*Biology   Tags: biology  

Welcome to the FSU Libraries Guide pages! The Biological Sciences page gives you links to key resources to help you start searching for information in the Biological Sciences.

BIOSIS Previews

Biolgocial Sciences

Web of Science

For other resources to articles, conferences and books in the biological sciences, please see under the Articles tab.

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics  

Nature protocols

EMDS users guide (version 2.0) : knowledge-based decision support for ecological assessment

The following are some helpful links to help us avoid intellectual thievery--even the more insidiuous, unintentional kinds.

How Faculty Can Discourage the Pitfalls of Plagiarism:

We found the suggestions provided by a recent ProfHacker article by Amy Cavender helpful.

http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Preventing-Plagiarism/24695/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en (taken from the Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus dated 6/11/2010)

Online Tutorials for Students:

We really like this one from USF:  http://www.cte.usf.edu/plagiarism/plag.html

Also, check out:  University of California San Diego who provide a tutorial called:  "Preventing Plagiarism: Keepin' It Real": 

http://libraries.ucsd.edu/locations/sshl/guides/preventing-plagiarism/index.html

For FSU Guidelines:

http://guides.lib.fsu.edu/plagiarism

This guide was originally created by Sharon Schwerzel (2009).