Resources for Invasive Species Literature

Below are some resources you may find helpful for your research projects. For these or any type of web search, you should perform the search for every common and scientific name used for your study species.

Invasive Species-Specific

• The Nature Conservancy's Invasive Species Initiative. Still the first place to go if you are researching a non-native plant, but now also a good resource for information about other non-plant pests as well. Be sure to check their Management Library for species monographs (Note: The Element Stewardship Abstracts in the Management Library are also a good general guide for how your species monograph should look)
  
• The Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants has a huge, searchable database of literature for both aquatic and terrestrial plants.
  
• The InvasiveSpecies.gov website has a page listing other Invasive Species Databases.
  
• The Nonindigenous Aquatic Species database from the USGS is an excellent repository of background information and species records.
  
• Sea Grant's National Aquatic Nuisance Species Clearinghouse is a great repository of sources for aquatic vertebrates and invertebrates.
  
• This searchable database is also from Sea Grant but seems to yield different results...I recommend checking them both.

General Research

• Check the list of electronic databases offered by the UMB library. You should at least peruse the following:
  
  • Science Direct
    
  • JStor
    
  • Ingenta
    
  • WorldCat (Specifically, the Dissertations and PapersFirst options available in the pull-down menu!)
  
  
• Our library offers Interlibrary Loan for books, reports and journals you can't get electronically. Visit the Reference Desk if you need help accessing these valuable resources.
  
• Use the Entrez portal to search GenBank, PubMed, and other databases, the best way to dig up information about any molecular work being done on your study species.