When searching for books and materials, the following keywords or search terms might prove useful:
biology, ecology, botany, wildlife, zoology, biometry, biotechnology, entomology, microbiology, bioinformatics
Description: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) provides electronic access to books on a variety of subjects. It includes scholarly and popular works as well as fiction and children's literature.
Time Period: 1900's to Present
Sources: Contains nearly 5,000 books.
Subject Headings: Art & Architecture, Business, Education, English & Linguistics, General, Health, History, Humanities, Law, Mobile, Music, Philosophy & Religion, Psychology, Science, Social Sciences, Technology
Primary Materials: Books/e-books, Citations
Description: OneSearch is a tool that cross searches much of the content our databases and other online sources. You can search across many collections in one search box simplifying the resource discovery process.
Time Period: 1600 to Present
Sources:
Subject Headings: Art & Architecture, Business, Education, English & Linguistics, General, Health, History, Humanities, Music, News, Philosophy & Religion, Psychology, Science, Social Sciences, Technology
Primary Materials: Abstracts, Citations, Government Documents, Journal Articles, Books
Description: WorldCat is the collected catalog of materials (such as books) owned more than 54,000 libraries worldwide. Great for exhaustive searches for books on a topic. Look for the "Request via interlibrary loan" link in WorldCat records to borrow items from other libraries using Interlibrary Loan. Use the "Check OneSearch" link in the record to see if we have book first.
Time Period: Antiquity-present
Sources: over 43,000 libraries
Subject Headings: Art & Architecture, Business, Education, English & Linguistics, General, Health, History, Humanities, Law, Mobile, Music, Philosophy & Religion, Psychology, Science, Social Sciences, Technology (Books, etc.)
Primary Materials: Books, videos, computer software, music, etc.
Most videos (both VHS and DVD) are located in the lower level of Bracken Library in the Education, Music and Media (EMM) unit. However, the Foundational Sciences Library has a small collection of DVDs and VHS tapes behind the counter which is listed below along with selected titles from EMM.
To find out which DVDs or VHS tapes are specifically located in the Science Library, go to OneSearch and do the following:
You can also now save your search by clicking the star on the right side of the search box. You will need to login to Google but once you do you can simply log back in and click the stored link whenever you want to run this same search.
You can also click this link to do the search described above. This is an example of a saved search.