Botany
Subject Librarian - Margaret Rooney
Office Location: Lower Level, Hamilton Library
Telephone: +353 1 8962392
Faculty of Engineering, Mathematics and Science
Subject Librarian Recommends...
Most useful TCD-subscribed databases
- ScienceDirect
- Web of Science
- GeoRef
- OECD iLibrary
- Oxford journals online
- Cambridge journals online
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland
- Wiley Online Library
- Wilson OmniFile
- JSTOR
- Academic Search Complete
- Nature Journals
Grey Literature
Free International Resources
- Biodiversity Heritage Library (Consortium of natural history and botanical libraries)
- Biodiversity Science (Operation Wallacea; peer-reviewed)
- Botanicus Digital Library (Missouri Botanical Garden Library)
- EU Habitats Directive
- NCBI/Entrez: the Life Sciences search engine
- Electronic Sites of Leading Botany, Plant Biology and Science Journals
- iSpot (Open University)
- TCD Library Subject Guides
- TCD Natural Sciences databases
- TCD Botany databases
- TCD eJournal collection
- TARA (Trinity's Access to Research Archive): Botany
Free Irish Resources
- All Island Research Observatory
- Biology.ie
- BSBI/Ireland (Botanical Society of the British Isles - Ireland)
- An Chomhairle Oidhreachta / The Heritage Council
- Crann
- The Dublin Naturalists' Field Club
- Irish environment: environmental matters on the Island of Ireland
- Irish Peatland Conservation Council
- Irish Wildflowers (Jenny Seawright)
- lichens.ie: Lichens of Ireland project
- National Association of Regional Game Councils - Conservation
- National Botanic Gardens of Ireland
- National Biodiversity Data Centre
- National Digital Learning Resources: Botany
- National Herbarium
- National Parks and Wildlife Service: Maps and Data
- Planforbio
- RIAN (Open Access Irish research publications)
- Save Our Forests (Impact manifesto)
- Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) - Marine (2012 Press release)
- Wildflowers of Ireland (Zoe Devlin)
Referencing
What is citation management software?
Citation management software allows a user to organise and retrieve information by interfacing with databases and websites. The citation manager then works with word-processing software to insert footnotes%20OR%20citations into a paper and create a properly formatted bibliography. Comparison of reference management software (Wikipedia).
- EndNote is a widely-used bibliographic reference software tool. Trinity College Dublin has a site licence for EndNote for College-owned computers, but a free web-based version is available to all. Help page for EndNote
- Zotero is a free, open source, web-based tool for managing citations, organising pdfs and creating bibliographies
- Mendeley allows you to easily organize your papers, read & annotate your PDFs, collaborate in private%20OR%20open groups, and securely access your research from everywhere