Biology Resource Guide

Databases || Reference Tools || Associations & Societies || Journals Biology Links || Biology Department

Databases

Biology
• Web of Science (search by subject or cited reference)
• Medline (via Web of Knowledge; can search simultaneously with Web of Science by clicking All Databases tab)
• PubMed (Medline plus nucleotide and protein sequences, complete genomes and more)
• MEDLINE (via FirstSearch)
• Biology Digest (via FirstSearch)
• Chemical Abstracts
  Searching available for NMT faculty and students by appointment. Call 835-6367.
• AGRICOLA (via FirstSearch)
• Compendex (Engineering Index)
• Dissertation Abstracts Online (via FirstSearch)
• PapersFirst [conferences] (via FirstSearch)

Bioinformatics

• Databases and Web Sites

General (include full-text articles)

• Academic Search Premier
• Expanded Academic ASAP
• Wilson Select Plus

Reference Tools

Biological Journals and Abbreviations

Journals Abbreviations: Biosciences

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Biology (4 volume electronic encyclopedia)

Concise Dictionary of Biomedicine and Molecular Biology - Ref R121.J86 2002

Dictionary of Microbiology and Molecular Biology - Ref QR9.S56 2006

Dictionary of Gene Technology: Genomics, Transcriptomics, Proteomics - Ref QH506.K333 2001

Dictionary of Genetics - Ref QH427.K55 2002

Encyclopedia of Biostatistics - Ref RA409.E53 1999 (6 volumes)

Encyclopedia of Environmental Biology - Ref QH540.4 .E52 1999

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Genetics, Genomics, and Proteomics - Ref QH427.R43 2003

Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics - Ref Q175.35.E53 2005 (4 volumes)

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Bioscience - Ref QH302.5.M382 2003

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology - Ref Q121 .M3 2002 (20 volumes)

Handbooks and Other Reference Works

Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology - Ref QR81 .B56 1984

Citation Styles Online: Using CBE Style (Council of Biology Editors) http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite8.html

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics - Ref QD65 H3

Current Protocols in Molecular Biology - Ref QH506 .C87 (5 volumes)

Enzyme Reference : a Comprehensive Guidebook to Enzyme Nomenclature, Reactions and Methods - Ref QP601.P87 2002

Handbook of Microbiological Media - Ref QR66.3 .A85 1993

International Plant Names Index http://www.ipni.org

Molecular Biology and Biotechnology : a Comprehensive Desk Reference - Ref QA506.M66155 1995

Merck Index - Ref RS 51 .M4 1996

Practical Handbook of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - Ref QP514.2 .P73 1989

Practical Handbook of Microbiology - Ref. QR72.5 .P73 1989

Scientific style and format : the CBE manual for authors, editors, and publishers - Ref Z253 .S35 1994

Using the Biological Literature - Ref QH 303.6 .D38 1995

Writing Papers in the Biological Sciences - QH304.M36 2001

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Associations & Societies

• American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) http://www.aibs.org/
• American Society for Cell Biology http://www.ascb.org/
• American Society for MicroBiology http://www.asm.org/
• Biophysical Society http://www.biophysics.org/
• Entomological Society of America http://www.entsoc.org/
• European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) http://www.embo.org/
• Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) http://www.faseb.org/
• Mycological Society of America http://www.msafungi.org/
• Society of Ethnobiology http://www.ethnobiology.org/

Journals

Biology Journals in the Skeen Library

Journal Web Pages

• PubMed Central (free archive of life science journals)
  Browse by Title and click on a journal name to see a list of all available full-text issues for the journal.
  Click on Advanced Search to search by keyword, author, etc.
• BioMed Central (over 100 Open Access journals covering biology and medicine)
  Click on Journals A to Z or Journals by Subject to see a list of full-text journals and information for authors.
  Click on Advanced Search in the top blue bar to search by keyword, author, etc.
• BioOne
  Click on Current Issue or Journal Archives to view table of contents, abstracts and information for authors.
  Click on Search BioOne to search by keyword, author, etc.
• Elsevier ScienceDirect
  Browse by title or subject to see table of contents, read abstracts and find information for authors.
  Change the display to subscribed titles to see journals with full-text for NMT campus (1998-Present)

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Biology Links

• The Biology Project http://www.biology.arizona.edu/default.html
  Interactive tutorial geared for undergraduate biology education

• Biosciences Virtual Library http://vlib.org/Biosciences.html
  Subject access to a large variety of web resources in biosciences

• Cells Alive! http://www.cellsalive.com/
  Gives an illustrated introduction to microbiology

• Electronic Zoo http://netvet.wustl.edu/e-zoo.htm
  A listing of resources in Zoology

• Harvard Biology Links http://mcb.harvard.edu/BioLinks.html
  Extensive site organized by topic.

• Microbes.info http://www.microbes.info/
  Useful and interesting microbiology information resources

• National Biological Information Infrastructure http://www.nbii.gov/
  Collaborative program providing access to data and information on the nation's biological resources

• National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
  NCBI creates public databases; conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information

• MIT OpenCourseWare: Biology http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biology/index.htm
  
Free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners. Biological Engineering section also available.

• Patent Searching http://www.nmt.edu/~nmtlib/INFO/ORef/patents.html
  Links to patent databases and web tutorials

• TOXNET http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov
  Cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas sponsored by the National Library of Medicine

• Using the Biological Literature: Web Resources http://www.library.uiuc.edu/bix/biologicalliterature/
  Annotated guide to the literature organized by major topic areas.
  Based on 3rd ed. text by Schmidt, Daves and Jacobs.

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This page was created by Joan Shedivy.
Please contact jshedivy@nmt.edu with comments and questions.

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