Fisheries & Allied Aquacultures

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Reference Tools

Biotechnology from A to Z   TP 248.16 B 33 1998

Dictionary of Evolutionary Fish Osteology   QL639 R 54 1991

Elsevier's Dictionary of Aquaculture: in Six Languages, English, French,Spanish, German, Italian, and Latin   Ref SH 201 E 461991

Elsevier's Dictionary of Fishery, Processing, Fish and Shellfish Namesof the World in Five Languages English, French, Spanish, German, and LatinRefSH 201 E 47 1990

Encyclopedia of Fishes   Ref QL 614.7 E 535 1998

Encyclopedia of Marine Animals   QL 121 C654 1991

Multilingual Illustrated Dictionary of Aquatic Animals and Plants RefQH 90.2 M 85 

Water Encyclopedia   Ref TD 351 V 36 1990

World Encyclopedia of Fishes   Ref QL 614.7 W48 1985

Aquaculture Desk Reference   Ref SH 135 C 74 1993

Aquaculture Sourcebook: a guide to North American Species SH 33 I 94 1992

Atlas of Distribution of the Freshwater Fish Families of the World RefQL 619 B 47

Catalog of the Genera of Recent Fishes   Ref QL 618E 88 1990

Catalogue of Freshwater and Marine Fishes of Alabama  RefQL 628 A 2 .B 67 1992

Conservation Directory   Ref S 920 C 64

Dr. Axelrod's Atlas of Freshwater Aquarium Fishes   RefSF 457 A 89 1986

Dr. Burgess's Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes   Vet. Med. RefSF 457 B 87 1988

FAO Yearbook: Fishery Statistics   Ref SH 1 Y 4

Fish Physiology   QL 639.1 H 6

Fisherman's Guide: Fishes of the Southeastern United States 

Ref SH 464 S 68 .M 36 1984

Fishes of the World  Ref QL 618 N 4 1994

Freshwater Fishes of the World   Ref QL 624 S 713 1966

International Fisheries: Instruments with Index   K 3895 I 6737 1998

Multilingual Illustrated Guide to the World's Commercial Coldwater FishRefSH 201 F 73 1995

Multilingual Illustrated Guide to the World's Commercial Warmwater FishRefSH 201 F 74 1995

Smith's Sea Fishes   Ref QL 635 S 6 .S 55 1986b

Statistical Record of the Environment   Ref GE 150D 67 1995

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Indexes and Databases

All databases are available on campus and remotelyunless otherwise noted.  To access a resource from home, you willneed to type your library ID and last name.  Your library ID is usually:two, zero, your Social Security Number, then zero.  For example: A person with the Social Security Number 123-45-6789 has the library ID: 201234567890

Aquatic Sciences and FisheriesAbstracts

Covers worldwide literature on biology, ecology, and management of freshwaterand marine environments. 1978-Present

(For researching aquatic science and fisheries literature from 1972-1978, consult Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts  QH 90 A 64.)

BiologicalAbstracts

Indexes journal articles covering the fields of biology, botany, zoology,microbiology, clinical and experimental medicine, etc. 1990- Present

(For researching biological literature from 1927-1990, consult Biological Abstracts  QH 301 B 37.)

Medline(from OVID)

Citations to journal literature covering biomedicine including research,clinical practice, administration, policy issues, etc. 1966 - Present

Public access at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

OLDMEDLINE (1958-1965) at http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd

(For researching medical literature from 1941-1959, consult Current List of Medical Literature Z 6660 C 8.)

CABAbstracts

CAB International's database covering literature in the fields of agriculture,forestry, animal sciences, food science, etc. 1973 - Present

(For researching fisheries literature in CAB before 1973, consult
Helminthological Abstracts QL 392 H 4
Nutrition Abstracts & Reviews RM 214 N 8.)

Environmental Sciences

Indexes literature on aquatic pollution, bacteriology, ecology, energyresources, environmental biotechnology, environmental engineering, etc. from1981 to the present except citations from Selected Water Resources Abstracts begin in 1967.

For researching environmental literature prior to 1981, refer to AubieCat to find call numbers for the print indexes corresponding to the Environmental Sciences subfiles.

Agricola

National Agricultural Library's database indexing journal articles, bookchapters, agriculture extension bulletins, etc. from 1979 - Present

Public access at http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/

(For researching agricultural literature from 1942-1978, consult Bibliography of Agriculture S 493 B 525.)

Chemical Abstracts

Covers a broad spectrum of technical and scientific information includingchemistry, biochemistry and chemical engineering. 1967 - Present. Onlyavailable on campus.

(For researching chemical literature from 1907-1966, consult Chemical Abstracts    QD 1 A 51.)

AuburnUniversity Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures Theses and Dissertations

A searchable database of about 500 theses and disserations of AU graduatesfrom the Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures.

Zoological Record

Database covers animal behavior, biochemistry, genetics development, morphology,physiology, parasitology, immunology, and taxonomy. 1993 - Present.

(For researching zoological literature from 1864 to1993, consult Zoological Record  QL 1 Z 675.)

General Databases

Academic Search Premier

Covers abstracts and indexing for over 3,000 scholarly journals and featuresfull text articles for over 1,200 journals since 1990. 

Expanded Academic ASAP (INFOTRAC)

Indexes 1500 journal titles in a variety of subject areas.  Articlesin over 500 journals are full text. 1980 – Present 

Dissertation Abstracts(Digital Dissertations)

1861 – Present.  The most current two years are available off campus, butearlier years are only available on campus. 

Current Awareness Resources

Current Contents / Science Edition

Provides access to the tables of contents and bibliographic data from currentissues of scholarly research journals and books in the sciences. 1996 – Present 

Reveal

An automated alerting service that delivers the table of contents of periodicalsor results of keyword searches directly to your e-mail address.  Availableto AU faculty, graduate students and staff. Be sure to first enter your library barcode, then your password and in the next window choose the Reveal option.  

Ingenta Uncover Plus 

A database of article information taken from over 18,000 journals that allows faxing of articles not owned by AU Libraries. Available to AU faculty, graduate students and staff.  

Science Citation Index (Web of Science)

Provides access to current bibliographic information and cited references from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals covering the years 1945 - Present.

Journals

Please note:  If you don't see the journal that you need on the above lists, please check the library catalog AubieCat. By doing a "journal title" search in the Basic Search screen of the library catalog, you will get the call number for any paper subscription and a link to an electronic version of the journal to which the library may have a subscription.

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Web Sites

Aquatic Animal Health Programs at the Animal Plant Health Inspection Service   http://www.aphis.usda.gov/

APHIS programs currently serve important aspects of both plant and animal aquaculture, especially involving disease, pest prevention, and wildlife damage management

AquaNIC - Aquaculture Network Information Center   http://aquanic.org/

Gateway to the world's electronic resources for aquaculture

Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service  http://www.csrees.usda.gov/

CSREES expands the research and higher education functions of the former Cooperative State Research Service and the education and outreach functions of the former Extension Service. Links to state extension pages.

Envirofacts Data Warehouse   http://www.epa.gov/enviro/index_java.html

EPA site with environmental data on air quality, water, waste, and more

FAO Fisheries Department   http://www.fao.org/fi/default.asp

FAO links including recent trends, country profiles, statistics, publications,policies and species identification at http://www.fao.org/fi/sidp/default.htm

Fish FAQ (NEFSC)   http://www.nefsc.nmfs.gov/faq.html

Facts and answers to questions about fish, shell fish, other creatures in the sea, and the marine environment

FishBase WWW  http://www.fishbase.org/

Identification and photographs of fish

Ichthyology Web Resources   http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/jackson.hp/IWR/index.php

Online ichthyology resources of scientific and educational value in anorganized directory 

Marine biology WEB  http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/mbweb.html

Aimed at undergraduates, this site includes guides to literature

National Biological Information Infrastructure http://www.nbii.gov/ 

Electronic gateway to biological data and information maintained by federal,state, and local government agencies; private sector organizations; andother partners around the nation and the world

National Marine Fisheries Service   http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/

Federal statistics on fisheries with links to other oceanographic sites

National Sea Grant Office http://www.oar.noaa.gov/joints/seagrant.html

Links to the National Sea-Grant Colleges, including Mississippi-AlabamaSea Grant Consortium, & Sea Grant Abstracts http://nsgd.gso.uri.edu/

Regulatory Fish Encyclopedia   http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~frf/rfe0.html

Site of the Seafood Products Research Center, Center for Food Safety andApplied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration includes the approved marketnames of fish

Smithsonian Institution   http://www.mnh.si.edu/

National Museum of Natural History, Fish Division

USDA Economics and Statistics System   http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu:80/usda/

Contains reports and datasets, many of which are in spreadsheet formatand include time-series data that are updated yearly

UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms http://ioc.unesco.org/oceanportal/detail.php?id=2616

A taxonomic database of marine species

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service   http://www.fws.gov/

Describes the functions and activities of the FWS with links to the Conservation Library at http://library.fws.gov/

Web-agri.com   http://web-agri.com

An agricultural search engine (not a directory site) to search over 300,000 web pages

Research Guides

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Associations and Societies

AFS   http://www.fisheries.org/

American Fisheries Society

ASAE   http://asae.org/

ASAE: the Society for Engineering in Agricultural, Food, and BiologicalSciences

ASIH http://www.asih.org/

American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

ASLO   http://aslo.org/

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography

NABS   http://www.benthos.org/

North American Benthological Society

WAS   http://www.was.org/

World Aquaculture Society

Discussion Lists and Newsgroups

Electronic Mailing Lists at Auburn University   http://www.auburn.edu/helpdesk/internet/listserv.html#classmail 

Contains links to help sites for all varieties of mailing lists. 

Kovacs' WWW View of Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferenceshttp://www.kovacs.com/directory.html

BIOSCI/bionet Electronic Newsgroup Network for Biology   http://net.bio.net/

Auburn University Department and Course Pages

Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures   http://www.ag.auburn.edu/dept/faa/

FAA theses and dissertations with abstracts  http://aquanic.org/auburn/nsearch.htm

Auburn University Museum Fish Collection    http://www.auburn.edu/academic/science_math/cosam/museum/musefish/musefish.htm

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service: Southeast Region Wildlife and Habitat Management Field Offices   http://www.fws.gov/southeast/

Alabama Cooperative Extension System

Fisheries  http://www.aces.edu/pubs/docs/indexes/anrfish.tmpl
Marine Science  http://www.ag.auburn.edu/fish/aumerc/Publications/Publications.html

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