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Biological Sciences, General
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
Restricted to UC Davis Campus and authenticated VPN/Proxy users
Library Use or On-Campus Use Only - Click on VPN to access resource via Library VPN (requires Kerberos login)
Subject Specific Databases
- BIOSIS Previews [via Web of Knowledge] (http://isiknowledge.com/BIOSIS)
VPN NEW interface loaded July 17, 2011 -- result retrievals will be larger due to search design changes.
More than 22 million records in all life science areas, including agriculture, biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, ecology, environmental sciences, genetics, microbiology, plant biology, veterinary medicine & pharmacology, and zoology. Indexes over 6000 journals, serials, books and book chapters, conference proceedings and patents.
- Coverage: 1926-present
- Related:
- FAQ -- NEW July 2011 Interface! (http://wokinfo.com/wok5/faq/)
- OLD Version BIOSIS Access (http://webofknowledgev4.com/biosis)
VPN
Backup until end of 2011. Most complete load as of week of July 18th. - Quick Reference Card: BIOSIS Previews, ISI Web of Knowledge (http://wokinfo.com/wok/media/pdf/qrc/bpqrc.pdf)PDF
- Online BIOSIS information (http://images.isiknowledge.com/WOK45/help/BIOSIS/h_database.html)
- Video training: Saving Histories and Creating Alerts for current awareness. (https://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/vu/view.asp?pi=27087902)
- Register for a library class! (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/instruc/classes/descriptions.php#class35)
- FAQ -- NEW July 2011 Interface! (http://wokinfo.com/wok5/faq/)
- Ecology Abstracts [via Proquest] (http://search.proquest.com/ecology/advanced)
VPN - LOWER-DIVISION Undergraduate focus -- UPPER-DIVISION Undergraduates & Researchers should use BIOSIS Previews (under General Databases). Focuses on how organisms of all kinds - microbes, plants, and animals - interact with their environments and with other organisms. Included are relevant papers on evolutionary biology, economics, and systems analysis as they relate to ecosystems or the environment.
- Coverage: 1982-present
- Related:
- Fact Sheet (http://md1.csa.com/factsheets/ecology-set-c.php)
- Help (http://www.csa.com/help/index.html)
- Fact Sheet (http://md1.csa.com/factsheets/ecology-set-c.php)
- Bacteriology Abstracts [via Proquest] (http://search.proquest.com/microbiologyb/advanced)
VPN - Covers topics ranging from bacterial immunology and vaccinations to diseases of man and animals. Provides access to clinical findings as well as all aspects of pure bacteriology, biochemistry, and genetics.
- Coverage: 1982-present
- Related:
- Alerts/Automatic Updating Service (http://md1.csa.com/help/Search_Tools/alerts.html)
- Fact Sheet (http://md1.csa.com/factsheets/bacteriology-set-c.php)
- Help (http://www.csa.com/help/index.html)
- Alerts/Automatic Updating Service (http://md1.csa.com/help/Search_Tools/alerts.html)
- Zoological Record [via ProQuest] (http://search.proquest.com/zoologicalrecord/advanced)
VPN - WILDLIFE. New Interface 8/7/12 (from CSA Illumina to ProQuest): Comprehensive coverage of zoology; including behavior, conservation and environmental science, ecology, evolution, genetics, habitat, marine and freshwater biology, nutrition, parasitology and disease, reproduction, taxonomy and systematics, veterinary studies, zoogeography and fossil records. Especially strong in new species reports and field studies. Backfile for 1864-1977 added April 2007.
- Coverage: 1864-present [1864-1977 backfile added]
- Related:
- New ProQuest Platform -- User Guide (http://www.proquest.com/assets/downloads/products/userguide_np.pdf)PDF
- Switching over old CSA Alerts/RSS feeds to ProQuest (Migrating My Research Accounts) (http://migration.support.proquest.com/#tab:homeTab:crumb:7:artId:3739)
- Register for a library class! (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/instruc/classes/descriptions.php#class38)
The new Zoological Record ProQuest interface will be reviewed. - CSA Zoological Record Fact Sheet (http://md1.csa.com/factsheets/zooclust-set-c.php?)
- CSA Zoological Record Subject Thesaurus (http://md1.csa.com/factsheets/supplements/zoorecthes.php)
- CSA Alerts/Automatic Updating Service (http://www.csa.com/help/Search_Tools/alerts.html)
- New ProQuest Platform -- User Guide (http://www.proquest.com/assets/downloads/products/userguide_np.pdf)PDF
General Databases
- PubMed (http://uclibs.org/PID/17708)
VPN - Citations and abstracts for articles published in approximately 8,400 journals in medicine, life sciences, health administration, veterinary medicine, nursing, molecular biology and genetics. PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- Coverage: 1946-present
- Related:
- PubMed Tutorial & more (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html)
- Alerts/Automatic Updating Service (Saving & Managing Searches) (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53592/)
- NLM Searching PubMed with Mesh tri-fold handout (http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/meshtri.pdf)PDF
- NLM PubMed Basics tri-fold handout (http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/pmtri.pdf)PDF
- PubMed Training Manual [NLM] (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/manuals/pm_workbook.pdf)PDF
Extensive 148-page training manual from day-long PubMed training class. Updated April 2011. - Tutorials, Guides & Instructional Resources (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hsl/resources/guides/instguides.php#pubmed)
Lots of information from UCDavis' Health Science Libraries - For help from a Shields BioAg librarian send email to: bioagquestions@lib.ucdavis.edu
- Human medicine, veterinary medicine, and health-related questions (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hsl/)
Carlson Health Sciences Library (530)752-7042, hslref@lib.ucdavis.edu / Blaisdell Medical Library (916)734-3529, mclref@lib.ucdavis.edu
- PubMed Tutorial & more (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html)
- Conference Papers Index [via Proquest] (http://search.proquest.com/cpi/advanced)
VPN - Major areas of coverage include agriculture, biochemistry, chemistry, chemical engineering, forestry, biology, environmental science, soil science, biotechnology, and clinical medicine.
- Coverage: 1982-present
- Related:
- Alerts/Automatic Updating Service (http://md1.csa.com/help/Search_Tools/alerts.html)
- Fact Sheet (http://md1.csa.com/factsheets/cpi-set-c.php)
- Help (http://www.csa.com/help/index.html)
- Alerts/Automatic Updating Service (http://md1.csa.com/help/Search_Tools/alerts.html)
- Science Citation Index Expanded [via Web of Knowledge] (http://isiknowledge.com/wos)
VPN NEW interface loaded July 17, 2011 -- result retrievals will be larger due to search design changes.
Multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 6,650 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines. Search for articles that cite a known author or work.
- Coverage: 1900-present
- Related:
- How to create Author Citation Reports (http://images.isiknowledge.com/WOK46/help/WOS/h_citationrpt.html)
- Online tutorial to Cited Reference Searching (http://www.thomsonisi.com/tutorials/citedreference/crs1.htm)
- Saving Histories and Creating Alerts for current awareness. (http://thomsonscientific.com/media/scpdf/wos7_tips_hist.pdf)PDF
- How to create Author Citation Reports (http://images.isiknowledge.com/WOK46/help/WOS/h_citationrpt.html)
- Science.gov (http://www.science.gov)
- Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results. Search selected science and technology web sites and government databases. Sciencegov
- F1000Prime (http://f1000.com/prime)
VPN - Author: Faculty of 1000
Faculty of 1000 (F1000) Biology & Medicine are merged into one and now called F1000Prime. Includes over 40 Faculties (Broad subject areas such as biochemistry, ecology or plant biology), which are further subdivided into over 300 Sections. On average, 1,500 new evaluations are published each month. Faculty members are more than 5,000 experts worldwide, assisted by 5,000 associates.
F1000Prime is a "literature awareness tool that is updated continuously and comprehensively and systematically highlights and reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological and medical sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of leading researchers. Through immediate rating of individual papers by the authors' peers, F1000 [Prime] highlights papers on the basis of their scientific merit rather than that of the journal in which they appear."
- Related:
- F1000 Prime tour (http://f1000.com/prime/tour)
- F1000 Prime tour (http://f1000.com/prime/tour)
Electronic Book and Document Collections
- 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/)
- CRCnetBASE [via CRC Press] (full text books) (http://www.crcnetbase.com/)
VPN Full-text searchable database collection of more than 1500 handbooks, textbooks and manuals in agriculture, biology, business, chemistry, economics, engineering, ergonomics, law enforcement, materials science, math, nutrition, pharmaceuticals, physics, plant science, polymers, project management, public administration, statistics, telecommunications, textiles, toxicology and tribology. The full database can be searched, or any of its many subsets. The following TEN packages are subscribed by the University of California and are also listed separately under their respective Subject Guides: CHEMnetBASE, ENGnetBASE, ENVIROnetBASE, FOODnetBASE, FORENSICnetBASE, InfoSECURITYnetBASE, ITknowledgeBASE, MATHnetBASE, NEUROSCIENCEnetBASE, and STATSnetBASE.
- Related:
- Access Issues (http://blogs.lib.ucdavis.edu/pse/2009/05/08/accessing-online-crc-books-through-the-vpn/)
- Access Issues (http://blogs.lib.ucdavis.edu/pse/2009/05/08/accessing-online-crc-books-through-the-vpn/)
- Electronic books in the Biological and Health Sciences (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hsl/resources/etext/)
- Subject listing of electronic books (handbooks, textbooks, guides) in basic biological and related health sciences disciplines/specialties and subdisciplines/subspecialties. Includes online books in general biology, biochemistry, endrocrinology & metabolism, genetics, microbiology & virology, molecular biology, neurology, nutrition, physiology, toxicology and veterinary medicine. All books are searchable at chapter-level. [Compiled by the UCD Carlson Health Sciences Library]
- UC Press eBooks Collection [via eScholarship] (http://texts.cdlib.org/escholarship/)
The University of California eBooks Collection includes about 2,000 titles and is made available through a partnership between the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program. Selected natural history, biological and agricultural titles are available. PLEASE NOTE: the extensive field guide collection in the "California Natural History Guide Series" is NOT included.
About 25% of the titles are available to the general public; the rest are for University of California faculty, staff, and students only.
- Coverage: 1982-2004
- American Physiological Society: APS Journal Legacy Content (http://www.the-aps.org/publications/legacy/index.htm)
VPN - Electronic older volumes of twelve journals and one newsletter of the American Physiological Society (APS): all titles of the American Journal of Physiology (Cell Physiology; Endocrinology and Metabolism; Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology; Heart and Circulatory Physiology; Lung, Cellular and Molecular Physiology; Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology; and Renal Physiology), Advances in Physiology Education, Journal of Applied Physiology, Journal of Neurophysiology, Physiological Genomics, Physiological Reviews, News in Physiological Sciences. Project will continue until end of 2004 with oldest volumes of the American Journal of Physiology eventually going back to 1898.
- Coverage: varies by title, 1966-present
- 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)
- Safari Tech Books Online (http://uclibs.org/PID/33109)
VPN - A collection of computing books that includes the full text of over 1700 O'Reilly Press books, dating from 1999 to the present. Safari will grow to include all new O'Reilly titles. The full-text is searchable across titles and searches can be limited to code fragments. Books can also be browsed by topic. Access is limited to 41 simultaneous UC connections.
- Coverage: 1999-present
- Related:
- RSS feed of new titles in Safari (http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/rss)
- RSS feed of new titles in Safari (http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/rss)
Protocols and Methods Resources
- Current Protocols Series (http://www.currentprotocols.com/)
VPN - Ten major laboratory methods and protocols series covering the areas of molecular biology, nucleic acid chemistry, cell biology, protein science, immunology, neuroscience, human genetics, pharmacology, toxicology, and cytometry. Includes basic, alternate, and support protocols with literature cited and information on suppliers for standard materials and preparation information for reagents and solutions. IMPORTANT NOTE: UC Davis does *NOT* license the following seven protocol titles: "Bioinformatics", "Chemical Biology", "Essential Laboratory Techniques", "Food Analytical Chemistry" (inactive series), "Magnetic Resonance Imaging", "Microbiology", and "Stem Cell Biology".
- Coverage: Updated quarterly or more frequently
- Related:
- Browse Table of Contents within specific Current Protocols Titles (http://cda.currentprotocols.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-380242.html)
- Browse Table of Contents within specific Current Protocols Titles (http://cda.currentprotocols.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-380242.html)
- Springer Protocols (http://www.springerprotocols.com/)
VPN - Springer Protocols contains more than 31,000 (as of March 2013) molecular biology and biomedical peer-reviewed protocols, mostly from the classic series Methods in Molecular Biology, formerly published by Humana Press. Other series included are: Methods in Molecular Medicine; Methods in Biotechnology; Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology; and Neuromethods. Also included are protocols from laboratory handbooks, such as The Biomethods Handbook, The Proteomics Handbook, and the Springer Laboratory Manuals.
- Coverage: 1980-present
- Related:
- Ten-page User Guide (http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/SpringerProtocolsUserGuide.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-517798-0)
- Ten-page User Guide (http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/SpringerProtocolsUserGuide.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-517798-0)
- Cold Spring Harbor Protocols (http://cshprotocols.cshlp.org/search.dtl)
VPN A definitive, interactive source of new and classic research techniques. The database covers specific sections on: Antibodies, Bioinformatics/Genomics, Cell Biology, Chromatography, Computational Biology, DNA Delivery/Gene Transfer, Electrophoresis, Genetics, High-Throughput Analysis, Imaging/Microscopy, Immunology, Laboratory Organisms, Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, Plant Biology, Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), Proteins and Proteomics, RNA Interference (RNAi)/siRNA, Stem Cells, and Transgenic Technology. Unique to this resource is the ability to submit a protocol. Other unique features include protocol recipes and protocol cautions.
- Coverage: 2006-present
- Related:
- Search Help (http://www.cshprotocols.org/help/search_help.dtl)
- Search Help (http://www.cshprotocols.org/help/search_help.dtl)
- Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) (http://www.jove.com/)
VPN - Author: MYJoVE Corporation
- Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is a peer reviewed, PubMed indexed journal devoted to the publication of biological, medical, chemical and physical research in a video format.
- Coverage: Access currently to JoVE General section ONLY; no access to subsections Neuroscience, Immunology & Infection, Clinical and Translational Medicine, Bioengineering or Basic Protocols
- Date: 2006-
- Methods in Enzymology (http://uclibs.org/PID/61958)
VPN - Methods in Enzymology is the classic laboratory methods/protocols book series. The complete backfile of the full-text is available back to volume 1 from 1955. Direct article/chapter links are provided from core subject databases such as PubMed and BIOSIS Previews. Contains detailed protocols and descriptions of biochemical and biophysical techniques for research in biological and molecular sciences. More than 300 volumes are browse-able by individual volumes online from 1955 to the present or by searching across the collection by title, author, abstract, and keyword. Full-text access to articles is available in HTML and PDF formats.
- Coverage: 1955-
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
- U*X*L Encyclopedia of Biomes (http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?action=interpret&id=GALE|9781414444260&v=2.1&u=ucdavis&it=aboutBook&p=GVRL&sw=w&cs=9781414444260&authCount=1)
VPN - Author: Marlene Weigel
- Online version of this 3-volume encyclopedia provides "detailed comparative essays on major biomes and their component ecosystems. Includes entries on land biomes and water biomes and covers climate, elevation, soil, water bodies, vegetation, animal life, food web, plant and animal adaptations, endangered species, human effects on the biome and the effects of the environment on humans' culture and economy."
- Date: 2008
- Dictionary of Scientific Biography (complete) [via Gale Virtual Reference Library] (http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?type=aboutBook&prodId=GVRL&eisbn=9780684315591&version=1.0)
VPN - This classic encyclopedia covering scientists from all time periods and all fields of science has been completely revised. This "complete" online version includes all the entries from both the new (2008) edition and the original edition.
Images
- Images database [NCBI] (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/images)
SEE ALSO Open-i listed below. The NCBI Images database is no longer directly searchable but can be accessed via searching in PubMed Central. Included are millions of scientific images from NCBI full text resources.
See "related" note below about the change.
Copyright Notice: These images are drawn from journal articles and other documents that are protected by copyright. The same copyright applies to the images. Some documents - a relatively small subset - are available with a Creative Commons or similar license that generally allows more liberal redistribution and reuse of the material. In the absence of a copyright or license statement to the contrary, users should assume that standard copyright protection applies. See the PMC copyright notice for more information.
- Date: July 2012
- Related:
- Change to NCBI Images access (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so10/so10_pm_display_ncbi_images.html#note)
May 26, 2011: From NN/LM Pacific Southwest Region NCBI Images Database One of our Network members wondered if the NCBI Images database had disappeared because the link no longer worked. I checked the drop down menu in PubMed—the last location I had seen the Images database. It wasn’t there! Here’s the answer I received from CustServ: “The Images database was incorporated into PubMed Central (PMC). For example if you go to PMC and search for Protease-coupled PPIase assay, you will see on the right the “PMC Image Search” box. Then you can click on the images. Here’s the original announcement about the Images database for more details: Canese K. PubMed® Display Enhanced with Images from the New NCBI Images Database. NLM Tech Bull. 2010 Sep-Oct;(376):e14.
- Change to NCBI Images access (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so10/so10_pm_display_ncbi_images.html#note)
- BIODIDAC: A bank of digital resources for teaching biology (http://biodidac.bio.uottawa.ca/)
More than 6780 items are arranged in categories of: Eubacteria, Protista , Fungi, Plantae, Animalia, Human Biology, and Histology. In addition to images, video and animations are also included.
USE INFORMATION from the website: "Copying the material, modifying and adapting it to meet the professor's needs, and subsequent distribution to students is permitted with the condition that this is noncommercial, that the supplier (BIODIDAC) of the material is acknowledged, and that its use is registered."
NOTE: Some items only described in French.
- Coverage: 1996-2001
- AP Images (http://apimages.ap.org/unsecured/logip.aspx)
VPN - Formerly known as the AccuNet/Associated Press Photo Archive, this site is an ever-changing collection of over 700,000 photographs from the AP news service, historic images. Most of the images are contemporary and date from 1995 forwards and all include descriptive captions and source information.
- Coverage: 1844-present; current file contains 1995-present




