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BIOL& 211: Majors Cellular Biology: Protein Selection

Protein Selection

For this assignment, you will be using the NCBI Taxonomy Browser and Scholarly Journal articles to learn more about your organism. Choose the tab for your organism below to see the NCBI Taxonomy page. To find additional scholarly journal sources about your chosen protein, use the library databases and Google Scholar. Put the name of your protein in as your search term. If using the library's databases, make sure to choose the Full-Text filter (not available in ScienceDirect).

NCBI Taxonomy

Search for Additional Scholarly Journal Articles

These library databases include scholarly journal articles. Use the filters to limit by source type. Have questions about using the database? Get live chat help from a librarian 24/7.

Google Scholar Search

Google Scholar Search

Set-up Google Scholar to link to Edmonds Library subscriptions

  1. Go to Google Scholar search page
  2. Click on the three lines in the upper left
  3. Click on Settings, then Library Links
  4. Search for Edmonds, then click the check box for "Edmonds College - View it @ Edmonds College"
  5. Click Save
  6. If you are logged into Chrome, this setting will be saved. If not, you can do it just for one session.

Getting articles that aren't full-text:

  1. If there are no PDF, HTML, or Edmonds links on the right, click the title of the article
  2. This will take you to the publisher's website, where the article may or may not be free
  3. If they are asking for money for the article, don't pay!
  4. Try searching the title of the article (not the journal) in quotation marks in Google (not Google Scholar). Believe it or not, this will produce a different set of results and can sometimes lead to full text.
  5. If those strategies do not work, request the article through InterLibrary Loan or email the article title to Haley and she will order the article for you.