Biology Research Guide

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Book Indexes Conference Paper Indexes Upcoming Conferences Index Current Awareness Services Dissertations Journal Article Indexes VIRGO (Library Catalog)	Comprehensive Subject Lists Organizations Reference General Topics Algology (Algae) Amphibia Birds Botany, Gardening and Horticulture Fish Genetics and Genomics Insects Microbiology Microscopy Morphology Mycology Parasitology	Go To Biology Department Return To Subject Guides Menu Biology/Psychology Library Brown Library Homepage

Recommended Reference Works

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms

Oxford Dictionary of Biology — Brown Library Reference QH13 .D53 2000

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

Encyclopedia of Environmental Biology — Brown Library Reference QH540.4 .E52 1995

CRCnetBASE
   CRC Press Handbook and Reference Collection in addition to ENGnetBASE

ENGnetBASE
   CRC Press Engineering Handbook and Reference Collection

Knovel Library
   Engineering and Science Handbook and Reference Collection

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS)

Cambridge Encyclopedia of Life Sciences — Brown Library Reference QH307.2 .C36 1985

Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols and Abbreviations

Safari Tech Books Online

Databases / Indexes

Book Indexes

Search these databases for books.

VIRGO
Information on over 4 million books, journals, and other items held in the University of Virginia's libraries, including business, health sciences, and law.
Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information Catalogue
Search for books, technical reports, journals and conference proceedings in all areas of science, engineering, health sciences and agriculture.
Center for Research Libraries Online Catalog
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is an international not-for-profit consortium of colleges, universities, and libraries that makes available scholarly research resources to users everywhere. These resources include many hard-to-find and scarce items often not readily available elsewhere. UVA faculty and students may request books from CRL's collections via Interlibrary Services.
Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology
The Linda Hall Library, a private institution funded by endowment, serves the scientific research community as a resource for engineering and technical materials, including over 600,000 volumes, 1.1 million microforms, U.S. Patents since 1946, and subscriptions to 16,500 journals.
WorldCat (FirstSearch)
Contains records from thousands of North American libraries.

Conference Proceedings Indexes

Search this database for citations to conference proceedings papers.

Conference Papers Index 1982+ (CSA)
Provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world.
PapersFirst 1993+ (FS)
Citations of papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses and symposia. Updated monthly.

Current Awareness Services

Many journal publishers and database vendors offer alerting services which you can use to have journal tables of contents or other information about articles of interest E-mailed to you on a periodic basis. Some of these services appear below. You can learn more about keeping current in your field at Alison McNab's Keeping Your Research Up to Date web page or at the Engineering Current Awareness Services web page from the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL).

Journal Indexes

-Search these indexes for citations to journal articles.
-To get more information about a database, click the information icon ( ).
-Additional biology databases are available on the Brown Library Databases page.
-Use our Find@UVA Journal Finder page to locate E-journals, E-magazines, and E-newspapers.

Biological Abstracts 1985+ (Ovid)
Good for graduate research. The world's premiere English-language biological and biomedical indexing and abstracting service.
BioOne
BioOne provides integrated, full-text access to a thoroughly linked information resource of interrelated journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.
CAB Direct
With over four million records dating back to 1973, CAB Direct covers research and development literature in the fields of agriculture, forestry, human health, human nutrition, animal health and the management and conservation of natural resources.
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Good for graduate research. Use the Natural Sciences subject category or choose specific databases from the master list.
GenBank Databases
A gateway to searching a variety of databases including PubMed, a protein sequence database, a nucleotide sequence database, various genomes, a molecular modeling database, taxonomy, population study data, human genes and disorders, various textbooks, and NCBI's gene expression and hybridization array repository (GEO) data.
Medline 1950+ (Ebsco)
Medline covers the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the preclinical sciences.
Web of Science (Science Citation Index) 1987+
Containing Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Web of Science offers multidisciplinary searching and seamless access to cited reference searching. The WOS databases include bibliographic and citation information for articles from over 5,700 science and engineering journals, as well as social sciences and humanities journals. Updated weekly.
Zoological Record 2006+ (Ovid)
Find articles, conference proceedings, books, etc. on all aspects of zoology including biochemistry, behavior, ecology evolution, genetics, etc.

Biology Research Guide

Databases / Indexes

Book Indexes

Conference Proceedings Indexes

Current Awareness Services

Journal Indexes

Comprehensive Subject Lists

Organizations

Web Resources for Biological Specialties

General Topics

Algology (Algae)

Amphibia

Birds

Botany, Gardening and Horticulture

Fish

Genetics and Genomics

Insects

Microbiology

Microscopy

Morphology

Mycology (Fungi)

Parasitolgy