Life Sciences (including Medicine)

Reference Sources

All that JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources, BIOSIS Previews Serials List, Zoological Record Serials List, NLM/PubMed abbreviations (from Becker Medical Library), List of All Journals included in PubMed OR PubMed Journal Database, Journals Indexed in AGRICOLA, ISI Master Journal List (Web of Science and others), Journal titles with BIOSIS abbreviations (5400 titles from Univ. of Queensland), Journal Abbreviation Resources on the Web (from UIUC library)

Often Databases list only abbreviations for journal titles and you usually need full titles to find the journal in our catalog and on our shelves.

Style guides: Citing medicine: the NLM style guide for authors, editors, and publishers | Scientific style and format : the CSE manual for authors, editors, and publishers | Reference Sources: Style Manuals | Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed [limited to 25 concurrent users] | AMA manual of style : a guide for authors and editors, 10th ed, 2007 (Quick Reference Citation Format for AMA Manual of Style, 10th ed, 2007) | Publications Handbook and Style Manual (American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA))

Biology Data Books v.1-3 (2nd Ed., 1972-1974) Edited by: Altman, Philip L.; Dittmer, Dorothy S. Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (Knovel) This book has been compiled to present numerical data of biology and medicine in a convenient and accessible form for reference, and to standardize accepted constants as a basis for correlation, establish common standards for statistical studies, and provide normal values for research. Also available in print

Amazing Numbers in Biology Zoology, botany, microbiology, human biology and comparative biology collected data in referenced tables

Handbook of Chemistry and Physics [most recent edition]

McGraw-Hill AccessScience includes fully searchable content from McGraw-Hill’s Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition, new articles from McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, biographies from the Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography, an online science dictionary, image and multimedia galleries.

Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics and Informatics, 3rd ed. 2008

Merck Index, An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals, 14th ed. (2006) now available and searchable through Knovel Library. Older editions are available in print; biology library has 12th ed, 1996.

Biology Dictionaries

Book Information -- Biology

Includes book publisher sites, WorldCatalog, selected Library Catalogs, some online bookstores, other databases

Finding People, especially Life Scientists

Selected Search Tools & Databases

Internet, images, encyclopedias, etc.

Biological Reagents, Vendors, Protocols, Methods

Encyclopedia of Life - species information from many sources; still in development but some sample pages are available.

Guide to Internet Resources for Biological Taxonomy & Classification

Highlighting resources for another college but most links are useful here.

Classification of Living Things

Tutorial/introduction to the principles of taxonomy with a focus on human classification categories, by Dennis O'Neil, Palomar College, San Marcos, California.

Guide to the Animal Kingdom for Students and Educators

from BIOSIS.

Discover Life

Checklists, identification guides (IDNature Guides), links, etc., from the Polistes Foundation with several other partners.

Encyclopedia of medical devices & instrumentation

Wiley encyclopedia of biomedical engineering

Encyclopedia of Entomology

Selected Life Sciences Web Sites

Career and Job Information

See also: AIBS Classifieds

Genetics, Genomics, Molecular Biology, Computational Biology

Biology Browser

Produced by BIOSIS, is a free web site offering resources for the life sciences information community.

The Biology Project

An interactive online resource for learning biology, developed at The University of Arizona.

Missouri Botanical Garden

Includes Tropicos, information about Missouri Botanical Garden Library and access to Missouri Botanical Garden Library catalog.

MIT Open CourseWare: Biology

Course materials, such as lecture notes, in several biology classes are freely available. With MIT OpenCourseWare, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology plans to make course materials for nearly all its undergraduate and graduate subjects available online.

National Agricultural Library

National Library of Medicine

Natural History Reference Sources

Nice list of links compiles by Adam Schiff, Univ. of Washington.

NatureServe, a network connecting science with conservation

NetVet Veterinary Resources, featuring the Electronic Zoo

Online Biology Book

A freshman biology hypertextbook by Dr. Michael J. Farabee

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Species 2000

"Species 2000 has the objective of enumerating all known species of plants, animals, fungi and microbes on Earth as the baseline dataset for studies of global biodiversity."

Tree of Life

WWW Virtual Library. Biosciences

Moved from Harvard Univ. although their page is still useful: Biology Links from Harvard Univ., Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology.