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Applied Domestic Animal Behavior Laboratory (ANS 106)
2013 Spring
Cassandra Tucker — cbtucker@ucdavis.edu
Librarian Subject Specialist
- Ruth Gustafson
- ragustafson@lib.ucdavis.edu — (530) 752‑1883 — Biological/Agricultural Sciences Reference Department (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/bioag/)
Librarian Subject Specialist for: General Biology; Animal Science; Avian Science; Entomology (including Bee Biology and Pollination); Environmental Science & Policy; Environmental Toxicology; Evolution and Ecology; Forensic Science; Nematology; and Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology
Need assistance? Email bioagquestions@lib.ucdavis.edu April 8-25, 2013. Ruth Gustafson will have office hours Mon/Fri 11am-noon starting Friday, April 26 through Monday, June 3, 2013 (exceptions Friday, May 10th; Monday, May 27).
SUNDAY Reference -- Available at 1st floor Shields, May 5th, 1-5pm
Research Help
- Library Research Aids: How Do I...? Guides (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/instruc/research/guides/)
- These guides include Choose a Research Topic, 5 Steps to Better Library Research, Find a Book, and more.
Scientific Publication
- Scientific Publication Cycle [Diagram] (http://lib.unb.ca/science/ScientificPublicationCycleBiologyJanuary2010.pdf)PDF
- Author: University of New Brunswick Libraries
- Illustration of scientific research process using a clockwise timeline with indication of earliest record to later records of the research process. Includes what tools (databases, catalogs) can be used to ACCESS the literature at various points in the research process.
Journal Ranking
- Journal Citation Reports (JCR) (http://uclibs.org/PID/36787)
VPN Journal Citation Reports is an annual publication by Thomson Reuters with each yearly data analysis being completed in the following year. The most recent edition is always published in the summer following the year analyzed. Journal Citation Reports can show you the most frequently cited journals in a field, the highest impact journals in a field, and the largest journals in a field. JCR Science Edition contains data from over 7,300 journals in science and technology. JCR Social Sciences Edition contains data from over 2,200 journals in the social sciences. NOTE: For disciplines that have longer timespans for citation, consider sorting for ranking by using the newer 5-year Impact Factor.
- Coverage: 2007-2011
- Date: 2011
- Related:
- Journal Citation Reports: Information for New Users (http://admin-apps.isiknowledge.com/JCR/help/h_info.htm#information)
- Impact Factors in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor)
Definition of terms, details on how the metrics are calculated, and information on the validity, manipulation, and misuse of Impact Factors - Using Journal Citation Reports Wisely (http://admin-apps.isiknowledge.com/JCR/help/h_using.htm)
- Journal Citation Reports: Information for New Users (http://admin-apps.isiknowledge.com/JCR/help/h_info.htm#information)
Connect From Off-Campus
- Connect from Off Campus (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/services/connect/)
- Instructions for UC Davis students, faculty, and employees to access our licensed resources from off campus. VPN is the preferred method for remote access in most cases.
Library Catalogs
- Harvest UC Davis Catalog (http://harvest.lib.ucdavis.edu)
- Harvest is the UCD library online catalog of the collections of all five UC Davis General Libraries. It does not include the holdings of the Law Library. If you log in (My Account) using your library card number and PIN, you can renew books online, and request items that have been checked out to another borrower, or are in storage.
- WorldCat [via FirstSearch/OCLC] (http://firstsearch.oclc.org/fsip?dbname=WorldCat)
VPN - OCLC catalog of millions of records for books, journal titles and materials in other formats from approximately 12,000 libraries worldwide.
- Coverage: 1000 A.D.-present
E-book Collections
- CAB eBooks [via CAB Direct] (http://www.cabi.org/cabebooks/)
VPN CABI ebooks now provides access to over 532 agricultural titles (more than 9,000 individual chapters). The archives from 2000-2007 includes 400+ titles (with over 6,000 individual chapters).
This collection is divided into six core subject collections: Agriculture; Animal and Veterinary Sciences; Human, Food and Nutrition Sciences; Plant Sciences; Environmental Sciences; and Leisure and Tourism.
PLEASE NOTE: This collection does *not* include ALL books published by CABI but selected titles. In particular, the publisher has chosen *not* to include textbooks in this package.
- Coverage: 2000-present
- Related:
- CABI's ebook coverage showing two book title lists (Current file & archive) (http://www.cabi.org/default.aspx?site=170&page=1016&pid=2211)
- CABI's ebook coverage showing two book title lists (Current file & archive) (http://www.cabi.org/default.aspx?site=170&page=1016&pid=2211)
- Wiley Online Library Ebook Collection (http://wileyonlinelibrary.com)
VPN NOTE: Interface does not separate ebooks from Wiley ejournals.
Over 2,000 books with 2011-2013 publication dates. The Wiley ebook license comes with broad and favorable rights for scientific, scholarly and educational uses. The collection will serve a wide range of research needs in the life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. EXCLUSIONS to the Wiley collection are textbooks, major reference works, professional and trade titles, and consumer books. The 2013 books continue to be added to the collection throughout the year as they are published simultaneously in both online and print.
- Coverage: 2011-2013
- Springer eBooks Package (http://springerlink.com/books/)
VPN - This UC-wide pilot is now (2013) a three-year package for Springer eBooks and includes more than 55,000 titles in English (and selectively in German) from every scientific discipline and many social sciences. This online interface enables all books to be searchable at the full-text level. Scope (textbook areas are starred) ranges from Architecture and Design, *Behavioral Science, *Biomedical and Life Sciences, *Business and Economics, *Chemistry and Materials Science, *Computer Science, *Earth and Environmental Science, *Engineering, *Humanities & Social Sciences and Law, *Mathematics and Statistics, *Medicine, *Physics and Astronomy, to Professional and Applied Computing. NEW books are added monthly. NEW INTERFACE as of November 26, 2012.
- Coverage: 2005-2013
- Related:
- CDL webpage describing the UC Libraries Springer eBooks Pilot (http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/springerebooks/)
- CDL webpage describing the UC Libraries Springer eBooks Pilot (http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/springerebooks/)
Subject Guide
- Subject Guides (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/research/subjects/)
- Use the Subject Guides to identify additional databases to search for information on your topic.
Databases
- CAB Abstracts [via OvidSP] (http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&NEWS=N&PAGE=main&D=cabz)
VPN NOTE: default UCD Search Type set to Advanced Ovid Search. Citations and abstracts to the international agricultural literature, including veterinary medicine, human and animal nutrition, forestry, rural development, as well as other related topics such as tourism and human ecology. Covers over 11,000 journals & conference proceedings and selected books in agriculture. Produced by CAB (Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux) International (CABI) with more than 9.0 million records as of 10/27/10.
HISTORICAL SCOPE: Archive abstracts added in August 2005 go back to 1910 with 1,860,000 additional records.
CAB DATABASE PDFs: As of January 2009, hard-to-find literature may be available as CAB Database PDFs (so noted *below* the UC-eLinks button). Currently, ONLY Internet Explorer (PC platform) or Safari (Mac platform) loads these PDFs. These CABI Full Text items give users automatic access to over 187,000 (as of March 2013) journal articles, conference papers and reports - 80% of which are not available electronically anywhere else.
- Coverage: 1910-present [Archives added for 1910-1971]
- Related:
- Fact Sheet [CABI] (http://www.cabi.org/default.aspx?site=170&page=1016&pid=125)
Describes content of CAB Abstracts database and provides tabs to coverage and serials cited. - Database Guide (http://www.ovid.com/site/products/ovidguide/cabadb.htm)
Database guide to all features of the CAB Abstracts database - Saved Searches/Alerts/Automatic Updating Service (http://www.ovid.com/site/help/documentation/ospa/en/my_alerts.htm)
- BioAg Librarians (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/bioag/about/meet-staff.php)
For assistance with searching CAB Abstracts, e-mail bioagquestions@lib.ucdavis.edu or contact your BioAg librarian subject specialist - Veterinary medicine / health-related questions (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hsl/)
Carlson Health Sciences Library (530)752-7042, hslref@lib.ucdavis.edu
- Fact Sheet [CABI] (http://www.cabi.org/default.aspx?site=170&page=1016&pid=125)
- PsycINFO [via Proquest] (http://search.proquest.com/psycinfo/advanced)
VPN - PsycINFO is a department of the American Psychological Association (APA). It provides citations to articles in professional journals, conference proceedings, books, reports, dissertations and even important internet sites in psychology and related disciplines, most with abstracts and some citations. (Psychinfo is the incorrect spelling.)
- Coverage: 1840-present
- Related:
- PsycINFO Lib Guide [ProQuest] (http://proquest.libguides.com/psycinfo)
- PsycINFO [via CSA Illumina] This interface will be retired August 1, 2012 (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&cat=psycinfo&adv=1)
- PsycINFO Lib Guide [ProQuest] (http://proquest.libguides.com/psycinfo)
UC-eLinks
- UC-eLinks (http://www.cdlib.org/services/info_services/instruct/ucelinks_guide.html)
- Brought to you by UC libraries! UC-eLinks helps to link you to *choices* to find the item(s) you are interested in. UC-eLinks appears in most library literature databases and provides a consistent way of getting to online articles (if licensed) or to information about which print issues of a journal we own. If we do not own a journal or book, you can use the UC-eLinks service to Request that the item be sent to you for free from another UC library -- often using Web delivery if the item is an article or book chapter.
EndNote
- EndNote Instructional Webpage (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/instruc/research/endnote/)
- Author: UC Davis Libraries
- EndNote, licensed for all UCD full-time students, faculty, researchers and staff, is a bibliographic reference manager which enables citations to be stored, searched, and quickly inserted into research papers in the format of many scholarly journals.
- EndNote Intro for BioAg Researchers (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/research/topics/index.php?id=130)
- Author: Ruth Gustafson
- This webpage is the step-by-step guide for the monthly in-person EndNote Intro course taught in Shields Library.
- Related:
- Sign up for EndNote Intro Class for BioAg Researchers (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/instruc/classes/descriptions.php#class57)
- Sign up for EndNote Intro Class for BioAg Researchers (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/instruc/classes/descriptions.php#class57)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Databases
- Peer Review
A process through which manuscripts submitted to a journal are evaluated for quality -- by one or more subject experts in addition to the editor -- before being accepted for publication.
All CSA Illumina databases (such as PsycINFO) separate result sets into tabbed categories including "Peer-Reviewed" journals. For journals retrieved from other databases, use the online Ulrich's Periodicals Directory to locate your journal and then look for the black symbol indicating the publication is "Refereed".
- Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (http://www.ulrichsweb.com/)
VPN - The standard source for information on virtually every active and ceased periodical, annual, irregular publication, and monographic series published throughout the world (plus thousands of newspapers). Indicates whether a publication is a refereed (peer-reviewed) title.
Images
- Animal Science Image Gallery (http://anscigallery.nal.usda.gov)
- Author: USDA National Agricultural Library & American Society of Animal Science
- The Animal Science Image Gallery began as a partnership between the Animal Science Education Consortium (fifteen colleges and universities in the northeast and mid-Atlantic states) and the National Agriculture Library (NAL), funded (2003-2007) by a USDA Higher Education Challenge Grant.




