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Journal Databases and Indexes (Subject Specialized)
Journal Databases and Indexes (Multi-Subject)
Selected Biology Organizations and Societies
U.S Government Agencies
Careers in Biology
Selected Links to Biology Resources
Image Resources in Biology
Online Dictionaries

Electronic Journals

Biochemical Journal
http://www.biochemj.org/bj.html 

Development
http://www.biologists.com/Development 

European Journal of Endocrinology
http://www.eje.org 

Journal of Cell Science
http://www.biologists.com/JCS 

The Lancet
http://www.thelancet.com 
Enter as a subscriber. Ask a reference librarian for user ID and password. 

Nature
http://www.nature.com 
Enter as a subscriber. Ask a reference librarian for user ID and password. 

Plant Molecular Biology
http://www.wkap.nl/jrnltoc.htm/0167-4412 

The Scientist
http://www.the-scientist.library.upenn.edu

Journal Databases and Indexes (Subject Specialized)
Alt-Health Watch
         http://search.epnet.com
A FULL-TEXT database of periodicals, peer-reviewed journals, academic and professional publications, magazines, consumer newsletters and newspapers, research reports, and association newsletters focused on complementary, alternative and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. 

Alternative Press Index
          http://biblioline.nisc.com/scripts/login.dll?BiblioLine&dbname=QAPI 
The Alternative Press Index cites articles from about 380 alternative, radical, and left publications which report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political, and social change. A good source of information on public attitudes about scientific issues. 

Applied Science and Technology Abstracts
         http://firstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=AppSciTechAb:done=referer,FSIP 
Cites articles, interviews, meetings, conferences, exhibitions, and new product reviews; in 350 periodicals covering applications of scientific information to all fields including medicine, biology, engineering, environment and ecology, mathematics, medicine, physics, and computer technology. 

Biological and Medical Sciences - Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
http://www.csa2.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=bky&access=bky842&cat=medbisciThis database cites works in over 24 areas of biology including bacteriology, biotechnology, entomology, genetics, immunology, molecular biology, toxicology, virology and zoology. 
[Available only on campus or through the proxy server]

Dialog @ Carl
http://dialog.carl.org:3005/ 
Dialog contains a wide array of information resources in all disciplines including science, technology, medicine, and intellectual property. Dialog@CARL offers direct access to features such as arrangement of databases by topic and subtopic, basic and advanced searching. Choose the science databases for focused searching. 

General Science Abstracts
http://hwwilsonweb.com/ 
A database of articles in  Astronomy, Atmospheric Science, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Conservation, Earth Science, Environment, Food, Genetics, Health,Mathematics, Medicine, Microbiology, Nutrition, Oceanography, Physics, Physiology, Zoology . Covers English-language periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain plus the full text of selected periodicals. 

Health Reference Center Academic
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/nysl_me_cuny 
Articles from approximately 229   of health periodicals, plus excerpts from health related reference books. medical directories and reference books; consumer oriented and professional health periodicals, and pamphlets issued by leading health organizations.  Provides full-text for more than 160 periodicals, all reference books and all pamphlets. [Available anywhere with Internet access.] 

Medline
http://www.nlm.nih.gov 
[Available anywhere with Internet access] 
The MEDLINE file contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from approximately 3,900 current biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 foreign countries. The file contains approximately million records dating back to 1966. 
 List of journals indexed in Medline
  ftp://nlmpubs.nlm.nih.gov/online/journals/ljiti.txt

Journal Databases and Indexes (Multi-Subject)
American Physiological Society
          http://www.physiology.org 
Access to full text of articles from seven journals from the American Physiological Society Journal of Applied Physiology; Journal of Neurophysiology; News in Physiological Sciences; Physiological Reviews; Physiological Genomics; Advances in Physiology Education; American Journal of Physiology. 

Annual Reviews
http://www.annualreviews.org 
Full text of article in 17 Annual Reviews and abstracts of articles in 15 other titles in sciences, social sciences, ecology, health, and nutrition. 

Current Contents
http://www.isicc.com 
Search current tables of contents of major scholarly journals in Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Computing & Technology, Social & behavioral Sciences, and Arts & Humanities. [Available on campus and through proxy server

EBSCO Online
http://www-us.ebsco.com/online/Reader.asp 
A full text database of 450 journals in all disciplines and tables of contents and abstracts of many more. Includes chemistry, physics, biology, medicine, nutrition, environment, geology, etc. Search by subjects, journal name or browse tables of contents. 

Infotrac Searchbank Academic ASAP
http://www.searchbank.com/searchbank/cuny_main 
Infotrac gives citations and many complete articles on a wide range of topics and includes biology. Try a subject search on biology and also get access to articles on dozens of related topics, from acclimatization through zoology. [Available only on campus or through the proxy server

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe 
Find legal, business, government and academic information from around the world on a wide range of topics in newspapers, reports, periodicals, legal briefs and other sources. Includes genetic engineering, alternative medicine, food safety, wildlife conservation, etc. [ Available on campus and through proxy server

Highwire Press
http://highwire.stanford.edu 
A full text science archive covering free and subscription based access to more than 180 journals in science, technology and medicine.  Includes links to online sites of 500 most frequently sited journals 

IDEAL- International Digital Electronic Access Library
http://idealibrary.com 
A full text database covering 174 Academic Press Journals. You may search by subject or specific searches in selected journals. 

Project Muse
http://muse.jhu.edu 
Provides full text of articles in humanities, social science and mathematics from over 45 scholarly periodicals. Includes works on social and historical aspects of biology and medicine. [Available on campus only.] 

Netprints
         http://clinmed.netprints.org/home.dtl 
An electronic archive where authors can post their research before, during, or after peer review prior to completion and publication.

Selected Biology Organizations and Societies

GENERAL BIOLOGY 

Directory of Biologists
http://www.york.biosis.org/zrdocs/desktop/biol_dir.htm 

American Academy of Arts and Sciences
http://www.amacad.org 

American Association for the Advancement of Science
http://www.aaas.org 

National Academy of Sciences
http://www4.nas.edu/nas/nashome.nsf 

Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
http://www.faseb.org 

New York Academy of Sciences
http://www.nyas.org

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY 
American Association of Clinical Anatomists
http://www.clinicalanatomy.org 

International Federation of Associations of Anatomists
http://www.ifaa.lsumc.edu 

The Biophysical Society
http://www.biophysics.org/biophys/society/biohome.htm 

American Physiological Society
http://www.faseb.org/aps

BIOTECHNOLOGY 
National Center for Biotechnology Information
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
GENETICS AND GENETIC ENGINEERING 
Genetics Society of America
http://www.faseb.org/genetics/gsa/gsamenu.htm 

American Society of Human Genetics
http://www.faseb.org/genetics/ashg/ashgmenu.htm 

World of Genetics Societies
http://www.faseb.org/genetics 

Council for Responsible Genetics
http://www.gene-watch.org 

International Centre for Responsible Genetics
http://www.icgeb.trieste.it 

Students for Alternatives to Genetic Engineering
http://www.sage-intl.org 

Society for the Study of Reproduction
http://www.ssr.org/ssr/ssr.htm

CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 
Cell and Molecular Biology Online-Professional Societies and Organizations
http://www.cellbio.com/societies.htm 

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
http://www.faseb.org/asbmb 

American Society for Cell Biology
http://www.faseb.org/ascb

ENDOCRINOLOGY 
The Endocrine Society
http://www.endo-society.org
MARINE BIOLOGY 
International Association of Meiobenthologists
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kwalt/meio 

The Intersea Foundation
http://www.travelsource.com/cruises/alaskawhales.html 

Marine and Environmental Education and Research, Inc.
http://www.meer.org 

Native Fish Society
http://www.teleport.com/~salmo 

Marine Conservation Biology Institute
http://mcbi.org 

National Shell fisheries Association
http://www.shellfish.org 

Ocean Resource Foundation
http://www.orf.org 

Ocean Net - To Instill An Ocean Conservation Ethic
http://www.oceannet1.com 

Planetary Coral Reef Foundation
http://www.pcrf.org 

REEF - Reef Environmental Education Foundation
http://www.reef.org

MEDICAL BIOLOGY 
American Society for Clinical Investigation
http://www.asci-jci.aa.psiweb.com 

American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
http://www.faseb.org/aspet 

American Society for Investigative Pathology
http://asip.uthscsa.edu 

American Association of Immunologists
http://www.sciencexchange.com/aai 

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
http://www.faseb.org/arvo

PLANT BIOLOGY 
American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta
http://www.aabga.org
SPACE BIOLOGY 
American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology
http://darwin.ceh.uvic.ca/students/gstuart/Organizations.htm
NUTRITION 
American Society for Nutritional Sciences
http://www.faseb.org/asns 

The Protein Society
http://www.faseb.org/protein 

American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
http://www.asbmr.org 

American Peptide Society
http://www.chem.umn.edu/orgs/ampepsoc

U.S. Government Agencies
National Institutes of Health
http://www.nih.gov 

National Science Foundation
http://www.nsf.gov 

Department of Agriculture
http://www.usda.gov 

Office of the U.S. Surgeon General
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov 

Department of Health and Human Services
http://phs.os.dhhs.gov 

Food and Drug Administration
http://www.fda.gov 

Careers in Biology

FASEB Career Resources
http://ns2.faseb.org/career/index.html 

Careers/Professions for the Biology Graduate
http://198.109.101.63/Biology/careers.biology.html 

Careers in the Microbiological Sciences
http://www.asmusa.org/edusrc/edu21.htm 

Careers in Marine Sciences
http://www.seaworld.org/Careers/mshome.html 
 

Selected Links to Biology Resources

GENERAL BIOLOGY and NATURAL HISTORY

About.comGuide to: Biology
http://biology.miningco.com/msub10.htm 

Links for Biology and Natural History
http://www.acad.sunytccc.edu/iss/bio.htm 

Selected WWW links of  Interest to Biology Students
http://inweh1.uwaterloo.ca/biol446/jobs44.html 

Structural Organization of the Biological Sciences
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/8424/bio.html 

WorldWide Web Links for Biology and Natural History
http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/mdas.hp/biology.html 

WorldWide Web Servers Related to Biology
http://sunny.mpimf-heidelberg.mpg.de/BioLinks.html 
 

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
Biology & Evolution Links
http://meiosis.8m.com 

Evolutionary Biology
http://purl.oclc.org/NET/ehud-site/biology/evolution.html 
 

HUMAN GENOME PROJECT
National Human Genome Research Institute (NIH)
              http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/ 
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) was originally established in 1989. 
Its mission is to head the Human Genome Project for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Covers research, social issues, new developments, glossary and other resources. 

The Human Genome Program (USDOE)
                http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/home.html
A wealth of information from the United States Department of  Energy covering resesarch, eduation, medicaine and legal and ethical issues regarding the Human Genome Project. 

Genome Gateway (Nature Magazine)
      http://www.nature.com/genomics/
 A comprehensive web resource devoted to genomics covering research articles, current news service, post-genomic applications and additional links. 

Genetics Education Center (University of Kansas)
           http://www.kumc.edu/gec/
For educators interested in human genetics and the human genome project.                                Project introduction · Resources (books, videos, curricula) · Lesson Plans · Networking · Genetic  Conditions · Careers · Programs / Resources · Museum Exhibits · Plays · Glossaries · News  · Portrayal & Writing · Feedback · FAQ · Search 


MARINE BIOLOGY

Marine Biology Links
http://www.marinemultimedia.com/Links.htm 

Marine Science Links
http://www.marinemultimedia.com/marinelinks.htm 
 

MOLECULAR  and CELL BIOLOGY
BioScience Research Tool: Molecular Biology
http://biochemie.net/links/Molecular_Biology 

BioScience Research Tool: Cell Biology
http://biochemie.net/links/Cell_Biology 

Molecular Biology Databases - Enzymes and Pathways
http://bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il/mb/db/enzymes.html 

Molecular Biology Web Book
http://www.web-books.com/mbiol/ 

Molecular Biology Links - International
http://www.portlandpress.co.uk/links/molbio.htm 

Out of the Silent Planet
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/2435/biolinks.html 

WWW Virtual Library: Cell Biology
http://vl.bwh.harvard.edu 
 

PLANT BIOLOGY
Garden Links
http://www.wbgi.com/links.htm 

Plant Biology
http://www.technalithics.com/botany.html 

Plant Biology Education Links
http://aspp.org/EDUCATION/edlink.htm 
 

Image Resources in Biology
Anatomical Images - The Visible Human Project
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html 

MindQuest.net
http://www.mindquest.net/index.html 

Multimedia Resources
http://www.nbif.org/course/ermultmed.html 
 

Online Dictionaries
Online Scientific and Medical Dictionaries
http://www.sciencekomm.at/advice/dict.html 
 

Last updated April 3, 2000


 
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