Thanks, the Google Scholar way worked, (only after typing in only the surnames of the authors and the year 1999).

Hi

When I read a scientific article, sometimes at the end where the references are listed, the titles of the references are missing. How am I supposed to find these?

For example what's the title of this reference:

G. Appel, K. Bolton, B. Freedman, J.P. Wuerth, K. Cartwright, J. Am. Soc. Nephrol. 10 (1999) 153A.

?

Thanks, Ady.

Hi

I am not a student any more, so I've lost my "Athens" pass for scientific online journals.
I don't work in a university (my job's completely unrelated to science).
I wanted to ask you girls/guys what would be a good deal for having access to online journals (maybe in a similar way as the Athens access I used to have).
I am not rich at the moment, so I have to look for a cheap deal.
Any suggestions?
Thanks

BTW my favourite source if it makes a difference used to be Sciencedirect.

Hi
I'm preparing my CV and on top of it I want to write a short description of myself, that just says my area of "expertise" and what job I'm looking for.
Would it sound stupid to have something like this:
"Specialist in mathematics"
i.e. is it unscientific or something to call oneself a "specialist"?

Thanks for your reply.
So if I understand correctly, the copyright belongs to the writers, and only transfers to the journal IF the article gets published.

Thanks for your reply.
So if I understand correctly, the copyright belongs to the writers, and only transfers to the journal IF the article gets published.

Hi.
I have a question.
Say that I write up an article, and then I am interested in publishing it on a journal, and I want to send it to a journal to let them read it and decide if they want to use it.
How do I know they won't just "steal" it? (OK maybe they won't do it in an obvious way, maybe they just steal the idea, etc).

So, mainly my question is:
Can I copyright my work that I am about to send them? Because I heard that the copyright of published articles belongs to the journal, not the writers.

Thanks.

Hi
Thanks a lot for your replies.
As you suggest, I will volunteer to projects to enrich my work experience, and I will find the relevant parts of my "unrelated" jobs and write about them (team working, organisationm etc).

Another question I have:
Could I enter in the "Work Experience" section any practical projects I had in my BSc and MSc courses?
For example my final year MSc project, which was lab-related after all?

Hello everyone.

I studied MSc pharmacology.

Now I want to prepare my CV nicely so I can use it to apply to various jobs and maybe to PhD positions.

The thing is that I have no related work experience. I worked a lot in my life, but only in completely unrelated -to pharmacology- jobs. So I don't want to mention these jobs (for example I don't want to say that I used to paint houses). So my question is, would it seem even worse to show no "work experience" at all on my CV?

Hi girls and guys.
Thanks very much for your answers, they are most helpful and encouraging.
:-)
Bye.

Hi

I am doing MSc in pharmacology finishing this August and I have in mind to do PhD some day.
The ideal for me would be to take some time off after i finish MSc, maybe a year, to work and make some money. And after that year, to try to get into PhD.

But I was wondering whether this "year off" scenario would be disadvantageous when I later try to find a PhD position, because of how it will look on my CV. On the other hand what if during this "year off" I find a job that is related to pharmacology? Would that make my CV better for finding PhD? Or will it still be bad?

I wanted to ask here you guys.
Thanks.

How can you visualise BrdU (bromodeoxyuridine)-positive nuclei by using DAB (diaminobenzidine) ?
I know that you can do this by adding a primary Ab against BrdU, then a secondary Ab congugated with horseadish peroxide (HRP), and then adding DAB with hydrogen peroxide, so that in the presence of the HRP the DAB will stain brown.
Is there a way of doing it without using HRP?

I am trying to understand a study and the only thing I'm stuck on is that part. The reason is that they do not say anything about HRP, though they do say about adding primary and secondary Abs and DAB with H2O2.

Should I assume that they used HRP or could they have used a different method?

Please help me. Thanks.

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In case this might help other people as well:
With the help of what people suggested here I came to the following conclusion:

Most bioscience search-engines/databases on the web are restricted in their range of articles they can locate.
The most general/comprehensive ones that I have found are Pubmed (or one can use Hubmed or Gopubmed instead, which are a little bit different in their search properties but detect the same things) and Google Scholar, which is rather new but I have found to be great. Scirus is another one that seems quite comprehensive.

I have also heard good words about Web of Knowledge (or Web of Science, I think it's the same thing), but I think this one needs a paid subscription, though I could be wrong about this.