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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 [click "Subscriber Log-in" link]
Agricola citations to journal articles, books, reports, theses, patents, software, and audio-visual materials related to agriculture, 1979-current
BIOSIS Previews (1980-present) 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 planet
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of the life sciences
Entrez molecular sequence retrieval system
E-Print Network e-print collections as well as e-prints provided by individual authors
Flora of North America a project to catalog all plants that "grow outside of cultivation" in North America
Genome Database official central repository for genomic mapping data resulting from the Human Genome Initiative
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
BioNetbook A part of the Pasteur Institute. Essentially a web biology notebook, containing more than 5000 urls, classified according to: 1. Resource Type, 2. Species or Organism, and 3. Discipline .
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.
Martindale's Bioscience and Biotechnology Center an incomparable gathering of dictionaries, chem/bio material safety databases, calculators, lit and patent search tools, preprints and journals online, chemicals and biochemicals databases, bioscience and biotechnology databases, and much more.
Scholarly Societies — Biology and Environment links to professional organizations