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ECOL 330: Evolution of Animal Form and Function

For further assistance, contact Elizabeth Kline .

 

Welcome! This page is an introduction to information resources, both in the University of Arizona Library and on the Internet, that will help in your studies and research for the course Ecology 330 - Evolution of Animal Form and Function.

UA Library Research Tools
 

  • Online Catalog - This will help you locate books,journals, maps, DVD's and more that are owned by the Library.
  • Call Number Locations - In the UA Science-Engineering Library, materials relevant to ECOL 330 will likely be catalogued in the QL (Zoology) call number area. Other relevant call number areas include Q (General Science), QH (Natural History), QR (Microbiology), R-RZ (Medicine) and SF-SH (Fisheries & Wildlife Management). The call number location guide will direct you to the library floor and section where items with those call numbers can be found.
  • Electronic Books (E-Books) -  The UA Library now owns many full-text, online books from NetLibrary (search directly) and can also be found through the Online Catalog. 

    EXAMPLE TITLE: Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature by Harry Greene. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1997

    [NOTE: To "check out" a NetLibrary e-book, you first have to establish a free account from a computer here on the UA campus. Once you have a NetLibrary account, you can check e-books out whether you are on campus or not.]

Selected Journal Indexes

These databases will help you find citations to articles in journals, magazines, etc.

  • Academic Search Premier- Covers a broad range of disciplines including general academic, business, social sciences, humanities, general sciences, education, and multi-cultural. Offers full text coverage for 1,000 journals and indexing for 3,000 journals. (Full text 1992-present). (Index 1980-present)
  • BIOSIS Previews- Comprehensive coverage of biological and biomedical literature from journal articles, technical notes and letters. Includes abstracts. (1969-present)
  • PsycINFO - Covers all areas of psychology and cognitive sciences, including animal behavior. 1887 - present.
  • Science Citation Index - Index to core journal articles and cited references in science and technology. Includes some abstracts. (1945-present).
  • Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide - Provides 400,000+ records to worldwide literature on all wild vertebrates, excluding fish. Indexes journal articles, conference proceedings, government reports, field studies, books, and theses and dissertations. Permits taxonomic and geographic search approaches as well as traditional keyword/subject searching. (1935 - present.)
  • Zoological Record - An index to the world's publications in zoology, with a focus on systematic zoology. (1978-present)

Selected Reference Sources


  • Encyclopedia Britannica Online - A fully searchable and browsable collection of authoritative references, including Britannica's famous encyclopedia, hundreds of articles not found in the print Britannica, and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (10th edition).
  • Encyclopedia of Life Sciences - A unique online encyclopedia for the life sciences, with particular emphasis on cell and molecular biology.

   Other Library Resources

  • Citation Guides - This site provides basic guidelines and examples from three major style guides. See also Sciences: Documentation Sources which describes the Council of Biology Editors citation style.
  • InterLibrary Loan Services - Is there a book the Library doesn't own or an article from a journal that the Library doesn't subscribe to?  Use Interlibrary Loan! The library will borrow a copy of a book from another Library or get an electronic version of the article for you.  It is a free service for UA students.

Selected Full-Text Online Journals in Evolutionary Biology & Related Disciplines

Access to full-text is available to any user at a UA campus computer but only to UA students, faculty, and staff from off-campus connections.

For more full-text online journals, see the Electronic Journals A-Z list.

Print volumes of earlier years for many of these titles are also available. Search by journal title in the UA Library's online catalog and/or the online catalog at the Arizona Health Science Library.

 

Selected Web Resources


 

Other Questions?

Contact Elizabeth Kline at (520) 621-6375 or at klinee@u.library.arizona.edu.

 

Last Modified: September 10, 2007

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