Useful
links
Useful
links
Biochemistry/MCB 568 -- Fall 2007
John W. Little--University of ArizonaBioc/MCB568 Home Page
Note: The following two links are to electronic subscriptions held by the University of Arizona library system. Most or all of them are only accessible from computers at the University. There are ways of establishing accounts that allow access from off-campus computers. The Science library list has a link on its first page. I'm not sure how it works for the AHSL list but I think it is described when you click on particular journals in the list.
Science library list--many journals related to biochemistry and molecular biology
Arizona Health Sciences Library list -- journals more related to medicine; much overlap with the above, and many useful journals not in the Science Library list.
In almost all cases, you can download the article for viewing on your own computer, and for printing it out. To do this, you need Acrobat Reader; when you download an article in "PDF" format, it gives you a link to download Acrobat Reader if you don't have it already.
In some cases, you can save the PDF file; how you do so seems to vary with the journal and how your computer and browser are configured. One common way is that the PDF file has a name like 1641.pdf. In Windows you can look in the c:\Windows\temp folder for this file, and save a copy of it somewhere else. On some computers you are prompted to save the file if you hold down the Shift key while clicking on the link. It may also depend on how your browser is configured. I don't know how it works on the Mac.
You usually can also save figures from the papers. In the few cases I've done this, I did so not by downloading a PDF file but downloading the text of the paper; then clicking on the figures, and using the SaveAs feature of the browser.
PubMed allows searches of over 14 million journal articles listed in MEDLINE, a database at the National Library of Medicine. This will pick up almost any paper relevant to biochemistry and molecular biology. In many cases, when you link to a particular paper there is a further link to the journal, and clicking on it will lead you to places where you can download the paper as above.
Science Citation Index allows you to find all the papers that have cited a particular paper. If you are interested in how the work described in a particular paper has developed later, this is a good place to start. SCI is accessible only from University computers.
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