Biology Subject Guide

• Liaison
• Course Resources
• Databases/Articles
• Print Resources
• Web Resources




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This Subject Guide contains links to a few key indexes in Chemistry plus significant online resources and print materials housed in the Library’s first floor reference section. Web Resources below contains links to sites with substantial academic content. These may assist you on research papers and other class assignments as well as lead to additional useful sites. Look at the Library's Databases for many other valuable scholarly databases in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. For more web resources, try a Google Scholar search with appropriate keywords for your specific needs.

Liaison

Liaison in charge: Pat Van Zandt

Research: Getting Started @ Swem

Course resources

Biology 150: Ethical Issues in Human Genetics & Reproduction 

Biology 150: Emerging Diseases

Database/Article Indexes

• Academic Search Complete
• BioOne
• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
• ebrary
  EBSCOHost
• Highwire Press
• JSTOR Biological Sciences
• LINK
• PubMed
• Science Direct
• SciFinder
• Wiley Interscience

Print Resources

Background Information

• Biolexicon: A Guide to the Language of Biology
• Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology
• Encyclopedia of Human Biology
• A Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
• Encyclopedia of Environmental Biology
• Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Chambers Biology Dictionary

Web Resources

• The Biology Project
  An interactive online resource designed to help biology students at the college level learn biology.


• BioTech Home Page
  Biology and chemistry resources suitable for researchers from high school through professional. Includes an online dictionary and annotated lists of web sites.


• Public Library of Science
  PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. PLoS publishes peer-reviewed, open access scientific and medical journals that include original research as well as timely feature articles.