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Evolution
Librarian Subject Specialists
- Ruth Gustafson
- ragustafson@lib.ucdavis.edu — (530) 752‑1883 — Biological/Agricultural Sciences Reference Department (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/bioag/)
Scientific aspects concerning evolution
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? 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
- Daniel Goldstein
- dgoldstein@ucdavis.edu — (530) 752‑2040 — Humanities, Social Sciences, and Government Information Services (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/)
- Historical aspects concerning evolution
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Subject Specific Databases
- 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)
General 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)
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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/)
- International Bibliography of History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (HistSciTEchMed) [via OCLC FirstSearch] (http://uclibs.org/PID/9767)
VPN - Citations to the literature of the history of science, technology, and medicine
- Coverage: 1976-present
- C19 : The Nineteenth Century Index [via ProQuest] (http://uclibs.org/PID/130229)
VPN - The principal index to nineteenth-century books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers and archives (primarily US and UK). The C19 Index incorporates the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, Poole's Index to Nineteenth Century Periodicals, Periodicals Index Online and more to provide coverage of over 1.5 million books and official publications, 71,000 archival collections and 16.3 million articles published in over 2,500 journals, magazines and newspapers.
- 19th Century Masterfile (including Poole's Plus)
THIS DATABASE HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR BUDGETARY REASONS. AS AN ALTERNATIVE WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO USE "C-19: The Nineteenth Century Index," A DATABASE WHICH COVERS MUCH OF THE SAME MATERIAL AND MORE. FOR ADDITIONAL ALTERNATIVES, PLEASE CONTACT THE SHIELDS LIBRARY GENERAL REFERENCE DESK.
Enhanced WWW edition of William Frederick Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, which indexes books, newspapers, periodicals and government documents on the 19th Century. Includes an expanding list of other 19th Century indexes, including the New York Times (1863-1905), the New York Tribune (1875-1906), Harper's Magazine Index (1850-1892), Palmers's Index to the Times (London), 1880-1890, and historical government publications indexes for both the United States and Great Britain. These indexes include Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England (1066-1803) and Hansard's Indexes to Debates, House of Commons and House of Lords (1803-1830).
- Coverage: 19th century
- Historical Abstracts (http://uclibs.org/pid/12775)
VPN - Citations to articles on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America:history and life.) Indexes more than 2000 journals worldwide.
- Coverage: 1967-present
- 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
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- 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)
- New York Times via Proquest Historical Newspapers (http://www.umi.com/pqdauto?COPT=U01EPTQmSU5UPTAmREJTPTFBQ0Q@)
VPN - Historical coverage of the New York Times 1851-1999, with both full page and individual article images. Searchable full text back to the first issue.
- Coverage: 1851-2002
- 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)
- 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
- Dissertation Abstracts International / Dissertations & Theses [via ProQuest] (http://uclibs.org/PID/11984)
VPN - Online access to citations and abstracts for every title in the UMI Dissertation Abstracts database; since 1997, provides full-text access to dissertations. Access is free to UC Campus dissertations.
- Coverage: 1861-present
- Related:
- Current Research @ University of California, Davis (http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucdavis/main)
Searches all University of California, Davis dissertations published in the Dissertation Abstracts database.
- Current Research @ University of California, Davis (http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucdavis/main)
- 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)
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
- Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia [Gale Virtual Reference Library] (http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?type=aboutBook&prodId=GVRL&eisbn=9780787677503&version=1.0)
VPN - Extensive, completely revised and updated 17-volume version of the original work published in Germany in 1960. Incorporates recent developments in the animal world as noted by prominent advisors and contributors from the scientific community. Volume 1 covers Lower metazoans and lesser deuterostomes and volume 2 is on Protostomes. Volume 3 is about Insects. Volumes 4-5 are both concerning Fishes. Volume 6 pertains to Amphibians and volume 7 is about Reptiles. Volumes 8-11 are all concerning Birds. Volumes 12-16 are on Mammals and lastly, volume 17 is the cumulative index.
- Date: 2003
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- Each entry by family includes taxonomic placement and brief details including thumbnail description, size, number of genera/species, habitat, conservation status, and distribution map.
- Detailed sections describe: evolution and systematics; physical characteristics; distribution; habitat; behavior; feeding ecology and diet; reproductive biology; conservation status; significance to humans; and end with lengthy species accounts.
- Each entry by family includes taxonomic placement and brief details including thumbnail description, size, number of genera/species, habitat, conservation status, and distribution map.
- 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.
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/)
- 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)
Images
- 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




