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Home < Library Resources

Databases & Indexes: Biology

 
• Biological Abstracts
Bibliographic references with abstracts, 1969 - present.
 
• BioOne1
Full text of scholarly journals dealing with the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.
 
• Comprehensive Toxicology, 2nd edn.

 
• Oxford Scholarship Online: Biology
Full text of recently published books on biology.
 
• National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
A resource for molecular biology information created by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.
 
• Encyclopedia of Entomology, 2008
Articles on insects including taxonomy, behavior, ecology, physiology, history, and management. Includes over 1,100 illustrations and biographies of famous entomologists.
 
• Entomology Abstracts
Abstracts from thousands of primary journals dealing with the subject of insects.
 
• Encyclopedia of Life
Descriptions of every species known to science with a list of references to books and articles.
 
• Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
Thousands of articles on biological sciences.
 
• Encyclopedia of Microbiology, 2009

 
• GreenFILE   Indexing and abstracts of over 384,000 items on the environment. About 5,000 of the items are full text.
   
• GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources)
Comprehensive resource on environmental topics that includes news, commentary, documents, conference reports, statistics, audio, video, images. Updated daily.
 
• Environment Complete
Index to environmental literature including full text of nearly 700 journals, numerous monographs and conference papers.
 
• Aluka
Over 320,000 digital items dealing with resources and data relating to Africa, including images, reference works and archival records of historical expeditions.
 
• BiologyBrowser
Index to Web sites selected by BIOSIS.
 
• Birds of North America Online
Detailed scientific information on hundreds of species of birds nesting in the USA and Canada. Illustrated.
 
• Public Library of Science - Biology
The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization dedicated to making scientific literature freely available to all. PLoS Biology is a monthly journal of scholarly articles.