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Biology
databases
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries & Handbooks
- A field guide to bacteria Reference Room QR100 .D946 2003
- Biodiversity : a reference handbook Ground Floor QH541.15.B56 B435 1998
- Concise encyclopedia biology Reference Room QH302.5 .A2313 1996
- Dictionary of biology Reference Room QH302.5 .D54 2008
- Endangered animals: a reference guide to conflicting issues Reference Room QL82. E55 2000
- Dictionary of gene technology Reference Room QH442 .K34 1995
- Encyclopedia of life sciences Reference Room QH302.5 .E53 2002
- Encyclopedia of marine mammals Reference Room QL713.2 .E53 2002
- Global environment outlook 3 Reference Room GE170 .G57 2002
- Glossary of biochemistry and molecular biology Reference Room QP512 .G55 1997
- Information retrieval SciFinder and Scifinder Scholar Reference Room Z699.5 .S3 R53 2002
- McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science & technology Reference Room Q121 .M3 1997
- Oxford companion to the body Reference Room QM7 .O96 2001
- Using the biological literature : a practical guide Reference Room QH303.6 .D38 2002
- World atlas of biodiversity: Earth's living resources in the 21st century Reference Room G1046 .D1 G76 2002
Additional Print Sources
- Check the online catalog. Unless indicated otherwise, all of the above print resources are located at the O'Toole Library, Jersey City Campus.
Selected Internet Resources
- ArXiv.org An e-Print archive for Quantitative Biology, Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science administered by Cornell University.
- Bioethics.net Includes Daily Bioethics News.
- Biology Links: Harvard MCB Page of links to biology related web resouces created by the Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology.
- Biology Project A basic introduction to the study of biology. Brief, illustrated explanations. Some links to outside resources.
- BiologyBrowser A site containing links to free resources provided by BIOSIS, including the Nomenclature Glossary for Zoology, the Zoological Record Thesaurus, and more. There are also links to other high-quality free resources in the biological sciences.
- BiomedBioMed provides free access to peer-reviewed journals in biology and medicine. Journal titles include the Journal of Biology, the Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine, Population Health Metrics and others.
- Bioservers This site contains user-friendly tools to launch DNA database searches, statistical analyses, and population modeling from a centralized workspace.
- Environmental Protection Agency Find environmental protection topics, informational and educational resources on this governmental agency website.
- Infomine: Biological, Agricultural & Medical Sciences "Most major life, agricultural and medical science disciplines, both basic and applied, are well covered. Resources in genetics, biochemistry, biology, whole organism research and ecology are strongly represented as are subject specific databases and finding tools of all types."
- MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences The library includes a growing collection of searchable full-text books, journals, reference works in the area of cognitive science.
- National Academies The National Academies advise the U.S.Congress on science, engineering, and medicine. From this page you can read current National Academies news and find links to the 3,000 publications that the National Academies make available to the public.
- National Science Digital Library A digital online library for the nation's resources on science, technology, mathematics and engineering.
- Nature Journals Online Website of the leading science and medicine magazine. Includes a free review of current issues, latest news, nature connect for scientists' networking, and pre-publication proceedings.
- NCBI Taxonomy Homepage Taxonomy website from the National Center for Biotechnology Information. Includes a taxonomy browser direct links to organisms most frequently used for research.
- NLM: National Library of Medicine The nation's largest medical library online. Include a genetics reference guide, the digital human project, and other health related information.
- Population Reference Bureau Current human population data and excerpts from publications.
- Protein Data Bank Hosted by Rutgers University, the Protein Data Bank is a "worldwide repository for the processing and distribution of 3-D biological macromolecular structure data."
- ReefBase: A Global Information System on Coral Reefs Includes descriptions of coral reef areas throughout the world, information about coral reef fish populations, biodiversity data, and monitoring activities around the world.
- Reference Desk Dictionaries and glossaries for science & technology from the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Science Central Directory to scientific resources on the Internet.
- Science.gov An interagency directory contributed by U.S. government science organizations.
- Scirus A search engine that searches only screened educational and scientific sites and journal articles in Elsevier Science journals. Links will take you to the site or to the article in Science Direct.
- SciTopia A free federated search portal of the leading worldwide science and technology societies. Includes peer reviewed articles and conference proceedings, patents from the world's major patent offices and US Energy full text documents.
- Strategian A "strategic" guide to informational resources in Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, and Psychology
- The Virtual Library: Biosciences Highly detailed, hierarchically organized collection of web links to biological information.
- Tree of Life "The Tree of Life provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their history, and characteristics. Individual Tree of Life pages are linked one to another in the form of the evolutionary tree that connects all organisms, with the pages branching off from a group's page being about subgroups."
- U.S. Geological Survey A multi-disciplinary science site that focuses on biology, geography, geology, geospatial information, and water. This organization is dedicated to the study of landscape, natural resources, and natural hazards that threaten us.
- Wildlife Conservation Society The Mannahatta Project is a culmination of a decade of research that seeks to un-covered the original ecology of Manhattan, a few hours before Henry Hudson arrived 400 years ago.
Page maintained by Kerry Falloon
Last updated 1 July 2009
email kfalloon@spc.edu
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