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Biology

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Sites with Links

AgNIC - Agriculture Network Information Center - Internet resources selected by National Agricultural Library, Land-Grant Universities, and other institutions
ASPB - Education - (American Society of Plant Biologists; formerly the American Society of Plant Physiologists)
Bio.com - (Bio Online)
BioResearch - The UK's Gateway to High Quality Internet Resources in Biological and Biomedical Research - part of BIOME - (University of Nottingham, U.K.)
Harvard Dept of MCB - Biology Links - (Harvard University)
LII - Biology Topics - (Librarians' Index to the Internet)
NIST Virtual Library - (National Institute of Standards and Technology) - Research by Subject - Biotechnology
WWW Virtual Library: Biosciences
Web Resources for Protein Scientists - (The Protein Society)

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Databases

Amphibia Web - Access to information on amphibian biology and conservation. Includes taxonomic information for all recognized species of amphibian, species descriptions, life history, conservation status, literature references, photos and range maps
Animal Diversity Web - Search for animal species; includes photographs, narratives, etc.
Bio Netbook - Bilingual (French & English). Indexes over 5,500 biological web sites by title. Search by: word or topic (resource type, organism, biological domain), country and name
Biological Abstracts (Web of Science) - Indexing and abstracts of journals in the biological sciences
Biological and Agricultural Index (WilsonWeb) - Indexes 258 periodicals in the core literature of biology and agriculture
BioOne - A collection of high impact bioscience research journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences
Butterflies of North America - (Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center of the USGS)
Entrez - Entrez is a retrieval system for searching several linked databases, including: Nucleotide, Protein, Genome, PopSet, Taxonomy, OMIM
Flora and Fauna of the Great Lakes Region: A Multimedia Digital Collection - (Univ. of Michigan Library, the Fish and Mammal Divisions of the Museum of Zoology and the Fungus Collections of the University Herbarium)
Genome Database - (RTI International)
Mirror Site - Genome Database-China
Mirror Site - Genome Database-Japan
Plants Database - (USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service)
PrimateLit - (Wisconsin Primate Research Center , Washington National Primate Research Center and UW-Madison Libraries) - This bibliographic database is an excellent primatology research tool.
Protein Data Bank - (operated by RCSB: Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey; the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the Univ. of California, San Diego; and the National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Spider Species of the Great Lakes States - (Cofrin Center for Biodiversity, UW-Green Bay) - The purpose of this database in progress is to provide currently valid taxa and citations for all published data about spiders from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin.
World Agroforestry Centre - (Formerly the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry) - Ths nonprofit was established in 1974 to mitigate tropical deforestation, land depletion and rural poverty by improving agroforestry systems. Sponsord by Future Harvest and Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research.

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Reference Works & Texts

Classification of Living Things - Introduction to the principles of taxonomy with a focus on human classification categories
Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online - (Univ. of Cambridge)
Gray, Henry. 1918. Anatomy of the Human Body
Index Herbariorum - (The New York Botanical Garden). A fully searchable index, containing information for herbaria and staff in 142 countries updated from the Index Herbariorum, ed. 8, and its supplements
Jaap's Marine Mammal Pages - Jaap van der Toorn
NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
National Human Genome Research Institute - (NHGRI, National Institutes of Health)
National Museum of Natural History - Smithsonian Institution
Tree of Life Web Project - A collaborative Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity

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Below are listed a selection of the online journals for the biosciences held by the University Library. To see whether the library has access to a particular journal in print, online or in an online aggregator database, check the Citation Linker. To search for articles in several periodicals at once, search one of the subscription databases listed under Databases above.

American Chemical Society Journals
- Biochemistry 35 (1996) - present
- Bioconjugate Chemistry 7 (1996) - present
- Biotechnology Progress 12 (1996) - present
Annual Reviews
- Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology 1985 - present
- Annual Review of Biochemistry 1984 - present
- Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering1999 - present
- Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure1984 - present
- Annual Review of Microbiology 1984 - present
- Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology 1984 - present
Biochemical Journal - full text and graphics in both HTML and PDF formats for all articles from Volume 313 (1996) onwards as well as HTML abstracts from Volume 153 (1976) onwards
BioOne - Either use the previous link to search the entire collection of ejournals, or click on BioOne: Browse the Current Issues or one of the following links to browse an individual title (sample titles below)
- The American Biology Teacher 9 times a year. 62 (2000) - 63 no. 5 (2001)
- The American Midland Naturalist quarterly. 139 (1998) - present
- American Zoologist bimonthly. 40 (2000) - 41 (2001)
- Annals of the Entomological Society of America bimonthly. 93 (2000) - present
- The Auk quarterly. 117 (2000) - present
- Biology of Reproduction monthly. 62 (2000) - present
- Bioscience monthly. 50 (2000) - present
- BIOTROPICA quarterly. 32 (2000) - 33 (2001)
- Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History irregular. 244 (2000) - present
- Journal of Arachnology quarterly. 36 (2000) - present
- Journal of Crustacean Biology quarterly. 20 (2000) - present
Cambridge University Press - check the Journal Holdings List to verify which titles the library subscribes to. A select title is linked below:
- Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society triannual. 72 (1997) - present
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - This directory covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. The full text of articles are freely available. The goal is to cover all subjects and languages. There are currently over 1000 journals in the directory
Institute of Physics Electronic Journals
- Physics in Medicine and Biology 36 (1991) - present
Nature Journals
- Nature 283 (1980) - present
- Nature Biotechnology 1 (1996) - present
- Nature Cell Biology 1 (1999) - present
- Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 1 (1993) - present
Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)
- American Journal of Bioethics quarterly. 2(2002) - present
- Human Biology 73 (2001) - present
- Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 43 (2000) - present
University of Chicago Press - check the Journal Holdings List to verify which titles the library subscribe to. A few select titles are linked below:
- The American Naturalist 149 (1997) - present
- International Journal of Plant Sciences 159 no. 6 (1998) - present
- Journal of Infectious Diseases: Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 174 no. 4 (April 1997), and 174 no. 6 (June 1997) - present

Last Revised: MS - 5/06/2008

Biology

Sites with Links

Databases

Reference Works & Texts

eJournals