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Use Biography Index: 1946- present.
LOCATED IN PERIODICAL INDEX AREA.
Be sure to look at "Index to Professions and Occupations" at back of each issue. Index lists magazine articles, reference book entries and books about person during the time period listed on the cover.
| Discover |
Nature |
| New Scientist |
JAMA: Journal of the AMA |
| Biology Digest |
New England of Medicine |
ISI Highly Cited
See which researchers have papers that have made important contributions to science based on the number of times their papers are cited by later researchers. Browse by category. The top 250 scientists cited between 1981 and 1999 are listed in each of these fields: Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Biology and Biochemistry, Immunology, Microbiology, Pharmacology, Agricultural Sciences, Plant and Animal Sciences, Clinical Medicine, Ecology and Environment. Click on a researcher's name and you will often find the following information: Biographical information: education, faculty and professional posts, memberships and/or offices, current research interests, and personal Web sites and Full listing of publications: journal articles, book or book chapters, conference proceedings, web sites and other Internet resources. Be sure to look at the right column Community News section for interviews.
http://www.isihighlycited.com
Also ESI Topics (see next for continuation after 1/2008): http://www.esi-topics.com/
ScienceWatch.com: http://www.sciencewatch.com/ Check left column for interviews, What's Hot In..., Special Topics and more.
Profiles from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
See an extract from an extensive biography of a newly elected member of the National Academy of Sciences. Not all of the nominees are biologists, however. Want the entire article? This journal is available at Benedictine University, North Central, Elmhurst and Wheaton Colleges or have it delivered to the library free by filling out an interlibrary loan request
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/collection/profiles
EurekAlert!
Index to research advances in science from the AAAS. See who's doing current research as reported in peer-reviewed journals and from research institutions. Note contact name.
http://www.eurekalert.org
Science Daily
Drawn mainly from press releases of science journals and organizations, check the tabs at the top for Health & Medicine, Mind & Brain, Plants & Animals.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/
Science aGoGo
Popularly-written summaries of interesting research from science journals and institution press releases. Sometimes you need to dig to see the names of the main researchers.
http://www.scienceagogo.com/
Click on Databases from anywhere in the Library web site. From Science > Biology, link to Academic OneFile or Academic Search Premier
Choose Advanced Search in these databases . Fill in the Keyword search lines with:
Name of biological area with truncation symbol (microbiolog* matches microbiology, microbiologist and microbiologists)
and biography
not obituary
Click on Library Catalog from anywhere within the Library web site
Do a SUBJECT search for name of prominent scientist (last name first)
Use Biography Index.
Click on "Databases" Choose Biography and Genealogy Master Index. (guide to reference work entries on people).
Other good databases:
Can limit to Full Text articles
Yahoo is an example of a human-indexed directory of the internet, along with search engine features http://www.yahoo.com
Look at lower left. Choose Science>Biology>Biologists or use Society> Environment and Nature>Environmentalists
Search engines, such as Google, or ask.com match key words via software programs called "robots" or "spiders". See links from Library Home Page. Most programs only require the entry of all terms wanted--it only returns pages that include all of your search terms. For a better search, use quotation marks ("....") around names of people you are searching for.
