NSC 495-Researching your topic in Human Biology: Scholarly Sources--Books

Use the electronic books and texts on this page to familiarize yourself with your topic.  You will be able to cite reliable, respected resources for general information as well as specialized information for physicians related to diseases and treatments.  Citing some of these sources rather than just Web sites lends more credibility to your paper. 

Biology Review Source

• Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
• Review articles on all areas of biology, including genetics, physiology, cell biology, etc. 

Medical Textbook Source

• Access Medicine
• A collection of the latest editions of respected medical textbooks that you can search all at once.  These will focus on the clinical aspects of a topic including diagnosis and treatment, as well as underlying physiology.  Be sure to note which textbook you got information from so that you can cite it correctly.

MSU Online Catalog

Search the catalog for other scholarly books and electronic books.  

Example searches (put keywords or two-word phrases together using the word AND):

colon cancer and genetics

For your grant proposal, some statistics might be required or useful.  MSU Libraries has a guide for Finding Health Statistics and Data which points to sources for that kind of information.