• an OCLC FirstSearch Database with citations and abstracts for articles in animal science, chemistry, energy, entomology, food science, forestry, life sciences, natural resources, and plant diseases, published from 1970 to the present
• use quotes to search for a phrase, for truncation, use * (phenotyp* will find phenotype or phenotypic)
• FirstSearch also includes Medline; you can switch databases and repeat your searches by using the drop-down list next to "Search in database:"

Biological Abstracts

• citations and abstracts for articles in biology, plant and animal science, ecology, paleontology, pharmacology, biochemistry, biophysics and bioengineering, published from 1969 to the present
• multiple words together are taken as a phrase
• for truncation, use $ (phenotyp$ will find phenotype or phenotypic)

JSTOR

• full text scholarly journals from various publishers, from their first issue up to a few years ago
• useful for historical research; contains ecology and botany journals dating back to the early twentieth century that are not indexed in other databases
• no issues from the last 3 to 6 years, depending on the journal

• citations and abstracts for articles in biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, published from 1966 to the present
• search functions are the same as for Biological Abstracts
• you can switch between Ovid databases and repeat your searches using "Change Database" at the top

• contains scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers (New York Times back to 1851)
• two words together are taken as a phrase; for truncation, use * (phenotyp* will find phenotype or phenotypic)

Science Citation Index

• a Thomson-ISI Web of Science database useful for determining if any articles have cited a specific article or book, or to examine the references of an article
• limit document type to "Review" to obtain articles that provide an overview of a topic
• for an author search, use last name then first initial followed by an asterisk, e.g. mckay j*

LIBRARY LOCATIONS AT COLUMBIA

• Biology Library (601 Fairchild) homepage / directions
• Health Sciences Library (701 West 168th Street) homepage / directions
• Mathematics/Science Library (303 Mathematics) homepage / directions (in CLIO the location code for this library is SCIENCE)
• Geology Library (601 Schermerhorn) homepage / directions
• Geoscience Library (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY 10964) homepage / directions
• U.S. Government Documents (Lehman Social Sciences Library, 300 International Affairs) homepage / directions

• for books only - a consortium of the university libraries of Columbia, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Penn, Princeton and Yale
• a link to a request form is available on the Request It page on Library Web; you need your Columbia ID and password for access
• takes about 4 days

• for books, dissertations or non-science journal articles
• also on the Request It page on Library Web; you need your Columbia ID and password for access
• go in person to the ILL Office at 307 Butler Library, phone 212-854-7535 or email ill@libraries.cul.columbia.edu
• takes about 2 weeks

• also available on the Request It page
• you can request articles from journals that Columbia does not own in the areas of science, technology, engineering and medicine
• articles from journals at the Health Sciences Library can also be ordered
• submit the on-line request form or fill out a printed request form at a Columbia branch science library
• when the article arrives, the relevant Columbia branch library will notify you by telephone or e-mail so that you can pick it up

• The American Museum of Natural History homepage.
• Columbia's Biology Library provides a list of Biology Internet Resources.
• The Ecology WWW page has a huge collection of links to Web sites on biology and ecology.
• The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) is maintained by the Center for Biological Informatics of the U.S. Geological Survey.
• PrimateLit provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates.
• PubMed is the National Library of Medicine database of citations and abstracts for articles in MEDLINE, additional life science journals, and the integrated molecular biology databases included in the National Center for Biotechnology Information retrieval system (including DNA and protein sequences, 3-D protein structure data, and assemblies of complete genomes) and has links to articles which usually require payment for full text.  However, for these articles, Columbia subscribes to most of the journals, so use Columbia databases instead to obtain full text.
• The Tree of Life is a project containing information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their history and characteristics; the information is linked together in the form of an evolutionary tree.
• The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service homepage includes links to reports, news releases, and an Online Library.
• Yale University Library - Biology Resources lists databases, search tools, organizations, and interesting reference sources.