BISC 318 - Botany

Annotated Bibliography Assignment

You will need to use the library to find books and journal articles on your research topic.  

Get Started: Choose a topic

Talk to your professor
Look in your textbook
Read book chapters, news articles, & websites

Botanical Society of America - News  
Science Daily - Botany News
Science News - Botany 

Watch this tutorial on how to choose a topic 

Get Specific

List all of the terms you can think of to describe your topic, from broad to narrow
List the types of information you need, i.e. scientific studies, economic factors, etc.
List the kinds of sources you want to read, i.e. books, scholarly articles, newspaper articles, etc.
Start searching and reading! 

Keywords: Some examples of search terms for books about "prescribed fires":

       Forest management

Fire management / policy, environmental, and economic aspects

       Prescribed fires / prescribed burn

Library Resources 

Libray Catalog - search for books, government documents, media

Tutorial on how to search the catalog.
Tutorial on how to read a catalog record

Finding articles on a topic

Academic Search Premier - can limit to full text only

Agricola - no full text

BioOne - all full text

Garden, Landscape, and Horticulture - can limit to full text only

Natural & Alternative Treatments - all full text

Tutorial on how to find articles using the "find it" button.

Identifying Scientific Articles

Primary sources, also called scientific or scholarly articles, are the scientific journal articles or technical reports that scientists use to communicate the results of their research to other scientists.

Use this tutorial to help you identify primary sources.