Biology Subject Guide

This subject guide covers biology resources available at the Johnston Memorial Library, including full-text journals, magazine, and newspaper articles, biology websites, and printed materials in the Reference Collection. This is not a comprehensive subject guide, but rather a selective list of materials that are most useful for locating information in this field. Library location and call  number are provided for print publications. 

Full Text Databases	Journal Indexes and Abstracts
Reference Sources	Additional Internet Websites

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Full-Text Databases

• Annual Reviews
  Full-text access to scientific information in the fields of biological and medical sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences.
   
• BioOne
  Collection of full-text, peer-reviewed research journals in biological, ecological and environmental sciences.
  

• Highwire Press
  Full-text journal articles in in the areas of biological science, medical science, physical science, and social science.
  

• InfoTrac OneFile
  Access to scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers with full text and images from arts, humanities, social sciences, science and technology.
  

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Journal Indexes and Abstracts

• Biological Abstracts
  An index with abstracts to periodicals in biology and the life sciences worldwide.
  

• Biological and Medical Sciences
  Abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science.
  

• Biology Digest
  Abstracts and indexes of domestic and international literature in the area of life sciences.
  

• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Databases and Subfiles
  Article information in life, health, and computer sciences, and engineering from more than 40 databases.
  

• MEDLINE
  Medical topics relating to research in biological sciences and clinical medicine.covering all aspects of biomedicine.

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Reference Sources

• Biolexicon: A Guide to the Language of Biology by Charles Blinderman
  REF QH302.5.B59 1990
  
  
• Cambridge Encyclopedia of Life Sciences edited by Adrian Friday and David Ingram.
  REF QH307.2.C36 1985
  
  
• Concise Encyclopedia of Biology translated and revised by Thomas A. Scott
  REF QH302.5.A2313 1996
  
  
• Encyclopedia of Human Biology edited by Renato Dulbecco.
  REF QP11.E53 1991
  
  
• Facts on File Dictionary of Biology edited by Robert Hine.
  REF QH302.5.F38 1999
  
  
• Handbook of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology edited by Gerald D. Fasman.
  REF QH345.H347 1975
  
  
• Lab Manual Source Book
  REF QH506.L33
  
  
• Molecular Biology and Biotechnology: A Comprehensive Desk Reference edited by Robert A. Meyers
  REF QH506.M66155 1995
  
  
• New Penguin Dictionary of Biology by M. Abercrombie and others.
  REF QH13.N62 1990
  

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Additional Internet Websites

• BiologyBrowser.org
  Offers free resources to help users in the life sciences information community.
  

• National Institutes of Health
  Provides access to scientific resources and health information including current new events and grant opportunities.
  

• National Library of Medicine: PubMed
  Provides access to bibliographic citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other databases, with links to participating electronic journals.
  

• Public Library of Biology
  Peer-reviewed, open access journal featuring research in the area of biological science.
  

• SCIRUS (Scientific Information Only)
  Covers only websites that contain scientific content, such as university web sites and author homepages, including free and subscription based journals that require a username and password.

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