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Research and Style Guides
Advice on Academic Writing (Univ. of Toronto)
Writer's Handbook : Annotated Bibliographies (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)
Online! Citation Styles  (Publisher)
Citation Style for Research Papers (LIU, includes AMA, Turabian and Chicago styles)

Grzimek's animal life encyclopedia
Environmental encyclopedia
Nature encyclopedia of life sciences
Searching Zoological Record (a UCR guide to the print) QL1 .Z63
Biology Browser (produced by Thomson Scientific, is a free web site offering resources for the life sciences information community. Includes the Nomenclature Glossary for Zoology, the Zoological Record Thesaurus, and more.)

Zoological Record Plus (ZR Plus) [use for field methods; hint: use "search tools" and look-up "technique" in the ZooRec thesaurus, note explode feature]
Searchable database of citations for articles in zoology and animal science journals. Also includes citations for books, meetings, and reviews. Subjects covered include evolution, genetics, marine biology, taxonomy, and veterinary studies. Vendor is CSA.   Factsheet Quick Reference Card
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1978 - current.

BIOSIS Previews [use for lab methods]
Citations and abstracts to journal articles in the life sciences. Very interdisciplinary within biology, including biochemistry, ecology, genetics, microbiology, ocean sciences, plant biology, and zoology. Database provider: ISI.  The COMPLETE Guide   UCB Library Guide
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1969 - present

Web of Science / Web of Knowledge
This Web of Knowledge database provides access to all three parts of the Citation Index: Arts and Humanities, Social Science and Science. Search by subject, author, journal title. Cited Reference Search finds articles that cite an author or article that you specify. Quick Reference Guide
Subject area(s): ['Art and Art History', 'Science and Engineering', 'Social Sciences']. Covers: 1975 - present

Google Scholar Public/free alternative to ISI's Web of Science

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Library Catalogs

CRUZCAT books, journals, newspapers, maps, films, sound recordings, computer files...  owned by UCSC.

Melvyl®/CDL Catalog  books, maps, films, sound recordings, dissertations... owned by all UC libraries.

RLIN Bibliographic File  Research Libraries Group (RLG) Union Catalog; via CDL  RCAT

WorldCat  shared cataloging database for academic, research, and public libraries.

JSTOR [Biological Sciences]
A searchable database containing the full-text of back issues of more than 160 academic journals.
Subject area(s): ['Humanities', 'Science and Engineering', 'Social Sciences']. Coverage: Archival. Latest three years are not available.

Blackwell/Synergy Online Journals
Searchable database of over 300 full-text journals in the sciences and medicine.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.

Science Direct from Elsevier
ScienceDirect is a searchable database including the full text of over 2000 peer reviewed academic journals.
Subject area(s): ['Humanities', 'Science and Engineering', 'Social Sciences'].

Wiley InterScience
Wiley InterScience is a searchable database including full text of Wiley's 400+ scientific, technical, medical and professional journals.