Background Information
Tip: Use an encyclopedia for a quick overview, to develop vocabulary for searching, and to find other sources.
Access ScienceOneSearch
From: McGraw Hill
McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.
EBSCO Animals
From: EBSCOhost
In-depth information on topics relating to animals, including nature and habitat.
MEDLINEplusOneSearch
Information for health professionals and consumers from the National Institutes of Health. Includes a list of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia, health information in Spanish, information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to clinical trials.
Articles (magazines / journals)
Recommended databases
Biology Digest
From: OCLC FirstSearch
Coverage: 1989 - present
Provides detailed abstracts written in a nontechnical style for students and interested nonscientists. Conveys solid,
factual information useful to life scientists exploring areas outside their specialties.
BioOneOneSearch
From: Amigos
A uniquely valuable aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals.
BioOne Abstracts and Indexes
From: CSA
Additional tools for searching the BioOne database.
General Science AbstractsOneSearch
From: EBSCOhost
Coverage: 1984 - present
Abstracts of articles in professional and general interest science periodicals.
Web of Science (ISI Citation Databases)
From: Institute for Scientific Research (ISI)
Coverage: 1988 - current
The Web of Science provides access to the three major citation indexes:
Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Index. You may search one or all databases at one time. For search help
you may access a Web of Science tutorial.
These databases cover a number of topics related to biology.
AGRICOLAOneSearch
From: USDA, The National Agricultural Library
Coverage: 1970 - present
Contains citations to agricultural literature from as early as the 15th century. Fields include animal and
veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems,
agricultural economics, extensions and education, food and human nutrition and earth and environmental sciences.
ACS Journals Search
From: The American Chemical Society
Searchable index of all ACS publications. Copies of articles not owned by Meredith libraries may be
ordered. Click here to request an article.
GEOBASE
From: OCLC FirstSearch
Coverage 1980 - present
Worldwide literature on geography, geology, and ecology.
GreenFILE
From: EBSCOhost
A bibliographic database of information about environmental concerns,
this resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment.
National Geographic Index
Website from: National Geographic
Contains records describing each magazine article, book, map, video, CD-ROM, etc. produced by the National Geographic Society.
PubMedOneSearch
From: U.S. National Library of Medicine
Core database of articles of everything medical published by the National Library of Medicine. Two different search
interfaces are available, PubMed and Highwire.
Citations to articles that are primarily general science, general chemistry, and life sciences are also included in PubMed.
Use the Pubmed Overview Sheet or the
PubMed Tutorial for more information.
PubMed Central
Full text of more than 160 open access biomedical, chemistry, and life sciences journals.
SpringerLinkOneSearch
A premier resource for researchers in biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities, and economics.
Wiley InterScienceOneSearch
A quality collection of peer reviewed journals; hosts many of the core journal titles in their respective fields. Use the Subject List
to access a list of subject areas and titles.
General databases that may be useful
Academic Search Premier
From:EBSCOhost
The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications.
Offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 8,200 journals as well as information in nearly every area of academic study.
General OneFile OneSearch
From: Gale
A source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics, including business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues,
health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, and technology.
Research Library
From: Proquest
Search for journal articles on various topics including arts, business, humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
Includes The New York Times , USA Today , Barron's, and The Wall Street Journal.
Books
To find books on a particular topic or by a particular author or title, search the
Meredith Library Catalog.
To browse the stacks for biology books, go to:
- 570 (Life Sciences, biology)
- 580 (Plants)
- 590 (Animals)
NetLibrary
Provides easy access to the full text of more than 10,000 reference, scholarly, and professional books.
WorldCAT
Website from: OCLC
Search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world.
Two different search interfaces are available, WorldCAT (new user-friendly website from OCLC)
and WorldCAT (OCLC First Search)
Other Libraries
Link to libraries in the Triangle, North Carolina, and all over the world.
Dictionaries
The Cambridge Dictionary of Human Biology and Evolution (ebook)
Mai, Larry L.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
A Dictionary of Biology (ebook)
Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Internet Resources
Biodiversity Hotspots
From: Conservation International and The Center for Applied Biodiversity Science
Biodiversity: Measuring the Variety of Nature
From: Natural History Museum, London
Biology Links
From: Harvard University
Integrated Taxonomic Information System
Here you will find authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world. The ITIS is the result of a partnership of
federal agencies formed to satisfy their mutual needs for scientifically credible taxonomic information.
Index to Organism Names (ION)
ION contains all the animal, plant, and virus names data found within the Thomson BIOSIS literature databases - Zoological Record ® , BIOSIS Previews ® and Biological Abstracts ®. Bacteria names will be added soon.
National Center for Biotechnology Information
National Human Genome Research Institute
From: National Institutes of Health
Includes a link to ELSI (Ethical, Legal and Social Implications)
NCBI Taxonomy Homepage
Plants National Database
From: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Scirus
Scirus is a comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet.
The Tree of Life Web Project
The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists from around the orld.
On more than 9000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth,
their evolutionary history and characteristics.
