Research
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.
Databases & Indexes
Databases and indexes provide information about journal, magazine and newspaper articles.
- AGRICOLA
- Alt-Health Watch
- BioethicsLine is now incorporated in Medline
- Biological Abstracts
- CancerLit (no new articles added since 2002, all later articles in Medline)
- CINAHL (Nursing & Allied Health)
- General Science Abstracts (1993-present)
- HealthSTAR is now incorporated in Medline
- History of Science, Technology and Medicine (1975-present)
- Medline (1966-present)
- PubMed (includes access to sequence searching)
- Web of Science Citation Indexes (1945-present)
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 QL7 .G7813 2003 (17 vol.)
- Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology QP512 .O94 2000
- Seventh Catalog of the Vascular Plants of Ohio QK180 .S48 2001
- World Atlas of Biodiversity: Earth's Living Resources in the 21st Century QH541.15.B56 G762 2002
- World of Microbiology and Immunology QR9 .W675 2003
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Oxford Reference Books Online: Biological Sciences
Search online reference works on plant, animal, and human biology.
Web Resources
Here are a few web sites we think you might find useful:
- AmphibiaWeb provides information on amphibian biology and conservation.
- Animal Diversity Web from the University of Michigan
- ARKive - images of life on Earth has a database of images of endangered and extinct animals.
- Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server
- Biology Browser from BIOSIS
- DOEgenomes.org provides information about the Human Genome Project and other genomics projects sponsored by DOE
- Entomology Index of Internet Resources
- Internet Directory for Botany
- Mammalian Species Accounts Index includes full-text of #1-#761 BioOne has the full text for #632 to the current.
- MedWeb a collection of health-related websites from the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library of Emory University
- Microbes.info - The Microbiology Information Portal
- National Oceanographic Data Center from NOAA
- Science and Creationism from the National Academy of Sciences is now a page entitled: Evolution Resources
- Tree of Life a phylogenetic tree of life on Earth
- World Biomes a site covering 5 of the major world biomes
On-line Journals
Here are a few of the journals available via the web in this field:
- Journal of Insect Science open access journal (2001-Current)
- Landscape Ecology Current (1997-Current) or Landscape Ecology Archives (1987-1997)
- Microbiology (SGM) (1997-Current)
- Northeastern Naturalist (2000-Current)
- 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 Arichive (1993-Current)
- Southeastern Naturalist (2002-Current)
- To determine whether we have a journal available online, search CONSORT or use the Electronic Journal Finder.