Many of the online resources listed on this page are for UAkron students, faculty, and staff only.
For detailed information on connecting from off-campus, see: Connecting to Online Resources.

Article Indexes and Abstracts

• AGRICOLA   a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators.
• AccessScience  online version of the Encyclopedia of Science and Technology covering thousands of articles and dictionary terms,biographies, news items and updates, thousands of articles and dictionary terms, and research guides in various areas of science and technology.
• Biological Abstracts  indexes and abstracts for international biological and biomedical journals.
• Biology Abstracts (BIOSIS)  the electronic counterpart to Biological Abstracts.
• Dissertation Abstracts  (Digital Dissertations) allows online access to citations and abstracts for the DissertaionAbstracts database.
• GPO Monthly Catalog  Government Publications
• History of Science and Technology  Citations to journal articles, conference proceedings, dissertations, and books and book reviews on the history of science. Indexing covers 1976-present (history of science) and 1987- present
• MEDLINE- current years (1977-present) is produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and is the premier index for world-wide coverage of the biomedical literature. Included is information from the print International Nursing Index. Coverage is for more than 3,600 journals. Abstracts are available for nearly 70% of the records. Updated monthly.
• MEDLINE- complete database (1966-present)

  Note: AIDSLINE, BioEthics, and HealthStar data bases are now included in MEDLINE.

• PUBMED is NLM's free version of MEDLINE. It contains links to the full-text versions of articles at participating publishers' Web sites and access to PREMEDLINE basic citation information and abstracts before full records are prepared and added to MEDLINE. PREMEDLINE is updated daily.
• Science Citation Index Expanded  Indexes 5,300 major journals across 164 disciplines including biochemistry, biology, 1980- present.
• State Acedemies of Science Abstracts   summaries of research of the 50 state academies of sciences.
• Water Resources Abstracts  summaries of the world's latest technical and scientific literature of water-related topics, covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources. 1992- present.
  

• See the list of Article Indexes and Databases for more selections.

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Journals

• Browse ZipLINK for a list of electronic journals  subscribed to by the University of Akron Libraries.
• Browse ZipLINK for a list of OhioLINK electronic journals.

• List of Electronic Biology-Related Journals found in ZipLINK
• ZipLINK  has approximately 300 Biology-Related Periodicals.

• JSTOR An electronic archive of complete scholarly journal backfiles.
• List of JSTOR'S General Science Collection
• List of JSTOR's Ecology and Botany Collection

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Bibliographies

• National Institutes of Health Current Bibliographies in Medicine  Each bibliography covers a subject area of biomedicine. May be downloaded for free.

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Reference Resources (Handbooks, Encyclopedias, etc.)

Encyclopedias

• Concise Encyclopedia Biology / Science Reference QH302.5 .A2313 1996
• Encyclopedia of human biology 8v. / Science Reference QP11 .E53 1997
• Encyclopedia of molecular biology and molecular medicine 6 v. / Science Reference QH506 .E534 1996
• AccessScience:   an online encyclopedia of science and technology. AccessScience contains encyclopedia articles, dictionary terms, biographies, research updates, and science news.

  Dictionaries

• CRC world dictionary of plant names : common names, scientific names, eponyms, synonyms, and etymology 4v / Science Reference QK13 .Q38 2000
• A Dictionary of Genetics / Science Reference QH427 .K55 1997
• The Facts on File Dictionary of Biology / Science Reference QH13 .T66 1999
• Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology / Science Reference QD415.A25 O946 2000

  Handbooks

• Gray's Anatomy, 37th edition / Science Reference QM23.2.G73 1989
• Gray's Anatomy online
• Handbook of molecular and cellular methods in biology and medicine /Science Reference QH506 .K38 1995
• Clinical genetics handbook /Science Reference RB155 .C5726 1993

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Internet Resources - General

• BioChemNet  a guide to the best biology and chemistry resources on the web.
• The Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server  information of interest to systematists and other biologists.
• Harvard University's Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology  a virtual library for bioscience.
• INFOMINE  Biological, Agricultural and Medical Sciences: a virtual library indexing over 23,000 links to databases, electronic journals, guides to the Internet.
• University of Arizona's Biology project  an online interactive resource for learning biology.
• Molecular Biology Desk ReferenceVirology.net  describes itself as "All the Virology on the WWW."

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Internet Resources - Government

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: CDC  the lead health aand safety federal agency whose focus is disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion.
• Molecular Biology Desk Reference  from the National Institutes of Health.
• National Center for Biotechnology Information  from the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, a national resource for molecular biology information.
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) genetic sequence database  an extensive collection of DNA sequences.
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)  an agency within the U.S. Commerce Department's Technology Administration, its mission is to develop and promote measurements, standards, and technology.
• U.S. Department of Agriculture  has links pertaining to biotechnology, food and agriculture policy, and news.

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Associations and Professional Organizations

• Beta Beta Beta Biological Honor Society  University of Akron Chapter
• Biology Club  University of Akron
• American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS)
• American Society for Microbiology
• FASEB (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology)
• Society for Conservation Biology

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Grants, Fellowships, etc.

• Cancer Research Institute  grants in the area of cancer immunology
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)  Funding Opportunities
• Community of Science  Research and Development site which links to more than 400,000 funding opportunities.
• GrantsNet  grant information from the Department of Health and Human Services
• Helen Hay Whitney Foundation  supports postdoctoral research training in all of the basic biomedical sciences
• National Institutes of Health  grant opportunities at the National Center for Research Resources.
• National Library of Medicine (NLM)  Extramural Grants and Contracts
• National Science Foundation  funds research and education in science and engineering.

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News from the Field

• BIOSCI/bionet  electronic newsgroup network for Biology
• National Biological Information Infrastructure (nbii)  Biology in the news
• United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)   publications, reports, and press releases
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)  publications and press releases

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Related Subject Areas

• Nursing
• Bioengineering
• Geology

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U of A Dept. of Biology

• Department of Biology

Librarian for Biology

• Subject Librarian - Jo Ann Calzonetti

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Updated: 3 April 2002
Page created by: Christen Cardina
Contact: Jo Ann Calzonetti
©The University of Akron, 2002