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Zoology Reference Resources

Guides

• Guide to Reference and Information Sources in the Zoological Sciences (Schmidt) 2003 (ref QL 45.2 S35 2003) Each taxonomically-oriented chapter includes sections on indexes and bibliographies; core journals; dictionaries and encyclopedias; checklists, taxonomics works and field guides; handbooks; key works by systematics and geography. Includes both print and Internet resources.

Directories

• IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (World Conservation Union) Provides taxonomic, conservation status and distribution information on taxa that are facing a high risk of global extinction.

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

• Animal Sciences (Cobb) 2002 (4 volumes) (HSU users only) Includes over 300 encyclopedic articles.
• Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia (HSU users only) 2003-2004 ( Ref QL 3 G7813) Major 17 volume scientific encyclopedia that is arranged taxonmically. Chapters within each volume contain an order overview followed by family and subfamily accounts.

Bibliographic Databases

• Bibliography of General Works in Mammalogy (Wahlert) Introductory bibliography to monographic literature found in the Department of Mammology at the American Museum of Natural History on general mammalogy, zoogeography, and specific orders.
• Mammals of the World. Vol. III. A Classified Bibliography (Walker) 1964 (ref QL 703 W22 vol 3) Older bibliography that contains approximately 70,000 references spanning the years 1830 to 1960. The bibliography is arranged into three groupings--taxonomic, geographic, and general.
  
• PrimateLit (Wisconsin Primate Research Center and Washington National Primate Research Center) Indexes scientific literature on nonhuman primates from 1940 to present.

Taxonomy

• International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature) 1999
• Nomenclator Zoologicus (Neave) 1939- (print copy available in Ref QL 354 N4) Catalog of the bibliographic origins of the names of every genus (340,000 names) and subgenus in the published literature since the tenth edition of Linnaeus’ System Natureae in 1758 up to 1994
• Nomenclature Glossary for Zoology (BIOSIS)

Internet Subject Directories/Gateways/Portals

• Entomology Index of Internet Resources: A Directory and Search Engine of Insect-Related Resources on the Internet (VanDyk, Iowa State University)