Find Books in the UC Davis Library Collections
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Searching in a library catalog requires looking for broader topics such as avian or poultry nutrition rather than the more specific chick feeding behavior. Use the literature databases listed in the databases section to search for very specific (article-level or book-chapter level) topics.
Useful subject term searches include
Poultry – feeding and feeds ; Chickens – nutrition
- UC Library Search
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Explains how to read a Library of Congress call number.
Locate books in person:
Call number ranges to browse in the Shields Library stacks - all on the third floor*.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION OUTLINE
CLASS S - AGRICULTURE (General)
SF subclass Animal culture
SF94.5-99 Feeds & Feeding. Animal Nutrition
SF480s-490s Domesticated Birds/Poultry
SF600-1100 Veterinary Medicine
*Please note:
with the closure of the Carlson Health Sciences Library (HSL) in June 2022, print-only Veterinary Medicine publications that are high-use, core titles, reference materials, and serials titles will be moved to appropriate locations in Shields Library over 2022-2024. Materials currently located in Temporary Storage (at the old HSL) may be requested for checkout at Shields or parts may be requested for digitization.
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 topics.
Veterinary Medicine/Agriculture
- CAB eBooks This link opens in a new window
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CABI 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
Animal Welfare eBook Collection
- Animal Studies: Law, Welfare, and Rights [via HeinOnline]2015-present. HeinOnline collection which includes “1,600 titles and more than 540,000 pages related to the background and evolution of the basic rights of animals. From philosophical books dating back to the 1800s, to videos, publications, and brochures. … essential to any researcher looking for a wealth of information on animal law. With titles from the Animal Legal Defense Fund and Animal Welfare Institute, this collection aims to establish the foundational laws pertaining to animals and follow the evolution of these rights throughout the years. Resources include:
* Animal Legal Defense Fund publications
* Animal Welfare Institute publications
* Philosophical books dating back to the 1800s
* Compiled legislative histories
* Congressional hearings
* Periodicals
* Code of Federal Regulations Titles 9 & 50
* Much more!
NOTABLE TITLES
* Animals' Advocate, 1985-current
* U.S. Animal Protection Laws and Rankings, 2006-2017
* AWI Quarterly, 1951-2018
* Journal of Animal & Environmental Law, 2009-2018
* Animal Welfare Approved Newsletter, 2008-2014
* Crimes without Consequences: The Enforcement of Humane Slaughter in the United States, 2008
Access eBooks via major publisher collections:
- Taylor & Francis eBooksFull-text searching across the ebooks and major reference works published by Taylor & Francis and its imprints: CRC Press, Routledge, Garland and Psychology Press. Browse list of titles available. Disciplinary scope and coverage vary. Former CRCnetBASE collections incorporated in this collection include: AGRICULTUREnetBASE, BiomedicalSCIENCEnetBASE, CHEMnetBASE, ENGnetBASE, ENVIROnetBASE, FOODnetBASE, FORENSICnetBASE, MATHnetBASE, NUTRITIONnetBASE, STATSnetBASE and VETnetBASE (VetMed). Also included are newer Burleigh Dodds ebooks for agriculture.
- 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 window
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Multi-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.