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BIOL 4900 Ornithology: Home

Created for BIOL 4900 Ornithology class.

Kentucky Warbler

Orange-billed Sparrow

Red Cockaded Woodpecker

Biology 4900 Resources

The International Union on Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

www.iucn.org

US Fish & Wildlife Service

http://endangered.fws.gov/

Endangered Species - Main Page

http://eelink.net/EndSpp/

EDGE (Zoological Society of London)

http://www.edgeofexistence.org/

Wilderness Network

http://www.wilderness.net/

The Society for Conservation Biology

http://conbio.net/scb/

World Wildlife Fund

http://www.wwf.org/

Endangered Species Coalition

http://www.stopextinction.org/


Biodiversity Heritage Library

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/Default.aspx 

Databases in Galileo for Biology 4900

All About Birds is a website from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology that includes information about watching birds, learning their nesting behaviors, attracting birds, indentifying them, recording observations, and getting involved in bird conservation. The site includes guides, images, maps, sounds, videos, and much more. There is also a link to the Macaulay Library, an archive of animal sounds and videos.

 

Environment Complete (EBSCOhost)

Full-text Articles & books. Deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine and freshwater science, geography, pollution and waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.


GreenFILE (EBSCOhost)
Full-text articles. Indexes scholarly and general interest titles as well as government documents and reports.

 

MEDLINE with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
Full-text. Journal articles in all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. This database corresponds to the print indexes, Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index. 

Science and Technology Collection (EBSCOhost)
Full-text articles. Contains more than 830 full-text journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community, and includes indexing and abstracts for an additional 1,740 journals. Topics include aeronautics, astrophysics, biology, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, marine sciences, and materials science.

ProQuest Databases (ProQuest)
Full-text articles. Click the checkboxes to search the ProQuest databases simultaneously or individually.

Research Library (ProQuest)
Full-text articles. Access to a wide range of popular academic subjects from thousands of thousands of titles, including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.

DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals (website)
Comprehensive coverage of all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content.
From the website:"We define open access journals as journals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. From the BOAI definition [1] of "open access" we take the right of users to "read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles" as mandatory for a journal to be included in the directory.

EBSCO Databases
Full-text journal articles. Thousands of full-text periodicals. Search all EBSCO databases simultaneously.

EBSCOhost Mobile Academic
Full Text. Access to EBSCOhost Databases via Smart Phones 

Academic Search Complete (EBSCOHost)
Full-text Articles. Multi-disciplinary database, with more than 6,100 full-text periodicals, including more than 5,100 peer-reviewed journals, and indexing and abstracts for more than 10,100 journals

Subject Guide

Blue-crowned Manakin