Biology
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Internet Sites
- Biology Proficiency Test - about the OCC test
- Human Genome Project Information : Glossary and Science Behind the HGP
- Museum of Bacteria
- NatureServe: An Online Encyclopedia of Life - conservation information on plants, animals, and ecological communities in the U.S. and Canada.
- Online Biology Tutorials
- Public Library of Sciences - See links to full text open access journals in box on right of page.
- Understanding Evolution
- Yahoo > Dissections
- Yale Environment 360 - Opinion, analysis, reporting, debate
Microbiology
- Environmental Protection Agency > EPA Microbiology Home Page
- Microbes.info > Microbiology Information Portal
- Microbial Life - Educational Resources
- ScienceDaily > Microbiology News
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Plants and Animals
- Animal Diversity Web - animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology
- EE-Link:Endangered Species
- North American Mammals - from the Smithsonian
- Plants Database - by the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service
- Plants for a Future - search by name, use, habitat
- Tree of Life Web Project - Diversity of organisms, evolutionary history, and characteristics
Textbook Sites
- Environmental Science - Brooks/Cole for BIO 1500
- Integrated Principles of Zoology - McGraw-Hill for BIO 1540
- Life on Earth - Prentice Hall for BIO 1511
- Life: the Science of Biology - Freeman for BIO 1530
- Microbiology: an Introduction - Pearson/Addison Wesley Longman for BIO 1570
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Articles: Indexes and Full Text
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- AccessScience(McGraw-Hill) Online full-text articles from the Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, definitions from the Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, and the latest news in science and technology from Science News. Included in this resource are many illustrations, images, and videos.
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Beacham's Guide to the Endangered Species of North America
(Gale) This is a full-text reference title from the Gale Virtual
Reference Library:
Beacham, Walton, Frank V. Castronova, and Suzanne Sessine, Eds. Beacham's Guide to the Endangered Species of North America. Detroit: Gale, 2000. - Biology
This is a full-text reference title from the Gale Virtual
Reference Library:
/Robinson, Richard, Ed. Biology. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002. - Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders
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Reference Library:
Blachford, Stacey L., Ed. Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders. Detroit: Gale, 2002. - General Science Collection(Gale) A custom collection of over 200 journals, providing researchers with the information needed to stay current on the latest scientific developments.
- Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
- Online Journals of the Society for General Microbiology
- Science Direct (Elsevier) Full-text generally from 2000s - present, with abstracts much earlier. Online journals in the health sciences and life sciences.
Print Sources
- To find print (and some non-print) materials in OCC Libraries, search the Library Catalog. Some sample Library of Congress Subject Headings searches are:
- bioethics
- Mendel, Gregor
- microbiology
- nature -- effect of human beings on
- Selected Reference Books
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Encyclopedia of Life Sciences.
London : Nature Publishing Group, 2002.
HL, OR Reference QH 302.5 .E54 -
Encyclopedia of Virology.
London : Academic Press, 1999.
HL, OR RO Reference QR 358.E53 - Garrity, George M., ed.
Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology.
New York : Springer, 2001-[2005].
OR, SF Reference QR 81 .B46 2001 - Holt, John G.
Bergey's Manual of Determinative
Bacteriology. Baltimore: Williams &
Wilkins, 1994.
AH, HL, OR, RO, SF Reference QR 81 .A5 - Murray, Patrick R., ed., et al.
Manual of Clinical Microbiology. Washington,
D.C.: ASM Pr., 2007.
OR Reference QR 46 .M425 2007
- Browsing Call Numbers (in Library of Congress Classification)
- QH 301-705 Biology
- QH 426-470 Genetics
- QL Zoology
- QR Microbiology
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