Resource of the Week

BioOne

BioOne is a collaborative effort among scientific societies, libraries, the commercial sector, and academe to provide online access to high-impact journals in biology, ecology, and environmental sciences. Most of the content is published by small societies and non-commercial publishers and hasn't previously been available electronically. It now has 87 journals available, with coverage for most journals from the year 2000 forward. It is possible to browse individual titles or search all of the journals at once.

Search tips:

  • The search engine automatically determines a word's stem and uses it to make searches more inclusive and faster. Thus, different queries that contain the same stem give the same results-for example, searches for figure, figures, figured, and figuring have the same results as a search for figur.

  • Two wildcard characters are available-the question mark (?) and the asterisk (*). The "?" stands for any character and may appear anywhere in the search string except at the start of a word. The "*" stands for zero or more characters and must appear at the end of a word. No word used in a query may start with a wildcard. Wildcards do not work inside phrases enclosed in quotation marks.

    b?nd finds bond, bend, band, and bind, as well as their plurals and "-ing" forms (because of stemming; see above)
    19?? finds numbers from 1900 to 1999, as well as 19th
    ana* finds anacoluthon, analogy, anaphora, and so on
    *ism (fails because it begins with a wildcard)
    verse ? (fails because the second "word" begins with a wildcard)
    "inter* studies" (fails because the wildcard is used in a phrase enclosed in quotation marks)

  • Phrases to be treated as single search items must be entered in double quotation marks.

    "modern poetry" finds articles in which the two words appear as a phrase
    modern poetry
    finds articles that contain both words, apart or together

    Certain common words, such as "the," "and," "or," and "in," are ignored whether enclosed in quotation marks or not.

    Where is it:

    Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Journal Articles tab, click on A-Z list of databases and then on the letter B and select BioOne.

    Quick link:

    http://ezproxy.library.unlv.edu/login?url=http://www.bioone.org

    • By
    Shelley Heaton
    on July 29, 2009 3:19 PM     |
     

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