Evaluation of Scholarly Sources

I am continuing more research on the controversy of embryonic stem cells. This time instead of evaluating general sources as I did in my last post, I will be evaluating two scholarly sources from the database Web of Science.

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The first source is from the American society of Microbiology and the work is titled, "Pluripotency and Epigenetic Factors in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell Fate Regulation."

• Purpose: The purpose of this article is to give information about embryonic stem cells to be available for other research. Specifically, this article focuses on the molecular mechanisms that are mediated by the pluripotency factors and their roles during differentiation, as stated in the abstract. This article contributes information that can be used on the debate of embryonic stem cell research. 

• Publishing: The article is published on the American Society of Microbiology under the genre of Molecular and Cellular biology. This website has a copyright on the article. you can view the entire article on the website or in a PDF. 

• Sources: Every paragraph has multiple sources cited. All of these sources appear to be other scholarly books or website publications. All sources are cited in a bibliography at the end. 

• Authosrs: There are three authors of this article, Lluis Morey, Alexandra Santanach, and Luciano Di Croce. All three are affiliated with the Center for Genomic Regulation and the Universal Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. 

• Audience: The intended audience is people involved in academia or research on the subject. The subject is discussed in detail and terms that only someone studying the subject can understand. I personally do not have the knowledge to comprehend this article.

• Finding: I found this article through one of the top databases on the University of Arizona library home page. This database is called Web of Science.

The second source is from Spandidos Publicaation under Molecule Medicine Reports and the article is titled "Improvement in the blastocyst quality and efficiency of putative embryonic stem cell line derivation from porcine embryos produced in vitro using a novel culturing system."

• Purpose: The purpose of this article is to provide information about how porcine embryonic stem cells have the ability to be applied in a specific field of biomedical research. The process in which these stem cells are cultivated is explained in great detail. This article contributes information that can be used on the debate of embryonic stem cell research. 

• Publishing: The article is published by Spandidos Publications UK Ltd, and this publishing company has a copyright on the article. The article was published online on Thursday April 16, 2015. 

• Sources: Each paragraph contains multiple sources cited, and all of those sources are from other scholarly book sir articles published on websites. All sources are cited in a bibliography at the end. 

• Authors: there are four authors of this article, Sueng A. Cheong, Eunhye Kim, Seong-Sung Kwak, Yubyed Jeon, and Sang-Hwan Hyum. They are all affiliated with the Laboratory of Veterinary Embryology and Biotechnology and College of Veterinary Medicine at Chungbuk University. 

• Audience: The audience that is article is writing towards is people involved in the medical field of embryonic procedures or research on the subject. This article gets very technical in the terminology it uses, so only someone that has scholarly knowledge of the subject can understand the article. 

• Finding: I found this article on one of the databases listed on the home page of the University of Arizona library. This top database is called Web of Science. 

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