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Welcome to this library and research guide for BIOL 480 / RESEARCH DISCUSSION course with Dr. Tom Stidham. In this guide, you will find the library resources discussed in class, tips for searching, useful links, and other information related to doing research. Have a question? Get in touch!

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AAPG Datapages This link opens in a new window Provides access to publications of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Foundation (AAPG). Access the AAPG Bulletin, AAPG Special Volumes, Gulf Coast Group (USA), Journal of Petroleum Geology, to name a few. Browse AAPG books, and browse AAPG Explorer. This online subscription is provided to the students and faculty of Austin College through the AAPG Foundation Digital Products Fund, by an endowment established by Robert J. and Elizabeth Lee Dean Ardell (1974).
BioOne This link opens in a new window BioOne is a unique aggregation of high-impact bioscience research journals.
GeoRef This link opens in a new window Geosciences, geochemistry, geophysics - journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses
JSTOR This link opens in a new window JSTOR's archival journal collections include more than two thousand journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific journal collections are offered, covering more than 50 academic disciplines. At present, JSTOR contains a range of Arts & Sciences collections, a multidisciplinary Life Sciences Collection, discipline-specific collections across several fields, and four primary source collections. Collections on JSTOR include the complete archival record of each journal. Coverage begins at the first volume and issue of the journal ever published, and extends up to a publication date usually set in the past three to five years.
Also includes the Austin College Newspaper Collection, with over 400 issues written, edited, and published by Austin College students. Newspapers in the collection include: The Kangaroo, 1918-1968; The Hopper, 1972-1981; and The AC Observer, 1982-2006.

Birds of the World This link opens in a new window Birds of the World is a powerful resource that brings deep, scholarly content from four celebrated works of ornithology into a single platform where biologists and birders can find comprehensive life history information on birds. Every bird has a story. Discover them all with Birds of the World.
Earth, Atmospheric, & Aquatic Science Collection This link opens in a new window A full-text database supported by a specialized A&I file. Covers comprehensive scholarly output, managed by an expert editorial team overseeing content selection and indexing supported by a controlled vocabulary
Natural Science Collection This link opens in a new window The Natural Science Collection includes the Agri & Env, Bio Science, and Earth, Atmospheric & Aqua Databases and provides full-text titles from around the world including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more. For researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorial-controlled A&I resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline.

Journal & E-Book Collections

Journals & E-Books
Suggested Journals

Paleontology Journals (Journal Finder) 7 journals
Paleontology (JSTOR) 11 journals, 149 books
Paleontology (EBSCOhost eBook Collection) 13 titles
Geology (JSTOR) 4 journals, 190 e-books, 181 research reports

Journal of Paleontology (Archive) via JSTOR
Journal of Paleontology (Current) via BioOne
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (Archive) via JSTOR
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (Current) via BioOne
Facies (current) via SpringerLink
Paleobiology (archive) via JSTOR
Paleobiology (current) via BioOne

Internet Resources

Biodiversity Heritage Library The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community. Major support and hosting provided by Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.
Science News Non-profit, science news aggregator discussed in class; great resource for learning more about research topics

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