Directory (Reference desk: libraries & journals)

Libraries

— [Online Catalogue] — Library search at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
— [WebCat] — Search The Natural History Museum’s Library, London.

Journals

Lepidopterological
— Atropos — A journal for butterfly, moth and dragonfly enthusiasts.
— Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera — All of the articles are available for non-commercial, personal and scientific use in PDF format.

Entomological
— Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift — One of the leading national and international journals publishing original papers on both scientific and applied entomology as well as arachnology (spiders) and acarology (mites). The animals studied include specimens from around the globe.
— New Entomological Taxa — It was a monthly publication designed to provide entomologists with timely and inexpensive access to the literature on new entomological taxa and nomenclature changes. [site doesn’t exists any longer!]
— Review of Agricultural Entomology — Contains the most up-to-date, relevant information about all aspects of agricultural entomology.
— The Entomologist’s Record and Journal of Variation — An entomology journal containing peer-reviewed papers plus shorter communications.

Zoological
— Annales Zoologici Fennici — Welcomes submissions of original, previously unpublished research reports, review articles, rapid communications, and commentaries on any level of biological organization. AnZF especially welcomes manuscripts dealing with ecology, behaviour, or evolutionary patterns of animals. AnZF also encourages submission of important research relating to conservation biology and wildlife management.
— Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia — An international quarterly journal publishing papers of general interest on the systematics, phylogeny, biogeography, ecology and paleontology of terrestrial and fresh-water animals worldwide.
— Animal Behaviour — A leading international publication and has wide appeal, containing critical reviews, original papers, and research articles on all aspects of animal behaviour. Book Reviews and Books Received sections are also included.
— Annales Zoologici — Published quarterly by the Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences. It is an international journal devoted to all aspects of systematic zoology (in broad sense).
— Australian Journal of Zoology — Has a 50-year history of publishing seminal papers across a wide range of the animal sciences, with a focus on Australasian Zoology. All zoologists find it a vital resource because of the contribution papers make to broader conceptual paradigms. The scope, which includes genetics and evolution to physiology, ecology and behaviour, enables the journal to develop in tandem with the rapid progress in the zoological sciences.
— Fragmenta Faunistica — A specialist journal published by the Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The journal, first published in 1930, appeared under the title Fragmenta Faunistica Musei Zoologici Polonici until 1953. Now the journal is issued semi-annually and publishes the papers devoted to knowing fauna, its differentiation, distribution and transformation. These are the results of original studies, review articles and syntheses dealing with faunology and related sciences as zoogeography or zoocenology.
— Invertebrate Systematics — An international journal publishing significant contributions and reviews on the systematics and phylogeny of invertebrate faunas worldwide. The focus is on comprehensive papers that include phylogenetic and biogeographic analyses and that take a multidisciplinary approach to the study of invertebrate systematics.
— Israel Journal of Zoology — Welcomes original research articles in all fields of zoology. In particular, articles dealing with the fauna of Israel and other countries of the Near East, the Red Sea, and the Eastern Mediterranean region are encouraged.
— Italian Journal of Zoology — Formerly Bollettino di ZooIogia. Published by the Italian Society of Zoologists (Unione Zoologica Italiana).
— Pheromones — A scientific journal of Institute of Ecology, Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. Includes several full text articles in PDF and HTML formats. Has a free subscribtion to tables of contents.
— Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society — Publishes papers on systematic and evolutionary zoology and comparative, functional and other studies where relevant to these areas. Studies of extinct as well as living animals are included. Reviews are also published; these may be invited by the Editorial Board, but the submission of uninvited reviews is welcomed. The journal also has a wide circulation amongst zoologists and although narrowly specialized papers are not excluded, potential authors should bear that readership in mind.
— Zoosystema — A peer-reviewed journal devoted to the inventory, analysis and interpretation of animal biodiversity. It publishes original results in French or English, of zoological research, particularly in systematics and related fields: comparative, functional and evolutionary morphology, phylogeny, biogeography, taxonomy and nomenclature, etc.

Biological
— Biological Journal of the Linnean Society — Publishes papers concerned with the process of organic evolution in the broadest sense.
— Biological Procedures Online — An open access journal of research methods.
— Biometrical Journal — Papers on the development of statistical and related methodology and its applications to problems arising in all areas of the life sciences.
— Bulletin of Moscow Society of Naturalists — Published by the Moscow University Press.
— Current Issues in Molecular Biology — Publishes high quality critical review papers in all areas of molecular biology, including plant and animal systems, human genetics, molecular microbiology, genomics, biomedicine, and biotechnology.
— Evolutionary Ecology Research — A professional scientific journal focusing on the overlap between ecology and evolution.
— Molecular Biology Today — A journal of molecular biology.
— Nature — International weekly journal of science.
— The Journal of Experimental Biology — A leading journal in comparative animal physiology.
— The Scientist — Provide compelling print and online coverage of the latest developments in life sciences research, technology and business.

Publication databases, directories

— Bioline International — A not-for-profit electronic publishing service committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries.
— BioOne — A web-based aggregation of research in the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. It is under development by the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), the University of Kansas, the Big 12 Plus Libraries Consortium, and Allen Press.
— Cambridge Scientific Abstracts — A worldwide information company, serving as a guide to researchers to help them be more effective in their work by enabling and expediting discovery, aiding the management and organization of quality information and providing tools to assist in its subsequent dissemination.
— MedBioWorld — The largest medical and bioscience resource directory on the Internet.
— Publist — Database of over 150,000 magazines, journals, newsletters, and other periodicals.
— SpringerLink — The premier electronic data source from Springer for researchers in biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities, and economics.
— Thomson ISI — An established leader in providing access to high-value, essential information for researchers and scholars worldwide for over 45 years.