About this Guide
This guide is for BIOL 1113 & 1123 students to learn basic research concepts:
- What peer review is and how to tell if an article is peer-reviewed.
- What a primary source and secondary source is and how to tell the difference.
- Where to search for articles that are relevant to your topic.
- How to search for articles in a database.
- How to access articles that you find in a database.
- How to identify the pieces of a citation.