Back to Basics - Our Services

It's September. traditionally time for back to school. In this spirit, here is a series of reminders of our basic services, starting with A, Article Requests and Archives.



Article Requests - Have a citation or a link, but you just can't access the full text? Simply email library@sandiegozoo.org or use our request form on The Insider> Resources > Library.  We'll obtain a copy through our reciprocal agreements with other libraries. 

Archives -  Since the Zoological Society of San Diego's founding in 1916, zoo leaders and staff have preserved a wide variety of documents and memorabilia to record the society's history and shed light on over one hundred years of development. 

The collection continues to grow and is generally organized and described at the collection level.  Archives research is quite different from general library and literature research, and staff is here to help!
 

Book of the Month

New Books & DVDs

The orchid in lore and legend / Luigi Berliocchi ; edited by Mark Griffiths. ZOO HORT 2004

Black faces, white spaces : reimagining the relationship of African Americans to the great outdoors / Carolyn Finney. 2014

What Are We Reading?

Our Recent Returns shelf gives insight into what SDZG team members are reading and watching.

What Are We Writing?

A sample of recent SDZG staff publications.... Click here to view hundreds more.

Bowler M, Couceiro D, Martinez R, Orihuela G, Shoobridge JD, Nycander E, de Miranda EBP, Tobler MW. 2020. Harpy eagles (Harpia harpyja) nesting at Refugio Amazonas, Tambopata, Peru feed on abundant disturbance-tolerant species. Food Webs. 24:e00154. doi:10.1016/j.fooweb.2020.e00154.

Damas J, Hughes GM, Keough KC, Painter CA, Persky NS, Corbo M, Hiller M, Koepfli K-P, Pfenning AR, Zhao H...Ryder, OA... et al. 2020 Aug 21. Broad host range of SARS-CoV-2 predicted by comparative and structural analysis of ACE2 in vertebrates. PNAS. doi:10.1073/pnas.2010146117. [accessed 2020 Aug 27]. https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/08/20/2010146117.

Greggor AL, Berger-Tal O, Blumstein DT. 2020. The Rules of Attraction: The Necessary Role of Animal Cognition in Explaining Conservation Failures and Successes. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 51(1):null. doi:10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-011720-103212.

MacFarlane D, Hurlstone MJ, Ecker UKH, Ferraro PJ, Linden S van der, Veríssimo D, Wan AKY, Burgess G, Chen F, Hall W, et al. 2020 Aug 11. Reducing Demand for Overexploited Wildlife Products: Lessons from Systematic Reviews from Outside Conservation Science. doi:10.31219/osf.io/8935b. [accessed 2020 Aug 21]. https://osf.io/8935b.

Pasachnik SA, Colosimo G, Carreras-De León R, Gerber G. 2020 Jul 1. Genetic structure of Rhinoceros Rock Iguanas, Cyclura cornuta, in the Dominican Republic, with insights into the impact of captive facilities and the taxonomic status of Cyclura on Mona Island. Conserv Genet. doi:10.1007/s10592-020-01290-6. [accessed 2020 Aug 27]. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-020-01290-6.

Vanderplank SE. 2020. San Basilio Expedition and Bioinventory. [accessed 2020 Aug 21]. https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/san-basilio-expedition-and-bioinventory.

Witte C, Hungerford LL, Rideout BA, Papendick R, Fowler JH. 2020. Spatiotemporal network structure among “friends of friends” reveals contagious disease process. PLOS ONE. 15(8):e0237168. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0237168.

Woods JM, Lane EK, Miller LJ. 2020. Preference assessments as a tool to evaluate environmental enrichment. Zoo Biology. n/a(n/a). doi:10.1002/zoo.21566. [accessed 2020 Aug 27]. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/zoo.21566.

Zheng H, Pan Y, Tang S, Pye GW, Stadler CK, Vogelnest L, Herrin KV, Rideout BA, Switzer WM. 2020 Aug 7. Koala Retrovirus Diversity, Transmissibility, and Disease Associations. Retrovirology. doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-52091/v1. [accessed 2020 Aug 21]. https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-52091/v1.