BIOS 3010: Ecology Guide
Overview
Contact me with questions about your information research and the annotated bibliography.
Resources
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Biological Sciences Information Gateway
Bronco NetID & password required to access indexes and full text articles from off-campus.
Set up a username & password here to submit automated requests from online indexes. Allow up to 2 weeks for materials to arrive.
DetailsThis citation management software allows you to import citations directly from electronic indexes and create and manage your own bibliographies. Use with word processing software to cite and format references easily in a variety of writing styles. You will have to set up an individualized account the first time you use RefWorks. An excellent tutorial is available in RefWorks under Help. Tutorial
Librarian's Comment: Always check that the full citation has come in correctly. Especially check the author field. Webcasts for using Refworks are available.
Article Databases
Covers agriculture, forestry and animal science, includes food science and nutrition. Coverage 1970 - present. Updated monthly.
Librarian's Comment: Useful for applied ecological topics with potential agricultural impact.
Comprehensive index with abstracts to periodical articles, reviews, and meetings in all the biological sciences disciplines. Coverage: 1969-present. Updated weekly.
This subscription is limited to three simultaneous users. Please logout when finished.
- RefWorks Info: For Import Filter, choose "ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)". For Database, choose "BIOSIS".
Librarian's Comment: Excellent coverage of ecological and organismal topics.
Biological and Agricultural Index Plus
Indexes popular and professional journals in agriculture, biology, forestry, nutrition and food science, and ecology. Coverage: 1983 - present. Updated: monthly.
Librarian's Comment: Useful for major ecology and organismal publications.
Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
Multidisciplinary index with abstracts of journals, conference proceedings, reports, books and government publications in the environmental sciences. Coverage: 1967- present. Updated monthly.
- RefWorks Info: Imports checked citations directly into RefWorks.
Scopus is a very large abstract and indexing database primarily covering scholarly literature in science and social science. Use this to get extensive inter-disciplinary access to journal articles and also to find out which articles are being cited by other scholars. Scopus includes 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers. Coverage from 1995. Tutorial
- RefWorks Info: Scopus will export marked citations directly into your RefWorks account. (You will be prompted to login.)
Librarian's Comment: Interdisciplinary. Claims broader coverage than Web of Science. Webcasts for using Scopus are available.
Contains three major databases: (1) Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-present), (2) Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present), and (3) Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present). Cited Ref. Search allows users to search for articles that cite a particular author or work.Tutorial
Please LOGOFF when finished, so others may use the database.
Librarian's Comment:
Interdisciplinary. On the first screen select 'Science Citation Index' and then 'General Search' to research a topic.
Cited Ref search allows you to see who has cited a particular paper. Webcasts for using Web of Science are available.
Librarian's Comment: Webcasts for using Interlibrary Loan are available.