Biology
Research Guide
LOCATING BOOKS - access to catalog
Library of Congress Numbers: TIER 5
General Biology QH 301-705, Botany QK 1-989, Comparative Anatomy QL 801-950.9,
Human Anatomy QM 1-695, Microbiology QR 1-502, Immunology QR 180-189.5
LOCATING ARTICLES
BioOne
BioOne was developed as a non-profit venture by The American Institute of Biological Sciences and other founding organizations for the benefit of scientific societies, universities, libraries, researchers, scholars and students. It provides articles in full text from over 80 leading journals and magazines.
Encyclopedia of Diversity
Each full-length article available from this database includes an outline, a list of reference works, a glossary, and related topics that can be cross-referenced.
PubMedCentral
PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences journal literature. Access to the full text of articles in PMC is free, except where a journal requires a subscription for access to recent articles. PubMed (which encompasses Medline) also makes it possible to integrate the literature with a variety of other information resources such as sequence databases and other factual databases that are available to scientists, clinicians, and everyone else interested in the life sciences. From the advanced search page it is possible to limit a search to Medline or to a collection of biomedical books.
Science Direct
Science Direct not only covers the sciences, such as biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, chemistry, computer science, environmental science, physics, psychology, and mathematics; it also covers the social sciences, arts and humanities, and business, management and accounting. In addition to its journal collection of over 2,000 titles, Science Direct includes reference works, handbooks, and book series. The collections contain 4 million articles prior to 1995, and 2.75 million articles from after 1994.
Scientific American Archive (EBSCO)
Scientific American is known for its understandable, authoritative reporting on every field of science. The Archive contains the entire editorial content of Scientific American from January 1993 through to the present---updated monthly. The issues are presented as PDFs.
INTERNET RESOURCES
The Bio Netbook Institut Pasteur
http://www.pasteur.fr/recherche/BNB/bnb-en.html
The Bio Netbook is a searchable directory, an international database of Web pages regarding biology. Sources of information include courses and tutorials, bibliographies, meetings, repositories, and software.
Bioweb - California State University
http://arnica.csustan.edu/
The resource pages at this site provide links to courses, programs and projects in botany, marine biology, and endangered species at California State at Stanislaus.
Life Science Review Magazine
http://www.bmn.com/magazine.html
This site will allow you to sign up to have Life Science Review Magazine emailed to you every two weeks. Made available by Elsevier, the magazine will feature the editors' favorite articles, plus reviews from Current Opinion, Trends, and Drug Discovery Today.
The National Biological Information Infrastructure
http://www.nbii.gov/portal/server.pt
NBII is a broad, collaborative program to provide increased access to data and information on the nation's biological resources. The NBII links diverse, high-quality biological databases, information products, and analytical tools maintained by government agencies, academic institutions, non-government organizations, and private industry. Information is organized by current issues, biological discipline, geographic area, and data. Teacher resources and a digital image library are also available.
National Science Foundation - Biological Sciences
http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=BIO
BIO promotes scientific progress in biology largely through grants to colleges, universities and other institutions. The Foundation is the nation's principal supporter of fundamental academic research on plant biology, environmental biology and biodiversity. In addition to descriptions of the research programs, the site provides science news and access to publications.
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