Biol/Psyc 290 - Animal Behavior : Resources (literature databases, journals, societies)

WINTER 2008

 
Resources (literature databases, journals, societies)

 

Online databases with direct links to full text access to articles

  • Web of Science many articles linked to full text and pdfs of article; database allows forward searching to find articles cited by current article
  • BioOne all citations linked to full text articles. For off campus access, please click here.
  • Google Scholar can turn up literature and even links to free pdf copies of articles
  • JSTOR (not as good for behavior as it is for ecology) Search General Science and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Collections; free access usually to articles 4 yrs and older
  • HighWire Press Science and Medicine journals, many free full text.
  • ProQuest Research Library many full text links - indexes some behavior journals
  • ScienceDirect Academic Press

 

Major journals with searchable contents and direct links to full text articles

 

Databases for article citations - library may have access to full text articles - but not always apparent from database

 

See Also:
Off-Campus Access to Licensed Resources

 

Getting Articles

  • Do you have access to a journal?  
      • 1.) Ariadne (print journals)
        • Title search on Title of the Journal to locate print journal
        2.) Electronic Journal Finder (online journals)
        • Title search on Title of the Journal to locate article in a Full Text Database
        3.) WestCat - Western Michigan's catalog 4.) Interlibrary Loan
        • Order item through Interlibrary Loan ($1 per filled request)
        • Use *only* when the journal is not available through Ariadne, Electronic Journals, or WestCat.

     

Animal Behavior Web Sites


©Dr. Ann Fraser, Department of Biology, Kalamazoo College
Last Revised: February 12, 2008 3:53 PM