Bio 332: Vascular Plant Diversity

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

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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 Phytopathology (v.1, 1963 - present)
Annual Review of Plant Biology (v.1, 1963 - present)

Trends in...: The Trends journals are a good place to find a shortish review article on a "hot" topic.
Trends in Genetics (TIG) (Print: v.10, 1994 - present; Online: 1995 - present)
Trends in Ecology and Evolution (TREE) (print: v.9, 1994 - present; Online: 1995 - present)
Trends in Plant Science (v.1, 1996 - present; Online: 1995 - present)

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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. 

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Style & Writing Guides

American Journal of Botany: Manuscript Preparation

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.

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