MICROM 496: Library Research

Finding and Managing the Literature

✽ Citation Manager - organize your references & article PDFs; when writing, easily format your references and generate your bibliography.

I'm happy to help you with things such as:

When off-campus, use library links to databases (including PubMed) and journals. You'll be prompted to log in with your UW NetID to gain access to UW subscriptions. Learn more here.
Consider setting up Husky OnNet for off-campus access.

In article databases, look for the "Check for Full Text" icon. You will be led either to the online version of the article or to a document request form. The library's document delivery service will send you a copy free of charge if it's not available online.
Customize PubMed to show UW full-text links by modifying settings in your My NCBI account.
Customize Google Scholar to show UW full-text links by modifying settings in your Google account.

WRITING SUPPORT

The Odegaard Writing & Research Center offers individual writing consultations to all interested students.
Appointments are held in the Odegaard Library, Allen Research Commons, and the Health Sciences Library.

Search Tool	Description	Example
AND	Retrieves items that contain both terms. Good for combining topics to narrow a search.	tuberculosis AND resistance
OR	Retrieves items that contain at least one of the terms. Good for combining synonyms.	antibacterial OR antibiotic
*	Retrieves word variants, such as resist, resistant, resistance	resist*
" "	Retrieves the exact phrase contained by the quotation marks.	"drug resistant"
( )	Tells search system how to combine terms and in which order. [Article needs to mention "tuberculosis" and EITHER the phrase "drug resistant" or the phrase "drug resistance".	tuberculosis AND ("drug resistant" OR "drug resistance")