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Literature Searching and
Publication Databases
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- AGRICOLA
National Agricultural Library's database of 2,000,000 bibliographic
records publications and resources encompassing all aspects of
agriculture and allied disciplines, including plant and animal
sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural
economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, alternative
farming practices, and food and nutrition.
- Birds
of North America (Index)
BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA (BNA) is a series, currently in progress,
that describes the life history of birds that nest in the United
States and Canada. Each issue number, called a profile, usually
describes one species. The series is supported by The American
Ornithologists' Union, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
- Duckdata
The primary objective of DUCKDATA is to provide access to the
extensive literature concerning North American waterfowl, including
references emphasizing wetlands but having implications for waterfowl
ecology, conservation, and management.
- E.V.
Komarek Fire Ecology Database,
a project of the Tall Timbers Research Station, is a unique resource
for locating a broad range of fire-related information. Literature
on control of wildfires as well as applications of prescribed
burning are included. Contains over 15,000 citations, many with
abstracts.
- Fish
and Wildlife Reference Service
Although the Reference Service closed in November, 2003, the
Fish and Wildlife databases are still available. These include
copies of reports produced by State fish and wildlife agencies
from research studies supported by Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration
Act and Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act funding. FWRS
also indexed reports produced by the Anadromous Fish Conservation
Program, the Endangered Species Grant Program, and the Cooperative
Fish and Wildlife Research Units. Additional collections located
at FWRS include the Lead Shot/Lead Poisoning Clearinghouse, Boating
Access/Boating Facilities Clearinghouse, and the Clean Vessel
Act Education/Information Clearinghouse.
- FindArticles.com
Covers more than 300 magazines and journals since 1998.
All articles include full text.
- Forest
Service Publications
An index of Forest Service publications from the late 1880's
to the present.
- ingenta
(formerly UNCOVER)
UnCover is a database of current article information taken from
over 17,000 multidisciplinary journals. ingenta contains brief
descriptive information for over 7,000,000 articles which have
appeared since Fall 1988. Available to employees only.
- Interagency
Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) is a partnership
of U.S., Canadian, and Mexican agencies, other organizations,
and taxonomic specialists cooperating on the development of an
on-line, scientifically credible, list of biological names focusing
on the biota of North America. ITIS is also a participating member
of Species 2000, an international project indexing the world's
known species.
- MEDLINE, including TOXLINE
Medscape,
requires free registration with ID term and password of your choice. Includes
a medical dictionary.
National Library of Medicine's PubMed
server has over 10 million records. Has a Citation
Matcher search feature for single articles (enter as much as you know to find
the full citation).
- PLANTS
Database provides a single source of standardized information
about plants. PLANTS provides standardized plant names, symbols
and other plant attribute information.
- Recent
Ornithological Literature Online
The Recent Ornithological Literature (ROL) list is no longer being
issued as a printed supplement to The Auk, The Emu, or The Ibis.
This on-line link contains no. 74 (Oct. 1997) to most recent.
- Search4Science
This vertical search engine is offered by BD Biosciences, a provider
of products and services for researchers around the world.
- Scirus
Elsevier Science has developed a Internet search tool concentrating
on web sites with scientific content only.
- Selected
Water Resources Abstracts
10,000 USGS abstracts on the subject of water resources since
1977.
- U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency Publications
Provides access to EPA technical and public information
- U.S.
Geological Survey Publications
FRESC
Library Intranet Homepage
Access restricted to USGS employees only for:
BioOne
An aggregation of bioscience research journals. Subscription
to USGS staff only.
FirstSearch--contains 31 databases including:
- ArticleFirst OCLC index of articles
from the contents pages of journals
- BasicBIOSIS is a subset of the Biological
Abstracts database. It covers the most recent five years and approximately
350 journal titles. (In contrast, the full BIOSIS database indexes
more than 5,000 journals and begins in 1969) Ornithology coverage
is good, but contaminants coverage is weak. There are 380,000+
records.
- DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS is available
in its entirety, beginning in 1861 and contains 1.5+ million records.
- WorldCat is the OCLC online union
catalog. It covers many formats of publishing, but most
records are for books, series members or journal titles.
Very few journal articles are included.
Georef
1.8 million references to geoscience journal articles, books,
maps, conference papers, reports, and theses. GeoRef covers
the geology of North America from 1785 to the present and the
geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. The
database includes references to all publications of the U.S.
Geological Survey. Masters' theses and doctoral dissertations
from U.S. and Canadian universities are also covered.
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