+ Master of Biotechnology: Using scholarly, professional and market intelligence sources Tuesday, September 17, 2013. 2-4 PM. Joanna Szurmak science librarian at UTML j [email protected]Andrew Graham acting director of the Lee Kun Chun Financial Learning Centre at UTML a [email protected]
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Master of Biotechnology:Using scholarly, professional and market intelligence sources
Identify and give practical examples of the ways in which a biotech researcher can acquire useful intelligence about an industry, company or field / idea using the following sources:
1. published research in scholarly journals & conference proceedings;
2. company and association websites;
3. patents; and
4. company financial information and other corporate disclosure and market analysis sources.
You find sources here
First delay: no fixed duration
Second delay:Peer
review (3-8
m.) & pub (2-3 m.)
You find sources
here
+Scholarly Publishing Limitations
How fresh is your intel now?
Scholarly publication cycle delays publication by months or years.
Not all useful "intelligence" will be published in scholarly journals.
+Identifying and finding journals
Databases aggregate article abstracts: great starting points.
To begin a new search in any field, always find review articles.
Many places to get help: Bioinformatics Guide
Which databases to use, and were are they? (Answer: Biotech page) Web of Knowledge (ISI / Thomson Reuters). Journal Citation Reports (JCR) in Web of Knowledge. Scopus. PubMed / MEDLINE. Specialized drug or biomed databases:
Purpose of citing: “I don’t want to get caught plagiarizing and
have an aademic offence!” OK, but that’s a selfish motive.
“I want those who read my work, including my future self, to find the source quickly and effectively.” A better selfish motive!
Mechanics of citing: first citation vs. subsequent citations.
+More Mechanics of Using Scholarly Sources
When you cite from a research article, do not cite from the lit review. That’s NOT (usually) the original contribution of the paper.
Use the introduction / lit review to find other primary sources of interest.
Cite the MAIN RESULT from Results and / or Discussion.
Always scan the References / Sources Cited at the end of the paper. Free research on your topic!
Example: A Review Article
Czinn, S.J., & Blanchard, T. Nat. Rev. Gastroenterol. Hepatol. 8 , 133–140 (2011); published online 8 February 2011; doi:10.1038/nrgastro.2011.1
Depending on your citation style, you may need to write out all the authors’ names in the list of references. (APA Style requires full names for up to seven authors).
Don’t base your formatting of that of the journal you see without checking what style the journal follows officially.
+Outside Scholarly Publishing: Conference Proceedings and Association Websites
Many professional associations archive their conferences.
There is a quick guide to finding conference proceedings, and a more comprehensive set of resources.
Conference proceedings feature presentations or presentation-based articles: Edited but non-peer-reviewed (most of the time); More up-to-date research results; Faster turn-around of ideas than peer-reviewed articles.
Grey literature is published and produced by governments, organizations, foundations, but is not well indexed or archived. It becomes increasingly hard to find grey literature sources as time passes. Some conference proceedings become grey if not
archived online. Pamphlets and drug info sheets are examples of
grey lit.
When to use personal communication? Only when no published sources exist. (Last
+Patents as sources of informationPatents are a useful way to get a summary of known information on a device / process / preparation. They have a research/lit review section.
We will take a quick look at searching for US patents, NOT an in-depth analysis of what patents are.
Mindy Thuna produced a comprehensive guide to patent literature.