Subject Guide: Biology

The Library's Subject Guides help you find resources that are specialized for certain areas of study. There are many other resources available which provide generalized information--not specific to one topic or area. To see more of these general resources, see the Subject Guide: General page.

Online Resources

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Databases and indexes provide information about journal, magazine and newspaper articles

• AGRICOLA
• Alt-Health Watch
• BIOSIS
• CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
• History of Science, Technology and Medicine (1975-present)
• JSTOR
• Medline (1966-present)
• PubMed (includes access to sequence searching)
• Web of Science Citation Indexes (1945-present)

To find a larger list, browse Biology Databases in the CONSORT catalog.

Reference Books

Reference books provide background information on a people, terms and concepts.

• CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs  QK99.A1 D83 2001
• Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior  QL750.3 .E53 2004 (3 vol.)
• Encyclopedia of Biodiversity  QH541.15.B56 E53 2001 (4 vol.)
• Families and Genera of Vascular Plants  QK varying (7 vol.)
• Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
• World of Microbiology and Immunology
  
• Oxford Reference Books Online: Biological Sciences
  Search online reference works on plant, animal, and human biology.

Web Resources

Here are a few web sites I think you might find useful:

• AmphibiaWeb - Information on amphibian declines, conservation, natural history, and taxonomy
• ARKive - A unique collection of thousands of videos, images and fact-files illustrating the world's species
• EJC - Mammalian Species
• Genomics.energy.gov - Genome programs of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
• Google Scholar
• Mednar a Web search engine for medical information
• Index for Mammalian Species - Virginia Hayssen
• Insects and Entomology | Iowa State Entomology Index of Internet Resources
• Internet Directory for Botany
• Microbes.info - Microbiology information and links
• National Oceanographic Data Center
• OMIM - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
• Evolution Resources from the National Academies
• BiologyBrowser - Thomson Reuters Database of free biology resources
• Tree of Life Web Project
• Taxonomy

On-line Journals

Here are a few of the journals available via the web in this field:

• Nature
  
• Science 1997-present (access through the publisher Web site)
• Science 1880-2004 (access through JSTOR)
• Public Library of Science - Biology open-access journal
• PubMed Central digital archive of many life science journals. See the full list for years covered and restrictions.
• Scientific American Archive (1993-Current)
• To determine whether we have a journal available online, search CONSORT or use the Electronic Journal Finder.