Resources for Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences

Printed materials

The printed material e.g. books, journals, reference and quick reference for Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences are found in a few locations.

Key areas are found on Level E of the Hugh Owen Library

G155 Tourism
GB Physical Geography
HC / TD Environmental management
HD / HT Countryside management
HM Sociology and economics
Q Science (general)
QC Climate
QD Chemistry
QH Natural history & biology
QK Botany
QL Zoology
QP Physiology (incl. biochemistry)
QR Microbiology
S, SB Soil science, agriculture, crops
S673-S675 Agricultural Engineering
S900-S972 Countryside management
SF Animal science
SF277-SF359 Equine

The main collection of printed material for Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences is found in the Hugh Owen Library.  Additional material can be found in the Thomas Parry Library on the Llanbadarn Campus and the Stapledon Reading Room on the Gogerddan Campus.

Electronic resources

All the electronic resources for Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences can be found through Primo where you can discover individual resources or cross-search a number of them at once. Primo includes key resources such as citation databases, e-journals and e-books, selected websites, subject gateways, data and media resources, news, reference materials and library catalogues.

Visit http://primo.aber.ac.uk/ and Sign In, then click on Databases A-Z and select Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences from the Category menu to find important e-resources such as BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, Land Life Leisure and ScienceDirect. Information about each resource is available by clicking on the Show Info button next to it which includes essential information on access on and off-campus.

Find a summary of browsing and searching in Primo here: http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/is/infoskills/primo/

Information skills

See our Information Skills pages for information on:

• finding printed materials in the library
• finding and evaluating electronic information
• keeping up to date in your subject of study
• effective study and bibliographic referencing
• library induction and skills training

There are also useful online tutorials for your subject covering key online information skills - try the tutorials for Agriculture, and Biodiversity.

Collections

The University's collections contain a wide range of materials, including theses and past papers. You can find details of all our collections here.

Services for academic staff

Your subject librarian can provide skills training for students and staff, resource evaluation and more. For full details see this page.

Your subject support librarian is: