Biology: Home

For students, I can:

• Recommend the best databases to search for your research topic
• Answer your questions via email, phone, Zoom, or in-person
• Meet with you individually to hash out your topic or discuss research strategies
• Tell you about library services

For faculty, I can:

• Track down tricky citations
• Do a quick literature review
• Introduce your students to research tools and strategies via a workshop
• Create a webpage tailored to your class assignment
• Discuss ways to best incorporate research skills and library materials into your class assignments
• Meet with your students individually
• Purchase books and other material needed for your research
• Tell you about library services
• Act as a liaison communicating the department's concerns and needs to library administration

This guide was created primarily for biology classes at UW Tacoma.  It will help you find:

• Background information in Getting Started
• Articles in major databases
• Books in the UW Libraries and beyond

It will help you identify types of scientific literature:

• Popular vs. Scholarly 
• Grey Literature 
• Peer Reviewed
• Primary v. Secondary

This guide also links to writing resources for the sciences

SET (Engineering & Technology)

SAM (Natural Sciences & Math)