Biological, Chemical, Forensic, and Analytical Sciences: Help with searching

• Phrasemarks ensure that you only find results where those words are together in that order e.g. “medicinal chemistry”
• An asterisk will search for any group of letters e.g. chemis* will find chemistry, chemists, chemist etc
• A question mark will search for one letter e.g. organi?ed will find organised and organized

• Guidance using Analytical Abstracts can be found on these web pages (you will need to have logged in to view)
• For a tutorial in how to use PubMed see these web pages or this brochure (PDF)
• The Science Direct help pages are here
• Training materials for Scifinder can be found on these web pages
• For help using Scopus see these web pages.
• For basic help with using TOXNET see these web pages.

For overviews of how to use Knovel for basic searching, as well as retrieving scientific data, see these online demonstrations.

Check out the Write Like a Scientist guide (including videos) on how to plan, research, structure and review your scientific research.  It was created by an Academic Skills Tutor in Applied Sciences. This YouTube navigation guide introduces the resource.