Zoology

Department of Zoology Homepage - look here for information about faculty, courses, student programs, etc. in "ZO-ology"

• Undergraduate programs
• Graduate programs

Research programs - look here for a description of current research interests.

Careers in "Zo-ology"

Hatfield Marine Science Center

Oregon State Arthropod Collection: OSAC is the largest entomological research collection in the Pacific Northwest. 

Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology

Ecosystem Informatics

Oregon Wildlife Explorer

 

Consult the http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/dspace/ for recent theses and dissertations related to zoology. 

Use the OSU Libraries (OSUL) catalog to find books in OSU Libraries.

Expand your search to the Summit Libraries catalog if you can't find what you need at OSUL collection. (HOW?)

If your area of interest is VERY specific and covered by books, use WorldCat to identify what you need and interlibrary loan to request it.

 

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The library collection is arranged by call numbers which allow browsing by subject -- so if you find a book of interest, very likely the books on either side will be on the same subject.  Most of the Valley Library's zoology collection is located on the 1st floor in the QH's and QL's.  If you would like to browse the book collection follow the "read more" link below for a breakdown of call number ranges you may want to look at.

 

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• Use these databases to locate articles and research findings on specific zoology related topics.  A complete list of Databases is linked from the OSU Library homepage.  
• Academic Search Premier
  Provides full text (sometimes will a lag of up to 12 months) of ~4,600 scholarly publications including many peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans all academic fields. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost. 1975-present
  Coverage Dates: 1975 - present
• Biosis Previews/Biological Abstracts (via ISI Web of Knowledge)
  Most comprehensive index of life sciences and biomedical research from 5000 journals as well as non-journal literature (meetings, patents, and books)Over 500,000 citations are added annually. 1991-present.
  Coverage Dates: 1991 - present
• CAB Abstracts
  Covers journal articles, conference proceedings and other materials in agriculture, forestry, nutrition and veterinary medicine. International scope.
  Abstracts and index:
  1973-present
  Coverage Dates: 1973 - present
• Fish & Fisheries Worldwide
  Indexes journal articles, books, conference papers, government reports, theses and other literature covering all areas of fish and fisheries research. 1971-present
  Coverage Dates: 1971 - present
• Medline (EBSCOhost)
  Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals. Provides authoritative medical information as well as coverage of other related disciplines. For a free version, use "PUBMED".
  Coverage Dates: 1950 - present
• Web of Science
  This is a multidisciplinary database of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. You can search for specific articles by title words, author, journal, and/or author address. Because information stored about each article includes the its bibliography so you can also search for articles that cite a known author or article (taking you forward in time). 1970-present
  Coverage Dates: 1970 - present
• Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide
  Indexes journal articles, books, conference papers, government reports, theses and other literature covering all areas of wildlife research. 1935-present
  Coverage Dates: 1935 - present
• Zoological Record (via ISI Web of Knowledge)
  The world’s leading taxonomic reference; the unofficial registry of animal names. This database covers nearly 5,000 journals, plus non-journal publications. 75,000 citations are added annually. 1993-present.
  Coverage Dates: 1993 - present

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Searches Ebsco version of Academic Search Premier, Agricola, and Medline as well as Biosis and Zoological Record.

If you would like to browse zoology journals in electronic form, these links will take you to lists of journals under the subject headings given. Time coverage varies and currently more is in paper than electronically. For a more comprehensive search on a narrower topic, be sure to use the databases first.

• Animal Anatomy & Embryology (23)
• Animal Behavior (26)
• Animal Geography (15)
• Invertebrates & Protozoa (81)
• Vertebrates (71)
• Zoology - General (95)

To determine if the library owns the journals you need, check:

• E-journals list (electronic journals only)*
• Library Catalog (print and electronic journals)*

*Verify that the dates of coverage or the print holdings include the volume/issue you need.

 

If you are looking for older/classics in the literature try the database, JSTOR.

Use interlibrary loan to request articles the OSU Libraries do not have in their print or electronic collections

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American Fisheries Society

American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

American Society of Mammalogists

Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

Society for Conservation Biology
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles

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UCMP Hall of Mammals-An extensive online taxonomy of mammals hosted by University of California, Berkeley

Taxonomy Browser at NBII

World Biodiversity Database-Continuously growing taxonomic database

Nature, the international weekly journal of science, has a collection of videos.  For selected articles and letters Nature will present streaming videos that feature interviews with scientists behind the research and analysis from Nature editors.  These videos include:

Genome of the Duck-billed Platypus

Whale Evolution

Jaws II (the moray eel)

Deep Southern Ocean Diversity

More videos are available on the Nature website.

Virtual Library: Developmental Biology

Suggestions from the Department of Zoology at OSU.

National Biological Information Infrastructure

Synopsis and classification of living organisms.
Sybil P. Parker, editor in chief. New York : McGraw-Hill, 1982. 2v.
Provides systematic positions of all living organisms down to the family level. Index is located in volume 2 and contains both common and scientific names. Length of entries varies--sometimes just the name is mentioned (though references for the taxon immediately superior may be relevant) May be a brief overview of the organism's characteristics, biology and ecology, as well as literature references.
Valley Reference QH83 .S89

Dictonary of zoology (Oxford) -- Online only.

Grzimek's Animal life encyclopedia.
Arrangement by animal groupings and further divided into animal orders and families. Valley Reference QL3 .G7813 and online.

General:

Guide to reference and information sources in the zoological sciences 2003. (Valley Reference QL45.2 .S36 2003)

 

Birds:

• Birds of North America: Life Histories for the 21st Century  Valley Reference QL681 B625 -- Will eventually encompass individual species accounts for the 700 bird species nesting in the United States and Canada.  See also, Birds of North America (Database from Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
• Sibley's Distribution and taxonomy of birds of the world
  Valley Reference QL677 .S531 1990
• Sibley's Supplement to Distribution and taxonomy of birds of the world Valley Reference QL677 .S531 1990 sup.--Taxonomic list of birds based on use of DNA and DNA hybridization analysis.
• Field guide to the birds of North America.
  Valley Reference QL681 .F531 1999

Fish

• Encyclopedia of fishes.
  Valley Reference QL614.7 .E521 1998
• Fishes of the world
  Valley Reference QL618 .N4 1994
• List of common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada = Special publication / American Fisheries Society ; no. 12  Valley Reference SH1 .A49 no.12
  All species of known freshwater fish of the United States and Canada are covered as well as species along the continental shelf to a depth of 200 meters.
  

Amphibians and Reptiles

• Amphibians and reptiles of the Pacific Northwest.
  Valley Reference QL653.N95 N87 1983  
• Complete guide to scientific and common names of reptiles and amphibians of the world.
  Valley Reference QL645 .F731 1995

Mammals

• Mammals of North America
  Valley Reference QL715 .K38 2002
• Mammals of the Pacific Northwest: from the coast to the high Cascades.
  Valley Reference QL201 .M37 1998
• Land Mammals of Oregon
  Valley Reference QL719 .O7 V474 1998
• Mammalian species -- Will eventually encompass species accounts for all species of mammals. Valley Reference QL700 .M3 (1969+) Available online at: http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-archive&issn=1545-1410
• Mammals Species of the World (3rd Edition) Valley Reference QL708 .M35 2005 Avalable on line at http://vertebrates.si.edu/mammals/msw/
• National Audubon Society field guide to North American mammals --Descriptions include common and scientific name, description, similar species, breeding, sign, habitat, range and information on natural history.  Valley Reference QL715 .W49 1996
• Walker's mammals of the world. -- Comprehensive account of recent genera of mammals arranged by taxonomic classification. Valley Reference QL703 .W222 1999

Scientific style and format: the CSE manual for authors, editors and publishers (formerly the CBE style guide)

• T11.S386 2006 (Reference Stacks)

Here are two helpful online guides to CSE format:

• Ohio State University Libraries' Cite Resources: Council of Science Editors Style
• Colorado State Libraries' CSE (Name/Year System)