Library and Internet Guide
The
following is a select list of resources available on the Internet
JCU Library Resources
 InfoHelp
- questions answered, assistance given online, or by phone or email
Catalogue
Library
Guides
Databases
- General Information
Indexing/Abstracting Databases
- Biological
Abstracts is a major source of references to the life science
journal literature (use BIOSIS
Previews for 2002+)
- CAB Direct covering
all aspects of the life sciences
- Current Contents Connect
is a multidisciplinary current awareness service for over 8,000
journals and more than 2,000 books
- Endanger: Threatened Species in Australia Indexes published and unpublished material on Australian threatened flora and fauna and related topics
- Faculty of 1000 Biology Reviews and evaluates the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of well over 1000 selected leading researchers.
- IngentaConnect provides book and journal article searches as well as search alerting and tables of contents services.
- SciFinder
Scholar Primarily a chemistry database, but with significant
coverage of the life sciences.
- Web of Science Access
to Science Citation Index Expanded and other citation indexes.
As well as topic searching for journal articles, the citation indexes
allow "cited reference" searching and enable you to examine
a document's historical origin and follow through to its current position
in the research literature.
- Zoological
Record Plus Index of the world's zoological and animal science
literature, covering over 4,500 international serial publications, plus
books, meetings, reviews and other non-serial literature.
Full text databases and electronic journals
- BioOne Access is provided to over 65 bioscience research journals from more than 50 publishers
- Expanded
Academic ASAP - (via InfoTrac) - full-text articles from around 2,000 journals, and abstracts or citations for many more.
- ScienceDirect
- Full text for around 300 of 1700 titles, with contents pages and
abstracts for the remainder.
- Wiley
InterScience - provides full-text of around 400 Wiley journals
back to 1997.
- ProQuest includes ProQuest Science Journals and other databases covering a range of disciplines.
- Electronic
journals - linked, alphabetical listing of full-text journals
available to members of James Cook University. You can also link directly to journals via Tropicat:
the JCU Library Catalogue
Databases
on the WWW
- arXiv.org e-Print Archive Fully automated electronic archive and distribution server for research papers in Physics, Mathematics, Nonlinear Sciences, Computer Science and Quantitative Biology
- BioMed Central
- publishes peer reviewed research across all areas of biology and medicine
with free access for all
- Ornithological Worldwide Literature (OWL) Citations and abstracts from the worldwide scientific literature pertaining to ornithology. Covers 'grey' literature, which may not be abstracted by commercial databases
- PrimateLit
- A bibliographic database for primatology
Associations
and Societies
Resources
- All About Birds birding resource from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.
- AmphibiaWeb A site inspired
by global amphibian declines - providing access to
information on amphibian biology and conservation.
- Amphibian
species checklist and identification guide For the identification
of amphibians in North America north of Mexico
- Animal
Diversity Web Accounts of individual animal species and detailed
descriptions of various phyla, classes, and in some cases, orders and
families. Linked pages and images illustrate the traits and general
biology of these groups
- Animal Info - Information on Endangered Mammals Searchable database of information on endangered mammals from around the world
- Annelid
Resources A guide to scientific information on annelids, and to
current worm research and researchers
- antbase.org Collaborative effort between scientists from around the world, aiming at providing the best possible access to the wealth of information on ants
- Avibase-The World Bird Database Records about 10,000 species and 22,000 subspecies of birds, including distribution information, taxonomy, synonyms in several languages and other features.
- Australian Science
and Technology on the Internet National Library's selective list
of Australian science and technology Internet sites
- Bibliography
of Crocodilian Biology
- Biodiversity hotspots Focuses on critically threatened ecosystems where biodiversity is at greatest risk, providing information about them and their threatened and endangered plant and vertebrate species for the purposes of planning and decision-making.
- BioPharmaceutical Glossary Cambridge Healthtech Institute's biopharmaceutical glossary, taxonomies and guide to 21st century therapeutics, technologies and trends
- Birds Australia Conservation, study and enjoyment of Australia's native birds and their habitats.
- Bugbios.com Photos grouped
by order, articles dealing with insects and their role in human culture,
and links to other insect related sites
- Butterflies and Moths of the World interactive catalog of published genus-group names of Lepidoptera from Linnaeus in 1758 through 2004
- California Academy of Sciences-Ichthyology: The Catalog of Fishes Approximately 56,000 described species and subspecies of fishes - "the first treatment of all described fishes since Linnaeus in 1758."
- The cephalopod page
- CephBase A database-driven
web site on all living species of cephalopods.
- Cetacea Complete background
information on every known species of whale, dolphin and porpoise
- Crocodilian
Biology Database Information about the 23 species of crocodiles
found in the world
- Crocodilian, Tuatara, and Turtle Species of the World - An Online Taxonomic and Geographic Reference annotated checklist of 271 species
- Crustacea.net An Information Retrieval System for Crustaceans of the World
- CSIRO The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world.
- Electronic
Resources on Lepidoptera
- eNature.com Nature portal offering
online searchable field guides to over 4800 plant and animal species
- EMBL
Reptile Database From The European Molecular Biology Laboratory
(EMBL) - a searchable and browseable taxonomic resource on reptiles
- FAO FTP Directory
Download FAO species guides and catalogues (e.g. marine mammals, marine
turtles, sharks) in pdf or zipped form.
- FishBase A global information system on fishes
- Gene Letter Newsletter about
genetics and public policy
- Global Amphibian Assessment Comprehensive database of the known amphibian species, along with their conservation status
- Global
Lepidoptera Names Index By the Department of Entomology at the Natural
History Museum of London (NHM), LepIndex contains a total of 223,214
names spanning 16 superfamilies such as Acanthopteroctetoidea, Bombycoidea,
Cossoidea, and Simaethistoidea.
- HerpDigest Free electronic
newsletter on reptile and amphibian conservation and science.
- Human
Genome Project information
- Ichthyology
Online database of fish records from The Natural History Museum of Los
Angeles, searchable by location or scientific name.
- Ichthyology Web Resources Links to ichthyology-related web sites on anatomy, behavior, biodiversity, ecosystems, functional morphology etc. A taxonomic index of web resources on fish is also provided.
- The Integrated Taxonomic
Information System (ITIS) "Database of the current names and classifications
of all biota"
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Conservation status, taxonomy, and distribution of animals and many plants, along with an evaluation of their risk of extinction
- Kimball's Biology Pages Biology textbook / encyclopedic dictionary
- Mammal Species of the World
Database of mammalian taxonomy provided by The Smithsonian Institution's
National Museum of Natural History.
- MERLOT
Biology Free and open resource with links to online learning materials
along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments.
- NatureServe Conservation
information on plants, animals and ecological communities.
- NMNH Entomology Database Library
Information collected by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural
History (NMNH)
- Order Phasmatodea Archive
of information on the systematics and morphology of the insects belonging
to the Order Phasmatodea
- Primate Info
Net Covers the broad field of primatology providing original content and links to resources about nonhuman primates in research, education and conservation
- Species 2000 Project aims to create a validated checklist of all the world's species (plants, animals, fungi and microbes). Brings together global species databases covering each of the major groups of organisms using a consistent taxonomic system.
- Tree of Life Collaborative
project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity
- WildFinder: mapping the world's species GIS tool for researching Earth's animals. Searchable by place or by species
- World Biodiversity
Database Provides taxonomic information, species names, synonyms,
descriptions, illustrations and literature references when available
on 200,000 taxa. The database can be explored using an expandable tree
of the five taxonomic kingdoms or by typing in a common or scientific
name.
Directories
and Gateways
Search
Engines
- Athenus Resources in science and engineering on the web. Indexes subject-specific web sites, publications, news and other resources, providing users with a current, focused collection of topic-specific material.
- Google - simple, fast with excellent
results
- Internet
Searching Tools - check out some other search engines here
- Metacrawler
- if searching the Web with 11 popular search engines simultaneously
appeals, try this
- Scientific-search-engines.com
- SCiNet Science, engineering, and
medical search engine and directory
- Scirus for scientific information only
Research
and Study Aids
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