Biology

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Electronic Books

From Credo Reference:
The Great Dinosaur Controversy: A Guide to the Debates
Handbook of Global Environmental Politics
Human Evolution: A Guide to the Debates

Basic Databases

General Science Full Text from WilsonWeb
Provides indexing, abstracts and selected full text access to approximately 248 core journals in the sciences including Biology, Botany, Conservation, Environment, Food, Genetics, Health, Medicine, Microbiology, Nutrition, Oceanography, Physiology, and Zoology. Popular publications such as The New York Times Science Section are included.

Omnifile Full Text Mega Edition and choose Biological and Agricultural as the Subject Area from the drop down menu. Full text coverage begins in January 1995.

Research Library GALILEO Edition from ProQuest
Provides full text for over 1,700 scholarly journals and general magazines. All subjects.

Academic Search Complete from EBSCOhost
A scholarly, multi-disciplinary database that searches a total of 10,900 publications including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. Full text is provided for 5,300 journals.

Advanced or Discipline-Specific Databases

Discovery of Global Warming. Supported by the American Institute of Physics, Center for the History of Physics, and the National Science Foundation, this page serves as an electronic supplement to Spencer Weart's acclaimed book of the same title.

BioEd From Choice: "An excellent resource for science teacher educators and K-16 teachers and student teachers, providing high quality, readable scientific content as well as practical lesson ideas."

new!Ecyclopedia of Life. From a cooperative of scientists and researchers worldwide comes a growing database of comprehensive species-specific information.

new!GreenFILE. From EBSCO Publishing comes this collection of indexing for 600 titles, some dating back to the 1960's. Limited full text access, however check the Journal Locator for any results you are interested in obtaining access to.

MEDLINE with Full Text from EBSCOhost
Created by the National Library of Medicine, Medline is the premiere medical database. Ebsco's version includes full text for nearly 1,200 of the 5,264 journals indexed in MEDLINE. Search results can be limited by type of research, reviews, and case reports when using the Advanced Search mode.
MEDLINE can also be searched in the NLM's PubMed database which includes "in-process" records for articles that have not yet been entered into MEDLINE. PubMed also covers a broader range of journals, but does not provide full text articles as Ebsco access does.

Web of Science from ISI
In addition to covering over 22,000 journals, ISI's Web of Science covers conference proceedings, patents, and scholarly web content. Virtually all scientific fields of study are included. Web of Science contains the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and is designed to make it easy for you to determine the authors, institutions and journals most critical to a particular question or area of study by pursuing relevant citations. It also provides full text links to articles in over 10,000 journals.

Agricola from EBSCOhost
AGRICOLA contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library and covers every major agricultural subject. The citations consist of journal articles, book chapters, monographs, theses, conference proceedings, serials, technical reports, patents, software, and other materials on a broad range of agricultural topics.

Encyclopedias

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online from Access Science
This web version of McGraw-Hill's authoritative, print multi-volume encyclopedia provides The McGraw Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, weekly science and technology news articles, research updates, comprehensive and current science biographies, study guides, and recommended web sites. Coverage includes agriculture, forestry & soils, biological & biomedical science, and veterinary medicine.

Journals

Journals in paper format as well as online journals are listed here, but subscriptions are subject to change. For complete, current listing and online access information, search the Journal Locator.

Writing Guides

• Writing Guide for Science Students from Michael Alley, Penn State, et al
• APA Citation Guide from Purdue

Web Sites

• Biology Browser from Thompson Scientific
• Gene Gateway Guides & tutorials from the Human Genome Project
• Index Nominum Genericorum Searchable index of generic names of plants
• National Biological Information Infrastructure from the U.S. Geological Survey
• National Human Genome Research Institute
• Science Niche-Biology resources for teachers & students
• SciWeb presents life science industry links
• Virtual Library of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Selected Books in Lane library

REFERENCE BOOKS
Cambridge Dictionary of Human Biology & Evolution	REF QP34.5 .M24 2004
Dictionary of Microbiology and Molecular Biology	REF QR 9 .S56 2001
Encyclopedia of Evolution	REF QH 360.2 .O83 2002
Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia	REF QL7 .G7813 2003
Nature Encyclopedia	REF QH 13 .N37 2001
Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	REF QD 415 .A25 .O94 2000
Life on Earth: An Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution	REF QH 541.15 .B56 .L54 2002
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Amazing Numbers in Biology	QH310 .F4413 2006
Behavior of Animals: Mechanisms, Function & Evolution	QL763 .B39 2005
Biotechnology Demystified	TP248.215 .W35 2007
Cell: A Molecular Approach	QH581.2 .C66 2007
Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought...	QH360.5 .A48 2005
Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's theory can change the way we think...	B818 .W665 2007
Great Jobs for Biology Majors	QH314 .C35 2004
Imitation of Life: How Biology is Inspiring Computing	QH307.2 .F64 2004
Microbiology Demystified	QR41.2 .B48 2005
Modern Biology	QH308.7 .P67 2006
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria & the Meaning of Life	QH603.M5 L36 2005
Recent Developments in Biologically Inspired Computing	Q342 .R43 2005
SAT Subject Test: Biology	LB2353.57 .A43 2005