ESPM 24:
Insects, Ticks and Human Diseases

• Finding Books
• Finding Articles
• Suggested Web Sites
• Managing Your References/Evaluating Your Sources

Finding Books

Use a library catalog to find books, journals, magazines, government reports, maps, and other materials owned by the UCB libraries. Library catalogs usually do not index the individual articles within magazines and journals.

Catalog	Coverage	Unique Features
OskiCat OskiCat Quick Guide (PDF)	Most UCB libraries (more information)	Renew your books online; find course reserves; request items checked out by another borrower or stored offsite; restrict your search to specific UCB libraries, to online items only, or to available items only.
NextGen Melvyl Pilot NGM Help	Most UCB libraries and many libraries worldwide, plus citations to selected articles (more information)	Search libraries worldwide; create and save lists and add tags to items; automatically format citations; find selected article citations; easy-to-use, Amazon-like interface.
MELVYL MELVYL Help	Nearly all libraries on the UCB campus and the entire UC system (more information)	Request feature allows you to request items UCB doesn't own; most complete coverage of libraries on the UCB campus.

Finding Articles

Search article databases to find journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. These databases index articles published in selected journals and magazines, papers presented at conferences, and other sources. Most records include citations and abstracts with links to the full text of articles (when available). To access the full text, use the button.

Core Life Science/Environmental Science Article Databases	Years Covered	Peer-reviewed Content?
BIOSIS The most comprehensive biological sciences article database; indexes over 6000 peer-reviewed journals. (Guide: HTML, PDF)	1926-present	Most
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES AND POLLUTION MANAGEMENT All aspects of environmental issues, including air, land, and water pollution, bacteriology, waste management, water resources and environmental biotechnology. (Quick Reference Card: PDF)	1981-present	Some
PUBMED The National Library of Medicine's premier article database, indexing articles from more than 4500 journals in biology and biomedicine. (Guide: HTML, PDF)	1949-present	Most
Zoological Record Covers about 6,000 journals and a wide range of monographic publications, providing comprehensive coverage of literature in all aspects of zoology, including systematics, ecology, behavior, evolution and conservation. (Quick Guide: HTML | PDF)	1864-present	Most
Related Article Databases	Years Covered	Peer-reviewed Content?
Academic Search Complete Multidisciplinary source for scholarly journal and popular magazine articles; indexes and abstracts articles from more than 10,900 English, Spanish, German, French, Italian and Portuguese sources. Full text is available for over 5300 journals.	1865-present	Some

Suggested Web Sites

• MedlinePlus
  Health information for the public, from the National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine.
• NatureServe
• PubMed Bookshelf
  A growing collection of full-text biomedical textbooks and reference boks, available from the National Library of Medicine.
• Systematics Resources for Entomology [Entomological Society of America]
• Tick-Borne Diseases [CDC]
• World Health Organization: Data and Statistics
• World Health Organization: Malaria Research

Managing Your References and Evaluating Your Sources

• Critical Evaluation of Resources Questions to ask when evaluating the suitability of a book, article, website, or other material.
• Citing Your Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism Quick guides to APA, MLA, and Chicago-Turabian styles.
• RefWorks The UCB Libraries have purchased a site license to RefWorks. Sign up for a free account, and manage your references and format bibliographies with just a few clicks. (Tutorials and Guides)
• Video tutorial: Evaluating Scholarly Content Online [UCB Libraries]