A number of resources and strategies may be helpful for this project. These are just a few places to start your work. Be sure to ask a reference librarian for additional assistance; we're here to help!

Understanding medical terms will likely be an important part of your work. You may want to consult Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary or other online reference works available through Credo Reference, or other scientific dictionaries and encyclopedias in the library's reference collection; see the Q and R call number ranges.

Evaluating the resources you find is an essential part of the research process. See this guide to hints on evaluation of books and articles and this guide to evaluating Internet resources.

Finding News Information
Provides links to news on the web, to newspapers, news archives, and more.

Academic OneFile
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics. Includes full-text articles, many with images. 1980 - present; updated daily. Check the Magazines and News tabs for articles.

Academic Search Premier
Contains broad and specialized coverage of academic and general periodicals. One of many resources available from EBSCOhost, single Web source for multiple databases.

Lexis/Nexis Academic
A version of the Lexis Nexis database for academic users. Provides access to a wide range of periodicals and newspapers, and includes news, business, legal, and reference information.

Newspaper Source Plus
Provides indexing and selected full text for newspapers. Dates for backfiles vary by title. In addition, the database features more than 601,300 television and radio news transcripts, videos & podcasts.

Academic OneFile
Check the items listed on the Academic Journals tab.

Academic Search Premier
In this database you can use the form to the right of the results to limit to Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals

Biological Abstracts
Information from core life-science journals. One of the core sources of articles for biologists.

BioOne
Full-text collection of 36 "high-impact" bioscience journals. Browse or search. (Help)

Highwire Press
A repository of scholarly journals, Highwire is a product of Stanford University.

MEDLINE
"The premier database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine." An essential source.

Once you have a citation for an article on your topic, try using the button or Citation Linker to see if that particular article is available. If you don't find it, you can submit a request for interlibrary loan (ILL) of a copy of the article: ILL takes about 7-10 days, so plan ahead. See the library's Interlibrary Loan page for more information.

Of course, there are many more web resources available that might be useful in your research. You might want to try looking at sources that select the best of the Web, like these:

• Scout Report and the Scout Report Archives
• Infomine
• Librarian's Internet Index

It's important to think carefully about any information you find in any format, and to evaluate resources for their accuracy, applicability, and so forth. Evaluation of web resources is especially important. You may want to consult this guide to Evaluating Internet Resources. The library's Web Wise Guide to Searching give some helpful inside tips. You can often learn a lot about a page (and a site) by parsing the URL.

Academic Citation and Writing
Style manuals of the humanities, physical sciences, and the social sciences in the Seeley G. Mudd Library.

Citing Electronic Documents
This page provides guidance on citing electronic documents and links to other guides, some on specific styles of documentation.

Ref. = Reference collection, first floor
RRef.= Ready Reference, shelves behind the reference desk
Periodicals = Level A
GovDoc = U.S. Government Documents, second floor
Reference Indexes = Alphabetically arranged at the end of the reference collection
Microform Area = Reading room east of the reference desk, near microform drawers
q. = Oversized books: interfiled in reference and M class scores; at end of classes in other collections