Subject Guide: Biology

Contact Librarian :
Professor Aisha Pena

DATABASES AT BARUCH


Bengal Tiger

Science Direct (Elsevier)
WWW
Full text access to journals primarily in the areas of science, technology, social science, and medicine. Includes access to the Elsevier Science journal collection (over 1,200 titles) as well as to IDEAL articles from Academic Press (205 titles). Full text is available for over 700 titles from 1997 to date. Abstracts from 1995 to date.

Wiley InterScience
Wiley InterScience is the online journals service from John Wiley & Sons providing full-text access to the 69 journals subscribed to within CUNY, as well as access to tables of contents and abstracts for all 300 Wiley journals. Subjects include science, technology, social sciences and business. Full-text coverage begins with 2000.

Annual Reviews
Annual Reviews provides systematic, periodic examinations of scholarly advances in a number of fields of science through critical authoritative reviews. Baruch subscribes to Annual Reviews in Anthropology, Genetics, Microbiology, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology. Full text, 1996 to date; Tables of contents only, 1984-1995.

Academic IDEAL: Science Journals
IDEAL from Academic Press provides articles in full text of nearly 200 journals in scientific, technical, and medical fields. Includes journals in the applied, biomedical and life sciences as well as titles in economics, business, law, finance, the social sciences and psychology as well as mathematics and computer science. Full-text coverage generally begins with 1999. Access to abstracts to back to 95/96.

General Science Abstracts
General Science Abstracts indexes articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain beginning with 1984. Topics include Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Conservation, Earth Science, Environment, Health, Mathematics, Medicine, Nutrition, and Physics. Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in March 1993.

Applied Science and Technology Index
Applied Science and Technology Index covers every area   of science, engineering and technology. Sources include trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies, and   specialized subject periodicals. Citations begin with 1983.

GENERAL RESOURCES


Grasshopper

Biotech/Biomedical
This site is a resource for information on the business of biotechnology. Includes articles, newsletters, and direct links that will help you keep abreast of relevant issues in biomedical and biotechnology.

Cell and Molecular Biology Online
A general resource for the biology community with an emphasis on information for cell and molecular biologists. Provides links to journals, societies, grants, conferences, images and more.

BIOSIS Home Page
Publisher of Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS accumulates the world's largest collection of abstracts and bibliographic references to worldwide biological and medical literature. Site offers a variety of free resources.

FirstGov for Science
A gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies,
including research and development results.

Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory
The web site links to research in the area of cancer, cloning, neurobiology, plant genetics, genomics and bioinformatics at Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory. The first museum on DNA Many links are interactive and may require plug-ins.

National Biological Information Infrastructure
This site is the result of a joint venture between the Biological Resources Divsion of the U.S. Geological Survey and a number of contributors from the private and public sectors. It is an electronic gateway to biological data produced by the federal and state agencies, universities, natural history museums and the private sector. Links to a variety of evaluated and recommended resources for research and teaching.

Reproductive Cloning
This site was established to store, link to, and review scientific resources regarding reproductive cloning. This is inclusive of vertebrate, mammalian, and human reproductive cloning.

Animal Diversity Web
A virtual textbook on animal diversity.

Tree of Life
A project containing information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their history, and characteristics. The information is linked together in the form of the evolutionary tree that connects all organisms to each other. Produced by University of AZ.

Mammal Species of the World
A database of mammalian taxonomy. Designed by the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution as a convenient on-line reference for identifying or verifying recognized scientific names and for taxonomic research. The names are organized in a hierarchy that includes Order, Family, Subfamily, Genus and Species.

CSU Biological Sciences Web Server
California State University consolidates existing WWW Biological Science teaching and research resources to create and distribute original multimedia resources for the teaching of biology.

Visible Human Project
Complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional   representations of the normal male and female human bodies from the National Library of Medicine. Provides comprehensive, three-dimensional images of   the human body. The project's web site includes cross-sectional views of the body.

Insect Pollination of Cultivated Crop Plants
Published by the USA in 1976, this is a virtual copy of the original handbook in full-text. A seminal work with timeless data on topics such as pollination, biology, flower structure etc. Original black and white illustrations included.

Biodiversity (Insects)
Biodiversity concentrating on insects from Kansas State University.

REFERENCE TOOLS (Print)
Handbooks, Encyclopedias, Directories, Dictionaries


Cyanobacterium Copyright © 1999 Dennis Kunkel
A dictionary of ecology, evolution, and systematics / 2nd ed.
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1998.
Lincoln, Roger J.
Baruch Reference 2nd Floor QH 540.4 .L56 1998

Oxford dictionary of biochemistry and molecular biology
Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, c1997.
Baruch Stacks QP 512 .O94 1997

Concise encyclopedia biology
Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, 1996.
Baruch Reference 2nd Floor QH 302 .5 .A2313 1995

The Cambridge illustrated dictionary of natural history
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Lincoln, Roger J.
Baruch Stacks QH 13 .L56 1987

Henderson's dictionary of biological terms, 9th ed.
New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., <1986>, c1979.
Holmes, Sandra
Baruch Reference 2nd Floor QH302.5 .H65 1986

Cambridge encyclopedia of life sciences
Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Baruch Reference 2nd Floor QH307.2 .C36 1985

Barnes & Noble thesaurus of biology : the principles of biology explained and illustrated
New York : Barnes & Noble Books, c1983.
Gutteridge, Anne C.
Baruch Reference 2nd Floor QH 302.5 .G87 1983

Dictionary of theoretical concepts in biology
Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1981.
Roe, Keith E.
Baruch Reference 2nd Floor QH302.5 .R63

Henderson's Dictionary of biological terms, 9th ed. / Sandra Holmes.
New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, c1979.
Henderson, I. F. (Isabella Ferguson)
Baruch Reference 2nd Floor QH13 .H39 1979

McGraw-Hill dictionary of the life sciences
New York : McGraw-Hill, c1976.
Baruch Reference 2nd Floor QH302.5 .M3

Dictionary of biology
New York, Barnes & Noble,1971
Steen, Edwin Benzel
Baruch Reference 2nd Floor QH13 .S74

CBE style manual : a guide for authors, editors, and publishers in the biological sciences
5th ed., rev. and expanded.
Bethesda, Md. : Council of Biology Editors, c1983.
CBE Style Manual Committee.
Baruch Reference 2nd Floor QH 304 .C33 1983

Peterson's graduate programs in the biological sciences
(Peterson's guide to graduate programs in the biological sciences)
Princeton, N.J. : Peterson's, c1997-31st ed
Baruch Reference 2nd Floor L 901 .P444 (Index Table 3B)

JOURNALS


American Fauna

Company of Biologists
Access to abstracts to three primary research journals in biology: Development, Journal of Cell Science, and Journal of Experimental Biology.

Journal of Biochemistry

Biochemical Journal
(Portland Press) Full text access to journal archives. Access to current year only to subscribers.

Biochemical Society Transactions
(Portland Press) Full text access to journal archives. Access to current year only to subscribers.

Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry
(Portland Press) Full text access to journal archives. Access to current year only to subscribers.

BioMed Central
All the original research articles in journals published by BioMed Central. Journals cover topics on biology and medicine, as well as many other online or online/print journals. The required registration is free for access to peer-reviewed journal.

Clinical Science
(Portland Press) Full text access to journal archives. Access to current year only to subscribers.

Journal of Biological Chemistry
(ASBMB/Highwire Press) Full text, e-mail, and TOCs   for subscribers; free access to abstracts.

Journal of Cell Biology
(Rockefeller University Press/Highwire Press) Full- text, e-mail TOCs and CiteTrack for subscribers; free access to abstracts.)

PubMed Central
A Public Archive for Peer-Reviewed Primary Research Reports in the Life Sciences. PubMed Central is a web-based archive offering barrier-free access to peer-reviewed primary research reports in the life sciences. This web-based repository will archive, organise, and distribute peer reviewed reports from a variety of biomedical journals.

VISUAL RESOURCES
Slides/Image Collections


Water Lily

Dennis Kunkel's Microscopy
Wide range of images produced by photomicrographer Dennis Kunkel Ph.D. showing the living world--insects, cells, biological molecules--as it appears at high magnification. Images are available for use in research and education.

Botanical Society of America Image Collection
A collection of approximately 800 images available for instructional use.

Cells Alive!
A collection of cell photos and illustrations. Students and teachers are encouraged to incorporate individual images in class reports, projects, homework, and lectures.

Through the Microscope
An Internet gallery of health science images from the Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health. Images of viruses, bacteria, fungi, and protozoa.

 Graphics Gallery
Access Excellence, a program at the National Health Museum, presents a series of labeled diagrams with explanations representing the important processes of biotechnology. Each diagram is followed by a summary of information, providing a context for the process illustrated. Includes "From Gene to Function"-- the major actors of molecular biology: the nucleic acids, DNA and RNA.

Catalog of Botanical Illustrations
The Department of Botany of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History has created a database of the more than 3000 botanical illustrations.

NANOWORLD Image Gallery
The University of Queensland's Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis hosts this gallery of images for use in biology, physiology, and chemistry at atomic, molecular, cellular, and macromolecular scales. Copying of images, and their subsequent free use is permitted with certain conditions.

Worldwide Museum of Natural History
An online museum featuring a variety of photo galleries for study of natural history and the earth sciences. The life galleries (vertebrate and invertebrate) are home to some of the most interesting fossils ever found including dinosaurs, ammonites, crinoids, mammals, early life, insects. Also presents galleries of existing life such as Lepidoptera (butterflies/moths) and wildflowers of the American prairie. New galleries are added regularly.

 


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