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Scientific Research and Science in Yellowstone National Park
Welcome to Scientific Research and Science in Yellowstone National Park, a Web-searchable bibliographic database of nearly 12,000 citations to scientific journal articles, books, proceedings, abstracts, videos, dissertations and theses, raw data, reports, letters and manuscripts dealing with Yellowstone National Park. |
 Tower Falls, Yellowstone National Park |
Cindy Stewart Kaag Interim Director of Libraries Pullman WA 99164-5610 Voice: 509.335.4558 Fax: (509) 335-6721 |
The Purpose:
This database is intended to facilitate the work of scientists and researchers working in and around the Park and is an ongoing project. If you know of pertinent materials which I do not have listed, please email the information to me. Currently the database is limited to studies dealing specifically with Yellowstone National Park, with limited material on the entire Greater Yellowstone Area. It will be expanding to cover the entire bio-geo-ecosystem in the future.
Besides non-Park materials, excluded are: articles from general popular magazines, most legislative materials, most sociological materials. Anthropology and archaeology coverage is incomplete.
Citations vary in content depending on type of material and my access to the original. Most have abstracts, many have additional notes, and all have subject headings assigned to facilitate searching for everything on a given topic under one term. In other words, you can do a free text search and come up with some references to "antelope," but only the subject heading "pronghorn" will get you all the pronghorn, antelope and pronghorn antelope citations.
Locations are given only if the item is likely to be hard to find through normal interlibrary loan and document delivery services and if I have actually seen the item at the location noted. The folks in the Park offices are wonderfully helpful and knowledgeable but they just aren't staffed at a level to let them be the one source for all materials dealing with the Park. I haven't listed a location for every item owned by the Yellowstone Archives or the Center for Resources or the aquatic progra m in order to save them being hit with an unmanageable number of requests to loan, but I have given locations if the item in question is likely to be hard to get anywhere else, and I know they have it. If you need to request something from the Park, be nice.
Some searching tips:
We are currently using a new software product - Reference Manager 11 and the Web Publisher that goes with it. We offer a few suggestions to help with your searching experience:
Quick vs. Advanced searching: Highly recommend using the Advanced Search (which is the default). It's the only way you can use more than one term.
Author searching: theoretically you should be able to enter the last name plus first name or initial, but it has been ignoring the first name or initial. This isn't a problem if you are searching for articles by "Varley," but is if you are searching for articles by "Smith." I hope this will be fixed in the next release.
Keyword (subject) searching: The new program we're using appears to be allowing you to search for the first word in a phrase, e.g. if you want to find references to "volcanic rocks" you can now search "volcanic rocks " and obtain the desired results.
Click on the link below to get to the Washington State University Libraries server
Select Scientific Research Yellowstone National Park
Select Non-Indexed...if you have problems obtaining results.
**Scientific Research and Science in Yellowstone National Park database**
