Biotechnology and Bioinformatics 

The majority of our electronic databases and journals are restricted for use only by UF faculty, staff, and students. If you are on campus, the library recognizes your IP address, however if you are off campus, you will need to log on using the UF VPN software.

• Journal: Be sure that you are looking in the catalog for the journal and not just through the e-journal locator. We have an increasing number of journals online but many titles (especially older volumes) are still in print format. The print journals in Marston are shelved by call number and date: volumes after 1990 are on the 3rd floor and before 1990 on the 1st floor. If we don't hold your desired journal, you can request the individual article through Interlibrary Loan (see book below).
  
  
• Book: If you can't locate the book in the catalog, you can request it through Interlibrary Loan. You will need to create a separate ILL account with you contact information and specify as much information as you can about the desired book.
  
  
• In either scenario, please contact Tara Cataldo so she is aware of the missing resource.
  
  

Marston Science Library has photocopy machines located on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd floors. Copies cost $0.13 and the machines will only take a library copy card ($0.35). The copy cards can be purchased with $1, $5, $10, and $20 bills from the copy card dispenser machines, which are on the 1st-3rd floors. If you wish to obtain a departmental copier account, visit the Xerox office in room L401 on Marston's 4th floor. You can also check out bound journals to photocopy articles in your department or a store. Another option is to use the scanners on the 1st floor and 2nd floors to make a PDF of the article which you can then save on a USB drive, burn to a CD, or email to yourself.

The best way to obtain help is to contact Tara Cataldo, your librarian. She can be reached by email at tara@uflib.ufl.edu, in person at Marston L-209C, or by phone at 352-273-2868. Please contact her if you are having trouble finding material, wish to place material on course reserve, have questions about databases, or would like to schedule an instruction session for yourself, class, or lab group.

For general reference questions, please call the Marston Science Library reference desk at 352-273-2856 or instant message our chat reference service at screen-name uflibrarian on Google, AOL, or Yahoo. For more information, please see our "Ask A Librarian" page.

We offer RefWorks, a web-based bibliographic manager, for all faculty, staff, and students. RefWorks allows users to create an unlimited number of accounts, import and create article citations, and format and quickly output reference lists into Word, HTML, or plain text format. You will need to create an account and, if off campus, be sure to use the UF Group code (provided during account creation). Currently, RefWorks is allowing an unlimited amount of data to be stored in each account and you can upload citations, images, documents, and other types of files. There is an extensive amount of help documentation or please feel free to contact Tara Cataldo with any questions.