Animal Health Technology

Articles & Databases

Use the following databases to find articles on your topic.

• Start with these databases:
  Science Direct : indexes journals from Health and Life Sciences, Social and Behavioural Sciences and Physical Sciences.
  MEDLINE with Full Text (Ebsco) : covers journals in medicine, veterinary medicine and related health fields.
  
  
• More databases:
  Academic Search Complete : indexes journals and magazines from all subject areas.
  Biomedical Reference Collection : covers medicine; most articles are full text.
  Agricola : focuses on agriculture, plant and animal sciences.

Books

Library Catalogue - Find books at Douglas College Library.
WorldCat - Finds books in libraries worldwide.

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, etc.

Black's Veterinary Dictionary	REF SF 659 B528 2005
A Dictionary of Animal Behaviour	Online
Dictionary of Veterinary Nursing	REF SF 774.5 L263 2004
McCurnin's Clinical Textbook for Veterinary Technicians	SF 745 C558 2010
Textbook of Veterinary Anatomy	REF SF 761 D938 2010
The 5-minute Veterinary Consult: Canine and Feline	REF SF 991 T554 2004
Blackwell's 5-minute Veterinary Consult: Equine	REF SF 951 B524 2008
Veterinary Technician's Daily Reference Guide : Canine and Feline	REF SF 748 J238 2008
Kirk and Bistner's Handbook of Veterinary Procedures and Emergency Treatment	REF SF 748 F675 2006
The Merck Veterinary Manual	REF SF 748 M478 2005
The Merck Veterinary Manual	Online
Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary	REF SF 659 B567 2007
Saunders Handbook of Veterinary Drugs	REF SF 917 P277 2011

Websites

Martindale's Virtual Veterinary Center 
Health Canada - Veterinary Drugs
Animal Health Resources - College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University
Animal Science Image Gallery - American Society of Animal Science
AVMA Media Library - Podcasts & videos from the American Veterinary Medical Association.
NOAH: Compendium of Data Sheets for Animal Medicines
National Occupational Classification
VSPN (Veterinary Support Personnel Network)

Associations

Animal Health Technologists Association of British Columbia
BC SPCA
College of Veterinarians of British Columbia  
Canadian Association for Laboratory Animal Science
Canadian Association of Animal Health Technologists and Technicians
Canadian Council on Animal Care
Canadian Veterinary Medical Association
NAVTA: National Association of Veterinary Technicians in America
American Animal Hospital Association

Sample Journal Titles

The following is a small sample of the journals available in this field:

Animal Behaviour Animal Biology Animal Science Journal Archives of Animal Nutrition Canadian Journal of Veterinary Research The Canadian Veterinary Journal Clinical Techniques in Small Animal Practice Dog World Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition

Journal of Equine Veterinary Science Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery Journal of Veterinary Medicine. Series A Journal of Veterinary Medicine. Series B Preventive Veterinary Medicine Reproduction in Domestic Animals Research in Veterinary Science The Veterinary Journal Veterinary Medicine

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