Review Articles

Review articles summarize current thinking on a given topic, and are rich in citations to original research. Medline and Biosis can both search just for review articles. A good review article can save you hours of database searching.

Annual review of physiology. (shelved by title)

also online: http://libproxy.uoregon.edu/login?url=http://physiol.annualreviews.org/

Handbook of Physiology QP 6 .H25

Many-volumed work compiled since 1959

Finding articles

Use a Database to find references to articles:

From the Databases and Indexes page, choose Biology or Exercise Science or choose from the alphabetical list.

Best databases for your assignment:

Biosis

BIOSIS covers original research reports and reviews in biological and biomedical areas.

Medline covers all areas of human biology and medicine. It is the world's largest biology database.

For help with determining Medical Subject Headings (MeSH terms), try the Mesh Browser

SportDiscus

Covers exercise science and sports. Especially strong for kinetics and mechanics.

Web of Science (aka: Science Citation Index)

This database will show you articles that cite any given article. Use keywords to find a relevant article, then find articles that have linked to it at a later date.

Academic Search Premier

This is a multi-disciplinary database that includes news and general-interest periodicals. Many of the articles are available from inside the database--even when UO does not subscribe to the title.

From inside each citation, you can click on the icon to see if we have an electronic copy. This window will appear:

Finding books and journals:

UO Library Catalog

Use the catalog to locate books by topic (subject or keyword), title or author. The catalog tells you which journals are owned by the UO Library and in what format (print and/or electronic).

Check the Summit catalog: http://summit.worldcat.org/

Interlibrary Loan is free to UO students.