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Home  »   Resources by Subject  »  Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics

Oxford has outstanding collections in Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics. This page gives you fast access to some key resources, which will lead to many others.

Libraries | Catalogues | Databases | Journals | Reference | Websites | Training

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Subject Librarian

Juliet Ralph

Life Sciences & Medicine Librarian, Radcliffe Science Library

• Tel: +44 (0)1865 2-72853
• e-mail: juliet.ralph@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Please contact for help or information on:

• Library services & resources
• Literature searching
• One-to-one or group training on e-resources such as subject databases and reference management
• Keeping up-to-date with developments in your field.

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Libraries

Principal collections:

• Radcliffe Science Library
• New books this month: a selection. Click on Search OLIS for availability.

Associated collections:

• Health Care Libraries

To make suggestions for purchase

Book

http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/libraries/recommendations [Opens in new window.]

E-resource (including journal or database)

http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/erc/proposals/new-proposal.html [Opens in new window.]

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Catalogues

• SOLO (Search Oxford Libraries Online): search for books, journals and other library resources.
• COPAC: the merged online catalogues of major University and National Libraries in the UK and Ireland, including the British Library.
• WorldCat: over 60 million items on the OCLC catalogue of books, web resources, and other material worldwide.

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Databases

Those below can also be accessed and cross-searched through OxLIP+, the complete list of Oxford's databases, online reference works, and e-journal and e-book packages.

Guides for many of these databases are available on the Bodleian Libraries' Database Guides. [Opens in new window.]

Searching the biomedical literature

• Scopus: covers 15,000 journals, plus web sources and patents across science & medicine. Includes major medical databases Medline (USA) and Embase (Europe).
• Web of Knowledge: platform for Web of Science (Science Citation Index, Conference Proceedings), Journal Citation Reports (impact factors), plus databases Medline & BIOSIS.
• PubMed: with links to Free Full Text & Oxford's licensed full text. 

Dissertations & theses

• Index to Theses: UK theses since 1716.
• Dissertations & Theses: master's and doctoral, from the USA and around the world, 1861 onwards.

Full-text databases

ScienceDirect: Elsevier's full-text platform offers over 2,000 journals plus reference works, handbooks and book series.

Reference management tools

Store useful references and create your own bibliography: RefWorks and EndNoteWeb are free to Oxford University members. Yale University have compiled a chart comparing EndNote, EndNote Web and RefWorks.

The Harvard System (author-date) is the most commonly-used style of referencing worldwide. Anglia Ruskin University did this guide to the Harvard System.

Keeping up to date: Table of Contents and search alerts

Set up email alerts or RSS feeds for automatic notification of new journal articles.

For search alerts (by topic): do a search on a database such as Scopus then choose Save as Alert to get notification of new articles on the subject.

eToCs: set up regular emails of Table of Contents. Why not try Zetoc: the British Library's alerting service for 20,000 current journals, or ScienceDirect, which hosts over 2,000 science & medical e-journals.

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Journals

Finding journals

• Oxford e-Journals: A-Z list of the University's subscriptions.

Annual Reviews

Each year, the series "Annual Review of ..." critically reviews the most significant primary research within the biomedical, physical, and social sciences; they are among the most highly cited in scientific literature.  Oxford has a comprehensive online collection available through Oxford e-Journals and OLIS.

• Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics
• Annual Review of Genetics
• Annual Review of Physiology

Quick links to highly-cited journals

More backfiles may be available via the e-Journals list.

• American Journal of Human Genetics
• Cell (and other Cell Press journals)
• Current Opinion in Genetics and Development
• Gene
• Journal of General Physiology
• Journal of Physiology
• Nature (and other NPG journals)
• PNAS
• Science
• Trends in Genetics

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Reference sources

Quick links

• Encyclopedia of Cancer by M. Schwab (2nd ed, 2009).
• Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics and Informatics
• Encyclopedia of Life Sciences: comprehensive and authoritative, written by leaders in the field.
• Handbook of Statistics: a series of self-contained reference books. Each volume is devoted to a particular topic in statistics.
• Henry Stewart Talks: lectures in Life & Biomedical sciences; over 650 audio slideshows by top researchers.
• Oxford Reference Online: quick reference collection including English & bilingual dictionaries, English grammar & thesaurus guides, plus subject dictionaries.

E-books

• Advances in Parasitology
• Fields Virology
• Methods in Enzymology
• NEW! Oxford Medical Handbooks online (12 titles from the series).

Free collections

• NAP: National Academies Press
• NCBI Bookshelf: a freely available collection of biomedical books hosted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). It includes a number of core texts on reading lists at Oxford. It is not normally possible to browse the whole book.

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Websites

• Intute: Medicine: a subject gateway to quality websites for education & research.
• Scirus: science specific internet search engine. Good coverage, currency and functionality.
• BUBL LINK: Human Physiology : Catalogue of Internet Resources
• BUBL LINK: Human Anatomy : Catalogue of Internet Resources
• BUBL LINK: Human Genetics : Catalogue of Internet Resources

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Training

• Individual help and group training available on request; contact your Subject Librarian Juliet Ralph
• WISER: Workshops in Information Skills and Electronic Resources – A termly programme of lunchtime sessions, open to all.
• Making the Most of the RSL: an introduction to the Radcliffe Science Library, offered every Monday and Thursday.
• Training & Workshops: links to all the Bodleian Libraries' courses.

Online tutorials

• Engage: the research process in bioscience, including getting started, reviewing the literature, planning your research, statistics, and writing up & presenting your research.
• Images on the internet: finding copyright-cleared digital images.
• Intute Virtual Training Suite: Medicine: improve your internet search skills and discover new resources.
• Medline tutorial - our guide to Subject Headings and other Advanced features of the OvidSP platform.
• PubMed tutorial: searching with MeSH Subject Headings.
• PubMed tutorial - key features plus hints and tips.
• Scopus tutorial - a database for science and medicine.
• Web of Science - bibliographic and citation searching.

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