Resources

There are 3 common ways to obtain a full-length scientific article:

1. Directly from the website of the journal. This works for open-access journals and journals to which ETH subscribes. For the latter, you need to access from an ETH IP Address (at ETH or through VPN).
2. For typically older articles, from the main Library (you can request a photocopy on NEBIS).
3. For articles neither online nor at the ETH library (no subscription), you can send a copy request to the ETH Library (Request Form). They will somehow find a way to get it for you.

Articles, Presentations

• Gopen and Swan, The Science of Scientific Writing, 1990
• Simon P Jones, How to write a good research paper, 2004
• Jim Garrett, Writing Effective Sentences

On Plagiarism

• ETH Rules and Sanctions, 2008
• University of Ottawa, Beware of plagiarism, 2009

Books (all available on the reference shelf of the ETH Main Library)

• Diana Ridley, “The Literature Review”, 2008
• Rowena Murray “Writing for Academic Journals”, 2004
• Cargill and O'Connor, “Writing Scientific Research Articles: Strategy and Steps”, 2009
• Scott Montgomery, “The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science”, 2002
• Michael Alley, “The Craft of Scientific Writing”, 1996
• Victoria McMillan, “Writing Papers in the Biological Sciences”, 2001

• Genome Biology
• Briefings in Bioinformatics
• PLoS Computational Biology
• Nature Reviews Genetics
• Trends in Genetics
• Scientific American