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Electronic Journals
Journal Databases and Indexes (Subject Specialized)
Journal Databases and Indexes (Multi-Subject)
Encyclopedias
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

AgBioForum
http://www.agbioforum.org

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

Development
http://dev.biologists.org/

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

Journal of Cell Science
http://jcs.biologists.org/

Journal of Experimental Biology
http://jeb.biologists.org/

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

New England Journal of Medicine
http://www.nejm.org/content/scripts/search/search.asp

Plant Molecular Biology
http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0167-4412/contents

The Scientist
http://www.the-scientist.com/

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://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=AltPressIndex;done=referer;autho=100207621;FSIP/
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.

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.

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://www.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.

Encyclopedias

Academic Press' Encyclopedia of Food Microbiology
http://apresslp.gvpi.net/apfmicro/lpext.dll?f=templates&fn=main-h.htm

Academic Press' Encyclopedia of Immunology 2nd Edition
http://209.207.196.245/cgi-bin/om_isapi.dll?&infobase=apress_immuno&softpage=immuno_doc_frame_pg

Academic Press' Encyclopedia of Virology 2nd Edition
http://apresslp.gvpi.net/apvirol/lpext.dll?f=templates&fn=main-h.htm

Selected Biology Organizations and Societies

GENERAL BIOLOGY

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/

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
http://www.cellbio.com

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

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

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

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

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

Marine Conservation Biology Institute
http://mcbi.org

National Shellfisheries 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.aspet.org

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

American Association of Immunologists
http://12.17.12.70/aai/

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

PLANT BIOLOGY
American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta
http://www.aabga.org
SPACE BIOLOGY
American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology
http://www.aabga.org
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

Office of Public Health and Science
http://phs.os.dhhs.gov/ophs/

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

Careers in Biology

FASEB Career Resources
https://ns2.faseb.org/careerweb/

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/

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

Structural Organization of the Biological Sciences
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/8424/bio.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://www.mcb.harvard.edu/BioLinks/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/

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/MoBio/

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

WWW Virtual Library: Cell Biology
http://vlib.org/Science/Cell_Biology/index.shtml

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

Plant Biology Education Links
http://www.aspb.org/education/

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

Multimedia Resources
http://www.swbic.org

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

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