This tutorial includes the following sections:

• Introduction provides an overview of the tutorial itself.
• Biological Literature provides an introduction to the types of resources in the biology literature.
• Search Strategies provides a brief introduction to sources of information, as well as helpful search strategies.
• Accessing the full text describes the various methods for accessing full text articles.
• Reading describes how to read and evaluate the literature.
• Citing Information explains how to cite information using CBE.
• Getting Help contains all the information you need to contact a reference librarian, plus a list of other websites and information resources.

Each section contains a number of sub-sections.The sitemap provides an outline of all the sections and sub-sections within the tutorial. While the sections are arranged in a logical progression, each section can stand on its own, so it is not necessary to follow them in sequence.