LibGuides: Ecology: Online Resources

Featured Ecology Databases

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
The Web of Science (citation indexes), published by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences, social sciences and arts. It indexes major journals in these disciplines. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work. The search interface at this web site provides access to Science Citation Index,Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is a navigation tool covering the world's largest collection of abstracts, references and indexes of scientific, technical and medical (STM) literature as well as the research literature of the social sciences and humanities. Seamless links to full-text articles and other library resources make Scopus quick, easy and comprehensive. Compatible with IE8 or higher, Google Chrome and Firefox browsers
bioRxiv This link opens in a new window
bioRxiv is an online archive of unpublished preprints for the life sciences. By publishing here, authors can make their findings immediately available to the scientific community. Take the opportunity to read work-in-progress and the latest research before it goes into a formal journal publication.
GreenFile This link opens in a new window
GreenFILE is a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE will serve as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences This link opens in a new window
ELS features more than 5,000 articles written by leaders in the field to provide comprehensive coverage of each subject area. All articles are accompanied by colour illustrations and tables. Appendix and glossary material provide essential information for the non-specialist, including biochemical and taxonomic information, acronyms, synonyms, units and other technical data. Importantly, since all articles have been peer-reviewed a balanced representation of the literature is ensured.
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The largest of its kind, Global Plants is a community-contributed database used by students and researchers worldwide. Global Plants lets herbaria share their plant type specimens, experts determine and update plant names, and students discover and learn about plants in context. The database is an essential resource for institutions supporting research and teaching in botany, ecology, and conservation studies.
Birds of the World This link opens in a new window
Birds of the World is an ornithological research resource that brings together scholarly content from four celebrated works of ornithology with millions of bird observations from eBird and multimedia from the Macaulay Library into a single platform where biologists and birders can explore comprehensive life history information on birds. It includes nearly 11,000 species accounts as well as research citations, range maps and scientific illustrations.
BioOne Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides access to full text of articles from 2000 for over 60 bioscience journals published by scholarly societies. Subject coverage focuses on biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. BioOne was founded by American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), University of Kansas, Big 12 Plus Libraries Consortium, and Allen Press.
Biodiversity Heritage Library This link opens in a new window
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. BHL is revolutionizing global research by providing free, worldwide access to knowledge about life on Earth.

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IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Established in 1964, the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species has evolved to become the world's most comprehensive information source on the global extinction risk status of animal, fungus and plant species.

Animal Diversity Web

The Animal Diversity Web is an online database and encyclopedia of animal natural history, built through contributions from students, photographers, and many others.

Darwin Online

The world's largest and most widely used resource on Charles Darwin.

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American Museum of Natural History Research Library This link opens in a new window AMNH Library Digital Repository is an archive maintained by the Research Library for AMNH Scientific Publications, AMNH scholarly output and other original and published materials digitized by the Library. All information in the repository is freely accessible to scholars around the world to support their research.
Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
Arctic today This link opens in a new window ArcticToday is the comprehensive news source reporting on the Arctic, from the Arctic. An independent digital news site, ArcticToday partners with media organizations from around the circumpolar north, offering readers on-the-ground reporting, international news, features and community perspectives from one of the world’s fastest-changing regions.
arXiv This link opens in a new window Started in August 1991, arXiv.org (formerly xxx.lanl.gov) is a highly-automated electronic archive and distribution server for research articles. Covered areas include physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology and statistics. arXiv is maintained and operated by the Cornell University Library with guidance from the arXiv Advisory Board and the help of numerous subject moderators.
Bioline International This link opens in a new window Bioline International is a pioneer in the provision of open access to peer reviewed bioscience journals published in developing countries. These journals contain timely research on public health, international development, tropical medicine, food and nutritional security, and biodiversity
Botanicus Digital Library This link opens in a new window
BrowZine - Access to online journals provided at Cambridge University This link opens in a new window BrowZine helps researchers to focus fast on journals of relevance in their fields of interest and ranks them. By creating an account researchers can keep up to date in their field of expertise via BrowZine's superior browsing capabilities.
Cambridge Core This link opens in a new window Hosts all ejournals and ebooks formerly on CJO, CBO, CCO, CHO, SSO & UPO. Multi-disciplinary.
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Cambridge Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Cite Them Right This link opens in a new window The essential referencing resource. This site will help you to reference just about any source, and understand how to avoid plagiarism.
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Core Historical Literature of Agriculture This link opens in a new window A core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Full-text materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, crops and their protection, food science,forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, and soil science.
Darwin Correspondence Project This link opens in a new window Darwin's correspondence provides us with an invaluable source of information, not only about his own intellectual development and social network, but about Victorian science and society in general. They provide a remarkably complete picture of the development of his thinking, throwing light on his early formative years and the years of the voyage of the Beagle, on the period which led up to the publication of The Origin of Species and the subsequent heated debates.
Highly Cited Researchers This link opens in a new window Recognizing the true pioneers in their fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science™. Of the world’s scientists and social scientists, Clarivate™ Highly Cited Researchers truly are one in 1,000.
Journal Citation Reports This link opens in a new window Select Journal Citation Reports on the Web of Science platform (go to Products top right)
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Nature This link opens in a new window
Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. The Core Collection contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books, giving subscribers unprecedented access to a comprehensive information resource. The Premium Collection offers all of the above, plus added functionality and more detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series, to enhance the coverage already provided by the award-winning Core Collection.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedias This link opens in a new window Cambridge University now has access to all the OREs which currently comprise the following subjects: African history; American history; Anthropology; Asian history; Business & Management; Climate science; Communication; Criminology and Criminal justice; Economics and Finance; Education; Social work; Environmental science; Global public health; International studies; Latin American history; Linguistics; Literature; Natural hazard science; Neuroscience; Physics; Planetary science; Politics; Psychology; Religion.
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SAGE Research Methods Online This link opens in a new window A research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. Links over 175,000 pages of SAGE’s renowned book, journal and reference content with search and discovery tools. Researchers can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings. A "methods map" facilitates finding content on methods. SAGE Research Methods contains content from over 720 books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks, the entire “Little Green Book,” and "Little Blue Book” series. Includes a collection of case studies of real social research.
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ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window ScienceDirect provides access to the full text of journals published by Elsevier Science.
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Searchable Ornithological Research Archive (SORA) This link opens in a new window The world's first and largest open access ornithological publications archive. SORA provides access to an extensive library of ornithological literature of international scope, and detailed material documenting the history of ornithology in North America over the last 120 years.
Springer Nature Link This link opens in a new window Access to selected Springer and Palgrave Macmillan ebook titles. Includes selected titles in Biomedicine, Computer Science, Life Sciences, Mathematics and Physics, and a small range of titles in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
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University Press Scholarship Online This link opens in a new window Online access to 24 university presses. With the exception of Oxford University Press (see separate entry for Oxford Scholarship Online), full-text access is restricted to individual titles that have been purchased on request. Includes separate subscription access to Law titles published by 16 partner presses.
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Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window Multi-disciplinary
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WorldCat This link opens in a new window WorldCat is a union (i.e. collective) catalog of records of any type of material (books, periodicals, scores, films, recordings, etc.) cataloged by over 41,000 OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries, primarily but not exclusively, from libraries in the United States, but extending to 82 other nations. There are more than 47 million records in the WorldCat database, whose scope includes everything from Babylonian inscriptions to e-books. This database is used to verify citations of items not found in the HOLLIS Catalog, possibly to find a local holding library, or to provide accurate citations for interlibrary loan requests. OCLC adds evaluative content to WorldCat bibliographic records such as tables of contents, cover art, book summaries, and notes about authors. A search for archives and manuscripts should include ArchivesUSA and Archive Grid (both Harvard Libraries E-Resources) as well as WorldCat.

Ecology E-Journals

BrowZine gives you the ability to browse journals - subscribed by the University of Cambridge - and store them into a personal bookshelf. BrowZine then updates you with new articles published in these journals and clearly displays unread articles new to your bookshelf.

BrowZine Biological Sciences Journals covers the broad spectrum of ecology research and includes important titles such as Nature, Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Current Biology.

For more subject-specific titles, try BrowZine Ecology Journals .

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