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Biological Sciences: Getting Started

Subject Librarian

Elena Feinstein

Contact:

Perkins Library
elena.feinstein@duke.edu

919-660-1578

Subjects:Biology, Evolutionary Anthropology, Sciences

Key Databases

Web of Science
A huge database of scholarly literature across the sciences, strong in both historical and current coverage. Includes extensive citation mapping.
Scopus
Another broad literature database with strengths in current scientific publications and citation mapping.
PubMed
A large database of biomedical and related literature. It's strengths are controlled subject searching and linking with other NCBI resources.
Biosis Citation Index
Covers journals, proceedings, books, and reports in the life sciences back to 1926. Includes citation mapping.
Zoological Record
Covers articles on all aspects of zoological research dating back to 1864. Includes citation mapping.

Some Online Reference Works

A Dictionary of Biology by Robert S. Hine (Editor); Elizabeth Martin (Editor)
Publication Date: 2008
A Dictionary of Ecology by Michael Allaby (editor)
Publication Date: 2010
A Dictionary of Genetics by Robert C. King; William D. Stansfield; Pamela K. Mulligan (editors)
Publication Date: 2013
A Dictionary of Plant Sciences by Michael Allaby (editor)
Publication Date: 2012
Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior by Michael D. Breed (Editor-In-Chief); Janice Moore (Editor-In-Chief)
Publication Date: 2010
Encyclopedia of Behavioral Neuroscience by Richard F. Thompson (Editor-In-Chief); George F. Koob (Editor-In-Chief); Michel Le Moal (Editor-In-Chief)
Publication Date: 2010
Encyclopedia of Ecology by S. E. Jorgensen (editor)
Publication Date: 2008
Encyclopedia of Evolution by Mark D. Pagel (editor)
Publication Date: 2002
Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics, and Informatics by George P. Rédei (editor)
Publication Date: 2008
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences by Wiley (publisher)
Publication Date: began 2001 updated continually
Encyclopedia of Microbiology by Moselio Schaechter (Editor-In-Chief)
Publication Date: 2009
Evolution of Nervous Systems by Jon H. Kaas (Editor-In-Chief)
Publication Date: 2006
Encyclopedia of Neuroscience by Larry R. Squire (Editor-In-Chief)
Publication Date: 2009
Hormones, Brain and Behavior by Robert T. Rubin (Editor); Arthur P. Arnold (Editor); Anne M. Etgen (Editor); Susan E. Fahrbach (Editor); Donald W. Pfaff (Editor-In-Chief)
Publication Date: 2009