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Sites | Department
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...
BasicBIOSIS
indexes over 350 core life science journals for most recent 3 years. Topics
include biology, botany, ecology, environment, genetics, microbiology, nutrition,
and physiology.
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.
Medline
with MeSH from Ebsco
Search by Author, Abstract, Core Concept, Core Word, Gene Symbol, MeSH Word,
MeSH Heading, and more. Offers special limiters for research on humans, with
subsets on gender and age groups, or on animals, with a subset on specific animals.
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. |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Biology Links from Harvard University's Dept. of Molecular & Cellular Biology
Bioscene - Journal of College Biology Teaching is the official refereed publication of the
Science.gov is a search engine for government science information and research results
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
Invasivespecies.gov is the gateway to Federal efforts concerning invasive species.
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.
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.
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.
Human Genome Project Information offers a wealth of information on the Human Genome Project and on general research on genetics and bioethics.
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.
Select from a variety of Style Manuals, especially the following book on Reserve:
QH304 .M36 2001 Writing Papers in the Biological Sciences, 3rd edition
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