Library Catalogs

OU Library Catalog--Includes books and journals (but does NOT index articles)

World Cat--union catalog of libraries worldwide

MelCat--union catalog of many Michigan libraries; 1st stop to interloan books

Subject headings, a sampling

Biogeography

Climate Changes

Endangered Species

Global Warming

Introduced Organisms

Marine Biological Invasions

Nonindiginous Pests

Urban Ecology

Urbanization - Environmental Aspects

Reference Titles

Encyclopedia of World Climatology [available as an e-book]

Encyclopedia of Global Change 2d floor
Ref. GE 149 .E445 2002

Rivers of North America [available as an e-book]

Encyclopedia of Ecology and Environmental Management [available as an e-book]

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms [available as an e-book]

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology [available as an e-book]

Selection of Relevant Journals--all available online

*American Midland Naturalist 1909 to the present

*American Naturalist 1867 to the present

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 2003 to the present with this title; earlier title from 1970

Aquatic Botany 1995 to the present

Aquatic Ecology 1997 to the present

Aquatic Sciences 1997 to the present

Biological Conservation 1995 to the present

Biological Invasions 1999 to the present

*BioScience from 1964 to the present

*Conservation Biology 1987 to the present

Ecological Applications 1991-2005 only

*Ecology 1920 to the present

Environmental Biology of Fishes 1997 to the present

Environmental Management 1997 to the present

Freshwater Biology 1997 to the present

Hydrobiologia 1997 to the present

Landscape Ecology 1997 to the present

Limnology 2000 to the present

Limnology and Oceanography 1956-2005 only

*Nature 1987 to the present

Pest Management Science 2000 to present

Polar Biology 1997 to present

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1915 to present

*Science (New York, N.Y.) have online 1880-2004. For 2005 forward go to 4th floor (Q 1. S35)

Trends in Ecology & Evolution 1995 to present

*Links are to the Library Catalog record since access is available from more than one source.

Contact Information

Library Instructor: Millie Merz, 241 KL, 248-370-2457, merz@oakland.edu

Course Instructor: Scott Tiegs

Databases/Periodical Indexes & E-Journal Collections

Web of Science (includes Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index) --OU has this resource from 1980 forward. This index/database to journal articles covers more life sciences journals than any other index/database that OU has. There are no formal "subject headings" but standardized keywords and author keywords are assigned to each article. Once you find one relevant articles, you can then find others by looking at that articles' references, looking at articles that cite "your" article, or looking at articles that cite similar references to those of "your" article. If there is no link to the full text of an article, Be sure to use the links!

General Science Abstracts--Indexes far fewer journals than Web of Science, but it does index many of the very important ones. Another benefit is its formal "subject headings" which do a better job of bringing together articles on similar topics. If there is not a "full text" icon for an article, be sure to use the links!

JSTOR--Online collection of many scholarly journals from volume 1 until 2 to 5 years ago. Full text of articles is searchable! Problem: JSTOR does not use subject headings. If you get too many results searching your terms in "full-text" try restricting them to "article title."

ScienceDirect--More than 1500 e-journals published by Elsevier. Online access generally is available from 1995 to the present. These titles are also indexed in Web of Science.

 

News Articles

Lexis-Nexis--An important online resource that indexes hundreds of newspapers and provides fulltext of the articles. Best way to search is to use "Power Search" and add "index terms" to your search.

Nature News--An interesting source to peruse regularly. You can also search within the publication using keywords.

Science News--Another good science news source that is worth looking at regularly. You can also search by keyword within this publication.

Other Info

Does the library have access to a journal online? Easiest way to find out is to check the "E-Journals A to Z " from the library's "Find Articles" page. You can also find e-journals there classified by subject category. Titles listed under "Earth & Environmental Sciences" might be useful.

Where do you find lists of databases and other online resources available at OU? The easiest way to find these is to check "Databases by Subject" or "Databases A to Z" from the "Find Articles" page.

 

When you are using the library's databases, be sure to click on the blue link when the article you want does not have a full text link in the database. will then take you to the article from another source. If there is no online access for the article, you can click on the library catalog link to see if there are print holdings. If the libary has no print copy of the article, you can link to a form to request a copy of the article via interlibrary loan.

• RefWorks - a reference management tool that allows you to create a personal database of references and automatically generate formatted bibliographies for your projects.

See instructions on handout for exporting references from the Library Catalog and from Web of Science into RefWorks. Slight variations of these instructions can be found on the Library web site: for the Library Catalog, for Web of Science.