Biology
FIND ARTICLES Academic and Scholarly Articles
CSA Biological Sciences  1982-present; updated monthly Citations and abstracts to research in all areas of biological sciences, including biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology, and ecology. Coverage is from 1982 to the present. CSA Biological Sciences indexes over 6,000 primary journals plus patents, conference proceedings, books and reports. |
| CSA Discovery Guides Discovery Guides brief you in the basics of a subject and offer recent insights, while providing the technological tools to enhance your understanding. Each guide links to CSA products that help you find pertinent information, discover publishing opportunities, identify scholars, and create a personal database. |
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Collection  This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines and indexing and abstracts for another approximately 850 journals. It also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names. |
| JSTOR 1831-present, varies by title Full-text backfiles to almost 850 scholarly journals from more than 25 academic disciplines published between the 19th and 21st centuries in the JSTOR Arts & Sciences I - IV, Arts & Sciences VII, and Biological Sciences collections. JSTOR provides complete journal backruns from the date of initial publication up to a "moving wall" of 3 to 5 years before the present year. |
| MEDLINE The National Library of Medicine's index to scholarly literature in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine and the health care system, from 1994-present. MEDLINE links to the CSA interface; this database can also be searched through the NLM's free PubMed web interface. |
| Plant Science 1994-present; updated monthly Indexes literature from 1994-present on pathology, symbiosis, biochemistry, and genetics. |
| PubMed 1966-present The primary source for scholarly information in the health sciences. This database is provided by the National Library of Medicine and indexes scholarly literature in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Many links to full text are included for articles older than six months. Most of this database may also be searched in the CSA interface as MEDLINE. |
| ScienceDirect 1823-present, varies by title Elsevier's scientific database for finding journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals and more than 11,000 books. Doane supplies full-text access to five journals via ScienceDirect: Animal Behaviour, Cell, The Lancet, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, and Molecular Cell. |
| TOXLINE 2000-present; updated weekly The National Library of Medicine's index to scholarly literature in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. This version of TOXLINE does not contain information from Chemical Abstracts Service, BIOSIS, or International Pharmaceutical Abstracts. |
Electronic Journal Collections
| ASM Journals 1916-present Full text articles from the journals published by the American Society for Microbiology. |
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| BioOne 1998-present, varies by title Provides a unique aggregation of bioscience research journals from independent society and organizational publishers in the biological sciences, featuring timely content on a wide-array of today’s most pressing topics, including global warming, stem cell research, ecological and biodiversity conservation. Full-text access is available for the 87 titles in BioOne.1 and 12 titles in BioOneOA (open access). |
| PLoS - Public Library of Science 2003-present; varies by title Seven open-access journals from a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. Articles in these journals also may be searched through PubMed Central. |
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| PubMed Central early 1900s-present, varies by title Free full text scholarly journal archive of literature in the life and health sciences, managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). |
Electronic Journal Titles
| American Journal of Botany |
| American Naturalist |
| Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy |
| Applied and Environmental Microbiology |
| Biological Bulletin |
| BioScience |
| Cell (Cell Press) |
| Clinical and Vaccine Immunology |
| Clinical Microbiology Reviews |
| Eukaryotic Cell |
| Infection and Immunity |
| JAMA |
| Journal of Bacteriology |
| Journal of Clinical Microbiology |
| Journal of Virology |
| The Lancet |
| The Lancet Infectious Diseases |
| Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews |
| Molecular and Cellular Biology |
| Molecular Cell |
| New England Journal of Medicine |
| Quarterly Review of Biology |
General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
| Academic Search Complete 1887-present; updated daily The world's most comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, Academic Search Complete indexes more than 11,200 journals, and provides full text for more than 7,100 full-text periodicals, including more than 6,100 peer-reviewed journals. Includes PDF content going back as far as 1887. Searchable cited references provided for more than 1,300 journals. |
| OmniFile Full Text Mega 1982-present Multi-disciplinary database for full-text articles from over 1,750 publications, and abstracts and citations for over 3,500 publications in subjects that include education, general science, social sciences, business, art, etc. |
FIND BOOKS
Online Catalogs
| Doane's Online Library Catalog A shared catalog of 10 Nebraska private-college libraries, including Perkins Library at Doane College. Search one library or all 10 by selecting from "Library" drop-down list. |
| WorldCat 1000 CE-present; updated daily Includes over 40 million bibliographic records representing cataloged resources in 400 languages owned by libraries around the world. Materials date back to the 11th century. Owning libraries can be identified for books, journals, archival resources and electronic resources. The database can also be searched through its free web interface, at worldcat.org. |
REFERENCE SOURCES
Dissertations and Theses
| WorldCat Dissertations and Theses updated daily Index of over 8 million dissertations, theses and published material based on theses cataloged by member libraries, including all subjects. |
General Reference Works
| Oxford Reference Online Over 100 full text language and subject dictionaries and reference works. Topics covered include general reference, language, science and medicine, humanities, social sciences, and business. |
WEBSITES*
General Information
| Online Biology Book Lectures covering basic chemistry, cellular biology, genetics, thermodynamics, protein synthesis, plants and structure, animal organ systems (integumentary, respiratory, etc.), evolutionary theory, and biological diversity, and more. |
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| Science.gov: Biology & Nature a directory of government-funded information sources. |
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| Scirus A search engine for science web sites and journal articles (which may not be available for free). |
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| Scitable A free science library and personal learning tool currently concentrating on genetics and cell biology, plus advice about effective science communication and career paths. |
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| WWW Virtual Library: Bio Sciences Links to information on biodiversity, botany, medicine, zoology, and more. |
Audio and Visual Resources
| EcoPort Contains over 13,000 photographs and over 75,000 species records (memes). |
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| Listen to Nature from the British Library, offers 150,000 animal sounds that can be browsed by location, animal type, or habitat. For best results, use an advanced search of the catalog and limit to wildlife sounds. |
Biodiversity and Conservation
| Amphibiaweb From Berkeley's Digital Library Project, offers information about amphibian species, including distribution maps, sound files, photographs, and references to relevant biological research. |
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| Animal Diversity Web From the University of Michigan's Museum of Zoology. Animals are classified by phylum, order, class and family. Searchable. |
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| Encyclopedia of Life The goal of this Website is to create a Web page for every living organism that includes "taxonomy, geographic distribution, collections, genetics, evolutionary history, morphology, behavior, ecological relationships, and importance for human well being." Within ten years the project hopes to have pages for some 1.8 million organisms. Some of the contents come from other Websites such as the Animal Diversity Web. |
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| Plants Database From the USDA's National Resources Conservation Service, provides basic information about plants growing in the US, including images, species abstracts, growth distribution, growth data, and more. Includes sections on "culturally significant" plants and invasive species. |
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| SORA: Searchable Ornithological Research Archive indexes the contents of seven journals covering ornithology from their first issue to 1999, including free access to the full text of their articles. |
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| Tree of Life A multi-authored Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity. |
Biotechnology
| National Center for Biotechnology Information Contains searchable databases for information on molecules, genomes, sequences, and more general biology literature. |
Developmental Biology
| Virtual Library: Developmental Biology Includes a subject index, organism index, societies/organizations index, journals/publishers index and more. |
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| Listen to Nature from the British Library, offers 150,000 animal sounds that can be browsed by location, animal type, or habitat. For best results, use an advanced search of the catalog and limit to wildlife sounds. |
Online Documents/Reports
| DOE Information Bridge Free access to Department of Energy (DOE) research and development reports, some of which relate to biology and environmental sciences. |
*Descriptions for websites are from the Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library at Gustavus Adolphus College.