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Indexes
General
Wilson Web OmniFile A multidisciplinary database providing abstracts and some full-text. Use SearchPlus to limit to a specific Subject Area or to filter results for peer-reviewed journals only.
Academic Search Complete 
Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Full text coverage of information in: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, ethnic & multicultural studies, general science, geography, law, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.
Britannica Online Full-text of the Encyclopedia Britannica including photos, drawings, flags, biographies, and geographical articles. Also includes the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. For more general sources in the Sciences...
Subject
BioOne Abstracts and Indexes Database provides a method to search all of the journals in BioOne for a topic or a term. This resource is provided through Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. There are also web sites and other documents provided. MEDLINE, the primary index of the National Library of Medicine, provides citations and abstracts to authoritative medical information covering medicine, pathology, toxicology, psychiatry, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts and MeSH Headings from thousands of scholarly journals.
The National Library of Medicine offers links to MEDLINE through: PubMed and NLM Gateway. These are free sites open to anyone.
NOTE: To locate Periodicals in Abell Library, search using the "Periodical Title" field in the online catalog. |
E-Sources
Journals
Annual Reviews Search by Author, Keywords, and more in various Annual Reviews, such as Annual Review of Physiology, Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology, and Annual Review of Immunology to retrieve citations and abstracts. For the titles we subscribe to, full-text access is provided.
BioOne is a unique aggregation of high-impact bioscience research journals.
ScienceDirect ScienceDirect has evolved from a web database of Elsevier Science journals to one of the world's largest providers of scientific, technical and medical (STM) literature. Full-text access is only to those marked as subscribed. Full text is provided in Adobe Acrobat format for most articles.
JSTOR JSTOR is an archive of scholarly journals, including journals covering biology, plant sciences, botany, and ecology . Current issues are not available through JSTOR; its role is an archive, with new holdings added each year.
SpringerLink Journals provides electronic access to the complete contents of a vast and growing collection of SpringerLink journals in subjects including biology (formerly Kluwer Journals).
Wiley Journals covering the Life and Medical Sciences in full-text.
Reference Works
Birds of North America Online is an online project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Its contents will be updated frequently, with online-coordinated contributions from researchers, citizen scientists, and designated reviewers and editors. In addition, BNA Online will build image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, and more
Encyclopedia of Evolution A comprehensive guide to the essentials of evolutionary biology, these entries by leading experts survey essential concepts and theories, present methods, models and findings, and discuss both the history of the field and current controversies. Readers will find brief treatments on discrete concepts and individuals to illuminating lengthy essays by towering figures in the field. Topics include: Darwin, natural selection, human origins, behavioral ecology, diversity, mathematical models, and cell and developmental biology. Special essays include Stephen Jay Gould's “Macroevolution” and Jane Goodall and Elizabeth Vinson-Lonsdorf on “Culture in Chimpanzees.”
Health Reference Center - Academic An integrated collection of general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books and pamphlets. Topics included in the collection include information about alcoholism, AIDS, fitness, psychology, cancer, pediatrics, and more.
Books
netLibrary is a collection of full-text electronic books that library users can search and read over the Internet. Academic, reference, and scholarly books are included. Users can search across the entire eBook collection for authors, titles, or keywords, and they can search within books for keywords and phrases.
These materials are shared by people all over the state of Texas. For some titles, there may only be one copy, but for others there are several copies. Though it is not necessary for Austin College students, faculty or staff to set up their own personal account, this is an option discussed on the netLibrary website. It may also speed up your connection to the material.
About the Catalog
Search for books, journal titles, and other resources in our online catalog.
Some subject headings used for this discipline are listed below. For additional headings, refer to the Library of Congress Subject Headings volumes located behind the Reference Desk.
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Biotechnology
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Botany
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Microbiology
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Molecular biology
Internet Sites
General
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BiologyBrowser is an interactive portal designed by BIOSIS to connect life sciences researchers with free, useful resources and other like-minded scientists from all around the world.
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Biology Links from Harvard University's Dept. of Molecular & Cellular Biology
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Bioscene - Journal of College Biology Teaching is the official refereed publication of the Association of College and University Biology Educators
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Biosciregister Manual compilation of biotech suppliers enabling buyers to easily source manufacturers of biotechnology equipment for cell biology, cell culture, genomics, proteomics and more. Site includes new projects, free magazines, jobs, news and events.
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Darwin Correspondence Project was founded in 1974 by an American scholar, Frederick Burkhardt, with the aid of Sydney Smith, a zoologist in the University of Cambridge (UK). Darwin's correspondence provides us with an invaluable source of information, not only about his own intellectual development and social network, but about Victorian science and society in general.
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Medline Plus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. It has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news.
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National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs have been published since 1877, and are "brief biographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences members, written by those who knew them or their work". They provide "a personal and scholarly view of the lives and work of America's most distinguished scientists and a biographical history of science in the United States.
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Science.gov is a search engine for government science information and research results
Organismal, Ecological, and Evolutionary Biology
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Botanical Society of America "exists to promote botany, the field of basic science dealing with the study and inquiry into the form, function, diversity, reproduction, evolution, and uses of plants and their interactions within the biosphere."
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Missouri Botanical Garden The Missouri Botanical Garden was first opened to the public in 1859 by Henry Shaw. The Missouri Botanical Garden's mission is to discover and share knowledge about plants and their environment in order to preserve and enrich life. Other Sites Hosted at the Missouri Botanical Garden are American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta, Center for Plant Conservation, International Botanical Congress, MBGnet for Kids and Teachers, International Aroid Society, and Missouri State Parks and Historic Sites.
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Flora Mesoamericana (in Spanish with an introduction in English ) is first major regional flora ever written in Spanish that describes all the vascular plants growing in the southeasternmost states of Mexico (including the Yucatán Peninsula) and all the Central American republics.
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Index to American Botanical Literature of the New York Botanical Garden contains entries dealing with various aspects of extant and fossil American plants and fungi, including systematics and floristics, morphology, and ecology, as well as economic botany and general botany (publications dealing with botanists, herbaria, etc.). "America" is defined in the broadest possible sense, encompassing land and marine plants and fungi from Greenland to Antarctica. American territory outside this area, e.g., Hawaii, is not included. The searchable database includes all those entries published in the Index since 1996, and thus includes botanical literature appearing since late 1995.
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Internet Directory of Botany is an index to botanical information available on the Internet, compiled by Anthony R. Brach (Harvard University Herbarium, Cambridge / Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, USA, www page), Raino Lampinen (Botanical Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Finland; www page), Shunguo Liu (G.F Ledingham Herbarium, University of Regina, Canada; www page) and Keith McCree (Oakridge, Oregon; www page). It consists of two parts, an alphabetical directory and a categorical directory.
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Invasivespecies.gov is the gateway to Federal efforts concerning invasive species.
Molecular, Physiological, and Structural Biology
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CANCERLIT - Web Access, Search for cancer research in PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine. PubMed provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE literature citations dating back to the mid-1960s. PubMed also includes links to many full-text articles at journal Web sites as well as links to related Web resources.
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HIV InSite Knowledge Base is a comprehensive, on-line textbook of HIV disease from the University of California San Francisco and San Francisco General Hospital. Chapters are written by experts who are active in research, patient care, policy, or a combination.
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Journal of Immunology is made available by the American Association of Immunologists. Guests may search the journal and its archives and receive abstracts of articles. Subscribers have full-text available.
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Human Genome Project Information offers a wealth of information on the Human Genome Project and on general research on genetics and bioethics.
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Genome Database (GDB) established in 1990, the Genome Database (GDB) is the official central repository for genomic mapping data resulting from the Human Genome Initiative, a worldwide research effort to analyze the structure of human DNA and determine the location and sequence of the estimated 100,000 human genes.
About the Department
Citing Sources
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QH304 .M36 2001 Writing Papers in the Biological Sciences, 3rd edition
Select from a variety of Style Manuals, especially the following book on Reserve:
