Research Guides: Integrated Natural Sciences: Protists

Reference Works

Encyclopedia of Life
Integrated Taxonomic Information System, media, maps, life history, conservation
ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System
Excellent place to identify scientific name of organism/animal

Databases

Try to select keywords that are precise. For instance, you might choose yersinia pestis over more general terms, such as: bacteria & bubonic & plague. Or you might choose Hemitrichia serpula instead of pretzel slime mold.

BioMed Central
Full-text. Open-access, peer-reviewed journals that span all areas of biology, medicine and health.
Environment Complete
Mostly full-text. From 1900 - present. This database offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.
JSTOR
Full-text. A multidisciplinary database of scholarly journals, with an emphasis in the humanities and social sciences.

PLoS One
Public Library of Science - peer reviewed articles available without charge to users.
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
PLoS Pathogens

PubMed
Index. PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources, including links to all the full text articles in PubMed Central.
ScienceDirect
Mostly full-text. 2,500 journals and reference works and a full range of science and social science including herbal medicine, consciousness studies, mindfulness.

The World Foraminifera Database
This World Database of all species of Foraminifera ever described (recent and fossil), is part of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), a global initiative to provide a register of all marine organisms.
United States Fish & Wildlife Service Conservation Library
Journals and reports on a wide range of topics

Selected Books from Library

The Social Amoebae by John Tyler Bonner
ISBN: 0691139393
Publication Date: 2009-01-18
Atlas of Benthic Foraminifera by Ann Holbourn; Andrew S. Henderson; Norman Macleod
ISBN: 9781118452523
Publication Date: 2013-04-03
Diatoms by James C. Compton
ISBN: 1617619795
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
The Epidemiology of Plasmodium Vivax: History, Hiatus and Hubris, Part B by D. Rollinson (Contribution by); S. I. Hay (Volume Editor); Ric Price (Volume Editor); J. Kevin Baird (Volume Editor)
ISBN: 0124078265
Publication Date: 2013-02-08

Integrated Natural Sciences: Protists

Reference Works

Databases

Selected Books from Library

Useful Websites