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Protocols and Methods Collections

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has a well-respected press that includes manuals and methods books. This collection is the foundation for the CSH Protocols series.
Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)
a video journal featuring methods for biological research. MIT's subscribes to six JoVE sections: Bioengineering, Biology, Chemistry, Immunology and Infection, Medicine, and Neuroscience.
Methods in Enzymology
Early volumes in this journal are amongst the most highly cited papers ever published.
SpringerNature Experiments
The largest available collection of protocols and methods with content from Nature Methods, Nature Protocols, Nature Research, and Springer Protocols

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*Nature Methods contains peer-reviewed cutting-edge, novel methods that address key questions in biology.
*Nature Protocols publishes protocols from basic “classic” protocols to innovative techniques.
*Protocol Exchange is an open repository for the deposition and sharing of protocols freely available for use and comment.
*Springer Protocols is our largest collection of established protocols in biomedicine and life sciences featuring content from well-known book series including Methods in Molecular Biology. Dates back to 1984.

Discovering Protocols

Search our Collections for books with Methods and Protocols

Search: (laboratory manuals) and (biol* or biochem*) Will retrieve over 300 books about experimental methods.

Databases that index selected protocols

Protocols on the Web

Bio-protocol, founded by Stanford researchers in 2010, seeks to promote free and open communication within the life sciences community. To this end, all protocols are associated with a moderated Q&A panel. These Q&A panels help readers successfully reproduce protocols by letting them easily ask authors clarifying questions.
- bio-101, sister site to Bio-protocol featuring basic methods.
Protocols.IO Open access repository of science methods and collaborative research platform.. Registration free, but required to view content.
Protocol exchange The Protocol Exchange is an open resource where the community of scientists pool their experimental know-how to help accelerate research.

Methods in Dissertations and Theses

DSpace theses collection - MIT theses and dissertations
Dissertations and Theses (Proquest) - theses and dissertations from North American universities, some worldwide

About Protocols and Methods

Descriptions of experimental procedures are widespread in the scientific literature. The methods sections of research articles are typically brief and may not provide enough information for a researcher to replicate the experiment. Protocols and methods are a body of literature that describe experimental procedures in detail. Research methods may be published separately and can be found in a variety of literature types: method-focused journals, books or dissertations.

A good protocol can save you countless hours in the lab with proven methodologies as a starting point for your research.

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