LibGuides: BIO 407 Ornithology Lab: Databases

Neotropical Birds Online

Neotropical Birds Online

Xeno Canto

Bird sounds from all over the world.

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Taxonomy and Nomenclature

A Classification of the Bird Species of South America South American Classification Committee
Committee on Classification and Nomenclature (North & Middle America)

Yewno

Yewno
Yewno enables searchers to discover the relationship between concepts by providing a graphical display of the interrelationships between concepts. By employing computational semantics, graph theory, and machine learning, Yewno extracts concepts from scholarly publications including journals, books, and theses, and displays the search results in a concept map format. Users can discover the interrelationships between concepts and have direct access to online resources.

Available only on campus.

Library Databases

ScienceDirect
The world's largest electronic collection of science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information.
Biological Bulletin
Articles covering the full range of biological topics and organisms with full text from 1990 onwards.
Science Online
Full text of all Science magazine content published from October 1996 through the latest issue.
Nature
The leading international weekly journal of science from 1997 on.
JSTOR
Includes both book chapters and journal articles available as PDFs. The journal archive includes the complete run of over 400 journal titles in 25 disciplines with a lag period of 3-5 years from the present.
Academic Search Complete
Multi-disciplinary database containing over 13,690 indexed and abstracted journals and nearly 9,100 full-text journals, of which more than 7,900 are peer-reviewed. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,450 journals.
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Google Scholar

Web Based Databases

SORA
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.
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Inspiring discovery through free access to biodiversity knowledge.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
BHL also serves as the foundational literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life.
American Museum of Natural History
he AMNH Library Digital Repository is an archive maintained by the Research Library for AMNH Scientific Publications, AMNH scholarly output and other original and published materials digitized by the Library. All information in the repository is freely accessible to scholars around the world to support their research.

The Library's image database, Digital Special Collections can be accessed at: http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/index.php.
Bird Life International
BirdLife International is a global partnership of conservation organisations (NGOs) that strives to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources.