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Resources for the Biological Sciences
Bibliographer: Jon Erickson, 343-7105
Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt
Online Journals: browse alphabetically or search by title
Current Awareness
ArticleFirst: tables of contents from more than 12,000 journals, 1990-today
BiologyBrowser: current science news and websites, produced by BIOSIS
Indexes and Encyclopedias
Access Science the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
Agricola citations to journal articles, books, reports, theses, patents, software, and audio-visual materials related to agriculture, 1979-current
BIOSIS Previews (1980-present) through the Web of Knowledge gateway. Incorporating and expanding on Biological Abstracts , this weekly-updated database covers journal articles, meetings, patents, book chapters, and other publications from more than 5,000 serial sources
CogPrints Electronic Archive pertinent to the study of cognition in areas such as ethology, behavioral ecology, sociobiology, population biology, behavior genetics, evolutionary theory
Encyclopedia of Life an ongoing effort to document all 1.8 million named species on the planet
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences peer-reviewed articles on many aspects of the life sciences
Flora of North America a project to catalog all plants that "grow outside of cultivation" in North America
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) scientifically valid names of taxa
NatureServe Explorer The "Online Encyclopedia of Life," containing entries on "more than 60,000 plants, animals, and ecosystems of the U. S. and Canada." Find information on scientific and common names, conservation status, distribution maps, life histories, conservation needs, and more
ProQuest mostly full text of articles in newspapers, popular magazines, and scholarly journals
PubMed from the National Library of Medicine
Science Direct full text of more than 1000 journals published by Elsevier
Library Catalogs
Acorn union catalog of VU
Athena Nashville Area Library Alliance
Kudzu VU + UK + UTK + CRL
WorldCat OCLC's online union catalog, containing more than 41 million records describing items owned by North American libraries
WWW Directories/Subject Starters/Search Engines
BIOSCI Electronic Newsgroup Network a set of electronic communication forums used by bioscientists worldwide
Biosciences Virtual Library an index to resources in, among other topics, biodiversity and ecology, botany, developmental biology, entomology, evolution, genetics, medicine, mycology, neurobiology, physiology, and whale watching. Includes links to structure and sequence databases, model organism databases, software directories, and online journals.
Scholarly Societies — Biology and Environment links to professional organizations
Vadlo is a search engine especially for biology research. Search protocols, online tools, seminar presentations, databases, and software.