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Library Research Tips: Finding and Using Databases at ECU's Joyner Library, Study notes of School management&administration

Tips for using ecu's joyner library, including starting projects early, keeping a notebook of search keywords and databases, and contacting a librarian for assistance. It also details various databases available, such as asfa, bioone, science direct, and zoological record, and explains how to find books in the library catalog.

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T i p : S t a r t y o u r
p r o j e c t s e a r l y and
k e e p u p w i t h them!
Tip: Keep a small notebook of the
databases you search, the key-
words you use, and the date you
searched them. This will save you
time in the long run.
Ask a Librarian
How Do I?
Pirate Source and Library Catalog
Databases
Tips
Joyner Library
Biology Resources and Tips
S e p tembe r 1 1 , 2 00 7
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T i p : S t a r t y o u r

p r o j e c t s e a r l y a n d

k e e p u p w i t h t h e m!

Tip: Keep a small notebook of the

databases you search, the key-

words you use, and the date you

searched them. This will save you

time in the long run.

Ask a Librarian How Do I? Pirate Source and Library Catalog Databases Tips

Joyner Library

Biology Resources and Tips

S e p t e m b e r 1 1 , 2 0 0 7

Page 2

Begin with the library’s homepage

www.ecu.edu/lib Ask a Librarian

Email us and get an answer within 24

hours

Instant message us at JoynerRef when-

ever the reference desk is staffed.

Set up a research consultation with a

librarian to discuss your projects

Call the reference desk at 328- 6677

Come into the library

Jean Hiebert 328 - 2261

hiebertj@ecu.edu 412 - 2967

Page 5 Databases

ASFA (Aquatic Sciences
and Fisheries Abstracts

Covers all aspects of marine, brackish, and freshwater environments. Subjects include biology, ecology, fisheries, aquaculture, oceanography,

BioOne

BioOne provides the fulltext of approximately 125 high impact, peer-reviewed bioscience journals and bulletins. Most of these titles are published by small societies and non-

Science Direct

Provides desktop access to the full text of hundreds of journals published or distributed by Elsevier Science. to microbiology to pharmacology. Covers 1969+ limnology, resources and commerce, pollution, biotechnology, marine technology and engineering, marine meteorology and climatology, and non-living resources (oil, gas, minerals, chemicals). commercial publishers, and, until now, have been available only in printed form. The database also includes BioOne.2 which offers additional journals to be added through 2008.

Zoological Record

An index to the worldwide zoological literature. Information sources of a general nature as well as materials of a highly scientific nature are scanned for items of interest. Not a full-text database, but some articles can be accessed by using to link to other databases.

Biological Abstracts

Provides indexing to, and abstracts of, journal articles covering the life sciences literature worldwide. Subjects covered range from botany to