Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery

Subject Guides - Biological Sciences

Background Information

Start your research by reviewing general background infomation on broad topics of interest in the biological sciences

• Action Bioscience

  Articles by scientists, science educators, and science students on issues related to seven bioscience challenges: environment, biodiversity, genomics, biotechnology, evolution, new frontiers in science, and bioscience education.

• Science Issues

  Topical issues on which the Royal Society has conducted a study, issued a science brief, held a meeting, issued a press release...

• Science.gov

  Authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. government agencies, including research and development results.

• WWW Virtual Library: Biosciences

  Extensive list of on-line bioscience resources arranged by specific subject area.

Databases

Use the following databases to find scholarly articles for biological sciences topics

• Agricola

  Search for journal articles, conference papers, books, audiovisuals, and other resources covering all aspects of agriculture and related sciences held by the National Agriculture Library.

• Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B)

  Indexes/abstracts literature in bacterial immunology, vaccinations, and the diseases of man and animals; includes clinical findings and all aspects of pure bacteriology, biochemistry, and genetics.

• Biological Abstracts

  Indexes/abstracts 5,000+ journals in the biological sciences.

• Biotechnology Research Abstracts

  Indexes and abstracts world literature in which molecular biology and genetics are applied to biotechnological techniques in the food industry, agriculture, and the environment. Formerly known as Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts

• Industrial and Applied Microbiology (Microbiology A)

  Indexes/abstracts findings and practical applications in agricultural, food and beverage, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries.

• Medline (EBSCO)

  Indexes/abstracts more than 3,200 journals from the biomedical field.

• Web of Science

  The Web of Science includes Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Covers approximately 8,700 high impact research journals and provides access to cited and citing references. Additional searchable resources on the Web of Knowledge homepage (select from dropdown menu).

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Web Resources

A selected listing of bioscience resources on the web.

• Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

  Source of new and classic biomedical research techniques. Currently it contains over 700 methods in molecular and cell biology and it covers cell and molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, protein science, and imaging.

• Computational Molecular Biology at NIH

  Analytical tools, databases, lab protocols, and reference sources in molecular biology. Provided by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

• EcoCyc

  Encyclopedia of Escherichia coli K12 Genes and Metabolism: a searchable database describing the genome and the biochemical machinery of E. coli K-12.

• Entrez, the Life Sciences Search Engine

  Searchable databases including: Nucleotide Sequence (GenBank, RefSeq, and PDB), Protein Sequence, Genome, Structure, Taxonomy, and many more. From the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

• GenBank

  Entrez (DNA and protein sequence data, 3D structure data, and associated MEDLINE entries), BLAST (sequence similarity search tool), dbEST (Database of Expressed Sequence Tags), and dbSTS (Database of Sequence Tagged Sites). By NCBI.

• Human Anatomy Online

  Interactive manual of human anatomy. Over one hundred illustrations and thousands of descriptions.

• ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System

  Database of species names and their hierarchical classification, focusing on the biota of North America.

• National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII)

  The NBII links diverse, high-quality biological databases, information products, and analytical tools maintained by NBII partners and other contributors in government agencies, academic institutions, non-government organizations, and private industry.

• Protein Data Bank

  Worldwide depository of information about the three-dimensional structures of large biological molecules, including proteins and nucleic acids.

• The Biology Project

  The Biology Project is an interactive online resource for learning biology, developed at The University of Arizona. Units include: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Mendelian Genetics, and Molecular Biology.

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Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Handbooks

Please browse the Reference shelves in the QH-QR and R-RZ sections for other valuable resources.

Dictionaries

• A dictionary of genetics, 2006.

  [REF QH427 K55]

• Collins dictionary of biology

  [in the Credo online reference collection]

• McGraw-Hill dictionary of bioscience. 2nd ed, 2003.

  [REF QH302.5 M382 2003]

• Oxford dictionary of biochemistry and molecular biology, 2000.

  [REF QD415 A25O94 2000]




Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia of life sciences, 2002.

  [REF QH302.5 E525 2002]

• Encyclopedia of toxicology, 1998.

  [REF RA1193 E53 1998]

• Grzimek's animal life encyclopedia, 2003.

  [REF QL7 G7813 2003]

• Life on earth : an encyclopedia of biodiversity, ecology, and evolution , 2002.

  [REF QH541.15 B56L54 2002]

• McGraw-Hill concise encyclopedia of bioscience , 2005.

  [REF QH302.5 M378 2005]

• McGraw-Hill concise encyclopedia of science & technology

  [in the Gale online reference collection]




Handbooks

• CRC handbook of toxicology, 1995.

  [REF RA1215.C73 1995]

• Handbook of comparative genomics : principles and methodology, 2003.

  [REF QH447 S23 2003]

• Cell biology: a laboratory handbook. 3rd ed., 2006.

  [REF QH583.2 C45 2006]