Biology
Indexes | Guides | Electronic Journals | Ready Reference | Educational Resources | Organizations | Related Topics
Indexes
PubMed (1966–present) The National Library of Medicine's index to biomedical literature.
Web of Science (on campus only) (1984-present) Online version of Science Citation Index, an interdisciplinary database to journal articles in the sciences. Tracks cited references to locate more recent articles. For cited reference searching for older articles, please contact us.
Agricola via NAL (1979–present) Index from the National Agriculture Library. Includes books as well as journal articles and reports.
Guides (Metasites)
Entomology Index of Internet Resources
Infomine:Biological, Agricultural and Medical Resources
Internet Directory for Botany Comprehensive metasite including alphabetical and subject listings.
BiologyBrowser Extremely broad range of resources from academic to flamboyant; maintained by BIOSIS.
Pedro's Biomolecular Research Tools Collection of WWW links to information and services useful to molecular biologists.Science.gov Gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies
Scirus Science-specific search engine produced by Elsevier
Scott's Botanical Sites Beyond plants, lots of stuff of interest to biologists.
Biology Links Excellent listing from Harvard of Internet resources in biology.
Course-specific Guides
Electronic Journals
Please check the Journal Locator for more information about specific titles.
Academic Medicine free after 1 year (2000–)
Advances in Biophysics
American Journal of Botany
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition free after 1 year (1998–)
American Journal of Human Genetics
American Journal of Physiology free after 1 year (October 1997–)
American Naturalist
Annals of Human Genetics
Annual Review of Biochemistry
Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure
Annual Review of Cell & Developmental Biology
Annual Review of Ecology & Systematics
Annual Review of Entomology
Annual Review of Genetics
Annual Review of Immunology
Annual Review of Microbiology
Annual Review of Physiology
Applied and Environmental Microbiology free after 6 months (1998–)
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology
Biochemical Journal
Biochemistry
Biomacromolecules
Biophysical Journal free after 1 year (1998–)
Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
Biotechnology Progress
Blood free after 1 year (1997–)
Brain Research
Brain Research Protocols
Brain Research Reviews
British Medical Journal
Cognitive Brain Research
Cell
Chemistry & Biology
Current Biology
Development free after 2 years (1992–)
Development Genes and Evolution
Developmental Brain Research
Ecological Applications (Back issues only)
Ecological Monographs (Back issues only)
Ecology (Back issues only)
EMBO Journal
Endocrine Reviews free after 1 year (1997–)
Endocrinology free after 1 year (1997–)
Epidemiology & Infection
Evolution and Human Behavior
Evolutionary Ecology Research
Genes & Development
Genetical Research
Immunity
Infection & Immunity free after 6 months (1998–)
JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) Partial full text
Journal of Animal Ecology (Back issues only)
Journal of Applied Physiology free after 1 year (October 1996–)
Journal of Bacteriology free after 11 months (1998–)
Journal of Biochemistry
Journal of Biological Chemistry previous year free after January (1995–)
Journal of Cell Biology free after 18 months (1997–)
Journal of Cell Science free after 2 years (1992–)
Journal of Cellular Physiology
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism free after 1 year (1997–)
Journal of Clinical Investigation
Journal of Clinical Microbiology free after 11 months (1995–)
Journal of Ecology (Back issues only)
Journal of Experimental Biology free after 2 years (1992–)
Journal of Experimental Zoology
Journal of General Physiology free after 18 months (1997–)
Journal of Immunology
Journal of Infectious Diseases
Journal of Molecular Evolution
Journal of Neurophysiology
Journal of Neuroscience
Journal of Physiology
Journal of Virology free after 6 months (1995–)
The Lancet
Mechanisms of Development
Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews free after 11 year (1995–)
Molecular and Cellular Biology free after 6 months (1995–)
Molecular & General Genetics
Molecular Biology and Evolution
Molecular Biology of the Cell free after 2 months (October 1997–)
Molecular Brain Research
Molecular Endocrinology free after 1 year (1997–)
Nature
Nature Biotechnology
Nature Cell Biology
Nature Genetics
Nature Immunology
Nature Medicine
Nature Neuroscience
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Neuron
Nucleic Acids Research
Oecologia
Pharmacology, Biochemistry & Behavior
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B.Biological Sciences (Current issues) (Back issues 1934-1990) (1896-1934)
Physiological & Biochemical Zoology
Physiological Reviews
Physiology & Behavior
The Plant Cell free after 1 year (1998–)
Plant Physiology free after 1 year (1998–)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences (Current issues) (Back issues 1934–1990) (1905-1934)
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics
Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics
Science
The Scientist
Sexual Plant Reproduction
Trends in Biochemical Sciences
Trends in Cell Biology
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Trends in Genetics
WWW Journal of Biology
Ready Reference
Atlas of the Flora of New England Web version of a continuously updated print resource about plant taxa represented in the region.
PLANTS National Database Data on 45,000 vascular and non-vascular plants within the U.S. contributors include U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, National Wetland Inventory, and Smithsonian Institution.
The Constants and Equations Page lists constants, equations, conversions, units and symbols from all areas of science.
EurekAlert Reference Desk links to a variety of online ready reference tools.
Glossary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Hypermedia Glossary of Genetic Terms allows you to search or browse for over 600 terms relating to genetics.
Kimball's Biology Pages A manual of terms with links to a brief definition or mini-essay on the subject.
Martindale's Reference Desk is a collection of ready reference sources from all disciplines.
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man A catalogue of human genes and genetic disorders.
Protein Data Bank (PDB) Database of 3D macromolecular structures.
Educational Resources
Biodiversity and Conservation is an hypertext book created at the University of California, Irvine.
Biology Project: University of Arizona interactive online resource for learning biology.
BioTech Interactive educational resource and biotechnology reference tool from Indiana University.
Cells Alive! Slanted towards microbiological and immunological topics with good animated teaching tools.Tree of Life Distributed Internet project to bring together information about phylogeny and biodiversity.
DNA Learning Center Resources for teaching and learning about genetics from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Access Excellence resources for Biology teaching and learning.
MIT Biology Hypertextbook
Primer on Molecular Genetics (Department of Energy) Access to major concepts in contemporary molecular genetics.
Organizations & Associations
American Medical Association (AMA)
American Society For Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)
American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
Physiological Society
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
Related Topics
Amherst College Biology Department
Resources in Medicine
Neuroscience Resources
General Science Resources
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