Searching the SUNY Library and Resources for References
One way of finding references is to use electronic research databases. For Marine Ecology, several of these databases can be quite useful. I recommend that you stick to the following ones for now:
Biological Abstracts
Aquatic Biology, Aquaculture and Fisheries Resources
Web of Science
How to get to them:
the Aquatic Biology, Aquaculture and Fisheries Resources link
If you select the Biological Abstracts link, you will come to a page where you may have to click an "Ovid" link, then another page where you will click
These links get you to different databases with different styles of searching.
Biological Abstracts:
You can search in several modes, but key word is the most useful. For example, you might type hot vent in the key word area.
Another useful thing to do is to combine searches. If you made a second keyword search, say for bivalve, you might get tens of thousands of references. But then you can use the Combine searches to search for references that have both hot vent and bivalve. This will restrict things greatly.
The Aquatic Biology, Aquaculture and Fisheries Resources system is a bit more restrictive, but you can search among journals that are specialized in marine science. You will get different references if you use the two systems.
A third independent system is the Web of Science, which is more generalized but a bit more straightforward to get to. Find the link www. webofscience.com and proceed from there.