Biology Research Tip Sheet

All library resources are available from off campus. See instructions and details below. This tip sheet is available online at library home page > Distance Ed Library Services > Research Tip Sheets.

• Online Library Resources
• Requesting Material
• Journal Holdings
• Reference Assistance

Online Library Resources

• go to the Library Catalog to search for books/videos/DVDs, etc.
  • enter your term and select the index you want to search (author, title, subject, keyword)
  • check the Netlibrary database for full-text online books
• to find journal articles, use a periodical database
  • go to the library’s Periodical Databases page and select one of the databases listed below (click the letter that begins the database name at the first alphabetical list in the upper right)
  • if you are off campus, type your ENMU ID# at the remote authentication screen

Databases for Biology/Life Sciences Research

• Science Direct--scholarly, approx 50% full text
• Academic Search Premier--scholarly, approx 75% full text
• ProQuest--semi-scholarly, approx 90% full text
• JSTOR (ecological topics only)--scholarly, full text except most recent years
• Environment Complete (semi-scholarly, full text)
• NEW--try Zia Search on the Periodical Databases page--click the Zia Search link, select several databases, enter your search terms, and the databases will be searched simultaneously (for Biology topics, select Academic Search Premier, Blackwell-Synergy, ProQuest)

Also try the following sites for full-text articles:
Free Medical Journals
Highwire Press
PLOS Biology
Springer Journals)
NLM's Entrez (select PubMed for latest articles, not full-text; select PubMed Central for earlier articles, all full text)
University of Chicago

If you are unable to locate full-text material in the database you are searching, try using our Full-Text Online Journals, on the Periodical Databases page. If you are still unable to locate your material, you may place a request for it (see below).

Internet Resources

• Animal Diversity Web
• Arachnology
• Burke Museum of Natural History - Mammalogy Section
• FishBase
• Herps of Texas
• Iowa State Entomology Index: Images
• National Geographic's Wild World Conservation Atlas
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services
• Cells Alive (images)
• Gray's Anatomy
• Human Anatomy Online (images, animations)
• Virtual Embryo
• Visible Human Project
• Whole Brain Atlas (images)

Requesting Material

Register with the ILLiad ILL system and create your personal ILLiad account. Go to the Interlibrary Loan link and click on the ILLiad Log In/Register link on the upper right. Click on the "First Time Users" button and register with the system. Enter your ENMU email address, create an ILLiad username of your own choosing, and enter your ENMU ID number as your ILLiad password. Return to the same ILLiad Log In/Register link and logon to your ILLiad account to use the system.

• if you are taking classes on the main campus, check Golden Library holdings first, before submitting a request. If your item is unavailable online or in the library, you may place an ILL request.
• if you are a ITV-videoconference, online or on-site student and do not come to the main campus for your classes, you may request anything not available full-text online via ILL, including items from Golden Library's catalog.

On-campus students may pick up requested items at the library's Circulation Desk. Items requested from distance ed students will be sent directly to them. Some articles may be available electronically via your personal ILLiad account. All notifications about requested material are done via your ENMU email account. For items we must request from other libraries, the turnaround time may be as long as two weeks. Golden Library has no control over lending terms and renewal policies set by other libraries.

Journal Holdings in Biology/Life Sciences

Print/Electronic Biology Journals available in Golden Library:
Acta Theriologica
American Journal of Botany
American Journal of Epidemiology
American Journal of Medicine
American Journal of Physiology
American Midland Naturalist
American Naturalist
American Scientist
Annals of the Entomological Society of America
Annual Reviews (electronic--multiple subjects: http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/arplant)
Applied and Environmental Microbiology (electronic)
Audubon
Auk
Behaviour
BioChemistry and Cell Biology
Biology of Reproduction
BioScience
Botanical Review
Brittonia
Bulletin of the WHO
Canadian Journal of Botany
Cell
Comparative Parasitology
Condor
Conservation Biology
Copeia
Ecography
Ecological Applications
Ecology
Endocrinology
Entomological News
Environmental Biology of Fishes
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Epidemiologic Reviews
Evolution
FEMS Microbiology Reviews
Field Notes/National Audubon Society
Field Notes/New Mexico Ornithological Society
Fish Physiology and Biochemistry
Freshwater Biology
General and Comparative Endocrinology
Global Ecology and Biogeography
Great Basin Naturalist
Herpetologica
Herpetological Monographs
Herpetological Reviews
Ibis
Infection and Immunity (electronic)
International Journal of Plant Sciences
Invertebrate Biology
Invertebrate Neuroscience
International Journal Plant Sciences

JSPP Newsletter
Journal of Animal Ecology
Journal Applied Physiology
Journal of Applied Ichthyology
Journal of Bacteriology
Journal of Biogeography (electronic)
Journal of Cell Biology (electronic)
Journal Clinical Microbiology (electronic)
Journal of Ecology
Journal of Economic Entomology
Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
Journal Experimental Botany
Journal of Experimental Zoology
Journal of Heredity
Journal of Infectious Diseases
Journal of Mammalogy
Journal of Medical Entomology
Journal of Parasitology
Journal Torrey Botanical Society
Journal of Virology
Journal of Wildlife Diseases
Journal Wildlife Management
Journal of Zoology (electronic)
Limnology and Oceanography (electronic)
Mammalian Species
Microbiological and Molecular Biology Reviews (electronic)
Natural History (electronic)
Nature
Neuron (electronic)
New England Journal of Medicine
New Phytologist (electronic)
New Scientist (electronic)
North American Birds
North American Journal of Aquaculture
North American Journal of Fisheries Management
Oikos
Pan Pacific Entomologist
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
Physiologia Plantarum (electronic)
Physiological and Biochemical Zoology
Physiological Reviews
Plant and Cell Physiology
Plant Science Bulletin (print and electronic)
Prairie Naturalist
Proceedings National Academy of Sciences (electronic)
Quarterly Review Biology
Science (print and electronic)
Science News (electronic)
Scientific American (print and electronic)
Southwestern Naturalist
Studies in Avian Biology (electronic)
Texas Journal of Science
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine
Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Trends in Neurosciences
Western North American Naturalist
Wetlands Ecology and Management (electronic)
Wildlife Monographs
Wildlife Research (electronic)
Wilson Bulletin

Reference Assistance

Ask for help! Portales students go to the library's Reference Desk or call 562.2638. Off-campus students contact Michele Wood, or by phone at 562.2644 or 800.450.7279.