Selected Biology Online Resources

Databases
(*licensed by Rhodes College)

*360Search
Use 360 Search to search the Rhodes library catalog, selected databases and online journals simultaneously.

• *AccessScience
  Full access to 71,000+ articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of research updates in all areas of science and technology.
• AmphibaWeb
  AmphibiaWeb is an online system enabling anyone with a Web browser to search and retrieve information relating to amphibian biology and conservation.
• *Biological Sciences (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
  Offers abstracts and citations to research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology, and ecology.
• *Cambridge Scientific Abstracts 
  Offers abstracts and citations of a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology, and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Research areas covered include the expansive fields of molecular biology and genetics, microbiology (including diseases), virology, toxicology, and neuroscience; the database also features coverage of specialized topics such as chemoreception, calcified tissue, entomology and marine biotechnology. The database focuses on basic research and it particularly useful to researchers seeking interdisciplinary perspectives across the biological sciences. Subscribers also receive the Plant Science database and Biology Digest database.
• Greenfile
  GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records. 
• *Health and Wellness Resource Center
  Use this database to research topics in health and medicine, medications, and wellness. Includes encyclopedias, directories, medical dictionary, magazines, journals, and newspapers.
• *MEDLINE
  From the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Covers all areas of medicine, including clinical medicine, experimental medicine, dentistry, nursing, health services administration, nutrition, and much more. Indexes over 3,900 journals (most with abstracts). Now includes a backfile covering 1965-1984, increasing the coverage to 1965-present. Now includes the MeSH thesaurus.
• Plants Database (USDA)
  The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.
• *PsycINFO 1887-Current
  Contains more than 2.4 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines.
• *Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
  This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost
• *Science Database (Infotrac)
  Over 1600 science journals ranging from "Abstracts in Hematology & Oncology " to "Zoomorphology". Millions of articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions.
• ScienceResearch.com
  Deep Web Technologies is proud to present ScienceResearch.com™ - a free, publicly available web portal allowing access to numerous scientific journals and public science databases.
• SCIRIS
  Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches over 450 million science-specific Web pages.
• *Today′s Science
  Updated weekly with a back file from 1992, Today′s Science connects science students in the classroom with the science being done today. A wealth of background information, biographies, an embedded glossary, images, indexes and research aids, and extensive hyperlinking round out this complete science resource.
• University of Connecticut Plant Database
• Visual Resources for Ornithology (VIREO)
  VIREO is the most comprehensive bird image bank in the world. Started in 1979 to provide a centralized, well-curated collection of avian photos for scientific and public use. VIREO contains more than 140,000 images representing over 6,650 bird species from around the world.
• *Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Mega Edition
  Electronic access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from over 4,000 journals. Includes these Wilson full text indexes: Education, General Science, Humanities, Social Sciences, Legal, Applied Science & Technology, Art, Biological & Agricultural, Business & Readers Guide.

Online Journals
(*licensed by Rhodes College)

• *BioOne
  A collection of full texts of high-impact bioscience research journals.
• *Blackwell-Synergy
  A collection of over 800 online journals from Blackwell Publishers.
• Directory of Open Access Journals - 3,200 free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, many of them searchable at the article level
• *Health & Biological Journals by Subject (SerialsSolutions)
• *Oxford Journals Online
  A large collection of online full text journals from Oxford University Press.
• PubMed Central
  A digital archive of life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of health.  
• Open Science Directory
  About 13000 scientific journals are now available in the ′Open Science Directory′. When all the special program journals will be included, the Open Science Directory will contain more than 20000 titles.
• *ScienceDirect Journals
  A full text collection of nearly 1,000 journals in the life sciences.
• ScienceResearch.com
  Deep Web Technologies is proud to present ScienceResearch.com™ - a free, publicly available web portal allowing access to numerous scientific journals and public science databases. It allows students, teachers, professors, researchers, and the general public to access pertinent science information quickly and easily.
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Online Reference Sources
(*licensed by Rhodes College)

• Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students (Virginia Tech)
  These guidelines for engineering writing and scientific writing are designed to help students communicate their technical work. To that end, these guidelines contain advice, models, and exercises for common writing and speaking assignments in engineering and science.
• Science Online Reference Sources (Library of Congress)
• Encyclopedia of Life
  Welcome to the first release of the Encyclopedia of Life portal. This is the very beginning of our exciting journey to document all species of life on Earth. Comprehensive, collaborative, ever-growing, and personalized, the Encyclopedia of Life is an ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about all life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world.
• *New Encyclopedia of Birds
• *Encyclopedia of Evolution
• *Cambridge Dictionary of Human Biology and Evolution
• *A Dictionary of Animal Behaviour
• *A Dictionary of Biology
• *The Oxford Companion to the Body
• *A Dictionary of Ecology
• *The Encyclopedia of Underwater Life
• *Encyclopedia of Evolution
• *A Dictionary of Genetics
• *A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
• *A Dictionary of Scientists
• *A Dictionary of Zoology
• *Collins Dictionary of Biology
• *Dictionary of Developmental Biology and Embryology, Wiley
• *Guide to the Oceans
• *The Macquarie Dictionary of Trees & Shrubs
• *Magill′s Encyclopedia of Science: Plant Life
• *Hutchinson Pocket Dictionary of Biology

Websites

• Amphibiaweb
  AmphibiaWeb is an online system enabling anyone with a Web browser to search and retrieve information relating to amphibian biology and conservation. This site was inspired by the global declines of amphibians, the study of which has been hindered by the lack of multidisplinary studies and a lack of coordination in monitoring, in field studies, and in lab studies.
• Animal Diversity Web (U Michigan)
  Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan
• Bioinformatics.org
  The Bioinformatics Organization, Inc. serves the scientific and educational needs of bioinformatic practitioners and the general public. We develop and maintain computational resources to facilitate world-wide communications and collaborations between people of all educational and professional levels. We provide and promote open access to the materials and methods required for, and derived from, research, development and education.
• BiologyBrowser
  Produced by BIOSIS, it offers resources and links for the life sciences information community. Browse the directory by organism, scientific subject, or geography.
• Biology-Online.org 
  Welcome to Biology Online, a choice source for biological information, ideal for homework, research projects and general interest.
• Biology News.Net
• Biology Project (U Arizona)
  Welcome to The Biology Project, an interactive online resource for learning biology developed at The University of Arizona. The Biology Project is fun, richly illustrated, and tested on 1000s of students. It has been designed for biology students at the college and high school level, but is useful for medical students, physicians, science writers, and all types of interested people.
• Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Links (Harvard)
• Biocrawler
  Directory and search engine.
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
  Ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions have joined to form the Biodiversity Heritage Library Project. The group is developing a strategy and operational plan to digitize the published literature of biodiversity held in their respective collections.
• Bioresearch Online
  Bioresearch Online provides information and news on emerging technologies, manufacturing, and development trends for professionals involved in large molecule research and the development and production of Biopharmaceuticals.
• Bio-Web (Molecular Biology)
• Botany - WWW Virtual Library
• Cells Alive!
  CELLS alive! represents 30 years of capturing film and computer-enhanced images of living cells and organisms for education and medical research. The site has been available continuously and updated annually since May of 1994 and now hosts over 4 million visitors a year.
• Cornell Lab of Ornithology - All About Birds
• Entomology Resources (Iowa State)
• ExPASy Molecular Biology Server
  Expert Protein Analysis System proteomics server of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, dedicated to the analysis of protein sequences and structures, as well as 2D PAGE.
• FishBase
• Genetics Gateway
• Genetics - WWW Virtual Library
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  Facilitating digitisation and global dissemination of primary biodiversity data, so that people from all countries can benefit from the use of the information, is the mission of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
• Health and Life Sciences pages of Intute
• Human Genome Resources (National Library of Medicine)
  NCBI′s Web site serves an an integrated, one-stop, genomic information infrastructure for biomedical researchers from around the world so that they may use these data in their research efforts.
• Internet Dirctory for Botany
• MarineBio
  MarineBio is a nonprofit organization staffed by volunteer marine biologists, students, professors, and conservation advocates working to share the wonders of the ocean realm to inspire education, research and a sea ethic.
• Microbes.info
• Microbe Library.org (American Society for Microbiology)
• Microbiology Jumpstation
• Mycoweb: Mushrooms, Fungi, Mycology
• National Biological Information Infrastructure
  The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) is a broad, collaborative program to provide increased access to data and information on the nation′s biological resources
• Natural History Resources - Harvard
• NematodeNet Genome Sequencing Center
• NSDL Scout Report for Life Sciences
  Features biology, zoology, ecology, botany, and other life science resources.
• Primate InfoNet (U Wisconsin)
• Tree of Life Project
  The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists from around the world. On more than 9000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history (phylogeny), and characteristics.
• University of California Museum of Paleontology
  The mission of the University of California Museum of Paleontology is to investigate and promote the understanding of the history of life and the diversity of the Earth′s biota through research and education.
• Virology on the Web
  All the Virology on the WWWseeks to be the best single site for Virology information on the Internet. We have collected all the virology related Web sites that might be of interest to our fellow virologists, and others interested in learning more about viruses. Additionally, we have created an index to virus pictures on the web,The Big Picture Book of Viruses, which also functions as a resource for viral taxonomy.