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The UCD Libraries selectively buy materials on writing in the sciences. Browsable subject headings that bring up these types of publications include: Communication in the environmental sciences; Environmental literature — Authorship ; Ecology — Authorship; Natural history literature — Authorship; Communication of technical information; Report writing ; Technical writing.
For background information, locate pollination books by using the subject headings for Pollination or Pollinators or by looking for a specific pollinator such as bumblebees or butterflies. Locate books on soil arthropods by using the subject headings Soil invertebrates or the more general subject headings Soil biology or Soil ecology or by looking for a specific soil arthropod such as mites, ground beetles, or earwigs.
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Call number ranges to browse in the Shields Library stacks - all on the third floor.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION OUTLINE @ https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/
CLASS Q - SCIENCE
QH subclass Natural History
QH359-425 Evolution
QH540-549.5 Ecology
QK subclass Botany
QK 926 Pollination biology including animals as pollinators
QL subclass Zoology QL1-355 Zoology General, Including geographical distribution
QL 360-599.82 Invertebrates
QL 434-599.82 Arthropods
QL 461-599.82 Insects
QL 568 Systematic Divisions by Family, A-Z
QL 568 .A6 Bees
QL 568 .F7 Ants
QL605-739.8 Chordates. Vertebrates
QL 671-699 Birds
QL 700-739.8 Mammals
QL 737 .C5 Bats
QL750-795 Animal Behavior
QL791-795 Anim Behav - Stories & anecdotes
CLASS S - AGRICULTURE (General)
SB subclass Plant Culture
SB 818-945 Economic Entomology
SF subclass Animal Culture
SF 521-539.8 Bees and Bee culture (Apiculture)
SF600-1100 Veterinary Medicine
- Understanding Call Numbers
Explains how to read a Library of Congress call number.
Access eBooks online via the databases:
The following eBook collections are useful in searching the entire online text of books for specific chapters or book sections on your project topics.
Recommended eBook Collections
- Springer eBooks CollectionSpringer eBooks includes more than 60,000 titles in English (and selectively in German) from every scientific discipline and many social sciences. Coverage: 2005-2020. This online interface enables all books to be searchable at the full-text level. Scope (textbook areas are starred) ranges from Architecture and Design, *Behavioral Science, *Biomedical and Life Sciences, *Business and Economics, *Chemistry and Materials Science, *Computer Science, *Earth and Environmental Science, *Engineering, *Humanities & Social Sciences and Law, *Mathematics and Statistics, *Medicine, *Physics and Astronomy, to Professional and Applied Computing. NEW books are added monthly. NOTE: Springer puts out new year titles 6 months before the new year date. Our contract is from Jan-Dec so a very recent book may not be accessible the first months of the new year. For example a 2021 book may be released in August 2020 but is NOT accessible until well into 2021.
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Coverage: 2005-2022 - Science Direct eBook CollectionThousands of e-books with broad and favorable rights for scientific, scholarly and educational uses. Subjects include life, health and physical sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. EXCLUSIONS to the Elsevier collection are textbooks, major reference works, some professional and trade titles, and consumer books. NOTE: Green symbol on right indicates if accessible.
- Wiley eBooks CollectionFull-text searching and access to more than 22,000 ebooks from the life, physical, health, and social sciences, as well as the humanities disciplines.
Coverage: 1790 - present
- De Gruyter University Press Library This link opens in a new windowMulti-disciplinary collection of ebooks selected from the front list titles of participating university presses. Participants include: Amsterdam University Press, Columbia University Press, Cornell University Press, Duke University Press, Fordham University Press, Harvard University Press, New York University Press, Princeton University Press, Rutgers University Press, Stanford University Press, University of California Press, University of Chicago Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, University of Toronto Press, and Yale University Press.
UCD has also purchased frontlists for:
Columbia University Press: 2019-2022
Cornell University Press: 2019-2022
Harvard University Press: 2018-2022
University of California Press: 2000-2013 and 2016-2022
Yale University Press: 2019-2022
University Press titles may also be available in print or through other online packages and for additional years. Check UC Library Search for access to specific titles.
Agriculture-related eBook Collections
- CAB eBooks This link opens in a new windowCABI ebooks provides access to over 1,200 titles in the areas of: Agriculture, Forestry and Food; Veterinary and Animal Sciences; Environmental and Natural Sciences; Plant Sciences; Human Health; Biotechnology, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics and Techniques; Natural, Medicinal and Industrial End-products; Economics and Social Sciences; and Tourism, Hospitality, and Travel. Note: This collection includes a majority of titles published by CAB, but not all titles. In particular, the publisher has chosen not to include textbooks in this package.
[Coverage: 2000-present]
- Wageningen Academic Publishers eBooksUC Davis has current years of eBooks licensed from this large university publisher of agriculture-related books. “Wageningen Academic Publishers is an independent STM publisher operating worldwide in the field of Life Sciences. Located at the heart of one of the world’s most famous food & agriculture research centres, we focus on topics in Animal and Veterinary, Food and Health, Agribusiness and Rural Studies, Agriculture and Environment. We currently publish ... around 30 new books per year.” Exclusions: textbooks