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[hidetoc]GENERAL BIOLOGY SITES
- Actionbioscience.org Promotes bioscience literacy by providing bioscience articles
- Biocatalysis / Biodegradation Database From the University of Minnesota
- BIODIDAC Resources for teaching biology
- BioLinks From Biozone
- Biological Sciences Web Server (CSUBIOWEB) from California State University
- Biology Lecture notes from MIT OpenCourseWare
- Biology Links From the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
- Biology Online: Information in the Biological Sciences Tutorials, links, and a dictionary
- Biology Project From the University of Arizona
- BiologyBrowser Interactive portal to free resources, designed by Biosis
- Biology Web Site References
- BioOne
access to full text journals focused on the biological, ecological and
environmental sciences
- BioTech: Life Sciences Resources and Reference Tools from the University of Texas Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology
- Cell & Molecular Biology Online An Informational Resource for Cell and Molecular Biologists
- Center for Conservation Biology From Stanford University
- Evolution Evolutionary theory, history, and resources from the University of California Museum of Paleontology
- HHMI's Biointeractive From the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- HEALTHMap Global Disease Alert Map Provides a real-time map of emerging infectious diseases. View all disease alerts by country, or limit results to specific diseases or information source.
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System biological names database
- Intute: Health and Life Sciences: Agriculture hand-selected and evaluated internet resources in agriculture, food and forestry"
- Intute: Health and Life Sciences: BioResearch "United Kingdom's gateway to high quality Internet resources in biological and biomedical research" from the Biome Service
- Kimball's Biology Pages
- Major Biomes of the World
- Marine Biology Web
- Molecular Biology Web Book includes free review articles
- NBII: National Biological Information Infrastructure Links to biological databases and analytical tools
- NCBI Taxonomy Homepage
- Neurosciences on the Internet
- On-Line Biology Book
- Protocol Online Database of research protocols for life scientists seeking comprehensive information on laboratory protocols and methods for bioinformatics, molecular biology, immunology, microbiology, proteomics, and cell biology
- Research Link 2000 Promotes biology research for faculty and undergraduates
- Science.gov Gateway to government science and technology sites
- Science: News Daily news briefs on science topics (many biology) from around the world
- WWW Virtual Library: Biosciences
- Yahoo!: Biology
BIODIVERSITY
- Biodiversity and Biological Collections
- Biodiversity and Conservation Hypertext Book By Peter Bryant, University of California, Irvine
- Biodiversity Economics From the World Conservation Union
- Biodiversity Heritage Library Ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions have joined to digitize the published literature of biodiversity held in their respective collections and make this literature publically accessible on the Web
- Biodiversity Hotspots Richest and most threatened reservoirs of plant and animal life on earth from Conservation International's Center for Applied Diversity
- Biodiversity International
- Biodiversity Partnership From Defenders of Wildlife
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- Global Invasive Species Initiative "Nature Conservancy's response to abating the damage caused to native biodiversity by human-facilitated introduction of non-native, harmful invasive species
- Great Lakes Information Network
- National Library for the Environment Includes Congressional Research Service reports and treaties
- NatureServe Provides the scientific basis for effective conservation and is a network of natural heritage programs about rare and endangered species and threatened ecosystems
- Smithsonian Natural History Home Page
- Society for Conservation Biology Network
- Tree of Life Links to Web pages on the diversity of life
- World Atlas of Biodiversity Interactive map illustrating the biodiversity of the Earth's terrestrial, marine, and freshwater environments
BIOETHICS
- Bioethics net Links to articles and sites
- Bioethics Information Resources From the National Library of Medicine
- Bioethics Resources on the Web From the National Institutes of Health
- Intute: Health and Life Sciences: Bioethics Web Gateway to evaluated resources for biomedical ethics
- National Information Resource on Ethics & Human Genetics From Georgetown University, Kennedy Institute of Ethics
- Penn Center for Bioethics From the University of Pennsylvania
- President's Council on Bioethics
Print Sources Available in the University Library
- Concise Encyclopedia of the Ethics of New Technologies REF TP248.23 .C664
- Encyclopedia of Bioethics REF QH332 .E52
BOTANY
- Agripedia From the University of Kentucky's College of Agriculture
- Botanical Society of America
- Carnivorous Plant Database
- Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants
- Core Historical Literature of Agriculture Provides a full text electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century
- eFloras.org Provides full text volumes on plants around the world including North America
- Global Invasive Species Initiative "Nature Conservancy's response to abating the damage caused to native biodiversity by human-facilitated introduction of non-native, harmful invasive species
- Flowering Plant Gateway 4 systems of flowering plant classification
- Illinois Natural History Survey Herbarium Collection
- International Plant Names Index Collaboration between the Royal Botanic Garden, Kews, Harvard University Herbaria and the Australian National Herbarium
- Internet Directory of Botany Over 4,000 available botany links
- National Agricultural Statistics Service From USDA
- North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station Part of the National Plant Germplasm System, conserving natural resources, includes Wisconsin
- Plant Pathology Internet Guide Book
- PLANTS Database "Standardized information about vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts and lichens of the U.S. and its territories" from the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service
- Plants of the North Plants from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of Minnesota and southern Ontario
- Poisonous Plants Informational Database From Cornell University
- UIS Prairie Restoration Project From the University of Illinois at Springfield
- University of Wisconsin-Madison Plant Systematics Collection Plant images of more than 250 families and 1000 genera of vascular plants
- Wetland Plants and Plant Communities of Minnesota and Wisconsin
- Wisconsin State Herbarium
- WWW Virtual Library: Botany/Plant Biology
- WWW Virtual Library: Mycology
GENETICS/CELL BIOLOGY
- Cancer Genome Anatomy Project
- Cells Alive
- Cell Biology Laboratory Manual Full text manual from Gustavus Adolphus College
- DNA from the Beginning
- DNA Interactive
- Functional Genomics Projects of Wellcome Trust's Sanger Institute
- Gene Almanac
- Gene Gateway Guide to Internet tools to investigate genetic disorders, chromosomes, genome maps, genes,e sequence data, genetic variations and molecular structure
- Genetics Education Center
- Genomics. Energy.gov Huge web site with articles, data and more from U.S. Dept. of Energy and National Institutes of Health. Includes the Human Genome Project and Microbial Genome Research.
- Genomics Primers From the U.S. Department of Energy and includes the full text reports: Human Genome Project and Beyond, Human Genome Project Fact Sheet, and U.S. DOE Primer on Molecular Genetics
- Germplasm Resources Information Network "Germplasm information about plants, animals, microbes, and invertebrates, all lifeforms important for food and agricultural production" from the USDA Agricultural Research Service
- Human Genome Resources From the National Center for Biotechnology Information
- J. Craig Venter Institute Formed in October 2006 through the merger of several affiliated and legacy organizations--The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and The Center for the Advancement of Genomics (TCAG), The J. Craig Venter Science Foundation, The Joint Technology Center, and the Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives (IBEA)
- Linus Pauling and the Race for DNA: A Documentary History
- MendelWeb Includes the full text of Mendel's classic genetics papers and articles
- Molecular Biology and Genomics From UCSF; selected bibliography of resources in molecular biology and genomics
- National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR)
- National Human Genome Research Institute
- Office of Rare Diseases From the National Institutes of Health
- Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man Catalog of human genes and genetic disorders
- Stanford Genomic Resources From Stanford University
- WWW Virtual Library: Developmental Biology Maintained by the Society for Developmental Biology
- WWW Virtual Library: Genetics
- Your Genes, Your Health from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
ZOOLOGY
- Amphibia Web
- Animal Diversity Web Animal natural history, distribution, classification and conservation from the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
- Bird Central Photos and natural history of 437 of the 600+ species found in the lower 48 states
- BirdSource: Birding with a Purpose
- CephBase All living cephalopods: octopus, squid, cuttlefish and nautilus
- Endangered Specie.com
- Entomology Index of Internet Resources From Iowa State
- Illinois Natural History Fish Collection
- Illinois Natural History Survey Insect Collection
- Illinois Natural History Survey Mammal Collection
- International Species Information System Supports species conservation and preservation
- National Wildlife Federation
- NMNH Department of Entomology From the Smithsonian
- NMNH Department of Invertebrate Zoology From the Smithsonian
- NMNH Division of Fishes From the Smithsonian
- NMNH Mammal Species of the World From the Smithsonian
- North American Mammals From the Smithsonian
- Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Operated by the U.S. Geological Survey, a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Interior
- Peterson Field Guides
- Primate Info Net Wisconsin Primate Research Center Library
- TIGR Reptile Database
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- University of Florida Book of Insect Records
- Virtual Frog Dissection Kit
- Zoos Worldwide Directory of zoos, aquariums and animal parks
DICTIONARIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS, ETC.
- Access
Science Online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science
and Technology
- Aquatic Biodiversity Glossary from the U.S. Environmental Pollution Agency
- BioGlossary Life science glossary of over 3,000 definitions. From Everything Bio.com
- Biology Online Dictionary Editable Wiki Dictionary
- Botany.com Encyclopedia of Plants
- Encyclopedia of Life An ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about all life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world, free registration
- FAO Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture
- Genome Glossary
- Glossary of Biotechnology Terms
- Glossary of Ecology Terms
- Glossary of Genetics and DNA
- Glossary of Marine Biology
- Knovel Engineering Library
Full text access to selected biology reference materials
- Look up: Biology Terms
- Look up: Basic Genetics
- NatureServe Explorer Online encyclopedia of life; Source for more than 65,000 plants, animals, and ecological communities in the U.S. and Canada
- On-Line Glossary of Technical Terms in Plant Pathology From Cornel University, includes a pronunciation guide
- Several dictionaries related to Biology are available on Credo
Reference:
- Collins Dictionary of Biology
- Dictionary of Developmental Biology and Embryology
- Macquarie Dictionary of Trees and Shrubs
- Terms of Environment: Glossary, Abbreviations, Acronyms From the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Print Sources Available in the University Library
- Cambridge Dictionary of Human Biology and Evolution REF QP34.5 .M24
- Encyclopedia of Biodiversity REF QH541.15.B56 E52x
- Encyclopedia of Genetics REF QH427 .E53
- Facts On File Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology REF QH575 .F33
- Facts on File Dictionary of Botany REF QK9 .F33
- Biotechnology from A-Z REF TP248.16 .B33
- Penguin Dictionary of Biology REF QH13 .N62
INDEXES AND DATABASES
Use the Indexes and Databases to identify articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers. Many indexes provide full text articles.
- Agricola (free from the National Agriculture Library)
- BioOne
- Cambridge Scientific
- BioOne
- Health and Safety/Risk Abstracts
- EbscoHost
- Academic Search
- Biomedical Reference Basic
- CINAHL Plus with Full Text
- GreenFILE
- Masterfile
- Medline
- Nursing and Allied Health Literature: Basic
- PsycArticles
- PsycInfo
- FirstSearch
- Agricola (National Agriculture Library)
- BioDigest
- Food Science and Technology Abstracts
- Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews-Human Nutrition
- PubMed (public online version of Medline)
- Turfgrass Information File (TGIF)
- Web of Science
- Biological Abstracts
- Science Citation Index
- WilsonWeb
- Applied Science Full Text
- General Science Full Text
- Biological and Agricultural Index Plus
- OmniFile
- ArXiv Free access to preprint papers in quantitative biology
- BioMed Central Over 100 open access journals in biology and medicine. Free registration.
- Directory of Open Access Journals Free database of full text academic journal articles
- Free Library Includes a massive collection of periodicals from hundreds of leading publications
- Google Scholar Set preferences to Stout to search for full text available through the UW-Stout Library
- Open J Gate Provides access to over 4,200 open access international journals
- ScienceResearch.com Free, publicly available web portal allowing access to numerous scientific journals and public science databases, some full text articles are available
- Scirus Search engine for scientific journal articles and web sites
- Toxnet From the National Library of Medicine
PERIODICALS
- PLoS Biology a peer reviewed, open access journal from the Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Nature Journals
Use the Database Alphabetical List to access the full text Nature Journals. Select a title; enter keywords in the search box or select the archive and view the table of contents.
- Bone Marrow Transplantation
- British Journal of Cancer
- British Journal of Pharmacology
- Cell Death & Differentiation
- Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
- EMBO Journal
- EMBO Reports
- European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Eye
- Gene Therapy
- Heredity
- Immunology and Cell Biology
- Internatiional Journal of Obesity
- Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism
- Journal of Investigative Dermatology
- Journal of Perinatology
- Kidney International
- Laboratory Investigation
- Leukemia
- Modern Pathology
- Molecular Psychiatry
- Molecular Therapy
- Nature
- Nature Cell Biology
- Nature Chemical Biology
- Nature Genetics
- Nature Immunology
- Nature Methods
- Nature Nanotechnology
- Nature Neuroscience
- Nature Reviews Cancer
- Nature Reviews Genetics
- Nature Reviews Immunology
- Nature Reviews Microbiology
- Nature Reviews Molecular Biology
- Nature Reviews Neuroscience
- Nature Structural and Molecular Biology
- Neuropsychopharmacology
- Oncogene
- Spinal Cord
STOUT LIBRARY CATALOG
Use the Stout Library Catalog to identify books and audiovisual materials about your topic. Use a keyword guided search and then click on Long View. You can explore any of the listed subject headings by selecting the link.
See Also
- UW-Stout Biology Department
- Biotechnology Subject Guide UW-Stout Library
- Microbiology Subject Guide UW-Stout Library
WWW Search Engines
The search engines that are available on the WWW vary in depth and coverage. Explore the search options to find relevant WWW sites. For a list of available search engines and WWW directories, e.g. Google or Yahoo, use Searching the Web from the Library Home Page.
Citations
To cite online resources in appropriate bibliographic style see: Citing Resources
To organize citations and create bibliographies and papers in APA, MLA and other styles see: RefWorks and Other Citation Management Tools
Last Updated: 05/15/2008 and Last Revised: 5/08/2008
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