Biology
Databases | Reference | Journals | Web Guides | Organizations & Associations | Digital media
Journal Article Databases
ISI Web of Knowledge Search Science Citation Index, BIOSIS and Medline simultaneously
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
Index to American Botanical Literature
Others in Agriculture, and Health (OhioLINK list of databases)
Reference Sources
- Grzimek's Animal Life
- Animal behavior desk reference QL750.3 .B37
- ARKive digital library, films, photographs and audio recordings of the world’s species.
- Animal Diversity Web, Univ Michigan Museum of Zoology
- Birds of North America online and in the reference collection: QL681.B625
- Council of Science Editors (CSE)Citation Style Guide - Washington State University Libraries' CSE 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
- Henderson's dictionary of biological terms QH302.5 .H65
- Life on earth : an encyclopedia of biodiversity, ecology, and evolution QH541.15.B56 L54
- Oxford dictionary of biochemistry and molecular biologyQP512 .O94
- Plants Database, US Dept of Agriculture
- Synopsis and classification of living organisms QH83.S89
More -- Guide to Biology Reference Sources.
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
Organizations & Associations
American Institute of Biological
Sciences
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, Data, Etc.
Avibase world bird
database; ornithological nomenclature
Animal Diversity Web Univ Michigan Museum of Zoology
Biomedical Beat National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
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
Endangered Species Program US Fish
& Wildlife Service
Ensembl genome databases for vertebrates and other eukaryotic species.
Forest Encyclopedia Network
GenBank The NIH DNA Sequence Database, National Center
for Biotechnology Information
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 Visible
Human Project — National Library of Medicine