Library Guides: Biochemistry 2484 HW: Library guide for Macromolecular techniques laboratory: Articles

MEDLINE (Ovid)
MEDLINE contains citations and abstracts to worldwide biomedical literature including research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and healthcare services.
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Date Coverage: 1966-date.
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Tutorial: http://www.screencast.com/users/lottes/folders/Jing/media/a7a0252d-37e8-4b6e-8d59-29f60369ada3
PubMed
The National Library of Medicine's free article search engine, containing article references from MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, plus publisher-supplied and out-of-scope citations from science and chemistry journals.

Medline tutorial
Take this short tutorial to learn how to use Medline to find articles on a topic.

A research article in a journal normally has the following sections:

Title--simple summary of the main idea of the paper
Name of authors(s) and institutional affiliation
Abstract--brief summary of the article
Literature/Introduction--discusses prior research and states the study's purpose, rationale and hypothesis
Methods--detailed description of how study was conducted
Results--summary of data collected and statistical treatment of data
Discussion--reviews, interprets and evaluates results of the study particularly with respect to the original hypothesis
Conclusion
References--literature cited