Library Databases for Biology Research
- ProQuest Biology Journals
- Search full text journals from ProQuest
- Academic Search Premier
- A good general-interest database which includes both scholarly journals and newsmagazines with articles about biology, medicine, and enviromental science.
- CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
- MEDLINE with Full Text
- Mostly medical content, containing articles and using subject headings intended for medical professionals, not environmental scientists or the general public.
Biology Web Links
General Biology Links
- Biodiversity and biological collections Web server
- The Biology Project
- An interactive online resource for learning biology.
- Cells Alive!
- Microbiological and immunological databases.
- Dennis Kunkel's microscopy
- National Museum of Natural History
- research & collections
- Neurosciences on the Internet
- Public Library of Science
- free online journal content.
Agencies and Organizations
Botany
- The Tree of Life
- A plant dictionary with over 1,444 entries including color photographs and descriptive materials.
- Ohio State University factsheet
- A horticultural/agronom search engine linked to some 53 databases.
- PLANTS National Database
- Contains information about the approximately 45,000 currently recognized plant taxa, both vascular and nonvascular, known to occur as native or naturalized species within the boundaries of the US including its territories.
- Scott's Botanical Links
Genetics
- Genetics education center
- Everything anyone ever wanted to know about genetics and the Human Genome Project is included in this site, constructed with the educator in mind and navigable by any interested viewer.
- WWW Virtual Library: Genetics
- Human Genome Project Information (Department of Energy)
- Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
- The authoritative reference for information on the inheritance of human characteristics.
Zoology
- North American Mammals
- from the Smithsonian Institute.
- Social Insects World Wide Web (SIWEB)
- The Cephalopod Page
- An interesting resource and organizing site for diverse, yet little known, intellectual area, the study of cephalopod molluscs.
- DUCKDATA
- a bibliographic database of North American waterfowl (Anatidae) and their wetland habitats.
- The Electronic Zoo
- Collects and organizes links to animal-related sites.
- Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: bird checklists of the United States
- Virtual Frog Dissection Kit, v2.0

