Research Guide: Biology
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Multi-Disciplinary Databases
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Academic OneFile
- Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading journals and reference sources. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. (more info)
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Academic Search Complete
- Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive, scholarly, and multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. (more info)
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JSTOR
- Use the advanced search function to search within the folklore discipline. (more info)
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Annual Reviews
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Biophysics
- Describes and evaluates recent noteworthy publications in the field. Chapters are written by specialists on topics of current interest and varying scope. Includes bibliographies. Online access from 1972, including previous titles: Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure, Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, and Biophysics and Bioengineering.
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Annual Review of Cell & Developmental Biology
- Overviews the latest developments in the field. Chapters are written by specialists on topics of current interest and varying scope. Includes bibliographies. Online access from 1985. (Continues the Annual Review of Cell Biology).
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Ecology, Evolution and Systematics
- Describes and evaluates recent noteworthy publications in the field. Chapters are written by specialists on topics of current interest and varying scope. Includes bibliographies. Online access from 1970. (Continues Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics).
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Genetics
- Describes and evaluates recent noteworthy publications in the field. Chapters are written by specialists on topics of current interest and varying scope. Includes bibliographies. Online from 1967.
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Immunology
- Overviews the latest developments in the field. Chapters are written by specialists on topics of current interest and varying scope. Includes bibliographies. Online from 1983.
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Microbiology
- Describes and evaluates recent noteworthy publications in the field. Chapters are written by specialists on topics of current interest and varying scope. Includes bibliographies. Online from 1947.
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Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease
- Describes and evaluates recent noteworthy publications in the field. Chapters are written by specialists on topics of current interest and varying scope. Includes bibliographies.
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Plant Biology
- Describes and evaluates recent noteworthy publications in the field. Chapters are written by specialists on topics of current interest and varying scope. Includes bibliographies. Online from 1950, including previous titles: Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology.
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Phytopathology
- Describes and evaluates recent noteworthy publications in the field. Chapters are written by specialists on topics of current interest and varying scope. Includes bibliographies. Online access is back to 1963.
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Physiology
- Describes and evaluates recent noteworthy publications in the field. Chapters are written by specialists on topics of current interest and varying scope. Includes bibliographies. Online from 1939.
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Biology Websites
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The Cell: an Image Library
- A freely accessible, easy-to-search, public repository of reviewed and annotated images, videos, and animations of cells from a variety of organisms, showcasing cell architecture, intracellular functionalities, and both normal and abnormal processes. (more info)
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Cell and Molecular Biology Online
- A very useful and well organized collection of annotated links. Categories include: e-journals, current research, careers, societies and many others.
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Botany websites
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Botanical Society of America
- A very useful organization website: free full text of The American Journal of Botany and The Plant Science Bulletin, the latest news in the field of botany, an index to related sites and of course, information about the organization.
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PLANTS Database
- A U.S. Department of Agriculture site, the PLANTS Database is a source of standardized information about plants focusing on vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. The database includes names, checklists, identification information, species abstracts, distributional data, crop information, plant symbols and growth data, plant links, references, and other information.
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Zoology websites
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Introduction to the Metazoa
- A University of California at Berkeley website, this is an excellent resource on the evolution of animals. Information provided includes: fossil records, ecology, life history, biographies of influential individuals and a glossary.
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SORA: Searchable Ornithological Research Archive
- Archived issues of seven primary ornithology journals, dating from 1884 to 2000. (more info)
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WormAtlas
- A database of behavioral and structural anatomy of "Caenorhabditis elegans", C. elegans.
