USF St. Petersburg Library: Conservation Biology: Getting Started

Welcome!

Welcome to the Conservation Biology guide!

In this guide you'll find helpful resources for research, information regarding USF's access to GIS software, and resources to locate conservation biology related data. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me or schedule a research consultation.

Helpful Databases

Starting points for research - click here to see our full listing of databases!

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
In addition to scholarly journals, this database also includes news magazines (such as Time, Newsweek, or US News and World Report) and some newspapers (New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal). Use the links on the left side of your search results screen to limit to magazines or newspapers.
Agricultural & Environmental Science Database This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing of figures, charts, and tables form peer-reviewed articles.
BioOne This link opens in a new window
BioOne covers the peer-reviewed biological, ecological and environmental science research published by small societies and non-commercial publishers.
General Science Full Text This link opens in a new window
This database may be useful to students and non-specialists. Content includes physics as well as the other sciences.
GREENR This link opens in a new window
Proquest Biological Science Collection This link opens in a new window
The collections includes several general and specialized biological sciences databases.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Web of Science is comprised of three files: Science Citation Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index , and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Each may be searched separately or as one.
Web of Science belongs to the family of Web of Knowledge(WOK) databases and may be search independently or as a group of WOK databases including BIOSIS and Zoological Record.

Additional Resources

Related Guides

The guides below include curated lists of databases, websites, reference sources (encyclopedias, dictionaries, etc.) and other helpful information.