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 QL751 .E614 1987
Animal Behavior Desk Reference QL750.3 .B37 2001 (Science Reference)
Animal Life QL101 .A55 1991 (Science Reference)
Comparative Psychology BF671 .C615 1998 (Science Reference)
FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES
Use bibliographic databases to search the scientific journal literature. The best for Animal Behavior are described and linked below.
ScopusA competitor to Web of Science, Scopus is also quite exhaustive, with a bit more focus on social and behavioral sciences.
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.
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?
When searching for journal articles, you may not have access to the full text of the article that interests you.
Click on this button
to see if W&L has full-text access to the article. If not, request it through Interlibrary Loan.
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)
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Ecology (previous 5 years not available in JSTOR)
Science (previous 5 years not available in JSTOR)
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.