The extremely high inflation rates for biology journals have made regular serial cuts a painful necessity in recent years. See below for a discussion of the more fluid situation electronic journals. C. Access Development 1. The Library, as part of a consortial agreement with other Connecticut libraries, has recently contracted to acquire access to Biosis, the leading indexing service for the biological sciences. Other indexes and abstracts, such as the CSA Biological Science Collection and Web of Science, provide additional coverage for many areas of biology.
Botany is covered well in Agricola.
Zoological Record provides good coverage for Zoology though we have only print access at this time. Current awareness resources such as Current Contents and UnCover Reveal are also used by many faculty and graduate students to identify new work in their areas of research. The library is currently evaluating the value of these two services and would welcome input from faculty on this matter. The current compliment of general electronic indexing, abstracting, full-text services, and current awareness services as well as those specific to Biology provided by the Library seems adequate to meet this objective. Major commercial publishers are investing strongly in this area and can be expected to begin a phased withdrawl from print distribution.