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Botany and Plant Physiology Subject Guide
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Research Databases
(Consult this list for interdisciplinary databases)
AGRICOLA
The AGRICOLA database contains citations to agricultural literature
housed in the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and its cooperators
from 1970 to the present.
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APIRS Online: the database of aquatic, wetland and invasive plants
The database includes annotated citations for more than 65,000 research articles, books and reports about plant ecology, physiology, utilization and control.
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BasicBIOSIS
A subset of the BIOSIS (Biological Abstracts). This database is designed specifically for use by college students.
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Biological and Agricultural Index
Biological & Agricultural Index provides comprehensive indexing of over 290 key international English-language periodicals in the biological and agricultural sciences.
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GreenFile
GreenFILE is a 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. GreenFILE will serve as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The total number of records exceeds 300,000, and full text is provided for more than 4,600 records from open access titles.
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Hekman Digital Archive
The HDA contains digital collections related to Calvin College & Calvin Theological Seminary in the academic departments of Art, Biology, CAS, and History.
- Art: images relating to Art History as well as instructional aids including images of famous
buildings around the world, fiber arts, maps, and ceramics.
- Biology: images of seedless plants, gymnosperms, and
angiosperms.
- CAS: images of costumes through the
ages and theater buildings from various countries.
- History: images of life in 11 Turkish cities from Adana to
Tarsus and China through the ages.
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JSTOR
JSTOR is a database consisting of only full-text articles from interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journals. Journals are included on the basis of number of subscribers the journal has, citation analysis, recommendations from
experts in the field, and the length of time that the journal has been
published. Coverage for each title begins with the first publication, with most titles ending coverage between three and five years ago.
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McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, presented via the Access Science website, is the most trusted and authoritative general science encyclopedia. It contains thousands of articles, 2,000 biographies, current bibliographies, and 110,000 science related definitions.
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Science Direct
Science Direct is the search engine for journals published by Elsevier, the world's largest publisher of science, technical, and medical (STM) journals. It is an excellent search engine for locating the finest scholarly and peer-reviewed ATM journals.
The Hekman Library subscribes to only a small number of citations found in this database. Interlibrary loan must be used to retrieve articles. Many of the features and services offered in this database are functional only for subscribers of Science Direct. The Hekman Library does not subscribe, so Calvin users access the site as guests.
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WorldCat (Public)
WorldCat (Public) is a global network of library content. This WorldCat site provides some services and functionality not offered on the other WorldCat site, but the content is identical. WorldCat is ideal for locating research sources not owned by Calvin so that the sources can be acquired through InterLibrary Loan.
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Reference Materials
Access Science
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (the web site is called Access Science) is the most trusted and authoritative general science encyclopedia. It contains thousands of articles, 2,000 biographies, current bibliographies, and 110,000 definitions.
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American Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants - SB403.2 .A45 1997
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Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Northeastern North America - QK117 .C84 2000
Useful handbook that provides information about aquatic and wetland plants in the area east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio River valley.
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Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology - QR81 .B46 2001
Definitive work for the study of bacteriology.
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Encyclopedia of Forest Sciences - SD126 .E53 2004
Four illustrated volumes cover the comprehensive and contemporary field of forest sciences, from the genetic aspects of air pollution to landscaping and planning.
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Encyclopedia of Life Science - QH302.5 E54 2002
Over 5,000 leading experts contribute 4,000 articles across the complete field of the life sciences.
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Encyclopedia of Microbiology - QR9 .E53 2000
A four-volume work that includes bibliographic entires.
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Encyclopedia of Plant Pathology - SB728 .E53 2001
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Encyclopedia of Virology - QR358 .E52 1999
A three-volume work that includes bibliographies with entires. Somewhat dated.
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Flora of North America, North of Mexico - FNA Online
Information on the names, taxonomic relationships, continent-wide distributions, and morphological characteristics of all plants native and naturalized found in North America north of Mexico.
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Flowering Plants of the World - QK495 .A1 F58 1993
Contains over 200 color illustrations and provides comprehensive coverage of the world's dominant plant group.
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McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, presented via the Access Science website, is the most trusted and authoritative general science encyclopedia. It contains thousands of articles, 2,000 biographies, current bibliographies, and 110,000 science related definitions.
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New Britton and Brown Illustrated Flora of the Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada - QK117 .G5
A comprehensive, three-volume encyclopedia that provides extensive information on plants in the area east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio River valley.
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New York Botanical Garden Illustrated Encyclopedia of Horticulture - SB317.58 .E94
A comprehensive ten-volume work. Somewhat dated, but still relevant for any botany project.
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Plant-Book: A Portable Dictionary of the Vascular Plants - QK11 .M29 1997
Includes all accepted generic and family names of flowering plants and ferns, with selected common names.
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Trees of the Northern United States and Canada - QK110 .F3 1995
Covers 300 species of trees. Includes keys, color photos, line drawings and maps.
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Web Sources
BiologyBrowser
A portal designed "to connect life sciences researchers with free, useful resources and other like-minded scientists from all around the world."
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Botany Online: The Internet Hypertextbook
The first 45 chapters of the German "Botany Online" "have been translated into English covering all plant anatomy, classic genetics, organic chemistry and plant biochemistry, intercellular communication, interactions between plants, fungi, bacteria, and viruses, evolution, and a part of ecology."
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Environmental Protection Agency
EPA leads the nation's environmental science, research, education and assessment efforts by developing and enforcing regulations, performing environmental research, sponsoring voluntary partnerships and programs, furthering environmental education, and publishing information.
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Extension Toxicology Network (ExToxNet)
Information on this website has been developed by toxicologists and chemists within the Extension Service of the land-grant universities listed below. A major goal has been to develop unbiased information in a form understandable by the non-expert, and to make that information fully searchable and selectively retrievable.
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INFOMINE: Biological, Agricultural, and Medical Sciences
INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the college and university level.
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International Plant Names Index
The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) is a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants, ferns and fern allies.
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IOPI Database of Plant Databases (DPD)
A global list of plant databases and home to the Global Plant Checklist covering over 200,000 plants.
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National Council for Science and the Environment
"An easy-to-use single-point entry to environmental information and data for the use of all participants in the environmental enterprise." (from website)
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National Invasive Information Center
The National Invasive Species Information Center (NISIC) serves as a reference gateway to information, organizations, and services about invasive species.
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Northern Praries Wildlife Research Center
Use this search engine to find information on insects, birds, fish, mammals, plants, etc, by Geographic Location.
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PLANTS Database, USDA
"The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories."
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Science.gov
Science.gov is a search engine for government science information and research results. Currently in its fourth generation, Science.gov provides search of more than 50 million pages of science information with just one query, and is a gateway to over 1,800 scientific Web sites.
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Scirus: for scientific information only
Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches over 250 million science-specific Web pages
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Periodicals
ejournal locator (SFX)
The Hekman Library ejournal locator provides title and subject access to all the electronic journals subscribed to by the Hekman Library.
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WebCat Search Hints - Subject-specific hints for searching the library catalog
Be sure to search under plants, trees, flora, etc., as subjects as well as botany, which by itself will not bring up everything. |
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