzien, Prof. Bresnahan, Prof. Carroll, Prof. Stamos, & Prof. Protti-Melendez
Instructed by Kim B. Cullinan, M.Ed., MLIS
Head of Public Services, Greenlease Library
Fall 2010
Information Literacy Competency
The Information Literacy Competency for Rockhurst University Students document outlines the needed competencies for a person to be considered "information literate" in today's world. You will develop competencies in many of these areas in this course and in the future courses you will take in your program. Several of these competencies will be addressed in today's presentation.
Ask A Librarian Research Assistance
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Frequently Asked Questions about the library's services and resources.
Access to Databases
On campus access to most of the library's subscription
databases is available on the "Electronic Resources" page on the
library's web site.
Use either the alphabetical or subject lists of
databases to find the one you need.
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Proper Citation of Sources
When using information from other sources, whether copyrighted or not, it is necessary to give attribution to those sources. Doing so will help you avoid plagiarism.
More information about copyright is found on the Copyright and Fair Use guide.
Information on how to avoid plagiarism is on the Avoiding Plagiarism guide.
RefWorks
The library provides the RefWorks bibliographic management system. This is a bibliography management program that allows Rockhurst University faculty, students and staff to set up their own online account to manage electronic citations imported from databases subscribed to by the Greenlease Library as well as input citation information from print sources. Only Rockhurst University email accounts may be used with RefWorks accounts. These citations are easily incorporated into documents created in word processing programs. Many citation formats are included.
How to Export/Import Saved Citations from a Database Into RefWorks (PDF 89KB)*
Adding References Manually to RefWorks
RefWorks Account InformationTutorial and Quick Start Guide (PDF 2.42MB)*
Sources of Information from Journal, Newspaper or Magazine Articles
The library has databases in most subject areas to help you find articles on a topic. You should be sure to use a database that is appropriate to the subject you are researching. You can start your research in a general topic database and then find more in-depth articles in subject-specific databases.
General Topic Databases:
Academic OneFile
This database contains peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Extensive coverage of the sciences, technology, medicine, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects - authoritative and comprehensive. Millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions; updated daily. More information.
Academic Search Premier
This database indexes and abstracts articles appearing in over 7300 journals in the areas of social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more, some as far back 1965. Full text of articles appear from 4000 scholarly journals, including 3100 peer-reviewed titles.
Subject Specific Databases
PubMed
Indexes medical journals published internationally, covering all areas of medicine. Most records include an abstract. This database is produced by the National Library of Medicine and is free to the public. Coverage from 1965 - present.
General Science Abstracts
Citations and abstracts from journals and magazines from the U.S. and Great Britain since 1993 to the present, covering such subjects as anthropology, astronomy, biology, computers, earth sciences, medicine and health, and much more.
Identifying Books and Journals in the Library Collection
Materials owned by the library can be identified by using the Online Catalog on the library's web site. Rockhurst University is a member of the MOBIUS consortium consisting of 60 Missouri academic libraries. Books available in MOBIUS libraries can be requested by you and sent here for your use. Additional information about this is found on the Patron Initiated Borrowing Through the Online Catalog guide.
Periodicals (journals, newspapers and magazines) owned by the library can be identified by linking to the Periodical Holdings page on the library web site. On this page you will be directed to use the Periodicals Holdings List to see if we have a subscription to a title.
Understanding the Difference Between General Periodicals and Scholarly Journals
Criteria to determine how scholarly and trade journal articles differ from general interest articles in the field can be found on the Scholarly Journal, Trade Journal or Popular Magazine? research guide .
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