Biology 275 INTRODUCTION TO PLANT DEVELOPMENT
 
Guidelines for the third minireport
 
Purpose: To give you experience in using the new electronic resources and databases to answer your questions related to this course. This exercise is designed to be an outreach from the classroom into the real world to answer your questions.
 
Information sources: You will need to search the databases titled Biosis, Agricola, Citation Index and Current Contents (CCAR) and also the WorldWide Web (WWW).
 
Biosis and Current Contents can be accessed through the UM Library gateway, Mirlyn, which can be accessed indirectly through the Library web pages or directly through:
http://webz.lib.umich.edu:80/
Then, go to :
1) Index databases
2) Sciences, Technology, Math and
3) BIOL or CCAR
 

 

Citation Index: http://webofscience.com/
Agricola: http://jake.prod.oclc.org:3059/dbname=AGRICOLA;FSIP
 
WWW: Use your favorite search engine, e.g., Yahoo, Lycos, Excite, etc. on Netscape or other web browser program.
 
And/or you can start with one of the important plant sites that provides a wide variety of links to other useful plant sites.
http://www.botany.org/bsa/
http://www.botany.org/bsa/www-bot.html
http://plants.usda.gov/plantproj/plants/index.html
 
Other sites will turn up as you search the WWW. There are numerous sites maintained
by individuals, but these tend to come and go, so they are not listed here.
 
Report Format:
YOUR QUESTION (in one sentence)a clear, concise statement is needed here (10%).
 
RESULTS (30%) show your key word (or words)s and search results in tabular form, e.g.,

 

 

 Database/program used  key word

 # of responses
  00  
 Biosis  florigen

     270 responses

 Agricola  florigen

050 responses
 Current Contents  florigen

    020 responses

 Citation Index  florigen

     180 responses

 WWW(Yahoo)  florigen

    012 responses

 WWW(Etc.)  florigen

 016 responses