• An eBook is a full online version of a printed book, you can look at all the pages, pictures etc from your computer, on-campus, and from home, anytime!

Recommended Journals 

• For the journal articles below, the links below will either take you to directly to journal articles if they are available in an online journal, or you will be taken to the corresponding page in Voyager the Library Catalogue.  

• From the Voyager record you will be able to work out whether the library has a print/hard copy subscription to the Journal.  Articles from print/hard copy only journals can be photocopied in the library.  

• All Biological Sciences journals are housed on Level M of the General Library in the Science Serials area, all journals are shelved alphabetically by the Journal title. 

National

• NZ Geography
  • New Zealand Geographer
  • New Zealand Journal of Geography
• New Zealand Journal of Zoology
• New Zealand Wilderness Magazine  (table of contents only, the library does not subscribe to this journal)

International

• Animal Behaviour  
• Behaviour 
• Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology  
• Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology
• Ecology
• Oecologia 
• Oikos

The complete list of all electronic journals subscribed to by the University of Auckland Library, arranged alphabetically by journal title.

Electronic Journals and links on the Web 

• Bird Behavior.  Only table of contents are available for this journal.
• Animal behaviour-related societies

eBooks 

Tips for finding even more eBooks 

• Click here to see how to look for Other online reference books related to Biological Sciences
• Click here to look at all University of Auckland Library eBooks (9,000+ titles)

Internet Resources

To access these internet resources and library databases refer to the Accessing Electronic Resources instructions. 

Tundra Oil Exploitation

• For:  Caribou or oil?

Animal Behaviour Links

• The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour

Ecological Issues

• British Ecological Society : Ecological Issues

• Centre for Research on Ecological Impacts of Coastal Cities

Biomes

• The World's Biomes

• What's it Like Where You Live? Biomes of the World 

• worldbiomes.com

• Major Biomes of the World

 Arctic Fox and Lemmings

• Hinterland's Who's Who

• World Builders : A Food Web in the Tundra Biome

 Taiga

• Taiga Facts

 Tundra and conservation (includes lots of links)

• Neartica - Ecology - Biogeography - Biomes, Ecoregions and Habitats - Tundra

The Talk.Origins Archive
On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin - an electronic version of Darwin's book.

Darwinism and Developmental Systems
An on-line article by Paul E. Griffiths, & Russell D. Gray.

Behavior OnLine
Behavior OnLine aspires to be the premier World Wide Web gathering place for mental health professionals and applied behavioral scientists.  Join on-line discussions, read current relevant articles or read on-line articles from the Journal of On-line Behavior.

The Animal Behavior Society
The Animal Behavior Society is a non-profit scientific society, founded to encourage and promote the study of animal behavior, news, articles and resources are available from this site.

Bioacoustics
Animal Sounds - Università degli Studi di Pavia
The Wildlife section of the British Library National Sound Archive

Game Theory
Strategy and Conflict - an Introductory sketch of Game Theory by Roger A. McCain

Naked Mole Rats
Zoo Views naked mole rat burrow - Live still image web cam and live video web cam from the mole rat burrow, Smithsonian National Zoological Park. Scroll down the linked page to view the images.

Software Websites
Computer Software Archive for the Study of Animal Behavior - a collection of simulation software packages
Ecology Software Server

Databases Relevant to this Course

Biological Abstracts is an international database on biology, clinical and experimental medicine, biochemistry and biotechnology. It indexes and abstracts articles in 6,500 serials from over 100 countries and is produced in the United States by BIOSIS. Biological Abstracts uses OVID software.  Coverage is 1980 to the present, updated weekly.  Serials currently monitored for inclusion in Biological Abstracts.

Connect to Biological Abstracts | Help sheet

PsycINFO provides access to over 1 million references from the international literature of psychology and the behavioral sciences.  PsycINFO indexes and abstracts over 1500 journals from over 50 countries.  PsycINFO is produced in the United States by the American Psychological Association.  Searches on animal behaviour can be limited to Animal Experimental & Comparative Psychology, Animal Learning & Motivation and/or Animal Social & Instinctive Behavior.  PsychInfo uses OVID software.  Coverage is 1887 to the present, updated monthly.

Connect to PsycInfo | Help sheet 

Other Databases available in the Library for Biological Sciences.