For the purposes of this exercise we will be concentrating on the reference collection in the Library. Give the Phylum and the Class to which the family belong. The Library may hold some books specifically on this subject. These books will often include an introductory chapter that will provide an overview of the subject. Everything option on Unicorn to locate some books on the subject.
Review articles can appear in any journal.
You can sometimes find review articles on your subject by browsing through copies of the specialist review journals, but it is usually more efficient to search the Indexing and abstracting services - see the Tips and tricks page for more information. It will be necessary to limit your search by publication date. Now that you have found some background information on the topic, you can focus on a particular aspect of the subject and find some original research articles by searching the indexing and abstracting services. Use Zoological Record vol. 131 to find the bibliographic details of an article on the effect of photoperiod on a species of Ixodes .