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Table 3-1. Examples of Periodicals Useful to the Experimental Biologist 



Technical Journals Review Periodicals 



American Journal of Botany Advances in Enzymology 



Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics American Scientist 



Biochemical Journal Annual Reviews of: 

 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta Biochemistry 



Doklady Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. Microbiology 



Journal of the American Chemical Physical Chemistry 



Society Plant Physiology 



Journal of Biological Chemistry Bacteriological Reviews 



Journal of Biophysical and Biological Reviews of the 



Biochemical Cytology Cambridge Philosophical 



Journal of Cellular and Comparative Society 



Physiology Botanical Reviews 



Journal of Molecular Biology Physiological Reviews 



Plant Physiology Scientific American 

 Zeitschrift fiir Naturforschung 



in the journals to publish every paper at full length. The result, of 

 course, is a compromise in which the writer assumes that the reader is 

 familiar with ordinary laboratory techniques. The technical paper, then, 

 is a report in which one research worker communicates with others like 

 himself. 



A technical paper could be written in almost any language, but now 

 most are in English, German, French, or Russian. A little of the litera- 

 ture from Japan is in the Japanese language, but fortunately for us, 

 most of the Japanese workers now write in English. Papers from the 

 Scandinavian countries are likely to be written in English or in Ger- 

 man. Most American biologists can read at least one other language, 

 but almost none could write a paper in any language except English. 

 Some Americans unrealistically solve the language problem by simply 

 ignoring the foreign literature. 



Reviews 



So many technical papers appear each year that no one could hope 

 to follow the whole literature. A valuable aid is the review article, 

 which attempts to summarize and evaluate some small segment of the 

 literature. For example, any one year might see the publication of several 



