Finding Articles in Biology and the Life Sciences Using Zoological Record

Zoological Record is a comprehensive database that covers all areas of zoology, including behavior, genetics, ecology, evolution, and physiology from 1978–present. Zoological Record indexes thousands of international serials and non-serial publications, including professional journals, newsletters, monographs, books, conference papers and abstracts, and reports.

Searching

Using the option, type keyword(s) in the Topic box and click .

Note: The default for searching multiple words is an exact phrase search. You do not need to use quotation marks around phrases. Read the screen for examples or click on (More examples). To combine two or more concepts, the words or phrases must be separated by the word “AND.”



If the word or phrase you are using has alternative spellings (e.g., British), use a truncation symbol (*)  so that you can find all of the forms of the word. Using the asterisk truncation symbol (see below) will retrieve more results than a search without truncation.

Using More Search Options

Consider using other search fields to expand or reduce your results. Do a search, and look at some of the records in your results list. If you see words or phrases that may be useful search terms, go back to the General Search page and type them into the appropriate field. For example, if you searched using the common name (e.g., bison), the Taxonomic Data grid on the record will tell you the scientific name, Bovidae. If you redo your search using the scientific name in the Taxonomic Data field, you will get even more results.

Setting Limits

1. Limits are at the bottom of the page and include language, document and literature type, and taxa notes.

2. After you type your search terms and select your limits, click at the top or bottom of the page.

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E-mailing, Printing, or Saving Your Results

1. Select citations by clicking in the box () next to the citation. There are two options to do this:
   
   

   1. You can either click on to add the selected citations to a Marked List, or

   2. Use the box on the right side of the results page and choose Selected records on page, All records on page, or a range of Records (e.g., Records 1 to 15), as illustrated in A.

2. Click on PRINT, E-MAIL, EXPORT (to export to bibliographic software, such as EndNote) or SAVE (to file), as illustrated in B. Note: If you print, e-mail, or save your records using this method, you will get the citation only. If you would like to include the abstract of the article, or other fields included with the record, you will need to send selected records to the Marked List and click . The Marked List screen will give you customizable options for printing, e-mailing, or saving your results.

Locate Items

To read or print an article, click to display options.

1. If online access is available, you will see a link to the full text first.

2. If there is no Full text available link, check electronic and/or print availability of your title at UCLA by choosing the See if UCLA owns this. Check the UCLA Library Catalog option.

3. Click the ONLINE ACCESS link (if present) or note the specific UCLA library, call number, and volumes owned.

4. If UCLA does not have the item, go back to the UC-eLinks window, and use the For Interlibrary Loan or Document Delivery use Request option to request an interlibrary loan if you are a current UCLA faculty, staff, or student.

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Last updated: June 13, 2006