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Encyclopedias relating to Natural History

Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues - 2011 Provides information from numerous fields of knowledge relevant to the study of environmental issues, including biology, geology, anthropology, demographics, genetics, and engineering, and explains the interrelationships of these issues.
ISBN: 9781587657351 eISBN: 9781587657405
Encyclopedia of Forest Sciences
Call Number: REFERENCE COLLECTION (Noncirculating) 634.9 E56
ISBN: 0121451607
Publication Date: 2004-05-01
Encyclopedia of Insects - 2009 Acclaimed as the most comprehensive work devoted to insects. Covering all aspects of insect anatomy, physiology, evolution, behavior, reproduction, ecology, and disease, as well as issues of exploitation, conservation, and management, this book sets the standard in entomology.
ISBN: 9780123741448 eISBN: 9780080920900
Environmental Encyclopedia - 2011 Provides in-depth, worldwide coverage of environmental issues. Each article is written in a nontechnical style and provides current status, analysis, and suggested solutions whenever possible.
ISBN: 9781414487366 eISBN: 9781414487397
Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
Call Number: REFERENCE and MAIN 590.3 G895g
ISBN: 0787653624
Publication Date: 2002-10-04
The set in MAIN can be checked out.
The set in REFERENCE must remain in the library.
The Bees of the World
Call Number: REFERENCE COLLECTION (Noncirculating) 595.799 M623b 2007
ISBN: 9780801885730
Publication Date: 2007-05-04
Water: Science and Issues - 2003 Covers all important water science concepts and current issues and highlights major historical developments and key figures.
ISBN: 9780028656113 eISBN: 9780028659060

Books

Animal Tracks of the Southeast States by Chris Stall
ISBN: 058535099X
Publication Date: 1989-01-01
Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Kentucky
Call Number: MAIN COLLECTION 598.29769 M753A
How to Find and Photograph Kentucky Wildflowers by Thomas G. Barnes
Call Number: APPALACHIAN-KENTUCKY COLLECTION 778.94343097 B261h
ISBN: 9781935001683
Publication Date: 2011-04-01
Kentucky Trees and Wildflowers by James Kavanagh; Raymond Leung (Illustrator)
Call Number: APPALACHIAN-KENTUCKY COLLECTION 580.9769 K21k
ISBN: 9781583554487
Publication Date: 2008-10-01
Monitoring with Lichens by Pier Luigi Nimis (Editor); Christoph Scheidegger (Editor); Patricia A. Wolseley (Editor)
Call Number: MAIN COLLECTION 579.7 N279m
ISBN: 140200429X
Publication Date: 2002-01-31
Rare Wildflowers of Kentucky by Thomas G. Barnes; Deborah L. White; Marc Evans
Call Number: APPALACHIAN-KENTUCKY COLLECTION 582.13 B261r
ISBN: 9780813124964
Publication Date: 2008-07-04
The Birds of Kentucky by Burt L. Monroe; William Zimmerman (Illustrator)
Call Number: MAIN COLLECTION Call 598.29769 M753B
ISBN: 0253338921
Publication Date: 1994-10-01
The Kentucky Breeding Bird Atlas by Brainard L. Palmer-Ball
Call Number: MAIN COLLECTION Call 598.29769 P173K and REFERENCE COLLECTION (Noncirculating) 598.29769 P173K
ISBN: 0813119650
Publication Date: 1996-06-27
Wildflowers and Ferns of Kentucky by Thomas G. Barnes; S. Wilson Francis
Call Number: MAIN COLLECTION 582.13 B261w and REFERENCE COLLECTION (Noncirculating) 582.13 B261w
ISBN: 0813123194
Publication Date: 2004-06-01

Roger Barbour Image Collection

Roger W. Barbour, (1919-1993)
Collection, 1946-1984

Databases with coverage of Natural History

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Contains 6,550 full-text journals (with 5,890 of them peer-reviewed). Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
Subject Coverage:
animal science, anthropology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, music, pharmaceutical sciences, philosophy, physics, psychology, religion, science, technology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology
Dates of Coverage:
PDF content dating back as far as 1887
Update Frequency:
daily
Size:
over 13,780 indexed and abstracted journals
Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
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Indexes doctoral dissertations accepted at accredited U.S. institutions since 1861. It selectively covers Master's Theses, Canadian dissertations, and British and other European dissertations going back to 1637. Nearly half of the records link to the full-text document.
Subject Coverage:
covers the complete range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions
Dates of Coverage:
1637 to present (for selected British and European dissertations)
1861 to present (for indexing of U.S. dissertations)
July 1980 to present (for dissertations with abstracts)
January 1988 to present (for Master's Theses with abstracts)
1997 to present (for the full-text of most dissertations)
2013 to present (for indexing and full-text of theses produced at Morehead State University)
Update Frequency:
monthly
Size:
more than 3,800,000 records
more than 1.700.000 full-text documents
GeoRef This link opens in a new window
Is an international index for geology and earth sciences that covers more than 3,500 currently published periodicals (with a historical total of about 22,000 periodicals). It can be searched using latitudes and longitudes.
Subject Coverage:
geology & earth sciences
Dates of Coverage:
1785 to present (for records from North America)
1933 to present (for international records)
Update Frequency:
biweekly
Size:
more than 2,609,700 records
Notes:
Abstracts are included in records between 1961 and 1974. The database grows by more than 60,000 records annually.
HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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More than 50 partner libraries have digitized more than 2.6 million of public domain books from their print collections. Books in the public domain are accessible. Books still under copyright are not accessible.
Subject Coverage:
multi-disciplinary

Dates of Coverage:
http://www.hathitrust.org/visualizations_dates

Update Frequency:
unknown
Size:
more than 2.6 million public domain e-books
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Is an online archive of scholarly journals which contains high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Journals span continents and languages, with titles from 1,200 publishers from 57 countries. Contains also scholarly e-books, primary sources, and an image collection.
Subject Coverage:
covers many subject areas
Dates of Coverage:
varies by title (1665 is the earliest year covered)
Update Frequency:
varies by title
Size:
more than 2,800 journals
Notes:
There is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
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Is an online archive of scholarly journals. Articles are searchable in a number of ways and may be viewed as web pages and in some cases as PDF files.
Subject Coverage:
covers many subject areas
Dates of Coverage:
unavailable
Update Frequency:
unavailable
Size:
more than 227 journals