• Books in Miller Library:
  
  
  • Reference:
    
    
    • Online:
      
      
      • AccessScience (McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology)
      • Encyclopaedia Britannica
      • A Dictionary of Biology
      • A Dictionary of Ecology
      • A Dictionary of Scientists
      • A Dictionary of Zoology
      • The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science
        
        
    • Print:
      
      
      • Atlas of Endocrine Organs: Vertebrates and Invertebrates
      • Cambridge Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
      • Dictionary of Life Sciences
      • Encyclopedia of Evolution
      • A Guide to the Zoological Literature
      • Ocean and Marine Dictionary
        
      
      
• Books in the main collection:
  
  
  • Subject search:
    
    
    • uses Library of Congress classification system
    • Invertebrate Zoology = QL
      
      
    • start with major headings and then skim the subheadings, e.g.:
      
      
      • Invertebrates (25 subheadings, 65 entries)
        
      
      
  • keyWord search in the title, contents, series, etc., e.g.:
    
    
    • Invertebrates (93 entries)
      
    
    
• Author search, e.g.:
  
  
  • Gould, Stephen Jay

• Books outside Miller Library:
  
  
  • Other libraries:
    
    
    • U of MD libraries
    • U of DE
    • Library of Congress
      
      
  • WorldCat
    • most distinguished database of catalogued books in the world
    • searches over 52 million records held by academic libraries worldwide
      
      
  • For books not in the library, order through Interlibrary Loan
    • free, online order form, budget 1-2 weeks

• Multidisciplinary:
  
  
  • Academic Search Premier
    • 4,500+ general and academic journals, including zoology
    • coverage 1985+
    • mostly full-text
    • includes National Geographic Magazine from 1995+
      
      
  • WilsonWeb
    • 3,500+ general and academic journals, including zoology
    • two components: OmniFile Full Text Mega; Humanities & Social Sci Retro
    • OmniFile Full Text Mega: indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text in 1994
    • Humanities & Social Sci Retro: index only, 1907-1984
    • 1,750 journals are full-text
    • includes National Geographic Magazine from 1995+
  
  

• Scientific:

• BasicBIOSIS
  • information about biology and other life sciences
  • covers the basic core of life science journals found in college and university libraries
  • includes popular and scholarly science journals
  • over 350 sources
  • coverage is the most recent 5 years
  • Quick Reference Card
    
  
  
• BioDigest
  • life science information written in a non-technical style
  • provides detailed abstracts
  • over 300 sources
  • coverage from 1989+
    
    
• Scientific American Archive
  • contains entire editorial contents of Scientific American Magazine
  • coverage from Jan. 1993+
  • full-text
    
    
• Check journal titles in Journal Finder, the library's list of full-text electronic periodicals
  
  
• For articles not in the library, order through Interlibrary Loan
  • free, online order form, budget 1-2 weeks

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• Lexis-Nexis Academic
  • 5,900+ national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources
  • U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information
  • Shepard's Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789
  • business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news
  • full-text
    
    
• New York Times (1851-2001)
  • the complete newspaper (text, graphs, photos, etc.) in digital form

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• INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
• Science.gov: U.S. government science information
  
  
• Smithsonian Institution: Invertebrate Zoology
• Google Directory: Zoology
• Open Directory: Zoology
• Yahoo! Directory: Zoology

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