Information sources in the life sciences / edited by H.V. Wyatt

Contributor(s): Wyatt, H. V. (Harold Vivian) [editor].

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BookSeries: Butterworths guides to information sources: Publisher: London : Butterworths, 1987Copyright date: ©1987Edition: Third edition.Description: xiv, 191 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 040811472X (hardback); 9780408114721 (hardback).Subject(s): Biology -- Information services

| Biology -- Bibliography

| Life sciences literature

DDC classification: 570.7

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Lending	MTU Bishopstown Library Store Item	570.7 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00024851

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A guide for librarians and for scientists in the life sciences to the full range of information resources, including those that may contain vital information but are increasingly overshadowed by the glitter of new electronic media. Among the 25 articles are considerations of the contents pages of journals, new ideas and fraud, newsletters and invisible colleges, statistics and software, major secondary sources including CD-ROMS, foreign-language literature and translations, biochemical and molecular sciences, animal ecology and behavior, and plant sciences. The third edition was published in 1987. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Includes bibliographies and index.

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

This is a third edition of R.T. Bottle's basic reference guide, The Use of Biological Literature (2nd ed., CH, Oct '76). Editor Wyatt (community medicine, University of Leeds) was coeditor with Bottle on the previous two editions. Several chapters from the previous editions on foreign serials and translations, patent literature, and botanical taxonomy have been omitted; other chapters on online searching, databanks, and biotechnology have been added, reflecting Wyatt's stated purpose ``to make it a guide rather than a compendium for the working scientist and information specialist.'' The emphasis is clearly on British sources; however, the coverage is certainly international in scope. All the major US indexing and abstracting services, journals, and databases are included. For each major subject area (biochemistry, microbiology, biotechnology, genetics, zoology, ecology, and botany) a review of the literature is given. This includes the historic or classic works in the field, the important dictionaries and handbooks, a core list of journals, and the major monographic or reviewing series in the field. A final chapter on the history of biology includes a lengthy bibliography on the subject. Not only will biologists find this volume useful, but librarians will want to check their holdings for collection development purposes. Highly recommended for all academic libraries.-R.G. Sabin, Auburn University