BSCI 360 Principles of Animal Behavior
Instructor: Dr. Gerald Wilkinson
This guide will assist you in locating resources for BSCI 360. Due to licensing agreements, some of the electronic resources available by remote search are restricted to current students, faculty, and staff at the University of Maryland, College Park. E-mail Tom Harrod, the subject area specialist, or call 301-405-7253 for more information.
Contents
BSCI 360 Webpage
Reference Sources
Library Catalog
Journal Article Databases
Review Journals
Key Research Journals
Web Sites
Interlibrary Loan
Questions?Reference Sources
- Access Science (McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology)
- Animal Behavior Desk Reference: A Dictionary of Animal Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution
Barrows, E.M. - (2001)
Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks: QL750.3 .B37 2001 - Behavioral Ecology
Danchin, E. Giraldeau, L.A., & Cezilly, F. - (2008)
Location: McKeldin Library Stacks: QL751 .D34513 2008 - A Dictionary of Animal Behavior
McFarland, D. - (2006)
Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks: QL750.3 .M34 2006 - Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior
Bekoff, M. (ed.) - (2004)
Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks: QL750.3 .E53 2004 - Encyclopedia of Animal Science
Pond, W.G. & Bell, A.W. (eds.) - (2005)
Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks: SF61 .E18 2005 - Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
(2002)
Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks: QH302.5 .E53 2002 - A Veterinarian's Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior
Beaver, B.V. - (1994)
Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks: SF756.7 .B43 1994
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Library Catalog
To find books on a certain topic, do a keyword search in the library catalog . You can also search using the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) by typing any of the following selected subject headings in the library catalog:
Animal behavior
Animal behavior mathematical models
Human behavior animal models
Animal Behavior evolution
Journal Article Databases
- Animal Behavior Abstracts
- Biological & Medical Sciences
- BIOSIS Previews - Primary research database for all areas of the life sciences: zoology, botany, microbiology, ecology, anatomy and physiology, molecular biology.
- Ecology Abstracts
- Entomology Abstracts
- Web of Science - Multidisciplinary database with citation searching.
Review Journals
Review journals are a good starting point for finding a research topic of interest. You may expand the scope of your search by searching an index such as the Science Citation Index. SCI provides the cited references for a particular article, number of times cited and related records.
Current issues of journals are shelved alphabetically in the Current Periodicals Room on the 1st floor of McKeldin Library. Bound journals are located in the stacks by call number. To locate a particular volume, search by title of the publication in the online library catalog.
- Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics
- Biological Reviews
- Trends in Ecology and Evolution
- Quarterly Review of Biology
Key Research Journals
Peer-reviewed scholarly journals are primary sources for scientific research. You can locate references to articles in journals by doing a keyword search in a specialized database.
- Aggresive Behavior - Most Recent 6 Months Not Available
- American Naturalist
- Animal Behaviour
- Behaviour - Most Recent Year Not Available
- Behavioral Ecology
- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
- Behavioural Processes
- Biology Letters
- Ethology
- Ethology, Ecology, & Evolution
- Evolution
- Evolutionary Ecology Research
- Journal of Animal Ecology
- Journal of Ethology
- Molecular Ecology
- Nature
- Oecologia
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
- Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences
- Science
Web Sites
Interlibrary Loan
Interlibrary Loan Services
Request materials the UM Libraries do not own through the Interlibrary Loan Office.
Questions?
If you have any questions about these or other library resources,
contact Tom Harrod.
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