Biology Research Resources: Peer Reviewed and PR by Jon Hoekstra

PEER REVIEWED: PubMed

jon_hoekstra — 2015-03-12 02:54:44 UTC

Database that helps you find peer-reviewed journal articles, many of them available in full text for free. If not, try searching the title and author using Google Scholar (also linked on this page). This will often allow you to find a free PDF of the whole article.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

PEER REVIEWED: Google Scholar

jon_hoekstra — 2015-03-18 23:24:48 UTC

A mixed bag. Best used in conjunction with PubMed. Will turn up some low-quality results from fake or obscure journals. But used carefully, can provide access to lots of quality journal articles. If you search the article title directly, Google Scholar can often can help you get full text (PDF) of an article that is otherwise available only as an abstract.

http://scholar.google.com/

PEER REVIEWED: Trip Database

jon_hoekstra — 2015-03-19 00:25:41 UTC

Unique database provides good health-related journal articles focusing on studies that evaluate the effectiveness of medical treatments.

http://www.tripdatabase.com/

PRESS RELEASES: Science Daily

jon_hoekstra — 2015-03-18 23:15:14 UTC

A huge searchable collection of press releases. Remember, these provide only positive "spin" on research reports, and are written by the Universities or Institutes that employ the scientists. They give you a summary of the research but are NOT the same as the actual peer-reviewed journal articles where details of research are reported!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/

OTHER TYPES OF RESOURCES

jon_hoekstra — 2016-03-14 03:16:21 UTC

For other resource types, try these padlets!

Journalism: http://padlet.com/jon_hoekstra/sources

http://padlet.com/jon_hoekstra/factsheets

Share 2 Learn: http://padlet.com/jon_hoekstra/BioResources