Background Information
Tip: Use an encyclopedia for a quick overview, to develop vocabulary for searching, and to find other sources.
Access ScienceOneSearch
From: McGraw Hill
McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.
Credo Reference
Credo is an online reference service with access to over 270 titles. Credo
includes subject-specific dictionaries, biographical data, statistics, quotations, and audio and image files from more than 50 publishers.
EBSCO Animals
From: EBSCOhost
Now part of Science Reference Center
MEDLINEplusOneSearch
Information for health professionals and consumers from the National Institutes of Health. Includes a list of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia, health information in Spanish, information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to clinical trials.
Science Reference Center
From: EBSCOHost
Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources.
It also provides teachers and librarians with articles correlated to state and national curriculum standards.
Articles (magazines / journals)
AGRICOLAOneSearch
From: USDA, The National Agricultural Library
Coverage: 1970 - present
Contains citations to agricultural literature from as early as the 15th century. Fields include animal and
veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems,
agricultural economics, extensions and education, food and human nutrition and earth and environmental sciences.
ACS Journals Search
From: The American Chemical Society
Searchable index of all ACS publications. Copies of articles not owned by Meredith libraries may be
ordered. Click here to request an article.
ASM Journals: American Society for Microbiologists
ASM provides free access to full-text articles 6 months after the final version is published in an issue of one of the 9 primary research journals. For the review journals, Clinical Microbiology Reviews and Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews , access to full-text articles is made freely available 1 year after an issue's publication. Tables of contents, abstracts, and search features are freely available to all users.
Biology Digest
From: OCLC FirstSearch
Coverage: 1989 - present
Provides detailed abstracts written in a nontechnical style for students and interested nonscientists. Conveys solid,
factual information useful to life scientists exploring areas outside their specialties.
BioOneOneSearch
From: Publishers Communication Group
A uniquely valuable aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. An additional search tool BioOne Abstracts and Indexes is available for searching BioOne.
GEOBASE
From: OCLC FirstSearch
Coverage 1980 - present
Worldwide literature on geography, geology, and ecology.
GreenFILE
From: EBSCOhost
A bibliographic database of information about environmental concerns,
this resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment.
National Geographic Index
Website from: National Geographic
Contains records describing each magazine article, book, map, video, CD-ROM, etc. produced by the National Geographic Society.
PubMedOneSearch
From: The National Library of Medicine and The National Institutes of Health
Coverage: 1951 - current
Provides access to over 14 million citations from MEDLINE for biomedical articles. Use the Pubmed Overview Sheet
or the PubMed Tutorial for more information.
An additional search tool from Highwire Press Stanford Univ.) is available for searching the National Library of Medicine.
PubMed Central
Full text of more than 160 open access biomedical, chemistry, and life sciences journals.
SpringerLinkOneSearch
A premier resource for researchers in biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities, and economics.
Web of Science (ISI Citation Databases)
From: Institute for Scientific Research (ISI)
Coverage: 1988 - current
The Web of Science provides access to the three major citation indexes:
Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Index. You may search one or all databases at one time. For search help
you may access: Web of Science tutorial or Web-Based Training.
Wiley InterScienceOneSearch
A quality collection of peer reviewed journals; hosts many of the core journal titles in their respective fields. Use the Subject List
to access a list of subject areas and titles.
Books
To find books on a particular topic or by a particular author or title, search the
Meredith Library Catalog.
To browse the stacks for biology books, go to:
- 570 Life Sciences, Biology
- 572 Biochemistry
- 576 Genetics and Evolution
- 577 Ecology
- 579 Microorganisims, fungi, algae
- 580 Plants
- 590 Animals
- 592 Invertebrates
- 593 Miscelaneous marine and seashore invertebrates
- 594 Mollusca and Molluscoidea
- 595 Arthropoda
- 596 Chordata
- 597 Cold Blooded vertebrates Pisces (Fishes)
- 598 Aves (Birds)
- 599 Mammalia
Ebrary
Search a full text eBook collection that spans many academic subject areas.
NetLibrary
Provides easy access to the full text of more than 10,000 reference, scholarly, and professional books.
WorldCAT
Website from: OCLC
Search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world.
An additional search tool is available for searching WorldCAT (OCLC First Search)
Search for Biology Dictionaries in the Carlyle Campbell Library
Internet Resources
Biodiversity Hotspots
From: Conservation International and The Center for Applied Biodiversity Science
Biodiversity: Measuring the Variety of Nature
From: Natural History Museum, London
Biology Browser
Biology Links
From: Harvard University
Integrated Taxonomic Information System
Here you will find authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world. The ITIS is the result of a partnership of
federal agencies formed to satisfy their mutual needs for scientifically credible taxonomic information.
Index to Organism Names (ION)
ION contains all the animal, plant, and virus names data found within the Thomson BIOSIS literature databases - Zoological Record ® , BIOSIS Previews ® and Biological Abstracts ®. Bacteria names will be added soon.
National Center for Biotechnology Information
National Human Genome Research Institute
From: National Institutes of Health
Includes a link to ELSI (Ethical, Legal and Social Implications)
NCBI Taxonomy Homepage
Plants National Database
From: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Scirus
Scirus is a comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet.
The Tree of Life Web Project
The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists from around the orld.
On more than 9000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth,
their evolutionary history and characteristics.
