Ruth Gustafson
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ANS 137: Avian Growth Laboratory
by Ruth Gustafson, Erik Davis Fausak – May 23, 2022
This guide lists resources for locating avian science nutrition and growth literature.
PLEASE NOTE: To access licensed library resources from off-campus, please use the library VPN, Pulse Secure.
With the VPN Connected, you can now use this direct link to Journal of Applied Poultry Research, the journal style you will need to follow.
Research Help
- Library Guides & Tutorials
- Librarian Instructors for Spring Quarter 2022
- Ruth Gustafson @ ragustafson@ucdavis.edu OR Book a Zoom Appointment with Ruth
- Erik Fausak @ edfausak@ucdavis.edu OR Book a Zoom Appointment with Erik
Library Catalogs
Searching in a library catalog requires looking for broader topics such as avian or poultry nutrition rather than the more specific chick feeding behavior. Useful subject term searches include
Poultry – feeding and feeds ; Chickens – nutrition
CALL NUMBER ranges: QL 670s-690s Ornithology/Birds OR SF 480s-490s Domesticated Birds/Poultry
- UC Library Search: UCD Library Catalog setting
Replacing UCD Library Catalog on July 27, 2021, the new UC Library Search includes all of the UC library collections. This setting is specifically for the UC Davis libraries including (for the first time) the holdings of the Law Library. If you Sign in (on top right corner) using your UCD login and Kerberos passphrase, you are prompted with your loan period, can renew books online, and request items that have been checked out to another borrower, or are in storage.
NEED a PRINT ONLY ITEM AND CANNOT COME TO CAMPUS? We’ll ship it to you! Implemented during COVID time, the UCD Library is continuing with our shipping service. Make sure to “Sign In” and then click on the REQUEST link and we’ll mail the whole item to you. Make sure you have your correct address listed, when prompted.
ONLY NEED a chapter or an article from a PRINT ONLY ITEM? Scanning service available for all UCD affiliates. Use the DIGITIZATION link but make a note of the specific chapter/article you need and include as much info as you can, especially page number(s), if available.
You may renew your checked-out items up to three times which means for about a full quarter. Book returning: “If you are in the [UCD] area and would like to return materials, you can deposit returns via the remote book drops or at Shields or Blaisdell Medical Library. Materials may also be mailed back at no cost to you. Contact shieldsinterloan@ucdavis.edu for additional instructions and to receive a postage-paid mailing label.”
- Understanding Call Numbers
Author: Library Instruction Services, Shields Library
Library of Congress Classification is used for all of the UCD libraries except the health sciences libraries (which use NLM — National Library of Medicine — classification). Learn about how books are arranged in the UCD libraries with this guide.
Date: 2004
Handbooks and Textbooks
 | Nutrition Experiments in Pigs and Poultry: a Practical Guide (2016) MR Bedford, M Choct, HM O'Neil |  | The Encyclopedia of Farm Animal Nutrition (2004) MF Fuller |
 | Poultry and pig nutrition : challenges of the 21st century (2019) WH Hendricks, MWA Verstegen, L Babinzsky |  | Commercial Poultry Nutrition (2009) S Leeson & JD Summers |
 | Nutrients Requirements of Poultry (1994) National Research Council |  | Nutritional modelling for pigs and poultry 2015 NK Sakomura |
 | Sturkie's Avian Physiology (2015) CG Scanes |  | Gut efficiency ; the key ingredient in pig and poultry production elevating animal performance and health (2008) JA Taylor Pickard & P Spring |
Peer-Reviewed Journal Databases & Tools
Peer Review
A process through which manuscripts submitted to a journal are evaluated for quality — by one or more subject experts in addition to the editor — before being accepted for publication.
ProQuest article databases (such as PsycINFO) include a checkbox to limit to “Peer Reviewed” articles. For journals retrieved from other databases, use the online Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory to locate your journal and then look for the black and white striped symbol or referee shirt 
indicating the publication is “Refereed”.
- Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory
The standard source for information on virtually every active and ceased periodical, annual, irregular publication, and monographic series published throughout the world (plus thousands of newspapers). Indicates whether a publication is a refereed (peer-reviewed) title.
NOTE: search by journal title, NOT article title. Ulrich’s provides information on the entire publication (journal, magazine, newspaper, annual review) NOT on the work within.
Journal Ranking
Clarivate Analytics Journal Citation Reports is a comprehensive tool for assessing the importance of research journals in disciplines and subdisciplines.
NOTE that review journals (secondary literature) tend to be listed as top ranked titles, pushing rankings for original research titles lower, so use with caution. Typical review series may have the following words in their title: Advances in … ; Annual Review of …; Critical Reviews in … ; Current Opinion in … ; Expert Reviews in … ; International Review of … ; Progress in … ; Trends in …
Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is an annual publication by Thomson Reuters with each yearly data analysis being completed in the summer of the following year. JCR indicates: most frequently cited journals in a field: highest impact journals in a field; and largest journals in a field. JCR Science Edition contains data from over 7,300 journals in science and technology. JCR Social Sciences Edition contains data from over 2,200 journals in the social sciences. NOTE: For disciplines that have longer timespans for citation, consider sorting for ranking by using the 5-year Impact Factor sort.
Release Coverage: 1997-2015 (for 1996-2014 data)
•Impact Factors in Wikipedia: validity, manipulation, and misuse of Impact Factors
•Using JCR Wisely
Scientific Publication Cycle
Scientific Literature Publication Cycle [Diagram]
![Scientific Literature Publication Cycle [Diagram]](http://www.unm.edu/~unmvclib/handouts/scienceresearchpublication.jpeg){kind=link}
University of New Mexico
Illustration of scientific research process using a clockwise timeline with indication of earliest research output to latter outputs of research process. Describes the type of literature generated at different points in the publishing cycle and the types of assimilation into secondary and tertiary literature.