Subject
Guide: Biology
INDEXES | REFERENCE
WORKS | WEB
LINKS | PERIODICALS
This page is intended to introduce a few select resources,
both on the Web and in the Smith Library Center print
collection, that are particularly useful for the
study of Biology.
INDEXES
AGRICOLA
Includes over 3 million citations to material acquired
by the National Agricultural Library and cooperating
institutions. It abstracts articles, audiovisual
materials, books, book chapters, computer databases
and software, maps, manuscripts, serials, and sound
recordings. The National Agricultural Library produces
it. Subjects included are agricultural economics,
cooperative extension, life sciences, agricultural
engineering, food science, natural resources, animal
science, forestry, plant diseases, chemistry, geography,
insect pests and their control, energy, home economics,
rural sociology, entomology, human nutrition, veterinary
medicine. Covers 1861 to the present; abstracts
from doctoral dissertations began in July 1980,
and from masters theses in spring 1988. New records
are added monthly.
BasicBIOSIS
Provides information from 350 core life science journals
found in college and university libraries. Subjects
included: agriculture, ecology, neuroscience, biochemistry,
environment, nutrition, biology, genetics, physiology,
biotechnology, medicine, public health, botany,
microbiology. Covers January 1994 to the present.
For Southwestern community only.*
Biological
Abstracts
The Biological Abstracts database is a complete collection
of bibliographic references to life sciences journal
literature published around the world. Topics include
agriculture, agronomy, biochemistry, biotechnology,
environment, genetics, medicine, microbiology, and
pharmacology. Biological Abstracts indexes articles
from more than 4000 biological and medical research
journals. The database is updated quarterly, and
coverage begins with 1997.
Biological & Agricultural
Index
A database that cites articles from more than 240
periodicals. Coverage includes a wide range of scientific
journals, from popular to professional, that pertain
to biology and agriculture. It indexes English-language
periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere.
Subjects include animal husbandry, fishery sciences,
nutrition, biochemistry, food science, physiology,
botany, forestry, plant pathology, cytology, genetics,
soil science, ecology, horticulture, veterinary medicine,
entomology, microbiology, zoology, environmental
science. Covers 1985 to the present. For Southwestern community
only.*
Biology
Digest
The most comprehensive reference source of life science
journal literature, spanning over 70 years. It provides
references to articles in nearly 5,500 international
journals representing virtually every life science
discipline, including: agriculture, biochemistry,
biotechnology, botany, ecology, environment, genetics,
medicine, microbiology, pharmacology, neurology,
and zoology. Approximately 350,000 records will be
added in the 1999 subscription year, and nearly 90%
of the records include informative abstracts. For
Southwestern community only.*
BioOne
This database contains the full-text of more than
50 high-impact bioscience research journals, beginning
with the year 2000 for most titles. This database
is particularly strong in the areas of Environmental
and Ecological studies. Current issues are posted
as soon as they are published. Back issues are
permanently archived online.
Environmental
Policy Index
Web accessible interdisciplinary database of environmental
article citations, dating from 1973. Includes journals
focusing on the full range of environmental topics:
scientific, social, political, philosophical, technical,
industrial. Abstracts included for many journals
after 1997.
For Southwestern community only.*
General
Science Abstracts
Journals and magazines from the U.S. and Great Britain
covering such subjects as anthropology, astronomy,
biology, computers, earth sciences, medicine and
health, and much more. Includes articles (some full
text), reviews, biographical sketches, and letters
to the editor. For Southwestern community only.*
IDEAL: International Digital Electronic
Access Library now ScienceDirect
Features 200 scientific, technical, and medical full-text
journals from Academic Press. The articles are displayed
in Acrobat PDF (Portable Document Format), and the
tables of contents and abstracts in HTML. The system
includes a robust search engine for searching by
various fields. IDEAL contains over 80,000 articles
with 2000 more added every month. For Southwestern community
only.*
MEDLINE
(National Library of Medicine)
Access to information from all journals indexed in
the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE file.
Gain access to information from such fields as medicine,
nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health
care system and preclinical sciences. Links to full
text of over 350 full text journals. Included are
abstracts and indexing for over 3,800 current biomedical
journals published in the U.S. and 70 foreign countries,
and citations found in Index Medicus, the International
Nursing Index and the Index to Dental Literature.
Additionally, table of contents information for 2,400
titles (provided by the British Document Supply Centre)
and a Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) index with
tree numbers, tree hierarchy is also included. PubMed,
also searches MEDLINE and has links to molecular
biology databases of DNA/protein sequences and 3-D
structure data.
PubMed
Searches MEDLINE and also has links to molecular
biology databases of DNA/protein sequences and
3-D structure data.
REFERENCE
WORKS
To find printed reference material
relevant to your topic start with the
library's online
catalog. Do a Reference Materials search using keywords
to describe your topic. You can also check the library's
Web pages for subject guides for related topics to find other
suggested sources.
Below are a few titles to get you
started. To check call number and location
information, search the Voyager
catalog.
Concise Dictionary of Biomedicine
and Molecular Biology
REFERENCE, 1st floor 610.3 J97c
Encyclopedia of Genetics
REFERENCE, 1st floor 576.5 En191 2001
Encyclopedia of Hormones
REFERENCE, 1st floor 571.74 En19 v.1-3
Encyclopedia of Human Biology
REFERENCE, 1st floor 612 En19 v.1-9
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
REFERENCE, 1st floor 570.3 En19
Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology
REFERENCE, 1st floor 572.8 C862e v1-4
Encyclopedia of Neurological Sciences
REFERENCE, 1st floor 616.8 En 19 v. 1-4
WEB
LINKS
Animal
Diversity Web
The Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is a database containing
information on the natural history, distribution,
classification, and conservation biology of animals.
The database consists of two parts: thousands of "species
accounts" that provide information about individual
species of animals, including text, pictures of living
animals, photographs and Quicktime Virtual Reality
object movies of specimens, and/or recordings of
sounds; and a taxonomic analysis of animal groups
above the species level, especially phyla, classes,
and in some cases, orders and families. It is enriched
by many hundreds of hyperlinked pages and images
that explore the traits and general biology of these
groups.
Biology
Project
The Biology Project is an interactive online resource
for learning biology developed at the University
of Arizona. Richly illustrated, it has been designed
for biology students at the college and high school
level.
Biotech
Life Science Dictionary
The Life Science Dictionary is a searchable site
containing more than 8,300 entries in the fields
of biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, cell biology,
genetics, and more.
HighWire
Press
HighWire Press, the online journal production division
of the Stanford University Libraries provides free
and subscription-based access-technology services
to more than 180 high-impact journals and more than
600,000 articles, mostly in the fields of science,
technology and medicine. HighWire Press is one of
the two largest archives of free full-text science
on Earth. As of 6/5/01, this database contained the
online version of 259,048 free full-text articles
and 996,814 total articles.
Human
Genome Resources
This Internet resource is maintained by the National
Center for Biotechnology Information primarily as
a central access point to valuable database resources
for human genome researchers. The centerpiece of
the opening page, The Genome at a Glance, is a diagram
of the 24 human chromosomes with links to additional
information on each chromosome. Each chromosome page
summarizes that chromosome's sequencing progress
and provides further links to disease genes, STS
(sequence tagged site) maps, and chromosome alterations
associated with cancers. The prominently featured
line to NCBI's Genes & Disease page will be of particular
interest to biology students and
the general public.
Internet
Directory for Botany
The Internet Directory for Botany is an index to
botanical information available on the Internet.
It consists of two parts, an alphabetical directory
and a categorical directory, and contains links to
various pages of interest in botany: Arboreta and
Botanical Gardens; Biologists' Addresses; Botanical
Museums, Herbaria, and Natural History Museums; Botanical
Societies and International Botanical Organizations;
Checklists And Floras, Taxonomic Databases, and Vegetation;
Conservation and Threatened Plants; Economic Botany
and Ethnobotany; Gardening; Images; Journals, Books,
Literature Databases, and Publishers; Link Collections
and Resource Guides; Listservers And Newsgroups;
Lower Plants; Other Resources; Paleobotany, Palynology,
and Pollen; Software; University Departments And
Other Institutes; Vascular Plant Families.
ITIS, the Integrated Taxonomic
Information System
This database is the source for authoritative taxonomic
information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes
of North America and the world. It is produced by
a partnership of U.S., Canadian, and Mexican agencies
(ITIS-North America); other organizations; and taxonomic
specialists.
Material
Safety Data
Sheets
A reliable starting point for exchange of MSDS (Material
Safety Data Sheets) documents, which supplies information
on various chemical compounds in the most current
format direct from the manufacturer.
Tree
of
Life
The Tree of Life is a collection of over 1380 World
Wide Web pages containing information about the diversity
of life. These pages are housed on 20 computers in
four countries, and are authored by biologists from
around the world. Each page contains information
about one group of organisms. The pages are linked
one to another in the form of the evolutionary tree
of organisms, with the pages branching off from a
group's page being about subgroups. For example,
the links from the page on frogs leads one to pages
on individual families of frogs, and eventually up
to some individual species of frogs.
UCMP
Taxon Lift
The UCMP Web Lift to Taxa is an index to the exhibits
in the Phylogeny Wing of the University of California
Museum of Paleontology's web pages. This particularly
useful for researching specific organisms. If you
are interested in a particular period in Earth's
history, try the Geologic Time Machine.
PERIODICALS
To find holdings and location information
for specific periodicals titles (both
print and online), search the online
catalog.
To find citations or online full-text
for articles in periodicals on your
topic, try the resources listed above
under Indexes. |
