Guides: Animal Care: Home

About the Animal Care Research Guide

This is a guide to recommended library resources, in various formats, for those doing research in the subject area of Animal Care. Browse through different types of resources using the left navigation.

Quick Links to Resources

Most popular databases in this area:

Encyclopedia of Animals
Contains more than 2,000 animal profiles. These profiles include information on characteristics, habitat, and behavior. All profiles provide the scientific naming convention of the animal, detailed indexing, Lexile values, and related images.

Merck Veterinary Manual This link opens in a new window
Widely used comprehensive veterinary resources for professionals and consumers. Browse or search animal health topics, procedures, quizzes and case studies. Multimedia resources include images, infographics, videos, clinical calculators and more.
Agriculture Collection via Gale Onefile This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals (College Edition) This link opens in a new window

Other recommended databases:

BioMed Central This link opens in a new window
CCOHS - Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety This link opens in a new window
General Science Collection This link opens in a new window

Creating your Search:

How to search for Library resources:

Select 2-5 keywords that describe your topic. Combine them by using the connectors (boolean operators) found in the table below.

The library catalogue and databases use this type of logic to search.

Operator	Explanation:	Examples:
AND	To narrow	online AND privacy ...results must include BOTH words used in the search
OR	To broaden	internet OR online ...results will include EITHER word from the search
NOT	To limit	NOT email ...results will NOT include the word 'email'
“ ”	To search for a phrase	"privacy settings" ...retrieves the enclosed words as a package
?	For alternate spellings	e?mail ...retrieves e-mail or email
* or $	For different word endings	protect* ...retrieves protect, protection, protected, etc.

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This guide was created by Durham College Libraries and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License, except where otherwise noted.