FIW 3514: Fisheries techniques
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Basic guides and tools before getting started
- General search tips for literature reviews
- Understanding Peer review
- Understanding "Boolean"
- Concept table
Understanding scientific papers
Using databases to find articles
Broad databases to use (helpful to get started, or cover a wide variety of subject areas in the life sciences)
- Biological Abstracts from Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge
- CAB Abstracts from CABDirect
- Agriculture, Life Science, and Natural Resource databases from ProQuest
- Web of Science: Citation Databases from Thomson Reuters
Fish related databases
- Fish, Fisheries & Aquatic Biodiversity Worldwide from EBSCOHost : combines databases on all facets of ichthyology, fisheries, aquaculture and aquatic biology
- ASFA: Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts from ProQuest (search all databases listed below at the same time)
- Aqualine from ProQuest : provides comprehensive focus on trade, technical and scientific literature concerning all aspects of water resources
A few key journals
Links to records in Addison are included to show full access information of each journal title. Some journals have more than one electronic access point - the only online link included in the list here is the one with that includes the current year of access.
| Title (links to Addison record) | Print Availability | Online Availability |
|---|---|---|
| AFS (American Fisheries Society) | ||
| 1976-present | 1976-present | |
| 1989-present | 1989-present | |
| North American Journal of Fisheries Management | 1990-present | 1981-present |
| Progressive Fish Culturist | 1935-1998 | 1935-1998 |
| Transactions of the American Fisheries Society | 1946-present | 1900-present |
| Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1980-2002 | 1996-present |
| Fish and Fisheries | not available | 2000-present |
| Fisheries Management and Ecology | not available | 1996-present |
| Fisheries Oceanography | not available | 1997-present |
| Fisheries Research | 1981-2002 | 1981-present |
| Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries | 1993-2002 | 1997-present |
| Reviews in Fisheries Science | 1994-2002 | 1998-present |
Resources to help you write your paper
- Understanding paraphrasing
- Avoiding plagiarism: a guide for graduate students at Virginia Tech
- Paraphrase: Write it in your own words (Purdue)
- Successful vs. unsuccessful paraphrases (UW-Madison)
- Citing your source
- Citation styles and manuals
- Using information appropriately
- Need more help?
- Writing Center
Additional subject guides to check
- Fisheries
- Business (if looking at more in-depth business aspects of fisheries)
- Environmental and Water Resources Engineering (if looking at technologies of fisheries)
- Kyrille K Goldbeck DeBose
- College Librarian for Natural Resources and Environment
- (540) 231-0495
- (540) 231-0419 (Cheatham Hall office)
- kdebose@vt.edu
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315B Cheatham Hall
4005 Newman Library
Blacksburg, VA 24061
