PCB 5328 Resources
Landscape Ecology

How to Access UCF Library Databases and Resources from off campus

General Internet Information | Resources for Maps and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

UCF Library Home Page provides links to the UCF library catalog and gateway to other resources, such as:
http://library.ucf.edu/

Sciences, including Biology and Environment & Geology

• Biological Abstracts (SilverPlatter database) - available on campus (& off-campus using Pegasus dial-up) - provides bibliographic references with abstracts derived from life sciences research journals published worldwide.  Available in print INDEX QH301.B37 from 1926 forward.  Available electronically 1980+.

• Blackwell Synergy provides full text journals in the medical and biological sciences, including African Journal of Ecology, Austral Ecology, Conservation Biology, Ecological Entomology, Ecological Management & Restoration, Ecological Research, Ecology Letters, Environmental Microbiology, Freshwater Biology, Functional Ecology, Global Change Biology, Global Ecology & Biogeography, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal of Biogeography, Journal of Ecology, Marine Ecology, Molecular Ecology, Plant Species Biology, Restoration Ecology, and Weed Biology & Management.

• Highwire Press provides full text journals in the sciences and medicine, including Annual Review of Ecology & Systematics (1996- ), Annual Review of Energy & the Environment (1996- ), Behavioral Ecology (1999- ), and Journal of Environmental Quality (2001- ).

• JSTOR provides full text, page image from over 100 scholarly journals, including American Naturalist (1867-1998), Conservation Biology (1987-1999), and Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences (1665-1997).

• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts provides databases with abstracts for research level journal articles in various areas of science, including aquatic sciences, medical and biological sciences, and environmental sciences. Links to some Full Text.

• Web of Science - Science Citation Index (ISI database) is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines. 

Popular Indexes

• Academic Index (WebLUIS database) indexes articles in approximately 1000 scholarly journals and popular magazines in the arts, humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Abstracts are included for some articles. Provides access to ASCII full text of some articles. Dates of coverage: 1982+

• WilsonSelect (FirstSearch database) contains indexed and abstracted articles from periodicals, all with ASCII full text online. The database is comprised of records from the following H.W. Wilson databases: Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts. Dates of coverage: 1994+

• EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite provides abstracts and indexing for over 3,200 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education and more. Also offers full text for over 1,000 journals with many dating back to 1990. Includes coverage of over 1,700 peer-reviewed journals.

Other Library Resources
http://library.ucf.edu/Databases/TitlesAL.htm

Government Documents Resources including technical reports
http://library.ucf.edu/govdocs/

Other Useful Web Sites:

• WWW Virtual Library: Bio Sciences - see also Agriculture and Earth Science
  http://www.vlib.org/Biosciences.html

• PALMM Sites include Florida Environments Online, Linking Florida's Natural Heritage, Reclaiming the Everglades, Type Specimens in the University of Florida Herbarium, and World Map Collections.
  http://susdl.fcla.edu/collection.html

• Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants
  http://www.plantatlas.usf.edu/

• Dr. Weishampel's Home Page
  http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~jweisham/

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