Biology
Databases | Reference | Journals | Web Guides | Associations & Organizations | Digital media
Journal Article Databases
Biological Abstracts BIOSIS Most comprehensive for all of the life sciences.
Science Citation Index A little more current than Biological Abstracts, but does not index as many journals.
MEDLINE (OhioLINK version) This search interface provides good access to online journals for which we pay a subscription (which is not always the case when searching MEDLINE via PubMed).
PubMed The public version of MEDLINE, including GenBank, nucleotide, protein structure & genome databases; provides easy access to online journals that do not require a current paid subscription as well as those we access through OLinks.
More databases in the life sciences: AgEcon - Research in agricultural and applied economics
Others in Agriculture, and Health
Reference Sources
- Encyclopedia of Life Sciences online also available in the Science Library reference collection: QH302.5 .E54
- Animal behavior desk reference QL750.3 .B37
- ARKive digital library, films, photographs and audio recordings of the world’s species.
- Birds of North America online and in the reference collection: QL681.B625
- Council of Biology Editors: Citation Style Guide
- Encyclopedia of human biology QP11 .E53
- The encyclopedia of molecular biology QH506 .C74
- Five kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the phyla of life on earth QH83 .M36
- Grzimek's animal life encyclopedia QL7 .G7813
- Henderson's dictionary of biological terms QH302.5 .H65
- Life on earth : an encyclopedia of biodiversity, ecology, and evolution QH541.15.B56 L54
- NBII: National Biological Information Infrastructure - database of organisms, habitats, and research programs, coordinated by the USGS
- Oxford dictionary of biochemistry and molecular biologyQP512 .O94
- Synopsis and classification of living organisms QH83.S89
This is a very selective list; every class of organisms is represented by its own encyclopedia or guide, as are the specific disciplines of genetics, immunology, microbiology, physiology, and virology, to name a few. See the Guide to Biology Reference Sources for more information.
Online journals
More information on electronic journals.
BioMed Central 105+ open access scholarly, peer-reviewed journals; OhioLINK is a BioMed Central member institution, which entitles all OhioLINK researchers and faculty to submit research papers for free to any of BioMed Central's journals
BioOne 70 high impact journals from biological societies and associations, covering conservaton, ecology, natural history, cellular science, ornithology, herpetology, invertebrate and vertebrate biology & systematics, botany, palaeobiology, and much more. BioOne journals are also archived on the OhioLINK EJC.
Bird Journals - Searchable Ornithological Research Archive, including The Auk, Condor, Journal of Field Ornithology, North American Birdbander, Pacific Coast Avifauna, Studies in Avian Biology, Wilson Bulletin.
Public Library of Science. PLoS Biology and PLos Medicine open access journals
PubMed Central: an archive of open access life science journals
Great Lakes Information Network : a multimedia digital collection
Web Guides
AgNIC Agriculture Network Information Center
BioLinks Harvard University
Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Biology Browser Thomson, publisher
of BIOSIS and Zoological Record
Google Directory:
Biology
Virology on the
Web
Yahoo's Biology Page
Organizations & Associations
American Institute of Biological
Sciences
BIOSIS, publisher of Biological Abstracts
and Zoological Records
Federation of American Societies for
Experimental Biology
National Association of Biology
Teachers
National Center for Biotechnology
Information
National Marine Fisheries Service
Publications (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration); including
Marine Fisheries Review, Fishery Bulletin, NOAA Technical
Reports, etc.)
United States Department of Agriculture
Digital Media & More
Avibase world bird
database; ornithological nomenclature
Borror Laboratory
of Bioacoustics Recorded Animal Sounds
Columbia Earthscape access full-text
books in ecology, environment, oceanography
Darwin: The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online and The Darwin Correspondence
Project
GenBank The NIH DNA Sequence Database, National Center
for Biotechnology Information
Endangered Species Program US Fish
& Wildlife Service
Image Library of Biological
Macromolecules Jena, Germany
Invertebrates
Collection Database: Mollusks Field Museum, Chicago
Missouri Botanical Garden plant
science
National Agricultural Library (NAL)
National Human Genome Research Institute
Nucleic Acid Database
Photosynthesis
Arizona State Univ. Center for the Study of Early Events in Photosynthesis
PlantFacts agricultral extension fact
sheets from over 40 US and Canadian agencies, universities, and research
centers
Protein Data Bank Research Collaboratory
for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB)
USDA Agricultural Research Service (SBML, USDA)
The Vaccine Page
The Visible
Human Project — National Library of Medicine