While going through some of the reference lists of Dr. Medina's publications, I attempted to explore the other kinds of materials that were referenced along with journals. But lets first briefly talk about what kinds of journals she's using. As was suggested in lecture, Science and Nature tend to be among the most cited journals, followed by quite few discipline and sub-discipline specific journals. I found that my hunch was correct in finding many of the same journal titles that she has published in were also in her reference lists. Now lets get back to the topic at hand. What about the monographs and other resources?
Here some of the monograph titles (The titles were double checked through yahoo.com to make sure they were actually monographs. Surprisingly a few are available at Target.com. I thought this was interesting but will definitely store that in the back of my mind, just in case.)
-Veterinary Epidemiology, Principles and Methods
-Medical Microbiology, 4th edn
-Algae
-Dinoflagellates
-Corals of the World
-Corals in Space and Time: Biogeography and Evolution of the Scleractinia
-The Cnidarians and Their Evolution
-Progress in Cell Research: Symposium on Thirty Years of Progress in Mitochondrial Bioenergetics and Molecular Biology
-Phytophthora Diseases Worldwide
-Coelenterate ecology and behavior
-Multicellular animals:Anew approach to the phylogenetic order in nature
In addition to these, there are other types of resources that Dr. Medina uses. Some are:
-PAUP*: Phylogenetic Analysis Using Parsimony (and Other Methods)
-Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology
-maanova: a software package for the analysis of spotted cDNA microarray experiments. In: The Analysis of Gene Expression Data Methods and Software
-J/MAANOVA User Manual
This sampling shows a bit of the diversity of material formats that scientists, like any other researcher, need to conduct their projects. It shows that not everything can be found in journal articles and proves that books still have great value in the realm of research.
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Using monographs that are available from Target....is that academically sound?! but then again, I dont' think that I've ever looked at Target.com for resources so I'm not really sure of what is there. On a positive note, availablitity like that could possibly make the research more understandable if the references are so easily found.
ReplyDeleteI think what Clare meant is that Target just happens to sell copies. Clare?
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