BOTANY
Following is some general information about resources and tools to assist researchers in the field of Botany. This list is just a sampling of what the Quimby Library has in its collection.
FINDING BOOKS
The library’s holdings are best accessed through Athena, our online catalog. This system can be searched by author, title, subject heading, or key word. Help in using the system is available online and at the reference/circulation desk. The library catalog [http://www.unity.edu/library/] can be accessed from the library as well as your home or office via the internet.
The library holdings are arranged by the Library of Congress Classification system and uses Library of Congress subject headings. Examples of possible subjects include:
Aquatic plants; Biology – Authorship; Botanical literature; Botanical microscopy; Botany; Ethnobotany; Fruit; Marine flora; Natural history illustration; Nuts; Phytogeography; Plant cells and tissues; Plant breeding; Plant cytochemistry; Plant communities; Plant diseases; Plant genetics; Plants; Plants, cultivated; Report writing; Roots (Botany); Scientific illustration; Seeds; Stems (Botany); Technical writing; Trees; Vegetables; Vegetation surveys; Wetland flora; Wild flowers
REFERENCE SOURCES
Atlas of plant morphology / by E.L. Fisk and W.F. Millington REF QK641 .F5 1959
An atlas of the native woody plants of Maine : a revision of the Hyland maps / J.S. McMahon, G.L. Jacobson, Jr. and F. Hyland. REF G1216.D2 M2 1990
Botanical Latin: history, grammar, syntax, terminology and vocabulary / [by] William T. Stearn. REF QK10 .S7 1973
Checklist of the vascular plants of Maine / Josseyn Botanical Society of Maine. REF QK164 .C5 1995
Composition of scientific words : a manual of methods and a lexicon of materials for the practice of logotechnics / Roland Wilbur Brown. REF PE1580 .B7 1956
The concise Oxford dictionary of botany / edited by Michael Allaby. REF QK9 .C67 1992
Doing honest work in college : how to prepare citations, avoid plagiarism, and achieve real academic success / Charles Lipson. PN171.F56 L56 2004
Encyclopedia of life sciences / Nature Publishing Group (20 vols.) REF QH302.5 .E54 2002
The environmental resource handbook. REF GE20 .E586 2003/04
Flora of Maine : a manual for identification of native and naturalized vascular plants of Maine / A. Haines and T.F. Vining. REF QK164 .H35 1998
GardenWeb glossary of botanical terms http://glossary.gardenweb.com/glossary/
Flora of North America north of Mexico REF QK110 .F55 1993
The genera of flowering plants : Angiospermae / by J. Hutchinson. REF QK495.A56 H8 1964
Gray's Manual of botany : a handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. REF QK117 .G75 1950
The Guild handbook of scientific illustration 2nd ed. Q222 .G85 2003
Illustrated companion to Gleason and Cronquist's manual : illustrations of the vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada / Noel H. Holmgren REF QK117 .H65 1998
Integrated Taxonomic Information System http://www.itis.usda.gov/
The length and breadth of Maine / S.B. Attwood REF F17 .A8 1974
Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada / Henry A. Gleason and Arthur Cronquist. REF QK117 .G49 1991
The names of plants / David Gledhill. REF QK96 .G54 2002
National list of scientific plant names. REF QK96 .N35 1982
The new Britton and Brown illustrated flora of the Northeastern United States and adjacent Canada / by Henry A. Gleason REF QK117 .G5 1952
The plant-book : a portable dictionary of the higher plants utilising Cronquist's An integrated system of classification of flowering plants (1981) and current botanical literature arranged largely on the principles of editions 1-6 (1896/97-1931) of Willis's A dictionary of the flowering plants and ferns / D.J. Mabberley. REF QK11 .M29 1987
Plant life: The Illustrated encyclopedia of world geography. REF QK101 .P55 1991
Seeds of woody plants in the United States / prepared by the Forest Service REF SB170 .Y68 1992
A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland / John T. Kartesz. REF QK110 .K37 1994
Writing for science / R. Goldbort T11 .G626 2006
Digital Book Index http://www.digitalbookindex.com/about.htm
National Academy Press (Full text of over 3000 titles) http://books.nap.edu/index.html
FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES AND CONFERENCE REPORTS
The following abstracting/indexing databases will help you find published non-book literature.
Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost) http://search.epnet.com/
Agricola (EBSCOhost) http://search.epnet.com/
Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts http://www.unity.edu/library/link_database.asp
Business Source Premier (EBSCOhost) http://search.epnet.com/
Garden and Landscape Design & History (EBSCOhost) http://search.epnet.com/
Georef http://www.unity.edu/library/link_database.asp
The Lichen Literature of Maine http://csdept.umfk.maine.edu/LichensWebsite/bibsme.asp
MyLibrary@OCKHAM http://mylibrary.ockham.org/?cmd=about
JOURNALS/E-JOURNALS
American Journal of Botany
Canadian Journal of Botany
Conservation Biology
The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society
Plant Science Bulletin / Botanical Society of America
Restoration Ecology
Revista Brasileira de Botanica / Sociedade Botanica de Sao Paulo (English, Portuguese, or Spanish) http://www.scielo.br/cgi-bin/fbpe/fbsite?got=site&pid=0100-8404&lng=en
ASSOCIATIONS/SOCIETIES
American Botanical Council http://herbalgram.org/default.asp?c=defaulthome
American Society of Plant Biologists http://www.aspb.org/
American Society of Plant Taxonomists http://www.sysbot.org/
Botanical Society of America http://www.botany.org/
New England Wild Flower Society http://www.newfs.org/
Northeast Algal Society (NEAS)
Society for Economic Botany http://www.econbot.org
Weed Science Society of America http://www.wssa.net/
WEB SOURCES
Algal Base http://www.algaebase.org/
Botanicus Digital Library http://www.botanicus.org/
FirstGov.gov The U.S. Government’s official web portal http://www.firstgov.gov/
International Plant Names Index http://www.ipni.org/index.html
Internet Directory for Botany: Listservers and Newsgroups http://www.botany.net/IDB/
MBL/WHOI Library Digital Herbarium http://herbarium.whoi.edu/cgibin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First
Plants database (USDA) http://plants.usda.gov/
Species 2000 http://www.usa.sp2000.org/
VPlants : A virtual herbarium of the Chicago region http://www.vplants.org/
VIDEOS/SLIDES
Seeds, stems, roots [videorecording]. VIDEO 581 Se32r
Tree anatomy above ground / by Alex L. Shigo. SLIDES 582.1604 Sh61a
Tree anatomy below ground [filmstrip] / by Alex L. Shigo. SLIDES 582.1604 Sh61b
Dorothy W. Quimby Library Updated July 10, 2007