Veterinary and Animal Sciences
Books on the Shelves
The Libraries' catalog, Discovery Search, provides a call number and location for each physical item. The call number consists of an alphanumeric string based on the Library of Congress classification system. View an example of how to read a call number.
Materials on vet and animal sciences reside primarily in the SF call number range.
SF1-1100 Animal Culture
SF41-55 History
SF84.82-85.6 Economic zoology
SF84.82-85.6 Rangelands. Range management. Grazing
SF87 Acclimatization
SF600-1100 Veterinary Medicine
Agriculture can be found primarily in the S range, and aquaculture can be found in the SH range.
SH1-691 Aquaculture. Fisheries. Angling.
E-books
An e-book is an electronic or digital book that is available for reading on your computer (desktop or laptop), tablet, or mobile device.
- You can use Discovery Search to find e-books available in our collection
- You can use the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) to access books available to everyone at no cost
Other e-book resources:
Search terms
Try specific terms first, then try more general ones.
- Specific terms (Northern Flicker or Colaptes auratus) give fewer but more precise results
- General terms (like birds or woodpeckers) give more results, but are less precise
Precision gives fewer items (or none!), and you may miss books that might have a chapter on what you want to learn about.
Use both scientific and common names for organisms, connected with or, as above.
Try using truncation (forest* will find forest, forests and forestry) and variant spellings so you won't miss important titles.
Popular magazines
When starting a research project, it is sometimes helpful to search popular magazines to scaffold information and learn the level of information communicated to a public audience.
The database Academic Search Premier is the ONLY database that will let you search specifically for magazine and trade publications.
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly journals from all academic disciplines - an excellent starting point for multidisciplinary research projects. 3,200 full-text journals. Coverage from 1975 to present.
