Biology, Genetics & Life Sciences
ACS Journal Search Retrieve citations and abstracts for articles in journals published by the American Chemical Society.
_______________________ AmphibiaWeb Search and retrieve information relating to amphibian biology and conservation.
_______________________ Animal Info - Information on Endangered Mammals Contains information on the biology and ecology of various species as well as current status of rare and endangered mammals.
_______________________ APIRS Online Database Includes annotated citations for more than 65,000 research articles, books and reports about plant ecology, physiology, utilization and control.
_______________________ Bentham Open Access Includes more than 200 peer-reviewed open access journals covering all major disciplines.
_______________________ Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates BFV contains over 130,000 references to published literature of vertebrate paleontology, evolutionary paleoecology, and related subjects.
_______________________ Bibliography on Computational Gene Recognition Provides searching to a collection of publications on computational gene recognition, mainly based on statistical differences of coding and non-coding sequences.
_______________________ Bioethics Literature Database BELIT provides access to over 300,000 bibliographic records covering bioethics.
_______________________ Biological and Agricultural Index Plus Cites articles from a wide range of over 365 popular and professional (peer-reviewed) journals about biology and agriculture published in the United States and internationally.
_______________________ BiologyBrowser Browse for information in the life sciences by geography, organisms, and subject.
_______________________ BioMagResBank BMRB is a database for NMR spectroscopy information on biomolecules.
_______________________ BioMed Central Digital full text archive of over 100 life sciences journals managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the United States National Library of Medicine.
_______________________ Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information CISTI includes published information from around the world in all areas of physical and life sciences, engineering, technology and health sciences.
_______________________ Catalogue of Life The Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life is is a comprehensive catalogue of all known species of organisms on Earth.
_______________________ Complete works of Charles Darwin online Contains Darwin's complete publications, thousands of handwritten manuscripts, a detailed bibliography and manuscript catalogue.
_______________________ Conference Papers Index Citations to papers and poster sessions from major scientific meetings around the world.
_______________________ Credo Reference : Science & Technology Includes the full text of over 2 dozen reference sources, including encyclopedias and dictionaries covering a variety of scientific disciplines.
_______________________ Databases on Medicine and Molecular Biology Links to publicly available resources in: Chemistry; Ethics; Genomics; Health Care; Laboratory Medicine; Microbiology; Oncology; Patents; Pharmacology; Proteomics; Toxicology; and Veterinary Medicine.
_______________________ Digital Dissertations Index of doctoral dissertations and master's theses, with coverage from 1861 to the present.
_______________________ Digital Library of the Commons DLC is a gateway to the international literature on the commons, which focuses on the relation between the physical resource and human institutions.
_______________________ Directory of Published Proceedings Citations to papers and poster sessions from major scientific meetings around the world.
_______________________ E-Journals in Physical Sciences and Mathematics Browse an alphabetical subject list of electronic journals in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics.
_______________________ eMolecules Formerly Chmoogle, eMolecules is an open-access chemistry search engine designed to discover, curate, and index public chemical information.
_______________________ Encyclopedia of Earth Searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts covering the environment of the Earth, with particular emphasis on the interaction between society and the natural spheres of the Earth.
_______________________ Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) Encyclopedia of Life aims to provide information on over one million species of plants, animals, and microorganisms.
_______________________ Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science Covers classic and modern studies in plant biology in conjunction with research, applications, and innovations in crop science.
_______________________ FishBase : A Global Information System on Fishes Database containing information on thousands of species, over 70,000 synonyms, over 25,000 pictures, and over 20,000 references.
_______________________ Flora of North America FNA presents information on the names, taxonomic relationships, continent-wide distributions, and morphological characteristics of all plants native and naturalized found in North America north of Mexico.
_______________________ FORMIS : A Master Bibliography Of Ant Literature FORMIS contains all known ant taxonomic literature and is the only database which covers ant literature before the 1970s.
_______________________ Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index GLHI contains articles about plants, horticulture, gardens and landscape design and history.
_______________________ General Science Full Text Wilson General Science Abstracts indexes over 160 leading science journals and magazines from the United States and Great Britain.
_______________________ Glossary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Searchable, browseable online glossary containing about 3000 terms.
_______________________ Glossary of Terms Used in Physical Organic Chemistry IUPAC recommended definitions for common terms in physical and organic chemistry.
_______________________ Gramene : A Comparative Mapping Resource for Grains Gramene is a data resource for comparative genome analysis in the grasses.
_______________________ Herplit Database The Herplit Database consists of approximately 50,000 citations dating from 1586 to the present on reptiles and amphibians.
_______________________ Index Herbariorum Index Herbariorum is a detailed directory of 3000+ public herbaria of the world and the 8800+ staff and plant specialists associated with them.
_______________________ Index to American Botanical Literature The Index 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.
_______________________ Insect and Spider Collections of the World This web site is the clearing house of information on the insect and spider collections of the world.
_______________________ International Field Guides Index to field guides used for visual identification of both plants and animals.
_______________________ Internet Resources in Science and Technology Links to public internet sites in the areas of: General Resources
in Science & Technolgy; Biography; Botany; Gardening; Chemistry;
Climate and Weather; Engineering; Environment; Geology; Health and
Medical Information; Inventions; Oceanography; Physics; Resources
for Teachers; Science Fair Projects; and Zoology.
_______________________ IUCN Red List of Threatened Species The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species provides taxonomic, conservation status and distribution information on taxa that have been evaluated using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria.
_______________________ Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator J-STAGE contains the full text of scientific and technical journals and bulletins of academic societies published in Japan.
_______________________ Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature The Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature is a database of references relevant to the taxonomy of flowering plants, gymnosperms and ferns.
_______________________ Knovel Library Contains the full text of over 700 leading science and engineering reference handbooks, technical data and reports, textbooks, and conference proceedings.
_______________________ LITDB : PRF Protein / Peptide Literature Database LITDB is a database containing over 450,000 entries on the molecular aspects of proteins from about 1000 journals.
_______________________ Medline MEDLINE indexes the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care.
_______________________ Merck Veterinary Manual Provides clinical information for the veterinary practitioner and other animal health professionals.
_______________________ Molecular Biology Database Collection The Nucleic Acids Research Molecular Biology Database Collection contains links to over 700 freely available databases.
_______________________ MyiLibrary eBooks A collection of over 400 ebooks covering science and the social sciences.
_______________________ National Academies Press Search for the full text to more than 3,000 NAP texts from the Joseph Henry Press, covering a wide variety of subjects (arts, humanities, and social and applied sciences) are available free online.
_______________________ National Technical Information Service NTIS contains nearly 3 million scientific and technical reports on US government-sponsored research and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information.
_______________________ NIST Scientific and Technical Databases National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Gateway provides access to over 80 of the NIST scientific and technical databases.
_______________________ Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man ONIM is a catalog of essays reviewing human genetic traits that follow classical Mendelian inheritance patterns.
_______________________ Oxford Reference Online : Medicine & Science Contains the full text of over 150 books in general reference, language, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, and business and professional subjects published by Oxford University Press.
_______________________ PapersFirst Worldwide coverage of published congresses, symposiums, conferences, expositions, workshops and meetings received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.
_______________________ Pathway Interaction Database A database of pathway interactions, assembled by The Center for Bioinformatics of the National Cancer Institute ( NCICB ) from publicly available sources of information.
_______________________ PharmGKB PharmGKB database is designed to aid researchers in understanding how genetic variation among individuals contributes to differences in reactions to drugs.
_______________________ PLANTS database The PLANTS Database maintained by the USDA provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the United States and its territories.
_______________________ PrimateLit Database Provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities.
_______________________ Protein Data Bank PDB is a searchable repository for the processing and distribution of 3-D biological macromolecular structure data.
_______________________ PubChem Chemical Structure Database PubChem contains the chemical structures of small organic molecules and information on their biological activities.
_______________________ PubMed Central National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences journal literature.
_______________________ Readers' Guide Retrospective Provides access to nearly 100 years of citations from more than 500 leading popular periodicals and magazines.
_______________________ Reefbase Online information system on coral reefs containing data and information on the location, status, threats, monitoring, legislation, and management of coral reefs in 131 countries.
_______________________ Regulatory Fish Encyclopedia RFE is a compilation of data in several formats that assists with the accurate identification of fish species.
_______________________ Royal Society Online Journals Search and display the full text of journals in biology, engineering, mathematics and physics.
_______________________ Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary Contains over 65,000 main and sub-entries compiled from over 50 major veterinary texts and journals.
_______________________ Science Journals via ProQuest Search full text and images for the over 300 journals in science and technology, with over 160 titles available in full text.
_______________________ Science.gov Provides a gateway to information resources in science and technology at the US government science agencies.
_______________________ SCIRUS Scirus searches over 150 million science-specific Web pages, enabling users to find Scientific, Technical and Medical data on the Web, see the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles and journals, and locate university sites and scientists' home pages.
_______________________ STINET MultiSearch Provides access to the DOD Scientific and Technical Information Center (DTIC) databases containing citations to unclassified documents that have been entered into DTIC's Technical Reports Collection, as well as the electronic full-text of many of these documents.
_______________________ Swiss-Prot / TrEMBL Protein Sequence Database Curated protein sequence database which strives to provide a high level of annotation, such as the description of the function of a protein, its domains structure, post-translational modifications, variants, etc.
_______________________ TAIR The Arabidopsis Information Resource database provides a comprehensive resource for those working with Arabidopsis thaliana, a widely used model plant.
_______________________ Taxonomy Browser Contains the names of all organisms that are represented in the NCBI genetic databases with at least one nucleotide or protein sequence.
_______________________ UK PubMed Central A digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
_______________________ Web of Science A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the sciences, arts and humanities, and the social sciences.
_______________________ Whole Brain Atlas An atlas of color images of the brain, including brain injuries and diseases, such as cerebrovascular, neoplastic, degenerative (Alzheimer's disease), and inflammatory or infectious diseases.
_______________________ Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection Indexes journal articles and books in Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Cell Development and Biology, Chemistry, Engineering Materials Science.
_______________________ Wind-Wildlife Impacts Literature Database WIND is a bibliographic database covering the effects of energy development (including towers, power lines, and other wires) on birds.
_______________________ Zoological Record Provides extensive coverage of the world's zoological and animal science literature, covering research from biochemistry to veterinary medicine.
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