BIOS 3010: Ecology Class Guide
Overview
Contact me with questions about your information research and the annotated bibliography.Information Sources
WMU Portal Bronco NetID & password required
Biological Sciences Information Gateway Bronco NetID & password required to access indexes and full text articles from off-campus.
Interlibrary Loan
Set up a username & password here to submit automated requests from online indexes. Allow up to 2 weeks for materials to arrive. Details Webcasts for using Interlibrary Loan are available.
RefWorks This 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
Always check that the full citation has come in correctly. Especially check the author field. Webcasts for using Refworks are available.
Article Indexes
AGRICOLA Extensive index to articles and other information sources that concern agriculture, forestry and animal science. Includes food science and nutrition. Coverage 1970 - present. Updated monthly.
- RefWorks Info: For Import filter, choose "OCLC FirstSearch". For Database: choose, "AGRICOLA".
Useful for applied ecological topics with potential agricultural impact.
BIOSIS Previews Comprehensive index with abstracts to periodical articles, reviews, and meetings in all the biological sciences disciplines. Coverage: 1969-present. Updated weekly.
- RefWorks Info: For Import Filter, choose "ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)". For Database, choose "BIOSIS".
Excellent coverage of ecological and organismal topics.
Biological and Agricultural Index Indexes popular and professional journals in agriculture, biology, forestry, and ecology. Coverage: 1983 - present. Updated: monthly.
- RefWorks Info: For Import Filter, choose "OCLC FirstSearch". For Database, choose "BioAgIndex".
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 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.)
Interdisciplinary. Claims broader coverage than Web of Science. Webcasts for using Scopus are available.
Web of Science
Web of Science from the ISI Web of Knowledge contains three major databases covering all areas of knowledge: Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present). The literature can be searched by subject, author, journal title, and author's address. Cited Ref. Search allows users to search for articles that cite a particular author or work. Please LOGOFF when finished, so others may use the database. Tutorial
- RefWorks Info: For Import Filter, choose "ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)". For Database, choose "Web of Science".
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.
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Last updated: September 2007