The literature of natural history is interdisciplinary and very diverse. The National Museum of Natural History Library serves information needs both general and specialized and users both inside and outside the Smithsonian. Please keep this in mind as you choose information sources on these pages. Several categories of information links are presented both in alphabetical order and broken down by subject. The subject breakdown used throughout is as follows:
1. General/Interdisciplinary
general science, marine biology, natural history, general zoology,
evolution, ecology, biodiversity, geology, paleontology, paleobiology,
paleobotany, general phylogenetics and systematics, taxonomy
2. Invertebrate Zoology
entomology, invertebrate zoology
3. Vertebrate Zoology
birds, fishes, mammals, reptiles and amphibians
4. Mineral Sciences
mineralogy, petrology, gems and minerals, volcanology
If you are new to a subject or new to our web pages, you may want to start by consulting Guides to the Web/Portals and Bibliographies & Databases, etc.
Be sure to consult the general sources as well as the specialized ones
when searching for information. For example, information on birds
can be found in all of the vertebrate zoology sections of these web pages
as well as in many of the general resources which cover all of natural
history or all of zoology.
Smithsonian resources are listed separately on each page, where applicable,
and on the Other Smithsonian Resouces page.
All links on an individual page were functioning as of the date at the bottom of the page. Please send me an e-mail if you discover a non-functioning link, want to suggest additional links, or have general comments.
steered@si.edu 12-07-04