Mickel Library

Internet Resources by Subject

Biology

Where to Start

Biology Gateway - From Academic Info

Biology Links – From Harvard University

Biology project – From the University of Arizona

CSU BIOWEB – From California State University

Developmental Biology – From the WWW Virtual Library

 
Periodical Indexes/Abstracts/Articles

BioOne
Covers over 200 bioscience journals from scientific societies and other non-commercial publishers. Includes complete text and graphics of articles. Available only on the campus computer network.

GreenFILE
This free database provides indexing to 600+ scholarly and general interest periodicals as well as government documents and reports dealing with environmental issues. Comprises approximately 295,000 records, but the vast majority of these include only citations and abstracts, not complete documents.

InfoTrac
Covers academic journals, magazines, newspapers. Includes citations, some abstracts, some complete articles. Available to the Converse community both on and off campus. Contact a reference librarian for information on off-campus access.
Provided by DISCUS--South Carolina's Virtual Library

Liebert Online
provides articles (in PDF) from 50+ peer-reviewed journals published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.; focuses on the life sciences, biotechnology, medicine, and public health. Available only on campus.

MedLine
Indexes articles from international biomedical journals, covering medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine and the preclinical sciences.

PubMed
Provides access to MedLine, PreMedLine, and HealthSTAR.

ProQuest Science Journals
Indexes about 400 journals in science, technology, and math; includes the full-text of most of the articles it indexes.

Science Resource Center DISCUS Logo - 30+ specialized encyclopedias and other reference works dealing with the sciences and math. Full-text articles from 300+ periodicals, both general and scholarly. Links to high-quality Web sites and a selection of newspaper science sections. For off-campus access, contact a librarian.

 
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

EBSCO's Encyclopedia of Animals
Aimed at K-12 students, this work offers information on the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Searchable by common or scientific name.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online - Available only on the Converse campus.

Grolier Online Encyclopedia - Available only on the Converse campus.
Provided by DISCUS--South Carolina's Virtual Library

Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology

Oxford Reference Online Premium
Over 100 subject-specific encyclopedias from Oxford University Press

Science Resource Center DISCUS Logo - 30+ specialized encyclopedias and other reference works dealing with the sciences and math. Full-text articles from 300+ periodicals, both general and scholarly. Links to high-quality Web sites and a selection of newspaper science sections. For off-campus access, contact a librarian.

 
Genetics

Human Genome Project Information

MendelWeb

 
Molecular Biology

Center for Molecular Modeling – From the National Institutes of Health

Molecules R US – From the National Institutes of Health

 
Zoology

Animal Diversity Web - From the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology

Amphibia Web

ARKive

CNAH - The Center for North American Herpetology

NatureServe

North American Mammals

 
Associations/Government Agencies

American Society for Microbiology

National Science Foundation

 
Government Publications

Science.gov - A gateway to over 50 million pages of authoritative selected science information
provided by U.S. government agencies, including research and development results.

 

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