Biology
Books - Ebooks - Journals - Articles - Websites
The library's books on biology can be found by searching the catalog. For more information on how to search the library's catalog, view our tutorial.
One can find Ebooks either by searching NetLibrary or by using the library's catalog. To retrieve only ebooks from a catalog search, use the advanced search option and choose "Ebooks only" under limits. To view books in the Net Library from home, you will first need to set up an account from a computer on campus. To learn more about searching NetLibrary, view our tutorial.
Articles can be searched online using the databases in the Alabama Virtual Library. Some available databases associated with biology journals are listed below. (Descriptions are from the AVL databases description page.) For more information about using the Alabama Virtual Library view our tutorial.
Academic Search Premier - Full text and images from over 4,700 journals covering biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, etc.
InfoTrac OneFile - A 'mega-content' database indexing over 6,000 periodicals, newspapers, and newswires with backfile coverage from 1980 to present, updated daily. The database includes full text articles for 3,000 periodicals, 89 wire services and business press releases. OneFile offers single source searching for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.
Expanded Academic ASAP - Supports general reference needs of advanced high school and college undergraduate students. Indexes 2,600 journals with full text articles from 1,400 titles in academic disciplines including the arts, humanities, social sciences, and science and technology. The database indexes national news periodicals, general interest magazines, newswires, and the New York Times
HealthSource: Nursing/Academic Edition - Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition indexes and abstracts over 560 scholarly journals and includes full text articles for over 520 journals focusing on medical disciplines, especially nursing and allied health topics.
The Directory of Open-Access Journals has also created a list of free, open-access, peer-reviewed journals which you can search for articles on biology.
The Shelton State Community College Library holds print copies of many peer-reviewed biology journals. To find out whether the library holds print copies of specific journals, use the advanced search option in the Library Catalog and limit to "Periodicals Only." To find out which journals are available electronically through the AVL, search SerialsSolutions. You may also want to browse the Directory of Open-Access Journals' list of open-access, peer-reviewed, online biology journals.
GENERAL BIOLOGY AND ONLINE TEXTBOOKS
Access Excellence (at the National Health Museum) http://www.accessexcellence.org/
Subtitled "A place in Cyberspace for Biology Teaching and Learning"; searchable; provides biology teachers access to "colleagues, scientists, and critical sources of new scientific information" and methods to change science education; teaching tips, classroom activities, graphics, discussion groups, career information, and a list of annotated links.
BioChemLinks http://biochemlinks.com/bclinks/biology.cfm
Directory of web resources for biology and chemistry teachers; organized under the following topics: General Biology, Cell Biology, Genetics, Microbiology, Immunology, Biotechnology, General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry, News & Journals, Lab Safety, Ethics in Science, and Science Careers; no descriptions of links.
Biodiversity and Conservation http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~sustain/bio65/Titlpage.htm
Hypertext book created for lower-division university classes by UC/Irvine professor; addresses origin, nature, and value of biological diversity; 16 well-organized chapters (such as Endangered Species Protection, Exotic Introductions, and Captive Breeding) with text, graphs, illustrations, and links to related materials.
BIODIDAC http://biodidac.bio.uottawa.ca/
Database of over 5,000 line drawings, photographs, videos, and animations that can be used and adapted for teaching biology. Users can browse the index by eubacteria, protista, fungi, plantae, animalia, human biology, and histology; searchable.
Biology Online: Information in the Biological Sciences http://www.biology-online.org/
Searchable collection of tutorials on various subjects of biology, links, and an online dictionary of over 1600 terms; links are divided into subcategories and are briefly annotated; site uses British spelling.
The Biology Project http://www.biology.arizona.edu/
Designed for high school and college biology students; includes problem sets and tutorials in Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Chemicals and Human Health, Developmental Biology, Human Biology, Immunology, Mendelian Genetics, and Molecular Biology; some modules in Spanish; some sections include activities (the Biochemistry activity requires the free Mac/PCMolecule2 software) and Web resources.
BIOTECH http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu
Biology and chemistry educational resource and research tool; intended to attract students and enrich the public's knowledge of biology issues useful tool for high school through postdoctoral research; includes great dictionary and annotated links to all the best resources on the Internet for studying science and biotechnology.
College Physics for Students of Biology and Chemistry http://www.rwc.uc.edu/koehler/biophys/text.html
Hypertextbook written for first-year undergraduate physics students; includes introductory information on mechanics, fluids, electricity, atomic and nuclear physics, thermodynamics, and wave physics; includes list of symbols and abbreviations that provides formulas and definitions, and timeline of significant biophysical events; University of Arizona.
explorezone http://explorezone.com
Designed to provide information resources related to today's science news; covers astronomy, earth science, weather, biology, and more; specific reports on earthquakes, eclipses, tides, and tsunamis.
Gene Almanac http://vector.cshl.org/
Provides DNA from the Beginning, "a multimedia primer on the basics of DNA and heredity" ; Resources section offers Bioservers, which allow for the use of bioinformatics or the use of computers to solve biological problems; Bioforms, interactive exercises; the Biology Animation Library covering DNA concepts; and Nucleotide Sequences, complete nucleotide sequences for a set of plasmids. GeneNews has links to recent news about genetics and genetic research; requires RealPlayer and Shockwave; related links available.
History of Biomedicine http://www.mic.ki.se/History.html
Provides extensive links in theory of biology, history of diseases, and medical theory and practice; covers the histories of folk medicine, traditional Eastern medicine, and Western biomedical theory and practice; within these major divisions, resources are arranged chronologically from ancient to modern times; from Sweden's Karolinska Institute of Medicine.
MendelWeb http://www.netspace.org/MendelWeb/
Classic genetics paper by Johann Gregor Mendel (1865), in German and translated into English, included; primarily aimed towards teachers and undergraduates.
MIT's Biology Hypertextbook Home Page http://esg-www.mit.edu:8001/esgbio/7001main.html
Virtual textbook constructed by The Experimental Study Group at MIT; includes chapter text plus study problems in general biology.
NCBI Taxonomy Browser http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/tax.html
The National Center for Biotechnology Information; quick and easy tool for finding complete lineage for any species; searchable allows searches by common name as well as scientific name.
On-Line Biology Book http://gened.emc.maricopa.edu/bio/bio181/BIOBK/BioBookTOC.html
Well-organized and illustrated general biology text from Estrella Mountain Community
College; each chapter includes study questions (called "learning objectives") and links to related information [Recommended].
On-line Medical Dictionary http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/omd
Contains more than 46,000 terms relating to biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, science, and technology. It includes: acronyms, jargon, theory, conventions, standards, institutions, projects, eponyms, and history, if it has to do with medicine or science; distributed by CancerWEB under license.
Online Microscopes http://library.utmb.edu/scopes/welcome.htm
Online exhibit of a collection of 40 historic microscopes dating from the 1760s to the 1920s; includes images and brief information about microscopes and their makers; provides anatomy of a microscope; images and brief descriptions of four toy microscopes and a few images of replicas; from Moody Medical Library - University of Texas Medical Branch.
Scientific American: Ask the Experts http://www.sciam.com/askexpert/index.html
Sponsored by Scientific American magazine; readers may submit questions to scientific experts and the most interesting questions are archived by topic: astronomy, biology, chemistry, computers, environment, geology, mathematics, medicine, and physics.
U.S. Geological Survey http://www.usgs.gov/
Four theme areas--Hazards, Natural Resources, Environment, and Information Management--are described in order to effectively communicate how USGS earth science information contributes to public policy issues.
WINDandSEA http://www.lib.noaa.gov/docs/windandsea.html
Provided by the U.S. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); includes over 800 reviewed and annotated links to science and policy sites organized by topic, including: Air Pollution; Climate; Coastal Studies; Coral Reefs; Fish; Great Lakes; Marine Biology; Oceanography; Remote Sensing; Weather; and Wetlands. Also has a current interests section with information on topics such as El Nino.
The World Wide Web Journal of Biology http://www.epress.com/w3jbio/
Provides an open forum for rapid interactive peer reviewed information exchange in the biological sciences (both plant and animal); also includes an extensive listing of links on biological topics; full-text articles included.
BOTANY
Brooks-Cork Library Guide to Landscaping and Turf Management Resources
Related list of resources on landscape and turf management prepared by SSCC librarian.
Curtis Botanical Magazinehttp://www.nal.usda.gov/curtis
Over 1000 illustrations from the magazine, originally published 1787--1807; search by common name, species, or location. From the National Agricultural Library.
Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/
USDA Agricultural Research Service hosts collection of searchable databases; Medicinal Plants of Native America with thousands of records documenting medicinal uses of botanical species used by over 100 Native American tribes; searchable by plant name, tribe, and use; Ethnobotany Database is international in scope and searchable by plant name, country, and medicinal use; Phytochemical Database includes pharmacological, toxic activity and assay information on plants; Foodplant Database provides information on Native American food plants; links to sites concerned with medicinal and poisonous plants, nutrition, and an ethnobotanical dictionary.
Flora of North America http://hua.huh.harvard.edu/FNA/
More than 800 scientists at 30 institutions provide information on 21,000 species of plants that “grow outside of cultivation” north of Mexico (21,000 species); signed entries include physical descriptions, numbers of genera and species, distribution, and literature references; searchable; related to print volumes of same title published by Oxford University Press.
Garden Web Glossary of Botanical Terms http://glossary.gardenweb.com/glossary/
Contains very basic definitions with hypertext links to other terms for more than "4,400 terms relating to botany, gardening, horticulture and landscape architecture and is regularly updated."
International Plant Names Index http://www.ipni.org/
Database of over one million entries for the scientific names of all seed plants (flowering plants and gymnosperms); searchable by a plant's scientific name, author, publication, or collector; compiled from the Index Kewensis (IK) from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; the Gray Card Index (GCI) for New World plants at Harvard's University Herbaria; and the Australian Plant Names Index (APNI).
Internet Directory for Botany http://www.botany.net/IDB/
Searchable and browsable gateway to more than 4,000 links to botanical information including university departments, societies, organizations, museums, checklists, threatened plants, gardening, biologists’ addresses, economic botany, software, and images; alos includes an extensive, international listing of arboreta and gardens. See also the Arboreta and Botanical Gardens http://www.botany.net/IDB/subject/botgard.html section, which lists nearly 500 public gardens all over the world.
Linnaeus, Carl -- 1707-1778http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/linnaeus.html
A page devoted to the life and thought of the eighteenth-century Swedish naturalist and inventor of modern biological classification. A good selection of links to museums and societies follows short essays about this colossus in the history of science, who is also known as "the father of taxonomy." From the Museum of Paleontology at UC/Berkeley.
The Plant Kingdom (BL14A Biodiversity I) http://scitec.uwichill.edu.bb/bcs/bl14apl/bl14apl.htm
Subtitled "An introduction to the world of plants from an evolutionary perspective," this site explores the evolution of plants beginning with how plants are classified, ancient algae, the moving of plants to the land, mosses, ferns, and the development of seeds, through to the diversity of flowering plants; many illustrations, diagrams, photographs; glossary, bibliography, and related links; written for first year college biology students.
Plant Dictionary Image Library http://www.hcs.ohio-state.edu/plants.html
Idexed system of multimedia teaching resources for Horticulture and Crop Science; organized by subsections as follows: “Plants of Horticulture” is a searchable database of 3,878 high-quality images and horticultural descriptions for hundreds of unique species and cultivars; “Pests & Disease of Horticulture” is a searchable database of 1,100+ high-quality images featuring pests, diseases, and other plant problems; “Biology of Horticulture” includes pictures, questions, and labs related to biological processes and functions of plants; “Technology of Horticulture” includes pictures, questions, and labs related to mechanisms and procedures involved in propagating horticultural plants. Access:
PlantFacts Search Engine http://plantfacts.ohio-state.edu/
Created and maintained by the staff of Horticulture and Crop Science in Virtual Perspective at Ohio State University; includes two databases: “Factsheet Database” contains guides for answering plant-related questions from 46 universities and government institutions across the U.S. and Canada, including over 20,000 pages of Extension fact sheets and bulletins that provide a concentrated source of plant-related information; and “Research and Teaching” database with links to over 20,000 pages from 40 American university departments related to admissions, degree requirements, career opportunities, research projects, and online courses.
Plant Image Galleryhttp://www.noble.org/imagegallery/
Digitized images to assist botanists, ecologists, and natural resource managers with identification of plants; over 600 species; supported by the Nobel Foundation (Oklahoma).
Scott's Botanical Links http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/bot-linx/
Maintained by Scott Russell of the University of Oklahoma, this site is an "effort to compile useful botany education resources for the advanced high school (AP-biology) and college level." Botany sites rated "on a 4-star scale emphasizing educational value, completeness and scientific correctness; resources are added daily.
U.S. Department of Agriculture http://www.usda.gov/services.html
Provides information about USDA’s many programs, services, and agencies; links to National Agricultural Library (NAL) also offers free searching of Agricola (1970– ); use the Site Map to locate USDA information on plants.
The Virtual Foliage Home Page http://www.wisc.edu/botany/virtual.html
Developed and maintained by Michael Clayton, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, this site provides links to thousands of plant pictures.
HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY
CELLS alive! http://www.cellsalive.com/
High resolution electron microscopy and slick animations demonstrate the mechanics of HIV infection, allergy and mite interactions, bacteriophages, how antibodies are made, bacterial motility, ulcer-causing bacteria, how lymphocytes kill infected or tumor cells, and more; video clips require QuickTime.
The eSkeletons Project http://www.eskeletons.org/
Human bones can be compared with bones of other primates; "high-quality images of bones, labels of all muscles, articulations, and morphological features, high-resolution 3-D renderings of the skeletal elements in both animation (QuickTime required; will load automatically) and interactive virtual reality."
Gray's Anatomy http://www.bartleby.com/107/
Classic illustrated text of human anatomy (20th edition, 1918) available online; fully searchable by keyword, table of contents, or subject index containing 13,000 entries; from Bartleby.com.
Human Anatomy Online http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html
Laypersons and professionals can explore the different body systems using anatomy labels that link to illustrations and descriptions; 18-page general anatomy lesson, as well as the Interactive Anatomy with pictures and over 100 animations; created by Informative Graphics Corporation which produces viewing software.
Human Physiology in Space http://www.nsbri.org/HumanPhysSpace/
Information on the complex subject of the how the human body reacts in space; describes effects of radiation and lack of gravity affect human physiology, including the cardiovascular system, blood, fluid regulation, and the muscular, skeletal, sensory, and balance systems; for general science students; based on the high school textbook of the same name, by Barbara F. Lujan and Ronald J. White.
Integrated Medical Curriculum http://imc.gsm.com/integrated/
Designed for medical students but filled with a wealth of information for anyone interested in anatomy and physiology; modules cover gross and microscopic anatomy with good quality illustrations, radiologic anatomy, basic physiology, immunology, and medical ethics; also includes quizzes to aid students; requires free registration.
LifeArt Medical Clip Art http://www.lifeart.com/
Searchable and browsable access to thousands of color, greyscale, and black and white images from two collections (LifeArt and MediClip) that include cardiology, human or veterinary anatomy, clinical Ob/Gyn, emergency medicine, health care, and pediatrics; from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins' Professional Learning System Division.
Vesalius http://vesalius.com/
Detailed collection of anatomical images and surgical techniques;developed for medical students and physicians, primarily surgeons, but of interest to upper-level high school and college biology students; Image Archive currently covers sixteen areas of the human body, and the Clinical Folios section, listed by topic (including: breast, heart, hernia, musculoskeletal, spleen, stomach, surgical knots) includes narrative, sketches, and text illustrating a specific procedure, and transparencies; QuickTime and Shockwave needed for transparencies.
The Visible Human Project http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html
National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project of digitized images of male and female human cadavers scanned using CAT and MRI techniques; frozen sections were photographed digitally; animated head-to-toe trip through the male cyrosections (color MPEG), from the images and animations sampler, is especially worthwhile.
The Virtual Body http://www.medtropolis.com/vbody/
Using Shockwave and Java, the Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation presents an audio-visual tour of the human body; main sections on the Brain, Digestive System, Heart, and Skeleton; also includes short articles on topics from their Health Manual. Note: This site may take a few moments to load.
ZOOLOGY
AmphibiaWeb http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/aw/
Information on over 130 species of amphibia; descriptions, life history information, conservation status, photos, and literature references; photos of over 140 species, range maps of over 300 species, and over 500 bibliographic references; searchable by genus, species, common name, family, and order; linked to the specimen collections at the American Museum of Natural History, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and the California Academy of Sciences.
Animal Diversity Web http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/
Wealth of pictures and information about thousands of animals; shortcuts to birds, mammals, arthropods, amphibians, reptiles, sharks, and bony fishes among others; searchable and browsable; site originally created by students at the University of Michigan for a biology course.
The Interactive Frog Dissection: An Online Tutorial http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/frog/
Interactive site to teach high school students the anatomy of a frog as well as how to dissect it; instructions and photographs are clear; all steps are broken into purpose and procedures and include preparation, muscle and skin incisions, and internal organs; QuickTime required to view some of the steps.
Internet Resource Guide to Zoology http://www.biosis.org/free_resources/resource_guide.html
Index to selected quality Internet resources including: biocomplexity; biodiversity; biological informatics; codes of nomenclature; directories of biologists; general zoology; systematics; taxonomy, and nomenclature.
OceanLink http://oceanlink.island.net/
Searchable; includes information on Marine Biology, Ask a Scientist, a question and answer forum; archive called Salty Science; Ocean Info section with links to information focused on the Pacific Northwest; CareerInfo on Marine Biology; AquaFacts, containing detailed files on Jellyfish, Salmon Aquaculture, Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises, Harbour Seals, Octopus and Squid, Sea Otters and many more; Records, with marine animal records for the largest, smallest, fastest, etc.; a Glossary; and an extensive annotated directory of external links. From the Bamfield Marine Station, Vancouver Island, Canada.
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