Online Journals Available
at WSU
To determine whether the
Stewart Library has electronic access to a specific journal, please
check the Full Text Electronic
Journals & Newspapers list.
Article Databases
To find articles on your
topic you need to use article databases, also known as periodical
indexes. Each database usually covers a group of subject related
journals. Search by subject or keyword in these indexes. Article
databases may be found using the Database
Finder.
Article Databases Available
for Botany:
Agricola
All areas of agriculture including cooperative extension, food
science, forestry, home economics, nutrition, rural sociology
and veterinary medicine. 1970- present
Biological
Abstracts
Biological Abstracts®, produced by BIOSIS, is a complete collection
of bibliographic references covering life science and biomedical
research literature published from more than 4,000 journals internationally.
This database contains nearly 7.7 million archival records from
as far back as 1969, with more than 370,000 citations added each
year. 1996 - present
BioOne
Access full text journals in biology, ecology and the environmental
sciences.
Blackwell
Synergy Journals
As of June 30, 2008 all journal content was merged into Wiley
Interscience to become Wiley-Blackwell. After Friday, June 27,
this site will no longer available.
ScienceDirect
College Edition: Health & Life Sciences Journals Collection
Science Direct College Edition is a database of full-text, high
quality journals published by Elsevier. The database consists
of 3 different collections--Social & Behavioral Sciences,
Physical Sciences, and Health & Life Sciences. Citations &
abstracts are provided for pre- 2002 information and for Elsevier
journals the library does not subscribe to. 2002 - present.
Using Catalogs:
Search the Stewart Library
web catalog to find books, videos, and journals available in the
Library. Most of the books on Botany are located on
level two of the library in the General Collection under the call
numbers QK, SB.
Interlibrary Loan:
If we do not own a particular
book or article you need, we will borrow it for you from another
library through Interlibrary
Loan.
Reference resources include
encyclopedias, dictionaries and other materials you use to "refer"
to. Use these resources for background information on a topic.
In Library
- Selected Reference Resources - Reference Area
- CRC Handbook of Alternative Cash Crops
Ref SB111 .D85 1993
- Dictionary of Plant Lore Ref GR780
.V53 1997 (Also in general collection)
- Flora of North America Ref QK110.F55
1993
- Medicinal Plants of the World Ref
RS164 .R676 1999
- Penguin Dictionary of Plant Sciences
Ref QK9 .P465 1999
- Peterson 's graduate programs in the biological sciences
L901 .P444 - Ref Table 1A
- Plant Identification Terminology - An Illustrated Glossary
Ref QK9 .H37 1994
- Scientific Style and Format: the CBE manual for
authors, editors and publishers Ref T11 .S386 1994
-Ref Table 4A
- Utah Flora Ref QK189 .U85 1993
- The Cambridge illustrated glossary of botanical terms
Ref QK10.H53 2000
- Naturally speaking : a dictionary of quotations on
biology, botany, nature and zoology Ref QH13.N38
2001
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- Cal State University's
BIOWEB
- Extensive, annotated list of resources. A good place to start
for students and others new to the field.
- Google - Uncle Sam
- An internet search engine for locating websites and documents
produced by the U.S. Federal Government.
Internet
Directory for Botany
Searchable alphabetical and subject indexes to botany resources.
- Flora of North America
- Descriptions of plants of North America. Also available in the
Library: Ref QK110.F55
- National Biological Information
Infrastructure
- Information about the NBII, (formerly the NBS) programs with
links to research stations and databases. Developed and maintained
by the Center for Biological Informatics of the U.S. Geological
Survey
- PLANTS National Database
- Plant taxa known to occur as native or naturalized species within
the boundaries of the U.S. and its territories. Includes common
and scientific names, economic importance, growth habits, distribution
maps and references to the literature. From the USDA
-
- Scott's
Botanical Links
- A meta-site for botany sites maintained by Dr. Scott Russell,
University of Oklahoma.
Society
for Economic Botany
Economic botany news, browse table of contents of Economic
Botany and read the Society's newsletter, Plants & People.
- WWW Virtual
Library: Botany
- Good list of resources in botany
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- Clearly identify your information need
- Identify key words and search
terms to match your topic
- Develop search statements using advanced
search techniques
- Boolean logic, adjacency searching and truncation
- Use the Stewart Library catalog
to find books
- Use the Science and Technology article
databases to find journal articles
- Go back to the online catalog to see if the journals are in
Stewart Library and where they are located
- Use Interlibrary loan
to get materials that are not in Stewart Library
- Use search
engines to find Web information
- Carefully
evaluate the information you find for usefulness and quality
- Revise your search terms and strategy to expand or narrow your
results, be creative, look in other areas
- Once you have found information from an Internet site you can
Email the
documents to yourself,
print or
save them to a floppy disk
- Use appropriate style to document
and cite research
- Ask for Assistance
at Reference
, via phone, or email
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