Dinosaurs: Library resources to help with your paper

Geology Library

Staff:

• Amanda Bielskas, Librarian, asb2154@columbia.edu
• Wendy Zhang, Library Assistant, wz2108@columbia.edu

Finding topics for your paper

• Selected internet resources on dinosaurs

• Reserve books on dinosaurs in the Geology Library
  

Locating research articles on dinosaurs:

Indexes and Databases:

• GeoRef: citations and abstracts for publications related to geology.
• General Science Abstracts: covers leading journals and magazines, conferences, review articles in science publications.
• Biological Abstracts: citations and abstracts from life sciences literature.
• Zoological Record: citations to the zoological literature.
• Animal Behavior Abstracts: citations and abstracts for journal articles on animal behavior.
• Scopus: provides indexing, abstracting of and citation linking to journals in many fields
• Web of Science: bibliographic information and cited references across all disciplines.
  

Locating books and journals

• Books on dinosaurs and evolution are located in many Columbia libraries including: Geology, Geoscience, Math/Science, Biology, and Butler.
  
• Books: Use the CLIO online catalog to locate books in all Columbia Libraries.
  
• Science journals: The journals received in the Columbia Libraries are included in CLIO. The names of the library or libraries owning the titles and the actual volumes held are listed. Most recent journals are also available in full-text online format: E-Journals

Citing your sources:

• Endnote & Refworks: Columbia Libraries offer access to two separate citation management softwares: EndNote and RefWorks.  Both support retrieval and storage of references from bibliographic databases and the use of that information in formatting in-text citations, footnotes, endnotes, and bibliographies.
• APA Style Guide (From Purdue)
• MLA Style Guide (From Purdue)
  

Contact the library staff if you cannot find what you need!