Wildlife Ecology

A Research Guide

ENWC 165

URL for this page: http://www2.lib.udel.edu/branches/enwc165.htm

Getting Started

The Library has a guide Starting Library Research, which includes:

For general information and background reading, use Delcat, the Library's catalog, using such subject terms as:

Wildlife conservation
Wildlife management
Conservation biology
A general organism, such as Wolves or Raptors--followed by subhheading "conservation"
An approach to solving the problem, such as Ecological assessment or Sustainable development

Major Databases Covering Wildlife

AGRICOLA
A large but easy to use database of resources in all agricultural sciences, especially the applied sciences in agriculture, engineering, and resource economics. Includes books, book chapters, microforms, media, as well as journal articles. It provides coverage of mostly English language materials, with particular strength in federal and state publications. It covers a longer time period than many other databases, 1970-

Biological Sciences Set
Citations, with abstracts, to articles, books, conference proceedings, monographs, and reports relating to the biological sciences and entomology. 1982- .

CAB Abstracts
Citations, with abstracts, to journal articles relating to animal production, veterinary science, crop science, forestry, and agricultural engineering. The best way to find European agricultural sources. 1990- .

Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide
The world’s largest index to literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. Coverage includes more than 670,388 bibliographic records, many of which include abstracts. Major topic areas include studies of individual species, habitat types, hunting, economics, wildlife behavior, management techniques, diseases, ecotourism, zoology, taxonomy and much more. 1971- .

Web of Science
A major resource, covering all fields of science and other disciplines, allowing a cross-subject search from literature of many fields. Also allows the researcher to identify more recent articles via a search of older works cited in lists of references from those recent articles.

Electronic Journals in Entomology and Wildlife

Use the Entomology and Wildlife Ecology Subject Section at the Library's Electronic Journals site: http://www.lib.udel.edu/ej/. You can also use the "Get it" button from the search results in any database using Get it. Alternatively, you can use Delcat keyword, using the Search Journals/Serials section.

Web Resources for Entomology and Wildlife

You may want to check this guide to Searching the Web. See also the Cambridge database Biological Sciences Set, which includes subject search results in the form of web pages.

Internet Resources For Agriculture: Entomology and Wildlife Ecology
University of Delaware Library page of resources for the department, including organization and government pages, as well as specialty pages on environment, mammals and other wildlife, wetlands, and conservation.
Virginia Tech Libraries Subject Guide : Wildlife
Good page of Web resources. Use the navigation bar on the left to select lists of almanacs, career information, associations and societies, government resources, and handbooks.
Steenbock Library, University of Wisconsin, Subject Guides: Wildlife
Lists many of the same databases I have suggested above, plus more (some of which UD does not subscribe to), but also lists, by topic, many Web pages from associations and educational institutions with specific content, such as bat conservation, timber wolves, reptile and amphibian conservation, and protected species. Includes a "hot topics" area.

Citing References, Using the CBE Style Manual

Citing your information is important for two reasons: to help other readers trace your work and find out exactly where to find additional information that you found useful; and to let the reader know that information you are providing is from a specific source, so you don't misrepresent the information as your own. The Library strongly recommends that you use the citation software RefWorks, which is a free database and allows you to store and format in proper style all of your citation information. It also works with Word documents to insert text references and create a bibliography.

The accepted citation style in the biological sciences comes from the Council of Science Editors (formerly known as CBE). To cite printed material, such as books and journal articles, you can refer to a useful page from the University of Wisconsin, CBE Documentation , at http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocCBE.html . I recommend that you look for the link to "Create a reference list."

For citing sources found on the internet, whether they are journal articles online or Web pages from organizations, you need to cite somewhat differently. A good summary of their rules is at the Citation Styles Online! web site, found at http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite8.html . The Council of Science Editors points to a site on how to do this at: Citing the Internet: Formats for Bibliographic Citation. You can go directly to this information at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/formats/internet.pdf

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Last modified: 9/3/09

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