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Use Socrates to find printed or digital books or journals at Stanford. Digital Journals available to the Stanford community are listed in Electronic Journals and Newspapers. To find journal articles on Biodiversity, use one of the databases listed under Article Resources below. Under Web Resources, find organizations, government agencies, or web sites related to the topic. Can’t find what you need? Comments or questions? Contact Falconer Biology Library. |
Article Resources
AGRICOLA serves as the catalog and index to the collections of the National Agricultural Library. The records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences. AGRICOLA is organized into two data sets. The NAL Public Access Catalog contains citations to books, audiovisuals, serials, and other materials. The Article Citation Database contains citations, many with abstracts, to journal articles, book chapters, reports, and reprints.
Arctic & Antarctic Regions (AAR) is the world's largest collection of international polar databases. Coverage is multidisciplinary. A wide variety of sources are indexed including: scientific periodicals, monographs, proceedings of conferences and symposia, government reports, theses, dissertations, and books. Many are indexed only in AAR -- the best resource for research on cold regions anywhere, from temperate regions with cold winters to the Himalayas of Tibet."--NISC product factsheet
Also known as BIOSIS Previews, indexes the worldwide literature of research in the biological and biomedical sciences. The database covers the entire field of life sciences including original research reports and reviews in field, laboratory, clinical, experimental, and theoretical work. BIOSIS indexes journals, technical reports, meeting proceedings, United States patents, and books in biology, biomedicine, and related areas. The database indexes literature published from 1926 to the present. Over 500,000 journal articles and other documents from over 6,000 journals and other sources are indexed each year.
CAB Abstracts indexes journal articles in the applied life sciences. It covers the fields of agriculture, forestry, animal and veterinary sciences, human health and communicable diseases, human nutrition, food science, animal health and welfare, microbiology and parasitology, leisure and tourism, plant science and crop science, and the management and conservation of natural resources. The database indexes literature published from 1910 to the present. Over 9,000 serials representing 125 countries are indexed in full or in part.
The Web of Science service, available via ISI Web of Knowledge, includes three core component databases: the expanded version of Science Citation Index (SciSearch), Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. The Science Citation Index provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in the world's leading scholarly science and technical journals covering over 100 disciplines from 1900 to the present. An important feature of SciSearch is the ability to perform cited reference searching to find recent articles that cite an earlier work.
xSearch, developed through the Stanford University Libraries' partnership with Deep Web Technologies, provides Stanford researchers and students with a single search option for multiple online resources. Searches may be limited to specific databases, or all available sources may be searched simultaneously. Search results are merged into one relevance ranked list, and are clustered by topic, author, source publication, publisher, and date. Custom searches using any selection of available databases can be created and re-used. Users may also create alerts in order to be informed automatically of new items that match search criteria.
Zoological Record indexes the world's zoological and animal science literature, covering all research from biochemistry to veterinary medicine. The database provides a collection of references from over 4,500 international serial publications, plus books, meetings, reviews and other no- serial literature from over 100 countries. It is the oldest continuing database of animal biology, indexing literature published from 1864 to the present. Zoological Record has long been recognized as the "unofficial register" for taxonomy and systematics, but other topics in animal biology are also covered
Web Resources
Amazing photographs of Amazonian fish and their surroundings supplement this website. Also included are many ecological aspects of the Amazon, including waters, communities, plants and forests.
AntWeb, maintained by the California Academy of Sciences, provides descriptions and high-quality color images of a large number of ant species. Some general information on the ecology of ants is also included. Currently the focus of AntWeb is on ant species of California and Madagascar and ant genera of the world. The goal is to describe every known species of ant.
Australian Ants Online is maintained by CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. It includes information on all genera of Australian ants and many of the species known to occur in Australia and on nearby islands. The site covers biology, identification, and world-wide distribution of Australian genera, including keys, illustrations, and maps.
Wildlife Web Links consists of various sites for wildlife biologists including sites about specific animals and organizations.
Ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions In the United States and the United Kingdom have joined to form the Biodiversity Heritage Library Project. The participating libraries own over two million volumes of biodiversity literature collected over 200 years to support the work of scientists, researchers, and students in their home institutions and throughout the world. The Biodiversity Heritage Library’s “biodiversity commons” website provides digitized access to a growing subset of this literature.
BiologyBrowser, produced by BIOSIS, is a free web site offering resources for the life sciences information community. The information provided is either produced exclusively for BIOSIS, or collected from reputable outside sources.
The birds of Stanford website is prepared by Stanford alumni and contains photos, artwork, essays and species lists about the 125 species of birds found on campus.
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is an ambitious project to organize and make available via the Internet virtually all information about life present on Earth. At its heart lies a series of Web sites, one for each of the approximately 1.8 million known species, that provide the entry points to this vast array of knowledge. The entry-point for each site is a species page suitable for the general public, but with several linked pages aimed at more specialized users. The sites provide both text and images.
This Internet Directory for Botany contains an extensive listing of links pertaining to botany, including multiple on the subject of plant ecology.
MaNIS, whose development was supported by the National Science Foundation, is a database of records of mammalian specimens held in museums and other institutions in North America. The database can be searched through one of the system’s data portals, and collections can be searched individually or as a group.
This virtual library is a portion of the Center for Conservation Biology Network that reviews Internet Information regarding Ecology. The Internet resources are then broken down into categories that include lists of links.