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   QL 639 R 54 1991

Elsevier's Dictionary of Aquaculture: in Six Languages, English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, and Latin   Ref SH 201 E 46 1991

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

Encyclopedia of Fishes   Ref QL 614.7 E 535 1998

Encyclopedia of Marine Animals   QL 121 C 654 1991

Multilingual Illustrated Dictionary of Aquatic Animals and Plants Ref QH 90.2 M 85 

Water Encyclopedia   Ref TD 351 V 36 1990

World Encyclopedia of Fishes   Ref QL 614.7 W 48 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 Ref QL 619 B 47

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

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

Conservation Directory   Ref S 920 C 64

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

Dr. Burgess's Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes   Vet. Med. Ref SF 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 FishRef SH 201 F 73 1995

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

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

Statistical Record of the Environment   Ref GE 150 D 67 1995

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Indexes and Databases

All databases are available on campus and remotely unless otherwise noted.  To access a resource from home, you will need 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 Fisheries Abstracts

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

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

Biological Abstracts

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.)

CAB Abstracts

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, energy resources, environmental biotechnology, environmental engineering, etc. from 1981 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, book chapters, agriculture extension bulletins, etc. from 1979 - Present

Public access at http://www.nal.usda.gov/ag98/ag98.html

(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 including chemistry, biochemistry and chemical engineering. 1967 - Present. Only available on campus.

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

Auburn University Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures Theses and Dissertations

A searchable database of about 500 theses and disserations of AU graduates from 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 FULLTEXT Elite 

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

InfoTrac's Expanded Academic ASAP 

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

Dissertation Abstracts 

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

Current Awareness Resources

Current Contents 

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

Reveal

An automated alerting service that delivers the table of contents of periodicals or results of keyword searches directly to your e-mail address.  Available to 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

Provides access to current bibliographic information and cited references from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. 1984 - Present.

(For researching citation literature from 1961-1983, consult Science Citation Index    Ref Q 1 S 3693.)

Journals

Please note:  If you don't see the journal that you need on the above lists, always be sure to check AubieCat.  By doing a "journal title" search in that database, you will get the call number for any paper subscription and/or a link to any electronic subscription.

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Web Sites

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

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.reeusda.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 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 an organized 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; and other 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.nsgo.seagrant.org/NationalSeaGrant.html

Links to the National Sea-Grant Colleges, including Mississippi-Alabama Sea 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 and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration includes the approved market names of fish

Smithsonian Institution   http://nmnhwww.si.edu/vert/fish.html

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 format and include time-series data that are updated yearly

UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms http://www2.eti.uva.nl/database/urmo/default.html

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 a link to its Reference Service  http://fa.r9.fws.gov/r9fwrs/

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 Biological Sciences

ASIH   http://199.245.200.110/

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-Conferences http://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://ag.ansc.purdue.edu/aquanic/publicat/state/al/auburn.htm

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

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

Alabama Cooperative Extension System

Fisheries   http://www.aces.edu/dept/extcomm/publications/anr/anrfish.html
Marine Science   http://www.aces.edu/dept/extcomm/publications/anr/anrms.html

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