Bio 263: Molecular Ecology

Electronic resources are typically for the Reed community only. Off campus access is available.

Books and Background Information

To identify books on your topic:

Library Catalog
The catalog contains all of the books and other materials owned by the library. The best way to identify materials related to your topic is by a "Word" search.

Summit
The Summit catalog allows you to search for books at most college and university libraries in Oregon and Washington. The books you request are delivered to Reed within 2-3 days.

For background information on your topic:

AccessScience
Covers all of science; much information of biological interest.

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

Academic Search Premier
Good, general interdisciplinary database. Nice coverage of the popular literature, as well as core journals of the scholarly literature (Over 7000 journals are included, 4000 of which are full text.).

Molecular Ecology
Journal web page from the publisher, Blackwell. Articles focused around "utilize[ing] molecular genetic techniques to address consequential questions in ecology, evolution, behaviour and conservation." One advantage of the site is the ability to search Molecular Ecology in it's entirity. Other access is available, although not as direct.

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Review Publications

Review publications contain articles that review the research already done in a given area. A review article can give you a very good up-to-date synthesis of a particular topic, and provide you with an extensive bibliography. Some reviews useful for molecular ecology are:

Annual Reviews: You may search all of the Annual Review publications. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution & Systematics (v.1, 1970 - present)
Annual Review of Genetics (v.1, 1967 - present)
Annual Review of Microbiology (v.1, 1947 - present)

Trends in...:The Trends journals are a good place to find a shortish review article on a "hot" topic.
Trends in Genetics (TIG)
Trends in Ecology and Evolution (TREE)

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Journals and Journal Collections

Once you identify a citiation for an article using a database, or if you just want to browse a journal title, you must determine if the library subscribes to the journal. At this time, the best way to do so is to use the Print & E-Journals list. For help using the Print & E-Journals List, or finding journals in general, try How Do I Find Articles?.

If you haven't identified particular journals, but would like to see what Reed has access to, you can use the mostly complete subject lists available from the Print & E-Journals list. Obviously useful is the Health and Biological Sciences list.

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Databases

BIOSIS Previews (1969 - present)
The most comprehensive biological database, covering a large range and number of bioscience journals and other publications.

PubMed (1966 - present)
Indexing of the biomedical literature. PubMed includes more microbiology and can be searched with many genetic, sequence, and taxonomic resources.

Web of Science (1900 - present)
Web-based version of Science Citation Index. Provides keyword and citation access to over 5,700 major science journals.

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Style & Writing Guides

Chicago Guide to Communicating Science
T10.5 .M65 2003
Includes techniques for writing papers, conference talks, review articles, etc.

Endnote
Allows you to save and organize reference citations.

Molecular Ecology: Author Guidelines

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