Welcome!
Hello! This course guide has been created for students enrolled in Professor Mahar's course. In this guide, you will find several blue tabs with information and databases intended to help with locating and citing resources for your Vertebrate Family assignment.
- Biology Research Guide
- Contains a list of Library databases to locate scholarly articles, news, and more. We suggest starting with the Science in Context database. Just simply search on the species name or family taxon and you will see results in several "content type" categories, which you can filter if you'd like.
- Use the book search box to find ebooks and print books about your chosen family taxon. Just search on the species name.
- Scroll down on the Biology Research Guide the "Additional Online Resources" section for useful websites such as The Smithsonian Libraries and Archives' Vertebrate Zoology Research Guide (which has a list of MANY other websites relevant to this project), Smithsonian Zoo (look up on Animals A-Z), and the WWF for conservation news (see their Species look-up page).
- In addition, you may want to google the name of your species + the word "conservation" + site:.org to find conservation organizations that focus on your chosen topic. Ex: red panda conservation site:.org
- Research Tutorials
- Selected Library tutorials including how to locate peer-reviewed sources, using Google Scholar, assessing website quality, and others.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Slide deck presentation with an overview of AI considerations for academic research. This is provided not to necessarily suggest you use AI for this assignment, but as additional context for conducting academic research.
- Citation Resouces
- APA citation guide with examples for in-text citations, reference list, and a sample paper.
Class Resources
OER (Open Education Resource) Free Text: Biology 2e, Section 29 Vertebrates
https://openstax.org/details/books/biology-2e
