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Citing Information Tutorial

Create citations in the right format using this web form.

Use this web-based tool to manage the citations for your research projects.

Plagiarism
A handout from the UNC Writing Center that defines plagiarism and explains how to avoid it.

UNC Honor System

BIOSIS Previews
BIOSIS Previews is a comprehensive biological sciences index. It provides approximately 13 million records from nearly 5,000 life sciences journals and non-journal literature, including conferences, meetings, symposia, review articles, U.S. patents, books, book chapters, and software reviews.
BIOSIS Previews Help
BIOSIS Previews Tutorial

Zoological Record
Zoology Record is the most in-depth index to research dealing with animals in their natural environments.
Zoological Record Help
Zoological Record Tutorial

ISI Citation Databases (Web of Science)
The Web of Science is an multidisciplinary index that covers all the sciences. It includes the ability to search using the citations contained within articles.
Web of Science Help
Web of Science Tutorial

PubMed
Includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
PubMed Help
PubMed Tutorial
PubMed Basics (.pdf file)

Faculty of 1000
Reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of well over 1000 selected leading researchers.

 Example of an academic journal article (click on the pdf to view)

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AccessScience
An online encyclopedia of science plus news, images, and study guides.

Today's Science
Science in the headlines, suggestions of research topics, and more.

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
An online encyclopedia containing over 3,000 peer-reviewed articles by leading scientists.

Introduction to Library Research

Writing Center Handouts
Tips to get you started and help along the way in the writing process.

Evaluating Information