Animal Behavior Research Guide

Biology 243

Fall Term 2006

Professor Johanna Kraus

FINDING BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Reference books are a great place to find background information on your topic.  To search for books, use the library catalog Annie. 

(HINT: There is an Annie search box on every library web page.)

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia

Encylopedia of Animal Behavior 

Animal Behavior Desk Reference 

Animal Life 

Dictionary of Zoology 

Comparative Psychology 

 

FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES

Use bibliographic databases to search the scientific journal literature.  The best for Animal Behavior are described and linked below.

Scopus

A competitor to Web of Science, Scopus is also quite exhaustive, with a bit more focus on social and behavioral sciences.

JSTOR

A great resource to search the older scientific literature.  Be sure to select your discipline(s) or journal(s) toward the bottom of the search screen.

PsycINFO

Produced by the American Psychological Association, includes information on animal psychology.  On the advanced search screen, select "animal" as your population.

 

DO WE HAVE THE ARTICLE YOU'RE LOOKING FOR? 

IMPORTANT JOURNALS

To look for journal articles in particular journals, use the indicated search tool and tips for limiting your search to specific journals.  The journal titles below are linked to either the journal's home page or the Annie catalog record.

JSTOR

To search for articles in these specific journals, be sure to type the titles in the text box for "These Journal Titles" with each title separated by a semicolon. 

American Economic Review

American Naturalist 

BioScience 

The Condor 

Ecology 

Evolution  

Journal of Animal Ecology

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B

Quarterly Review of Biology

Science

ScienceDirect

In ScienceDirect, it is best to create a free account to search a group of particular journals.  Just save these journals in your "My Favorite Journals" list. 

Animal Behaviour (1999-present)

Hormones and Behavior (1999-present)

Trends in Ecology and Evolution (1999-present)

Trends in Cognitive Sciences (1999-present)

BioOne

To search for articles from these particular journals, go to the BioOne Search Page and use the "Select Journal(s)" menu to indicate the journals to search.

American Zoologist (2000-2001)

The Auk (2000-present)

BioScience (2000-present)

The Condor (2000-present)

Evolution (2000-present)

Journal of Arachnology(2000-present)

Annie

Most of these journals are only available in print in our library.  Where noted, these print issues make up for what JSTOR and other databases lack.  Use Web of Science (use the operator "OR" between journal titles) or Scopus (use the drop-down menu and select "Source Title") to search in these journals.

American Economic Review (previous 2 years not available in JSTOR) 

American Scientist 

American Zoologist

Animal Behaviour

The Auk  

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology  

Behaviour

Canadian Journal of Zoology 

Ecology (previous 5 years not available in JSTOR) 

Journal of Fish Biology

Science (previous 5 years not available in JSTOR) 

Scientific American  

Trends in Cognitive Sciences  

Trends in Ecology and Evolution  

Other

These are journals that we do not subscribe to in print, but that are also not part of big aggregate packages such as JSTOR and ScienceDirect.  You may search these via Web of Science, Scopus, or the links provided.

American Naturalist (via University of Chicago 1997-present)

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics (via Annual Reviews)

Behavioral Ecology (via Oxford Journals 1998-present)

Journal of Zoology (via Blackwell-Synergy 1998-2005)

Nature (1997-present)

Quarterly Review of Biology (via University of Chicago 2002-present)

 

If you have trouble using these resources, see Mary Abdoney in the Science Library for help.

Or, send an instant message from your Yahoo!, AIM or MSN account to WLULibRef.