Collection Development Policies:
Biological Sciences
Purpose:
To support teaching and research through the doctoral level in the
biological sciences. The departments or programs most closely associated with this
area are: Microbiology, Biology, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Institute of Biological
Chemistry, and Genetics and Cell Biology. Other programs or departments which might
find certain aspects of this area of great interest are: Basic Medical Sciences;
Botany; Electron Microscopy Center; Pharmacy and Pharmacology/Toxicology;
Veterinary and Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology, and Physiology; Veterinary
Microbiology and Pathology; Animal Sciences; Entomology; Zoology; and Plant
Pathology. Materials collected in this area also support programs at the
branch campuses.
General Collection Guidelines:
- Languages:
English is the primary language of collection, but
materials written in French, German, Italian, and Russian may also
be acquired. Translations into English are preferred over the
original, if they are available.
- Chronological Guidelines:
Emphasis is on the present. Works
of a specific historical nature may be selectively acquired.
- Geographical Guidelines:
Not applicable.
- Treatment of the Subject:
Lower division textbooks and
laboratory manuals are not generally purchased. Upper
division texts are purchased selectively. Material of a
biographical nature and popular or introductory works
may be purchased selectively.
- Types of Material:
Material collected consists primarily
of monographic and serial publications, and includes dictionaries,
encyclopedias, directories, abstracts and indexes, handbooks,
federal and state government documents, and proceedings or
transactions of symposia or conferences in any suitable format.
- Date of Publication:
Emphasis is on collecting materials
published within the last 5-10 years. Retrospective acquisition
is done very selectively to replace missing or damaged items
still of great relevance to the collection or to strengthen
a developing research area. However, no preference is given
to original printings over reprints.
- Other General Considerations:
See the following for subjects not covered by this statement:
Veterinary Medicine/ Veterinary Science,
pharmacy and pharmacology/toxicology,
agriculture,
plant sciences,
nutrition,
medicine,
animal sciences,
entomology.
Observations and Qualifications by Subject with
Collection Level:
Biology:
C(1) / B
Includes molecular biology, cell biology, cytology,
biometrics, microscopy.
Methods/techniques of biological research:
C(1) / B
Microbial and Molecular Biology:
C(1) / B
Includes soil microbiology, microbial ecology, microbial
diseases of insects, cellular immunology, viral-host
relationships, virology, microbiology of foods, epidemiology,
bacteria, microbial metabolism, microbial physiology, medical
bacteriology, molecular embryology, mammalian cell surface
receptors.
Genetics and Cell Biology:
C(1) / B
Genetic engineering, cell biology, microbial genetics,
molecular genetics, population genetics, animal genetics,
cytogenetics, quantitative genetics, mutation, recombination.
Human Genetics:
C(2) / C(2)
See also:
Medicine
Biotechnology:
C(1) / B
Mammalian Neuroscience:
C(2) / B
Betty Galbraith
Spring 2004