Library Biology 104

Overview

This course guide lists resources that will be useful to you as you complete your research project for this class. 

Please be sure to visit the Research Support tab to find help with your research and to make sure you are properly crediting sources in your work.

Databases: Find articles, book chapters, e-books

• Web of Science (1984 to present)
  Search thousands of journals across the sciences and social sciences and track cited references to locate more recent articles.
• Discover: Start here for books, articles & more
  Simultaneously search research databases plus the Five Colleges Libraries Catalog to find full-text articles, books and more.
• AGRICOLA (1970 to present)
  Index of journal articles and reports from the National Agriculture Library.
• Environmental Studies and Policy Collection (Gale)
  Covers environmental issues and policies, including diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.
• Agricultural & Environmental Science Database (ProQuest) (1960 to present)
  Multidisciplinary database providing access to the international literature in agricultural and environmental science.
• GreenFILE
  Draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.
• Historical Abstracts with Full Text (1955 to present)
  Scholarly literature about world history since 1450 (excluding the United States and Canada).
• PubMed (1966 to present)
  Premiere biomedical index, includes MEDLINE and links to molecular biology databases.

Web Resources

• Atlas of the Flora of New England
  Web version of a continuously updated print resource about plant taxa represented in the region.
• PLANTS National Database
  Data on 45,000 vascular and non-vascular plants within the U.S. contributors include U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, National Wetland Inventory, and Smithsonian Institution.
• United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
  Provides access to information on food, agriculture, natural resources, rural development, nutrition, and related issues.
• Drug Information Portal
  A gateway to selected drug information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and other key U.S. Government agencies.

Research Help

Need help with any part of the research process?  Please feel free to make an appointment with a Research & Instruction Librarian!

Citing Sources

There will be several Zotero Workshops offered this fall.  Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free application that collects, manages, and formats citations and bibliographies. Zotero also helps organize your research by allowing you to attach PDFs, notes, and images to your references. You can arrange your sources into collections for different projects and tag them for easy searching.

For more information about how to appropriately use sources in your work, visit these guides:

The Writing Center's Using Sources Guide

Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison Writer's Handbook on Avoiding Plagiarism