Contents:

• Find books
• Find background information
• Find articles & essays
• Trace citations forward
• Key scholarly websites
• How to cite sources

Offcampus Access Databases A-Z Research Guides by Subject | by Course Reference Books Online Library Catalog

Wellesley College Library catalog
In addition to books, you will also find journals, videos, and more. Start with 'keyword' when you begin to research a topic. Then try a subject search with any newly acquired subject headings.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
Wellesley College faculty, students, and staff may use Interlibrary Loan and or other Document Delivery services to
borrow or obtain copies of materials not found in Wellesley's collection. See ILL's Frequently Asked Questions.

WorldCat
OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide - WorldCat Help

National Academies Press
At the National Academy Press web site, you can search more than 4,000 full-text books online for specific subject terms, in order to locate relevant chapters or book titles. Coverage includes subjects like physical and social sciences, materials science/engineering, environmental issues, and more.

PubMed Bookshelf. Recent e-searchable textbooks in neuroscience, medicine, and related areas.

Access Science, Online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.

Encyclopedia of Neuroscience - Comprehensive resource for all major areas of neuroscience - 2009.

Encyclopedia of the Human Brain - Anatomy, physiology, neuropsychology, clinical neurology, neuropharmacology, evolutionary biology, genetics, and behavioral science of the human brain.

Hormones, Brain, and Behavior. Science Reference qQP356.45 .H433 2002 - Effects of hormones on insects, fish, amphibians, birds, rodents, and humans.

CogNet: Electronic Reference Collection
Consists of ten full-text online reference books: The Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, The Cognitive Neurosciences III , The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks 2e, The Handbook of Multisensory Processes, The Visual Neurosciences Volumes 1-2, The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders, Handbook of Functional Neuroimaging of Cognition 2e, Status Epilepticus, Mechanisms and Management; and Principles and Practice of Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision 2e.
On-campus access / off-campus access (Search function may not work with off-campus access.)

Oxford Reference Online - Mega-search for more than one hundred dictionaries published by Oxford University Press.

Evolution of Nervous Systems - Describes the changes in brain and nervous system organization that have developed as organisms evolved.

Learning and Memory: a Comprehensive Treatise - Definitive work on the neurobiology, neurochemistry, and neuropsychology of learning and memory, at the molecular, cellular, organismal, and systems levels.

The Senses - Comprehensive review of the anatomy, physiology, and molecular biology of sensory organs.

The following databases provide either full-text articles or citations (information about when and where the article was published).
Once you have an article citation,

• Use the Find It! @ Wellesley link from each citation to reach the electronic or print version of the journal, or to perform a search for it in the Wellesley College Library Catalog.
• If Wellesley does not own the title, you can request the article via the link, 'We'll Get It for You' (Interlibrary Loan).

 

General databases

Academic Search Complete
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles.

InfoTrac OneFile (Gale-Cengage)
Great starting point for scholarly & popular articles in every discipline.

FindArticles (via LookSmart)
Search and read 2.8 million articles from over 500 publications. Some content is free, but comes along with advertisements.

Google Scholar. Multidisciplinary coverage of peer-reviewed literature— journal articles, theses, books, preprints, and more. Complements searches in other databases. Advanced Scholar Search Tips.

 

Scientific databases

CSA Neurosciences Abstracts · All aspects of vertebrate and invertebrate neuroscience, emphasizing experimental research but also encompassing neural diseases · Coverage from 1982 to the present · Database Contents · Quick Reference Card.

Web of Science, also known as Science Citation Index Expanded - Interdisciplinary subject searching of scholarly articles in the physical, life, and social sciences. Also can search for articles that cite known journal articles or books. Physical and life sciences coverage from 1900 to present. Help/Table of Contents · Help/Index · When you finish your search session, it is important to logout before exiting the browser.

PsycINFO (APA via EBSCO)
Contains more than two million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, in all fields of psychology, including neuropsychology - Worldwide coverage, from the 1887 to present. For help finding relevant search terms for your topic, consult the Thesaurus of Psychological Indexing Terms in PsycINFO (paper copy at: Science Ref q Z695.1.P7 T48 2001 ) · Finding and Requesting Dissertations.

PubMed (NLM) Citations/abstracts, in all fields of medicine and biomedicine. Coverage: 1950's onward - PubMed Basics brochure.

Science Direct - Search for articles from more than 2,000 electronic journals, often from volume one; subscribed online articles (= green icons) for hundreds of subscribed journals in the physical, life, and social sciences and published from 1995 to the present. Help pages.

Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information from multiple U.S. government agencies.

 

Full text journal collections

Annual Reviews Electronic Collection - Scholarly critical reviews of research in the sciences. All series through 2003; selected series from 2004 to the present.

JSTOR - Electronic archive (back to first volume) of selected online journals, but always several years behind the current year/volume.

Science Direct - Browse online articles (= green icons) from hundreds of subscribed journals in the physical, life, and social sciences published from 1995 to the present · Help pages.

Scitopia.org - Free, federated search portal with access to approximately three million articles and occasional patents from scholarly scientific societies.

For help developing search strategies, or using other features, in any of these (or other) databases, contact Neil Nero or AskUs.

Trace a seminal author and/or a specific citation forward in time. For example, learn more about specific Rett Syndrome studies on rodents, or about factors that affect neurogenesis in certain crustaceans.

• Perform a 'Cited Reference Search' in the Web of Science for citations from 1900 (or from the time of the original citation) to the present.
• Follow the link, 'Times Cited in This Database,' to newer records that cite your starting reference, in the PsycINFO database from the late 1980's forward. To learn more, click here.
• Run a citation search in Google Scholar.
• Use the 'Get Related' button for citation searching in SciFinder Scholar from the 1990's onward.

If you would like to work with a Science Librarian as you start to perform citation searches, please contact Neil Nero.

Introductions

MEDLINEplus (U.S. National Library of Medicine) offers two sets of neuroscience pathfinders, with links to articles from reputable sources.

 

 

Brain and Nervous Sysem
Brain Diseases

 

Brain Briefings. Short, nontechnical summaries of brain growth/development mechanisms, and disorders/deseases.
BrainInfo identifies brain structures, either by the structural name or by its location in the primate brain.
Dana BrainWeb. Briief capsules on nervous system development and diseases.

Timelines

History of the Brain (U.S. Public Broadcasting Service)
Milestones in Neuroscience Research

Selected areas of neuroscience

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Neuropsychology Central
The Whole Brain Atlas (Harvard)

Societies and associations

Society for Neuroscience
American Psychological Association

Scholarly Societies Project: Neurosciences & Psychiatry - International / national listing of scientific organizations supporting the neurosciences or closely related fields - Criteria for inclusion on list.

Comprehensive Sources

Neurosciences on the Net (Neil Busis, M.D.)
Neuroscience (Biosciences), a component of the World-Wide Web Virtual Library.

On a Lighter Note

Visual Illusions, from Michael Bach, a vision scientist, provides fascinating commentary and source for more than fifty illusions.
Mind Illusions, from PBS, the United States Public Broadcasting Service web site.
Brain and Behavior where you can learn about blindsight, blind spots, and more. A set of interactive exhibits and multimedia developed at Bryn Mawr.

APA Style Electronic References
Chicago Manual of Style (author-date style) -online - in print.
Documenting Sources: CSE Style for Biology and Other Sciences (Research and Documentation Online) - CSE was formerly known as CBE Style.
Publication manual of the American Psychological Association APA standard format,5th edition. - Science Reference & Clapp Reference BF76.7 .P83 2001
A Short Guide to Writing About Biology. 5th edition. Science Reserve QH304 .P43 2007

Wellesley College Library • WCIS • Neil Nero • last modified: September 4, 2009