Research Guides: Biological Sciences Research Guide: Finding Books

Books & Library Catalogs

The Library Catalog lists all of the books videos and CDs at the Cal Poly Humboldt University Library.

A keyword search is usually the best way to begin. When you find items of interest, check the catalog records for subject headings or other terms to modify your search.

Call Numbers: Library of Congress Classification

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Print Books

Find print books in the Library Catalog!

Meaning of Life and the Universe by Mae-Wan Ho
Call Number: QH331 .D86 2012

ISBN: 9789813108851

Publication Date: 2016-10-31
The Cell by Jack Challoner
Call Number: QH325 .R38 2012

ISBN: 9780226224183

Publication Date: 2015-10-16
The Brain by Rob DeSalle; Ian Tattersall; Patricia J. Wynne (Illustrator)
Call Number: BF311 .D466 2012

ISBN: 9780300175226

Publication Date: 2012-04-24
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford; Siddhartha Mukherjee (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781615194049

Publication Date: 2017-10-03

Google Books

Other Library Catalogs

National Science Digital Library (NSDL)
The National Science Digital Library provides high quality online educational resources for teaching and learning, with current emphasis on the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines—both formal and informal, institutional and individual, in local, state, national, and international educational settings.
Most resources in the library adhere to principles of Open Educational Resource (OER) access.
The EUROPEAN LIBRARY
Designed to meet the needs of the research community worldwide, this online portal offers quick and easy access to the collections of the 48 National Libraries of Europe and leading European Research Libraries.
Users can cross-search and reuse over 28,627,026 digital items and 175,511,348 bibliographic records.
To facilitate further research, links are also provided to other websites in the Europeana group.
World Digital Library (WDL)
The World Digital Library (WDL) is a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, carried out with the support of the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO), and in cooperation with libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from around the world.
Books, manuscripts, maps, and other primary materials on the site are not translated but presented in their original languages. More than 100 languages are represented on the WDL, including many lesser known and endangered languages.

WorldCat
Identify and locate resources in library collections worldwide. Connect to materials at Cal Poly Humboldt and other libraries from WorldCat records and article citations.

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Call Numbers for Biology Books

Our Library uses the Library of Congress Classification System to assign call numbers. In this system, the first two or three lines of a call number identify the subject of a book or other item. The main call number used for Biology is QH.

QH - Natural History, Biology

QH1-278.5 Natural history (General)

QH1-(199.5) General

Including nature conservation, geographical distribution

QH201-278.5 Microscopy

QH301-705.5 Biology (General)

QH359-425 Evolution

QH426-470 Genetics

QH471-489 Reproduction

QH501-531 Life

QH540-549.5 Ecology

QH573-671 Cytology

QH705-705.5 Economic biology

eBooks

Find eBooks in the Library Catalog!

ProQuest Ebook Central

National Science Digital Library

Biology 2e by Mary Ann Clark; Jung Choi; Matthew Douglas
Call Number: QH360.2 .G65 2011 Online

ISBN: 9781947172517

Publication Date: 2018-04-01
Protocols Used in Molecular Biology by Sandeep Singh (Editor); Dhiraj Kumar (Editor)
ISBN: 9811439311

Publication Date: 2020-01-23
Towards neurobioethics by Darlei Dall'Agnol
ISBN: 1527558010

Publication Date: 2020
Molecular Techniques in Food Biology by Aly Farag El Sheikha (Editor); Robert E. Levin (Editor); Jianping Xu (Editor)
ISBN: 1119374596

Publication Date: 2018-01-02

How To Videos

The following short videos will show you how to accomplish some basic research tasks.

Video Tutorials
Here is a link to all of our short how-to videos for library research. Some were created by librarians at Cal Poly Humboldt; some come from other places.
Cal Poly Humboldt Library YouTube Channel
View some of our video tutorials on YouTube.