Megan Van Noord
Researcher Services
Health Sciences Librarian
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by Megan Van Noord, Amy Studer, Nicole Capdarest-Arest, Bruce Abbott – August 9, 2020
Intended for students and researchers engaged in translational research at UC Davis, this guide highlights important literature resources, including methods, protocols, journal article databases, and reference materials.
Methods in Enzymology is the classic laboratory methods/protocols book series. The complete backfile of the full-text is available back to volume 1 from 1955. As of 2017, videos are selectively being added to accompany the written methods. Direct article/chapter links are provided from core subject databases such as PubMed and BIOSIS Previews. Contains detailed protocols and descriptions of biochemical and biophysical techniques for research in biological and molecular sciences. More than 500 volumes are browse-able by individual volumes online from 1955 to the present or by searching across the collection by title, author, abstract, and keyword. Full-text access to articles is available in HTML and PDF formats.
A rapidly growing collection of peer-reviewed, life science protocols organized by 11 different fields of study and 10 different organisms. Protocols are organized chronologically with a detailed guide on how to reproduce a given experiment. Each protocol also contains an interactive and moderated Q & A section to facilitate open communication between protocol authors and the research community.
A website for creating, organizing, and publishing reproducible research protocols.
UC Davis researchers have access to free premium accounts.
Optical Society of America digital publications on optics research, including journals and proceedings papers.
Please search the library catalog to identify more reference resources, such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks, on a variety of specific biomedical science topics.
Consult the Health Sciences eBooks Guide for library catalog search tips and to browse a list of UCD Library-licensed Health Sciences eBook collections.