BIOL 4142
Bird Literature Database
bonus project
Goal: to make you aware of
the electronic databases that provide windows into the
technical literature in ornithology.
Assignment: for 5 bonus points,
pick one bird species from your first set of Louisiana birds from lab and use
its scientific name to compile a list of up to 20 citations of research papers
that deal with that species from each of the three following sources (for a
maximum of 60 citations). Overlap in citations among the three databases is OK.
Grab (copy/paste or whatever) the basic citations* for these papers, and email
them to me in electronic form (in any format you want -- format not important
except É PC users - do not send. docx files --
convert to .doc or another format that I can read.
If you cannot log on, go
through LSU Libraries web page and access the databases through that site.
* basic
citation = author[s], year, paper title, journal, volume, pages, i.e., the same
information that appears in the "Literature Cited/Reference" section
of a technical paper. NOT the complete paper or even the abstract.
Due: by
start of class Wednesday, 21 Jan.