College of DuPage Library

Finding Books

Use the COD Library catalog to find books & videos. Click on the "keyword" tab to search using multiple search terms and limit your results by material type (book, video), date, or language. You'll need a current College of DuPage Library card to check out books.

Reference Works

Reference works, such as dictionaries and encyclopedias are useful for learning about background information on a topic
Please note that print reference books may be used while in the library only. Online reference books may be accessed from any on or off-campus computer. You'll need a College of DuPage Library card to access online books and articles from off-campus.
Click on the links below to access the online book/website or record/description of the print book.

• Animal Anatomy on File
  Reference QL 806 .A55 2003
• Animals: a Visual Encyclopedia. Online
• Beacham's Guide to the Endangered Species of North America
  Reference QH 77 .N56 B43 2001
• Birds of North America
  Reference QL 681 .A625 2001
• A Dictionary of Entomology
  Reference QL 462.3 .G67 2001
• Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior. 3 vols.
  Reference QL 750.3 .E53 2004
• Encyclopedia of Insects. Online.
• The Encyclopedia of Mammals. 2nd ed. 3 vols.
  Reference QL 703 .E53 2006
• Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals
  Reference QL 701.2 .E53 2002
• Endangered Species. 3 vols.
  Reference QL83 .N35 2004
• Fishes of the world. 4th ed.
  Reference QL618 .N4 2006
• Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
  Reference QL 3 .G7813 2003
• Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Extinction
  Reference QL 3 .G7813 2003
• Guide to Seashells of the World. Online.
• The New Encyclopedia of Aquatic Life. 2 vols.
  Reference QL 120 .N49 2004
• Humans and Animals: A Geography of Coexistence Online in GALE

Videos

The Library owns many Zoology films in DVD, VHS and streaming formats. Check the list of titles at:

• Botany / Zoology / Microbiology AV

Find videos related to General Biology at:

• Biology AV

The Library subscribes to many databases that provide access to thousands of popular and credible, scholarly journals. Many databases provide access to full-text articles, while some provide information about the article only (citation). Request (for free!) through Interlibrary Loan copies of articles to which the Library doesn't have full-text access.

Access the article databases listed below.

Best Bet links: Databases and Journal Holdings

• Academic Search Complete
  Multidisciplinary database covering a wide range of academic areas.
• Academic OneFile
  Multidisciplinary database covering a wide range of academic areas.
• Science Direct
  Full-text of hundreds of scientific journals from the publisher Elsevier. Be sure to select "Subscribed Journals" from the Source drop-down menu.
• Scientific American Archives Online
  Indexing of every issue of Scientific American. PDFs of every article from 1993 to present.
• Issues and Controversies
  Issues and Controversies helps students understand crucial issues we face today, exploring more than 800 hot topics in science, health, the environment and more.
• CQ Researcher
  The CQ Researcher offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of today's most important issues. Each report is on a single topic more than 12,000 words in text and extensive bibliographies. Each weekly issue provides up-to-date information on controversial subjects reported by CQ's staff of experienced reporters.

List of Zoology journals available online fulltext from databases.
See Zoology list at bottom

How to Read a Research Article

Websites

• All About Birds
  The Cornell Lab of Ornithology maintains this guide to watching, attracting, and researching birds.
• Animal Diversity Web
  Images and Information about the diversity of animal life from the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.
• ARKive
  From the wildlife charity Wildscreen, videos and information on 15,000 endangered species. Searchable by name or by broad animal or plant group.
• eNature.com
  Online field guides to almost 6,000 species from the same data set used to create the Audubon Field Guides.
• Encyclopedia of Life
  Collaborative encyclopedia providing basic information and links across the web to species from across the kingdoms of life.
• Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board. Online links
  List of threatened and endangered species in Illinois.
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System
  Authoritative information for plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world. Includes accepted (and non-accepted) names, taxonomic hierarchy from Kingdom to species, and links to Google images and other websites for a species listed.
• IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
  The World Conservation Union's list of animals and plants in danger of extinction.
• Lynn Fancher's Biology Bookmarks
  Extensive links to biology gateway sites, as well as internet sites for specific areas of biology.
• NatureServe
  From a non-profit conservation organization representing an international network of biological inventoriesI, links to information about conservation projects and data on plants and animals in hundreds of ecosystems.
• Primate Info Net
  Fact sheets, anatomy, evolution, taxonomy and more from the National Primate Research Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered Species Program
  Lists of threatened and endangered species in the U.S., with information on laws and federal policies.
• Wildfinder.
  From the World Wildlife Fund, maps and information about 825 terrestrial ecoregions are nested within fourteen with information about animal species.
• Yahoo's Index of Zoology Links
  Search for information by subject categories related to zoology or by keyword.