Armacost Library: BIOLOGY: Annual Reviews

Annual Reviews - Overview

Since 1932, Annual Reviews has offered comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences.

Annual Reviews is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide the worldwide scientific community with a useful and intelligent synthesis of the primary research literature for a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines. Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited in scientific literature as indexed by the Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports® (JCR).

Each year, Annual Reviews critically reviews the most significant primary research literature to guide you to the principal contributions of the field and help you keep up to date in your area of research.

Each article is its own search engine, providing a gateway to the essential primary research literature referenced within each topic.

Annual Reviews @ Armacost Library

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
@Armacost Library online since 1996, in print and available to check out from 1970-2011, QH 540 .A53.

The Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, in publication since 1970, covers significant developments in the fields of Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Systematics, as they apply to all life on Earth. Essay reviews cover topics ranging from phylogeny, speciation, and molecular evolution through behavior and evolutionary physiology to population dynamics, ecosystems processes, and applications in invasion biology, conservation, and environmental management.
Annual Review of Genetics
@Armacost Library online since 1996, in print and available to check out from 1967-2011, QH 431 .A1 A54.

The Annual Review of Genetics, in publication since 1967, covers significant developments in the field of genetics. These include biochemical, behavioral, cell, and developmental genetics; evolutionary and population genetics; chromosome structure and transmission; gene function and expression; mutation and repair; genomics; immunogenetics; and other topics as related to the genetics of viruses, bacteria, fungi, plants, and animals, including humans.
Annual Review of Physiology
@Armacost Library online since 1997, in print and available to check out from 1939-2012, QP 1 .A5.

The Annual Review of Physiology, in publication since 1939, covers the significant developments in the field of Animal Physiology, including Cardiovascular Physiology; Cell Physiology; Ecological, Evolutionary, and Comparative Physiology; Endocrinology; Gastrointestinal Physiology; Neurophysiology; Renal and Electrolyte Physiology; Respiratory Physiology; and Special Topics.
Annual Review of Psychology
@Armacost Library online since 1996, in print and available to check out from 1950-2012, BF 30 .A56.

The Annual Review of Psychology, in publication since 1950, covers the significant developments in the field of psychology, including: biological bases of behavior, sensation and perception, cognitive processes, animal learning and behavior, human development, psychopathology, clinical and counseling psychology, social psychology, personality, environmental psychology, community psychology, and more.

What Are Review Articles?

What are Review Articles?

Review articles are written to summarize the current state of the research on a particular topic. Ideally, the writer searches for everything relevant to the topic, and then sorts it all out into a coherent view of the “state of the art” as it now stands. Review articles will teach you about:

the main people working in a field

recent major advances and discoveries

significant gaps in the research

current debates

ideas of where research might go next

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Annual Reviews Tutorials

Annual Reviews Tutorials
Video, PDF, and PowerPoint tutorials demonstrate effective use and various facets of in-depth searching of Annual Reviews.