1. Cell Biology and Genetics
Information Skills for Poster Assignment

2. Cell Biology and genetics
Assignment Overview
Choose a sub-topic of one of the following:
Cell Division
Cell Metabolism
Cell Signaling
Cell Motility
Find 5-6 Research Articles (and then read them )
Published in 2013
From the 11 journals
Choose one article to focus on
Find other academic literature to support and explain the journal article
Cell Biology and genetics

3. Journal list

4. Cell biology and genetics
Academic Literature
What is a Research Article?
A person’s or groups original research. They are often divided into the following sections:
Abstract
Introduction
Method
Results
Discussion & Conclusion
In general journal articles are very specific and hard to understand. You will probably need other literature to understand them.
Review Articles
Books
Encyclopaedias
Cell biology and genetics

5. Cell biology and genetics
Finding Research Articles
Log into database: Web of Science Core Collection
Choose a topic and the search terms
Search Terms:
Truncation (*)
For example: genetic*= genetic, genetics, genetical, genetically
Phrase: e.g. “stem cell”
Boolean Operators (AND / NOT / OR)
Narrow results by Date, Research Articles and Relevance
Download research papers
Cell biology and genetics

6. Cell biology and genetics
Topics & Search Terms
1. Cell Signaling
Cell Signal* AND Kinase*
2. Cell Division
Cell Division
Cell Division AND “Stem Cell”
Meiosis
3. Cell Metabolism
cell metaboli* AND protein
cell metaboli* AND (cancer OR tumor OR tumour)
4. Cell Motility
(cell motility or cell movement ) and (actin filament* or microfilament*)
(cell motility or cell movement ) and microtubule* 
Cell biology and genetics

7. Journal list
journal of cell biology OR journal of cell science OR cell biology international OR european journal of cell biology OR plant cell OR gene OR microbiology OR cell OR cell calcium OR cell biochemistry and biophysics OR developmental cell
Connect journal titles with OR if search in Web of Science Core Collection

8. Web of Science Core Collection
Search articles at once from all required journals
Video

9. FIND DATABASE TOOL
Log into Web of Science Core Collection

10. Web of Science core collection
Search articles on a topic from 11 journals that published in 2012
Step2: type in search terms for your topic
Step5
Step3: type in journal titles
Note: Connect each journal name with OR,
remove “The” from The journal of cell biology
Step1: Add Another Field
Step4: choose a specific year, e.g for a timespan

11. Web of Science core collection
Refine results for Research Articles
Step1: Sort by Relevance or Times Cited
Step2: Tick ARTICLE, then click Refine
More options:
Refine results to an individual journal articles

12. Web of science core collection
Citing articles, Cited References and Related Records will help you understand this article
Go through an article
Click on Full Text, then SFX to get access to article full text

13. SFX
Access to Full text

14. Full Text
Read article in journal website

15. Cell biology and genetics
Finding supporting literature
Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias
Henderson's dictionary of biology
Access Science
Books
Catalogue keyword search and Subject (91161) resources search
Medicine & BioSciences Study Guide
Search review articles in Web of Science
Remove date range and specific journals
Additional keywords from your article
Refine the results to the review articles
Related articles and Cited references / Citing articles from your article
Cell biology and genetics

16. WEB OF SCIENCE
Search Review Articles on your topic

17. WEB OF SCIENCE
Refine the results for review articles

18. WEB OF SCIENCE
Go through review articles

19. Catalogue Search for an individual journal Video:

20. CATALOUGE SEARCH Finding an individual journal
Type a journal title in, then Search

21. CATALOGUE SEARCH Click on the journal title you are looking for.

22. CATALOGUE SEARCH Log into journal
Click on Elsevier SD, log into Cell webpage

23. JOURNAL WEBPAGE Browse articles by Volume(Year)
Using Advance Search for subject articles
Browse articles by Volume(Year)

24. JOURNAL WEBPAGE Advance Search Step1: Choose Journals search module
Step2: Type search query in search box and choose Abstract, Title, Keywords for search field
Step3: Type journal title in and select Journal Title for search field
Step4:Select Article for document type
Step5: Choose Date Range, e.g to 2010
Step 6: Click on Search

25. JOURNAL WEBPAGE Limit results to the journal you need
Step1: Tick the box next to Cell under Journal/Book Title
Step2: Click on Limit to

26. Online Tutorial Youtube
Cell Biology - Finding articles using a database
 Cell Biology - Searching a single journal to find articles