Zoology
Getting Started
If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) began in 2007 with the bold idea to provide "a webpage for every species." EOL brings together trusted information from resources across the world such as museums, learned societies, expert scientists, and others into one massive database and a single, easy-to-use online portal.
Dekker Encyclopedia of animal science
Encyclopedia of Australian animals (4 vols)
Animal: visual guide to the world's wildlife
EOLSS - Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (online)
Encyclopedia of environmental biology (3 vols)
Journal Articles
For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.
Biosis indexes the journal literature in experimental, pure and field life sciences and non-clinical literature in the biomedical sciences.
Zoological Record covers the zoological literature in animal biology, biodiversity, taxonomy, wildlife management and some veterinary science. ZR is comprehensive for zoological taxonomy. Source material is primarily the journal literature but ZR also indexes review annuals, monographs, meeting proceedings, books, and reports.
Multidisciplinary databases covering experimental and applied science, incorporating Science citation index and Social sciences citation index.
Multidisciplinary database covering experimental and applied science
Australian heritage bibliography - AHB (formerly HERA)
Australia's natural and cultural environment - journal articles, unpublished reports, books and conference proceedings from Australian sources.
1960-; updated biannually. ENDANGER indexes material on threatened Australian fauna and flora. Books, chapters in books, periodicals, newspapers, conference proceedings, theses, and some non-book material (videos, charts, posters etc), are included. The database is produced by the School of Aquatic Sciences & Natural Resources Management, Deakin University, Rusden Campus.
An Australian natural resources database - it was continued by a web-based resource, AANRO, which was shut down in 2007.
EVA- Environmental Abstracts - Archive only (1987 - Oct 2011)
EVA (formerly EPIC), was produced by the EPA Victoria Library, was a bibliographic database on the environment and related fields. Source documents were selected journal articles from approximately 600 journals published in Australia and overseas.
Victorian Primary Industries and Environment (Library) Catalogue - covers agriculture, mineral resources, conservation, land management, and planning and is produced by the Knowledge and Information Branch of the Victorian DPI.
ASFA 1 - Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
Aquatic ecosystems, terrestrial ecosystems, human ecology - journal articles. Global environmental change and destruction. How organisms of all kinds - microbes, plants and animals - interact with their environments and with other organisms. Included are relevant papers on evolutionary biology, economics and systems analysis as they relate to ecosystems or the environment.
SORA - Searchable Ornithological Research Archive
SORA is the world's first and largest open access ornithological publications archive. This resource is the product of collaborations between the American Ornithologists Union, the Cooper Ornithological Society, the Association of Field Ornithologists, the Wilson Ornithological Society and the University of New Mexico Libraries. SORA provides access to an extensive library of ornithological literature of international scope, and detailed material documenting the history of ornithology in North America over the last 120 years. SORA users can both browse and search through journal titles, and individual articles can be downloaded as PDF files.
Maps
Specialised Resources
Australia, state of the environment
Species Profile and Threats Database
Australian Marine Zooplankton: a taxonomic guide and atlas
ZooBank is intended as the official registry of Zoological Nomenclature, according to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN).
Nomenclator Zoologicus is a continuous record of the bibliographical origins of the names of every genus and subgenus in zoology published since the 10th ed. of Linnaeus' Systema Naturae in 1758 up to 1994 in nine volumes. Names are listed alphabetically, with a bibliographic reference to the original description of each one and an indication of the animal group to which it belongs. There are an estimated 340,000 genera represented in the text as well as approximately 3000 supplemental corrections. This version of the data is very accurate but the conversion process may have introduced some errors in the digital record.
Sherborn's Index Animalium is a compendium of zoological taxonomic species nomenclature from 1758 to 1850. For each species described in this period it clearly lists the genus name, author, publication, pages, and date.The scientific names of animals are indexed in three different sources, which complement each other. Sherborn's Index Animalium covers all the names from the start (1758) to 1850; the Zoological Record, an annual index, started in 1864 and continues to present. The third source is Neave's Nomenclator Zoologicus, which provide an index of genus-group names. Other community efforts are underway to provide digital access to the names in the Zoological Record and Neave. Hence, Sherborn remains the only index that will not have been converted.
Web Sites
Provides linkages between all forms of information about Australian plants, animals and microorganisms. Biodiversity information includes reference lists of species in different groups; databases of information on specimens held in natural history collections; databases of field observations from ecologists, naturalists and others; images and other multimedia; published literature (including digital versions); molecular data sets; identification keys; and a wide range of other databases and web sites.
Clearing-house mechanism - Convention on Biological Diversity
Australian government environment home
Australian Biological Resources Study
Conservation of Australia's biodiversity
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
BHL - Biodiversity Heritage Library
A consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access. The BHL works with the international taxonomic community, rights holders, and other interested parties to ensure that this biodiversity heritage is made available globally. In partnership with the Internet Archive and through local digitization efforts , the BHL has digitized millions of pages of taxonomic literature , representing tens of thousands of titles and over 100,000 volumes.
Queensland - Wildlife and Ecosystems
Ecological Society of America - Issues in Ecology
The Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life is planned to become a comprehensive catalogue of all known species of organisms on Earth. The eleventh edition of the Annual Checklist, contains 1,370,276 species, slightly over 2/3 of the world's known species.
An online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation with student use in mind. It includes thousands of species accounts and descriptions of levels of organization above the species level, especially phyla, classes, and in some cases, orders and families.
The Tree of Life Web Project is a collection of information about biodiversity compiled by expert and amateur contributors. Its goal is to contain a page with pictures, text, and other information for every species and for each group of organisms, living or extinct. Connections between Tree of Life web pages follow phylogenetic branching patterns between groups of organisms, so visitors can browse the hierarchy of life and learn about phylogeny and evolution as well as the characteristics of individual groups.
Smithsonian - Mammal Species of the World
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