Your search for information on Biology and biology related topics and issues can include books, periodical articles, online databases, and authoritative Internet resources.

Try the following Library of Congress Subject Headings to find books in our library. Remember, this list is by no means conclusive. There are many more subject headings related to Biology in the online catalog.

Reference Books are a good starting point for your research because they help you become better acquainted with your topic. Listed below are some reference books that may be useful in your research.

Journal and magazines usually provide the most current information on a topic. Journal articles are more scholarly or professional while magazine articles tend to be shorter and more general. Newspaper articles, while not usually scholarly or professional, can give you the most current news and some additional facts on your topic. The Library has several magazines that focus on biology issues and topics:

American Scientist

Audubon

Biological Bulletin

Bioscience

Discover

Issues in Science & Technology

National Geographic 

National Wildlife 

Natural History

New Scientist

Organic Gardening

Science

Science News

Scientific American

Smithsonian

To find articles on your topic, use one of the online databases listed below. These databases usually provide full-text articles on almost every topic. They are available via the Library Home Page by clicking on Magazines, Journals, Newspapers & More and include many more journal titles than those listed above. Conduct your search in these databases by using subject headings and keywords similar to those you used to locate books.

EBSCOhost

Facts.com

Gale

NewsBank

Proquest Newspapers

For remote access to the library databases, see E-Resource Login & Searching Options.

For historical research, the Library also has print indexes that must be used to find older articles, generally anything published before 1985.

There are many websites which provide "open access" to free electronic journals:

http://www.doaj.org

http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl

http://www.biomedcentral.com

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez/

Agricola
http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/

http://www.freefulltext.com

The Internet can be a valuable source for supplementing the information you have gathered from books and periodicals. It is important that you evaluate the information you get from the Internet to determine if it is reliable and useful to your research. A few Internet sites that you may find useful are listed here.

http://www.biology-online.org/

University of Arizona

http://www.biology.arizona.edu/

http://www.biozone.co.nz/links.html

http://www.dmoz.org

     The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.

http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Biology/

http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/

http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/

http://www.genome.gov/

http://www.nbii.gov/issues/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/

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