Mabee Learning Center
Laci Martin, Nursing  
    Friday, July 25, 2008
Life Sciences

Looking for information on plants, micro-organisms and genetics? These and other questions can be answered with the aid of the resources listed below. If you have additional questions, ask the librarians. They are ready to assist you in finding the information you need.

General Background
Atlas of Plant Life, Ref 581 E24a
Atlas of United States Trees, Ref 582.16 U58a
Atomic Energy Encyclopedia in the Life Sciences, Ref 574.1903 SH55a
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, Ref 574 C178fr
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Ornithology, Ref 598 C178br
Cat World: A Feline Encyclopedia, Ref 599.7442 M875cw
Concise Encyclopedia of Biochemistry, Ref 574.192 C744es
CRC Handbook of Microbiology, Ref 576 C912
Dictionary of Biochemistry, Ref 574.192 S825d
Dictionary of Birds, Ref 598.0321 D554cp
Dictionary of Botany, Ref 581.03 L778d
Dictionary of Ecology, Ref 574.503 H251d
Dictionary of Flowering Plants and Ferns, Ref 582.1303 W73d8
Dictionary of Genetics and Cell Biology, Ref 575.103 M163d
Dictionary of the Biological Sciences, Ref 574.03 G78d
Encyclopedia of Environmental Biology, Ref 574.503 E56n1
Encyclopedia of Genetics, Ref 576.503 E56kn
Encyclopedia of Mammals, Ref 599 E56gou2
Encyclopedia of Microscopic Stains, Ref 578.6 G98e
Encyclopedia of the Animal World, Ref 591 E56bb
Encyclopedia of the Biological Sciences, Ref 574 G782e2
Enzyme Handbook, Ref 574.1925 B258eh
Geographical Guide to Floras of the World, Ref 581.9 B63g
Handbook of Birds of the World, Ref 598 H236dlo
Information Sources in the Life Sciences, Ref 574.016 I43w4
Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Ref 572.03 O99sm
Pictorial Encyclopedia of Fish, Ref 597 F827p
Pictorial Encyclopedia of Insects, Ref 595.7 S785p
Rand McNally Atlas of World Wildlife, Ref 591.9 R187w
Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms, Ref 574.012 S993p

Locating the Life Sciences Collection
570            Life Sciences
580            Botany
590            Zoology

Finding Materials on the Life Sciences
1st floor, north Reference
1st floor, west Periodicals Room
2nd floor General Book Stacks
3rd floor General Book Stacks

Sources of Journal Articles
PRINT RESOURCES
General Science Index
Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature Index

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
Academic Search Elite (EbscoHost)
Academic Search Premier (EbscoHost)
ArticleFirst (FirstSearch)
FactSearch (FirstSearch)
Highwire Press
Issues and Controversies
MAS FullText Ultra (EbscoHost)
Today's Science
WorldCat (FirstSearch)

Internet Resources
EBSCOHost: Full text periodical database
NetLibrary: Full text e-book database
NewsBank: Full text newspaper database
First Search: Periodical and information indexes

3-D INSECTS
http://www.ento.vt.edu/~sharov/3d/3dinsect.html

A TO Z OF CAMELS
http://www.arab.net/camels/welcome.html

AAAS EVOLUTION RESOURCES
http://www.aaas.org/spp/dser/evolution

ACADEMIC INFO-BIOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES GATEWAY
http://academicinfo.net/biology.html

AGRIBIZ.COM
http://www.agribiz.com

AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE
http://www.ars.usda.gov/

AGRICULTURE NETWORK INFORMATION CENTER
http://www.agnic.org/

AGRICULTURE ONLINE
http://www.agriculture.com/search/

AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL PHOTOGRAPHS 1891-1936
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/icu.hmtl

AMPHIBA WEB
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/aw/

ANIMAL SKULL COLLECTION
http://www.d91.k12.id.us/www/skyline/
teachers/robertsd/skulls.htm

AUDUBON ONLINE
http://www.audubon.org

AUDUBON’S MULTIMEDIA BIRDS OF AMERICA
http://employeeweb.myxa.com/rrb/Audubon/

BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL
http://www.batcon.org

BIOACOUSTICS
http://www.zi.ku.dk/zi/bioacoustic/ homepage.html

BIODIVERSITY AND BIOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS WEB SERVER
http://biodiversity.uno.edu

BIOLOGY PROJECT
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/default.html

BIOLUMINESSCENCE WEBPAGE
http://lifesci.ucsb.edu/~biolum/

BIOSPACE.COM
http://www.biospace.com

BIOTECHNOLOGY: AN INFORMATION RESOURCE
http://www.nal.usda.gov/bic/

BOARD ON AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
http://www4.nas.edu/banr/ba.ns

BOOK OF INSECT RECORDS
http://gnv.ifas.ufl.edu/~tjw/recbk.htm

CANADIAN NATIONAL COLLECTION OF INSECTS, ARACHNIDS AND NEMATODES
http://res2.agr.ca/ecorc/cnc/

CARNIVOROUS PLANT DATABASE
http://www.labs.agilent.com/bot/cp_home/

CAT SPECIALIST GROUP: SPECIES ACCOUNTS
http://lynx.uio.no/catfolk/sp-accts.htm

CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY ONLINE
http://www.cellbio.com

CENTER FOR INSECT SCIENCE
http://www.arl.arizona.edu/cis/

COMBINED INDEX TO HERPETOLOGY COLLECTIONS
http://research.calacademy.org/herpetology/Comb_Herp_Index.html

CORNELL LABORATORY OF ORNITHOLOGY
http://birds.cornell.edu

CYBERCROP.COM
http://www.cybercrop.com

DEERNET
http://cervid.forsci.ualberta.ca

DISCOVERY.COM
http://www.discovery.com

DLP BOTANICAL DATA OVERVIEW
http://dlp.cs.berkeley.edu/calflora/botanical.html

ELASMO WORLD
http://www.elasmoworld.org

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES ON ORNITHOLOGY
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/NHR/bird.html

ELECTRONIC SITES OF LEADING BOTANY, PLANT BIOLOGY AND SCIENCE JOURNALS
http://www.e-journals.org/botany/

ELECTRONIC ZOO
http://netvet.wustl.edu/e-zoo.htm

ELEPHANT INFORMATION REPOSITORY
http://elephant.elehost.com

EMBL REPTILE DATABASE
http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/~uetz/LivingReptiles.html

ENATURE.COM
http://www.enature.com

ENDANGERED SPECIES 2000
http://library.thinkquest.org/25014/

ENTREZ
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez/

FARMS.COM
http://www.eharvest.com

FISHBASE
http://www.fishbase.org

FLOWERBASE
http://www.flowerbase.com/prg/gbni?firm=flowerbase

FOLIA PRIMATOLOGIA
http://194.209.48.2/journals/fpr/

FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY BIBLIOGRAPHY
http://www.lib.duke.edu/forest/biblio.html

GARDENWEB’S GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS
http://glossary.gardenweb.com/glossary/

GENETICS ONLINE
http://www.genetics.com/genetics/genetics/index.htm

GENETICS VIRTUAL LIBRARY
http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/
Human_Genome/genetics.html

HERP HOT LINKS
http://www.xmission.com/~gastown/herpmed

HERPETOLOGY RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET
http://www.lib.ttu.edu/biology/herp-hyp.htm

HERPETOLOGY.COM
http://www.herpetology.com

HIRUNDO
http://www.loodus.ee/hirundo/

HORSE BREEDS OF THE WORLD
http://www.imh.org/imh/bw/home2.html

HORSE INTERACTIVE
http://www.thehorse.com

HUMAN GENOME PROJECT INFORMATION
http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis

INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE HORSE
http://www.imh.org/imh/imhmain.html

INTERNATIONAL PLANT NAMES INDEX
http://www.huh.harvard.edu/databases

INTERNATIONAL SPECIES INFORMATION SYSTEM ABSTRACTS
http://www.worldzoo.org/abstract/index.htm

INTERNATIONAL WOLF CENTER
http://www.wolf.org

INTERNET DIRECTORY OF BOTANY
http://www.botany.net/IDB/

INTERNET RESOURCE GUIDE FOR ZOOLOGY
http://www.york.biosis.org/zrdocs/zooinfo/index.htm

INTERNET RESOURCES FOR AGRICULTURE AND LIFE SCIENCES
http://www.lib.vt.edu/subjects/agri/

JELLIES ZONE
http://fp.redshift.com/pelagia

JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
http://www.jcb.org

JOURNAL OF EXTENSION
http://joe.org

JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY
http://www.herplit.com/contents/ JHerpetol.html

 

JOURNAL OF MOLLUSCAN STUDIES
http://mollus.oupjournals.org

LINKS TO THE GENETIC WORLD
http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/links.html

MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY
http://hermes.mbl.edu

NATIONAL MARINE MAMMAL LABORATORY
http://nmml.afsc.noaa.gov

NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION
http://www.noaa.gov

NATURAL HISTORY PORTAL
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/info/links/

NETFROG: THE INTERACTIVE FROG DISSECTION ONLINE TUTORIAL
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/frog/

NORTH AMERICAN BREEDING BIRD SURVEY
http://www.mp2-pwrc.usgs.gov/bbs/

OCEAN LINK
http://oceanlink.island.net

ORGANIZATION OF BIOLOGICAL FIELD STATIONS
http://www.obfs.org

ORNITHOLOGY WEBSITE
http://birdwebsite.com

PARASITIC PLANT CONNECTION
http://www.science.siu.edu/parasitic-plants/

PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/PBZ/

PHYTOCHEMICAL AND ETHNOBOTANICAL DATABASES
http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke

PLANT FOSSIL RECORD
http://ibs.uel.ac.uk/palaeo/pfr2/pfr.htm

PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE
http://plants.usda.gov/plants/

REGULATORY FISH ENCYCLOPEDIA
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~frf/rfe0.html

RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY
http://www.herplit.com/contents/RJH.html

SCOTT’S BOTANICAL LINKS
http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/bot-linx/

SEA TURTLE MIGRATION-TRACKING EDUCATION PROGRAM
http://www.cccturtle.org/sat1.htm

SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
http://www.mnh.si.edu

SMITHSONIAN: ZOOLOGY
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmnh/zoology.htm

TIGER TERRITORY
http://www.lairweb.org.nz/tiger/

TUTORIALS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
http://www.lsic.ucla.edu/ls3/tutorials

US FARM NEWS.COM
http://www.usfarmnews.com

USDA NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE
http://www.usda.gov/nass/aggraphs/cropmap.htm

VIRTUAL EXHIBIT ON CANADA’S BIODIVERSITY
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/biodiversity

WHALE WATCHING WEB
http://www.physics.helsinki.fi/whale/

WOMEN IN BIOLOGY INTERNET LAUNCH PAGE
http://pingu.salk.edu/~forsburg/bio.html
 
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