Guides: Biology: Animal Behaviour

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Finding books

Browse the shelves using the following call numbers:

Animal behavior: QL750 - 798
Primates: QL737 P9
Mammals: QL700 - QL739.8
Birds: QL671 - QL699
Fishes: QL614 - QL639.8
Amphibians and Reptiles: QL640 - QL669.3
Invertebrates: QL360 - QL599.82

Course reserves

You can search for materials on course reserve using the course code or name of the instructor.

Open Textbooks

OpenStax science open textbooks, including general biology
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eBooks

Schulich Library maintains a list of e-book packages

Find out about accessing the Library's online resources from on and off campus and requesting items not in the Library collection through Interlibrary Loan.

Finding articles

Core databases

BioOne
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Provides access to research journals in biology, ecology and environmental science. Most titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers.
bioRxiv: The Preprint Server for Biology
Free online archive of unpublished preprints in the life sciences.
BIOSIS Citation Index (Web of Science)
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Life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more. Access content from journals, meetings, patents, and books. Backfiles available to 1926.
CAB Abstracts
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Covers research and literature in the fields of agriculture, forestry, human health, nutrition, animal health, and resource management and conservation.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
A community-curated online directory that provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals in all fields.
PsycINFO 1987- (Ovid)
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Covers literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.
PubMed (McGill)
National Library of Medicine's free interface to bibliographic information from MEDLINE and NCBI Books.
Web of Science Core Collection (All Indexes)
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Large multidisciplinary database, includes conference proceedings. Includes citation tracking, and various bibliometric measurements.
Zoological Record (Web of Science)
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Taxonomic reference and oldest continuing database of animal biology, paleobiology, and zoology.
(1864-present)
10 simultaneous users.
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