Botany Resources

in the Peninsula College Library

Compiled by David Kent, Librarian

October 2007

2007-2008

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

HEYWOOD, V. H. & CHANT, S. R. (1982) Popular encyclopedia of plants.

MORRIS, D. W., MORRIS, M. Z. & EBRARY INC. (2003) English-Spanish dictionary of plant biology, including plantae, monera, protoctista, fungi and index of Spanish equivalents.

See also: Access Science database at:

http://pc.ctc.edu/enrolled/LMC/default.asp

Botany Manuals and Guides

FRODIN, D. G. & EBRARY INC. (2001) Guide to standard floras of the world: an annotated, geographically arranged systematic bibliography of the principal floras, enumerations, checklists, and chorological atlases of different areas.

GILKEY, H. M. & JOHNSTON, L. D. (2001) Handbook of northwestern plants.

HITCHCOCK, C. L. & CRONQUIST, A. (1973) Flora of the Pacific Northwest : an illustrated manual.

LITTLE, E. L. (1953) Check list of native and naturalized trees of the United States (including Alaska), Washington,, Forest Service.

PECK, M. E. (1961) A manual of the higher plants of Oregon, Portland, Or., Binfords & Mort.

TURNER, N. J. & ROYAL BRITISH COLUMBIA MUSEUM. (1998) Plant technology of first peoples in British Columbia, Vancouver, UBC Press.

Writing Stylebooks

Council of Scientific Editors. 2006. Scientific style and format : the CSE manual for authors, editors, and publishers.

E-Journals in Peninsula College Databases

http://pc.ctc.edu/enrolled/LMC/default.asp

See: Online Resources: A-to-Z Index to E-Journals

SELECTED FULL-TEXT E-JOURNALS IN PC LIBRARY

Applied Vegetation Science 2001 to present   

Canadian Journal of Botany 2001 to present  (Embargo: 6 months)  

Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences 2002 to present   

Darwiniana 1922 to present   

European Journal of Phycology (Cambridge) 2003 to present  (Embargo: 1 year)  

Journal of Bryology 2003 to present  (Embargo: 8 months)

The Journal of Ecology 1977 to present  (Embargo: 1 year)

Journal of General Plant Pathology 2002 to present  (Embargo: 1 year)

Journal of Phycology 1965 to present  (Embargo: 1 year)  

Journal of plant nutrition 2001 to present  (Embargo: 1 year)  

The New Phytologist 1902 to present  (Embargo: 1 year)

Phycologia 1998 to present  (Embargo: 6 months)

Plant and Soil 2003 to present  (Embargo: 1 year)  

Plant, cell and environment 1978 to present  (Embargo: 1 year)  

Plant Ecology 2003 to present  (Embargo: 1 year)  

The plant journal : for cell and molecular biology 1998 to present  (Embargo: 1 year)  

Plant molecular biology reporter (NRC Research Press) 1996 to present   

Plant Pathology 1952 to present  (Embargo: 1 year)  

Plant Species Biology 1999 to present  (Embargo: 1 year)  

Plant Systematics and Evolution 2003 to present  (Embargo: 1 year)  

Planta 1999 to present  (Embargo: 1 year)  

Sexual plant reproduction 2003 to present  (Embargo: 1 year)  

Weed research 1961 to present  (Embargo: 1 year)  

Library Catalogs OPACs -- Online Public Access Catalogs

Peninsula College Library http://pc.ctc.edu/enrolled/lmc

North Olympic Library System http://www.nols.org

King County Library System http://www.kcls.org

Summit Orbis Cascade Catalog http://orbis.uoregon.edu

WorldCat http://worldcat.org

Agricola (NAL) http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/

Public Library Resources

King County Library System (60+ databases)

http://kcls.org (requires free library card)

NOLS (North Olympic Library System)

InfoTrac OneFile (34 million articles) http://nols.org

Selected Web Sites

WorldCat.org http://worldcat.org

Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com

IngentaConnect http://www.ingentaconnect.com

SpringerLink http://www.springerlink.com

HighWire Press http://highwire.stanford.edu

Science.gov http://science.gov

Scirus.com http://www.scirus.com/srsapp

Interlibrary Loan Request Forms

Peninsula College Library electronic request forms (free of charge) for requesting both books and journal articles:

http://pc/enrolled/lmc/interlibrary/default.asp

Critical Evaluation of Information

ü Who created it? What credentials?

ü Why was it created?

ü When was it created?

ü How reliable? (compare to other sources)

ü Where was it created (what internet domain?)

Source Documentation in the Sciences

CSE Manual

Council of Science Editors. 2006. Scientific style and format : the CSE manual for authors, editors, and publishers.

http://library.osu.edu/sites/guides/cbegd.html

From Council of Scientific Editors:

http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/publications/citing_internet.cfm

Using APA Format (5^th edition)

(American Psychological Association)

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

Compiled by David Kent, Librarian

Oct. 2007

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