Biology (Botany/Zoology) Resources

 



Books

NDSU catalog PALS system catalog
MELVYL U.C. system's combined catalog

New Biology/Botany books Biol/Botany books purchased in last 18 months
New Zoology books Zoology books purchased in last 18 months


Articles

INDEXES  
Agricola agriculture-related abstracts
Biol Abstracts full database of Bio Abstracts, 2001-date
Biol Sciences an alternate to Bio Abstracts, by CSA
CAB agriculture & biology topics, 1990-date
Medline medical journal abstracts through NIH's PubMed
Medline through ScienceDirect (a better search engine than PubMed)
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e-journals ca. 6600 full-text journals, electronically, by department
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DATABASES  
BioOne 64 scientific society journals, ca. 2000-date, all full text
CINAHL 1250 Nursing & Allied Health journals, ca. 600 full text
JSTOR some ecology, botany, gen. sci. journals, all full text
ScienceDirect 1200 science journals, ca. 260 full text
   
more databases a few more databases
 


Reference Sources -- in print

American Men & Women of Science REF Q141 .A47 1998/99
Beacham's Guide to Endangered Spp of N.A. REF QL84.2 .O35 2000
Biology Data Book REF QH310 .A39
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences REF QH302.5 .E53 2002
Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia REF QL3 .G7813
McGraw-Hill Encycl. of Science & Technology REF Q121 .M3 1997
Walker's Mammals of the World REF QL703 .W222 1999

Reference Sources -- electronic

academic info biol sci's. a Yahoo-like directory of all biol-sci topics
AmerFieldGuide ecology sights and sounds
AmphibiaWeb clearinghouse for amphibia data, from UC Berkeley
animal species Naturalia
biology links a massive directory, from Harvard U.
Eurosurveillance EU surveillance of infectious/communicable diseases
Health Topics A to Z diseases & health topics, from CDC
NatureServe conservation info on over 50,000 plants & animals
NCBI clearinghouse for molecular biology, including OMIM
plant dictionary horticulture and plant science, from Ohio St. U.
plants: national directory from U.S.D.A.
Tree of Life phylogeny & biodiversity on earth, from U of Arizona


CBE Style how to cite sources, Council of Biology Editors style, from U. Wisc.

 

Author: Alan Stevens