About Ornithological Worldwide Literature (OWL)
| Subject | Worldwide scientific literature that pertain to the science of ornithology. A major attraction is its coverage of the "grey" literature, which are not abstracted by commercial databases such as Zoological record or the Science citation index. |
| Sources | OWL deals chiefly with serial publications such as periodicals but also announces new and renamed journals and provides abstracts of other serial publications, conference proceedings, reports, and doctoral dissertations. |
| Dates Covered | 1997 to present; eventually they hope to cover approx. 1950 to present. See also SORA: Searchable Ornithological Research Archive, which indexes and gives fulltext access to several journals. |
| Help Documents | Help within database. |
| Print Counterpart (backfiles) | Recent ornithological literature; no print counterpart after 1998. |
| Provider | American Ornithologists' Union, British Ornithologists' Union and Birds Australia |
| Access | On the web. |
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