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Welcome to your Subject Guide, where you'll find tailored guidance and advice on key library resources.
Referencing within Zoology
All programmes in the Zoology use Cite Them Right Harvard.
Access Cite Them Right through the link below.
- Cite Them RightCite them right is a comprehensive guide to referencing almost anything you will come across in the course of your studies or research.
Roehampton University subscribes to a wide range of specialist research databases, free to access with your Roehampton login; those most relevant to Zoology are listed below. Most of these provide the full text, but sometimes just brief details (citation and abstract) of the articles. Click the Search4FullText button to see if you can access the article via our eJournals; if not, you can order it free via Interlibrary Loan.
It is important to ensure that you are using authoritative, evidence-based, scientific sources of information, as opposed to non-academic sources such as newspapers, magazines, random web pages, social media posts, etc., which may present biased opinion rather than objective facts. The sources listed below adhere to rigorous academic standards, so you can trust the information you find there.
Top databases recommended for Zoology:
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
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Contains over 2500 scientific, technical and medical peer-reviewed journals from the publisher Elsevier.
- Royal Society This link opens in a new windowPhilosophical Transactions, Proceedings and other journals of the Royal Society of London relating to Biological Sciences. Coverage is 2014-2022 only; for later issues, please request articles via Interlibrary loan.
- Web Of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window
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Database comprising Science, Social Science and Arts & Humanities citation indexes.
Open Access resources:
- Science Open (Open Access Resource) This link opens in a new window
ScienceOpen is a freely accessible research network to share and evaluate scientific information.
- WellBeing International Studies Repository (Open Access Resource) This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary, open access collection of academic, archival, and other materials addressing various topics within the fields of human well-being, animal well-being and environmental sustainability.
- ZooKeys (Open Access Resource) This link opens in a new window
ZooKeys is a peer-reviewed, open-access, rapidly disseminated journal launched to accelerate research and free information exchange in taxonomy, phylogeny, biogeography and evolution of animals.
To find out more about how to evaluate and use different sources of information, see the following:
- Calling Bull....A web based course created by two professors at the University of Washington to train students to recognise and distinguish lies from fact.
- Research Skills video tutorialsTutorials on how to find, evaluate and use Library sources of information.
- Sage Research Methods Online This link opens in a new window
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Provides help, guidance and tools for designing, writing and reporting research projects.
Most print books on Zoology are located on the second floor of the Library, at shelfmarks 590-599.
Books on Ecology are shelved at 577.
Most essential texts, and many more, are provided in eBook format.
All our books, in both formats, can be found via UR Library Search.
Oxford Dictionary of Zoology, shelved at 590.3 ALL. Access the eBook here.
Television and Video content - free to access with your Roehampton login:
- ROB (Roehampton Online Broadcasts) This link opens in a new window
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Record and stream freeview TV and radio programmes for educational use, create clips and playlists, and access the archive of recorded programmes including BBC and Shakespeare Archives. ROB is managed by AVR, for assistance contact: avr@roehampton.ac.uk.
Wildlife sounds available via the British Library:
- British Library SoundsAccess thousands of the British Library's global recordings, including music, drama and literature, oral history, languages and dialects, wildlife, and birdsong.