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Arizona Libraries Link

UA electronic journals (also accessible via UA homepage => (UA Students area) Main Library => (Search and Find area) => Locate E-Journals
How to use UA electronic journals (instructional vid)

Anatomy of a citation

Maitland Paper for Assessor exercise 'Papers and Parasites'

ISI Web of Knowledge (accessible on-campus only)

Writing assistance
U of A Writing Center
Appointments for 30 minute one-on-one sessions to assist you

Web handout on a variety of common problems/usage rules

UA library's writing resources

A nice piece on scientific writing from Lewis & Clark College

Plagiarism from UA's site
UNC's helpful text on plagiarism

Semester Project Rubric (Your instructor may have their own expectations! Be clear whether they wish you to work from this or not)
Semester Project Rubric (as webpage as Word doc)

Journals (these are recommended as 'browsable' for articles that would be accessible and might provide inspiration for end-of-semester Group Project)
Animal behavior
BioScience
Ecology
Frontiers in Biology
Science News
Scientific American

JSTOR: Downloadable journal articles (only works from on campus computers)

Websites
Ecological Society of America (ESA)

the Tree of Life

Google Scholar Enter your seach topic just as in Google
NCBI (BLAST, PubMed, sequence searching and comparison)
BLAST tutorial on-line (not required, but if you want to learn, give it a try!)

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