For questions regarding the selection of materials for the collection, please contact Barbara Hedges  at Rodgers Library for Science and Engineering.

For reference assistance or to arrange a library instruction class, also contact Barbara Hedges.

For additional information, see also the following Rodgers Library guides:
Biology Reference Guide: Zoology
Biology Reference Guide: Plants and Fungi 
Biology Reference Guide: Molecular and Cellular Biology

To view this guide, please select one of the following options or scroll down to browse choices:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES [LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION]

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USING THE ONLINE CATALOG

Books - You may use the online catalog [http://library.ua.edu] to obtain the location and call number of print books in the UA Libraries. The catalog will also tell you if UA Libraries has a license for an electronic book. You may search by Book title, Book author or editor (last name first), Keyword, Subject heading, and other options.

Journal title - You may also search by the title of the journal to determine whether the library has a subscription to the journal title, electronically or in print; and which years of a journal title are available electronically and which years are available in print.

UA Theses - You may also use the online catalog to locate UA Master's and Ph. D. theses by searching as an Author the following: university of alabama. dept of (name here).

Click below for lists of UA theses:
• Ph. D. theses in biological sciences and related
• Master's theses in biological sciences and related 
The above lists include theses in 
      biological sciences or biology 1934 to present
      bacteriology 1962 to 1968
      microbiology 1958 to 1990
Display long/detailed form of each entry to view notes field indicating master's thesis or Ph. D. thesis.

Full texts of many University of Alabama dissertations and theses published from 1996 to the present are available in electronic format to UA faculty, staff, and students, in theDissertations & Theses @ the University of Alabama database. The database Dissertations & Theses includes full text of many universities' dissertations and/or the first 24 pages of the dissertations, most beginning with 1996.

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DATABASES AND INDEXES FOR LOCATING JOURNAL ARTICLES, 
  TECHNICAL REPORTS, AND CONFERENCE PAPERS

Need journal articles, technical reports or conference papers? Search these databases and print indexes for citations and/or full text.

Some of the databases will contain full text articles and reports. Some will have links to full text articles and reports. For many databases, the Libraries have configured a button labeledArticle Linker to help you determine if the Libraries has access to a given article or journal title. You may also search the online catalog by journal title to determine whether the Libraries have the journal volume in which a needed article is located.

ACCESS KEY:

UA- - - - - - - - Available to UA campus computers
Remote- - - - -Available via remote access to current UA faculty, staff, and students
Open access - Available to the public

TOP CHOICE DATABASES

Database: BIOSIS Previews 
Coverage: 1955-present
Description: Covers 5,000 journals, as well as non-journal literature from published reports, annual or irregular reviews, books, and patents. It also includes published meeting papers from over 2,000 worldwide conferences and symposia. Subjects include pre-clinical and experimental research methods and instrumentation, animal studies, environmental and consumer issues, as well as other areas in the life sciences. Specific subjects include Biology, General; Neurology; Neuroscience; Physiology; Agronomy; Biochemistry & Biophysics; Cell Biology; Genetics; Zoology; Multidisciplinary Life & Medical Sciences; Earth & Environmental Sciences; Food Science & Technology; Microbiology; Anatomy; Developmental Biology; Plant Sciences; Embryology; Histology; Molecular Biology; Neuroanatomy; Pharmacology; Science,General.
Access: UA, Remote 
Print: Biological Abstracts   SEF REF QH 301 .B37, 1926-1996, and 
Bioresearch Index   SEF REF QH 301 .B37x, 1967-1973

PubMed (National Library of Medicine)
Provides access to over 15 million biomedical journal article citations back to mid-1960's.Open access.

Database: BioOne 
Includes full text of over 50 bioscience research journals, most of which are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers. 2000-present. Access: UA, Remote

Database: Web of Science (Science Citation Index Expanded)
Interdisciplinary database covers major journals in all areas of science and engineering. This database may be searched by subject, author, or cited author. Abstracts are available for most indexed journal articles. 1985-current. Access: UA, Remote
Print: Science Citation Index   SEL REF Z 7401 .S365, 1961, 1965-2001

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MORE DATABASES AND INDEXES

ScienceDirect (Elsevier) 
Full text of most journals from 1995-present, from Elsevier and related publishers. UA's subscription includes full text of selected journals for older years. Database includes abstracts only for most additional years of journals. Some titles and abstracts are available as far back as 1822. Access: UA, Remote

Database: Nature.com (Nature Journals Online) Access: UA, Remote
UA has access to electronic full text of the following titles:
    • Nature (London) available from 1997 to the present on Nature.com
     Other titles available to UA on Nature.com from 1998 or 1999 to present are:
    • Nature Biotechnology
    • Nature Cell Biology
    • Nature Materials
    • Nature Nanotechnology
    • Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Abstracts only are available from this website/database for additional Nature related journal titles. Nature [electronic resource] is available also available full text from Jan 4, 1990 to one year ago in Research Library Complete.
         UA Libraries does not have access to full text of the Nature Reviews titles through Nature.com. Excluding the most recent year for which only abstracts are available, access to 3 to 5 years full text of most Nature Reviews titles is available online from varying start dates to one year ago in Academic Search Premier.The titles available are 
    • Nature Reviews Cancer  
    • Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
    • Nature Reviews Genetics
    • Nature Reviews Immunology
    • Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
    • Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Database: SpringerLink 
Full text coverage varies with journal title. Full text is available from 1997 to present for many Springer journal titles, and from 2005 to 2008 for selected books and book series. SpringerLink is an index to Springer journals and e-books. Provides access to individual book chapters. UA Libraries has purchased full text of Computer Science e-books and book series, Chemistry and Materials Science e-books and book series, and Engineering e-books and book series published by Springer in 2005-2008.
Access: UA, Remote

ASM Journals Online (American Society for Microbiology)
Full text from 1916 to the present. Access: UA, Remote

Science (AAAS) (the electronic journal) is available full text from the Science web site from 1997 to present. UA Libraries subscription includes access to selected material from this site. The older years of Science are available full text from 1880 to 2000 through JSTOR General Science Collection. (JSTOR maintains a 5 full year period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of Science.) Access: UA, Remote

Database: JSTOR

Images of the full text of 185 biological science titles, 48 zoology titles, 8 aquatic science titles, 41 botany and plant science titles, 11 developmental and cell biology titles, and 50 ecology and evolutionary titles. Also includes over 1000 scholarly journals, as well as select monographs. Academic journals comprise the majority of the content in the archive of selected 19th and 20th century journals. Journals are always included from volume 1, issue 1 and include previous and related titles. The most recently published issues (past 3-5 years) are not available. However, users can search this material and link to the publisher's site or other online source for access. Please read about the Moving Wall and Links to Recent Content for more information.

Access: UA, Remote

Agricola (National Agricultural Library (NAL) Catalog)
Indexes book and journals held by the National Agricultural Library.

Database: Dissertations & Theses 
Includes citations (and some abstracts) for dissertations from the first U.S. dissertation in 1861 to the present. A preview of the first 24 pages is provided for most titles published since 1996 in PDF digital format. The full text of most U. S. dissertations and master’s theses from 1996 forward is provided including those written at The University of Alabama. Access:UA, Remote

Catalog of Scientific Papers (1800-1900). Royal Society(Great Britain)
SEL REF Z7403 .R88 19 vols.
Scanned pages available at http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/catalog.php?IdentPerio=NP00188

STILL MORE DATABASES

Additional databases for technical reports, bibliographies, and e-prints are listed in Internet Resources: Bibliographies, Reports, E-prints.

Additional relevant databases may also be found through the UA Libraries database menus for
    • Biology
    • Science
    • All Databases

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REFERENCE WORKS

SEL...........Science and Engineering Library, second floor
SEL REF....Reference Section, on the first floor
red.............Link to electronic book

DICTIONARIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS, AND HANDBOOKS

This section lists selected titles in the following categories:

• Collections of e-books
• General biology
• Alabama and the Southeast
• Aquatic biology and ecology
• Biodiversity and endangered species
• Ecology and environment
• Evolution
• Microbiology
• Bacteria
• Parasitology
• Viruses

Rodgers Library has many more titles in each of these categories. Use the online catalog to locate additional titles.

Collections

Database: Knovel 
This electronic database allows simultaneous searching of books and handbooks which contain engineering information, including data, facts, figures, graphs, equations, illustrations, and charts. One may access handbooks in subject categories, such as biology & microbiology. Handbooks are 1999-current. Access: UA, Remote

Database: CHEMnetBASE (CRC Chemical Databases Online)
This electronic database includes the following titles among others:
   • Dictionary of Natural Products (also included in CCD) 
   • Dictionary of Organic Compounds (also included in CCD)

NetLibrary 
UA purchases selected electronic titles from netLibrary, including books in the biological sciences, such as Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology. The netLibrary titles to which we have access are listed in the library online catalog, with links. For off campus access to UA e-book titles from netLibrary, create a personal netLibrary account while on campus, or while logged into your myBama account.

The Bookshelf (NCBI) 
is a growing collection of electronic biomedical books. • Click for information on how to access the books. Titles include International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria(1990 revision).

General Biology and Ecology

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
SEL REF QH 302.5 .E53 2002, 20 vols.

A Dictionary of Biology. 5th. ed.
SEL QH 302.5 .D5 2004 • Also available as an electronic book in Oxford Reference.

Diversity of life: The Illustrated Guide to the Five Kingdoms
• An electronic book accessible in netLibrary

The Facts on File Dictionary of Biology
SEL REF QH 302.5 .F38 2005

Frontiers Of Life
SEL REF QH302.5 .F76 2002

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Bioscience. 2nd. ed.
SEL REF QH 302.5 .M382 2003

Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms
SEL REF QH 83 .S89, 2 vols.

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Alabama and the Southeast

Alabama Wildlife 
SEL REF QL 606.52.U6 A58 2004, 4 vols.

Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southeastern United States: Dicotyledons
SEL QK 125 .G59

Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southeastern United States: Monocotyledons 
SEL QK 125 .G6

Beachcomber's Guide to Gulf Coast Marine Life: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida 
SEL REF QL 134 .R68 2004

Biodiversity of the Southeastern United States 
SEL QH 104.5.S59 B565 1993 2 vols.

A Birder's Guide to Alabama
SEL QL 684.A2 B57 2001

Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Alabama from the John D. Freeman Herbarium and the University of Alabama Herbarium 
SEL QK 145 .M67 2002

Discovering Alabama Wetlands
SEL QH 105.A2 P48 2002

Ferns of Alabama and Fern Allies
SEL QK 525.5.A4 D4

Field Guide to Coastal Wetland Plants of the Southeastern United States
SEL QK 125 .T55 1993

Fishes of Alabama
SEL QL 628.A2 B67 2004 Shelved at SEL Reserve

Fishes of Alabama and the Mobile Basin
SEL QL 628 .A2 M47 1996

Forest Trees: A Guide to the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic Regions of the United States
SEL REF QK 125 .S26 2003

Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses
SEL REF QK 125 .M55 2005

Guide and Key to Alabama Trees
SEL QK 145 .D39 1999

A Guide to the Birds of the Southeastern States: Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi 
SEL QL 683.S6 R37 2006

Handbook of Mammals of the South-central States 
SEL REF QL 719.S83 C48 1994

Mosses of the Gulf South: from the Rio Grande to the Apalachicola
SEL QK 541.5 .G84 R43 1984

Poisonous Plants and Venomous Animals of Alabama and Adjoining States
SEL QL 100 .G53 1990 •Also available as an electronic book in netLibrary.

The Reptiles and Amphibians of Alabama. 1975.
SEL REF QL 653.A2 M68 •1996 edition available as an electronic book in netLibrary.

Snakes of the Southeast 
SEL QL 666.O6 G35 2005

Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of Northern Florida and Adjacent Georgia and Alabama 
SEL QK154 .G63 1988

Vascular Flora of the Southeastern United States.
SEL QK 125 .V37

Wildflowers of Alabama and Adjoining States
SEL REF QK 145 .D4 (circulating copies also available) • Also available as an electronic book in netLibrary.

Wildflowers of the Central South 
SEL QK 187 .H46 1990 Also available as an electronic book in netLibrary

Wildflowers of the Southeastern United States 
SEL REF QK 124 .L25 2004

Zooplankton of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts: A Guide to their Identification and Ecology 
SEL REF QL 123 .J649 2005

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Aquatic Biology and Ecology

Aquatic Entomology: The Fisherman's and Ecologists' Illustrated Guide to Insects and Their Relatives 
SEL QL 473 .M35

The Biology of Lakes and Ponds. 2nd ed. 
SEL QH 96 .B724 2005

The Biology of Streams and Rivers
SEL QH 541.5 .S7 G55 1998

Discovering Alabama Wetlands
SEL QH 105.A2 P48 2002

The Ecological Basis for River Management
SEL QH 541.5 .S7 E26 1995

Freshwater Algae of North America: Ecology and Classification
SEL QK 570.5 .F74 2003 • Table of contents

In the Realm of Rivers: Alabama’s Mobile-Tensaw Delta
Hoole Library Alabama Collection QH 105.A2 W25 2004 
On order for SEL

National Wetlands: Issues and Developments
SEL QH 76 .N266 2004

The New Encyclopedia of Aquatic Life 
SEL QL 120 .N49 2004, 2 vols

The Rivers Handbook: Hydrological and Ecological Principles: In Two Volumes 
SEL GB 1205 .R57 1992 2 vols.

Rivers of North America. Arthur Benke.
SEL QH 102 .R58 2005 • Table of contents

Rivers of the World: A Social, Geographical, and Environmental Sourcebook
SEL GB 1201.4 .P46 2001

Streams: Their Ecology and Life
SEL QH 541.5.S7 C87 2001

Water Plants of the World: A Manual for the Identification of the Genera of Freshwater Macrophytes
SEL QK 105 .W37

Zoogeography of Fresh Waters
SEL QL141 .B35 1990 3 vols

Zooplankton of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts: A Guide to their Identification and Ecology 
SEL REF QL 123 .J649 2005 • Table of contents

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Biodiversity and Endangered Species

The Atlas of Endangered Species. 2nd ed.
SEL REF QH 75 .A85 1999

Beacham's Guide to the Endangered Species of North America
SEL REF QH 77.N56 B43 2001, 6 vols. • Also available electronically in Gale Virtual Reference Library

Beacham's Guide to International Endangered Species
SEL REF QL 82 .B435 1998, 2 vols.

Biodiversity a Reference Handbook 
An electronic book accessible in netLibrary

Biodiversity of the Southeastern United States 
SEL QH 104.5.S59 B565 1993 2 vols

Encyclopedia of Biodiversity 
SEL REF QH541.15.B56 E53 2001 5 vols

Encyclopedia of Endangered Species. Compiled by the IUCN World Conservation Union
SEL REF QH 75.A1 E53, 2 vols

Life on Earth: An Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Ecology, and Evolution
SEL REF QH 541.15.B56 L54 2002 2 vols.

Rainforests of the World: A Reference Handbook. 2nd. ed. 
SEL QH541.5.R27 G39 2001 • 1st. ed. 1993 available as an electronic book in netLibrary.

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Ecology and Environment

Blackwell's Concise Encyclopedia of Ecology. 1999.
SEL QH 540.4 .B58 1999 • Also available as an electronic book in netLibrary.

The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History
Available as an electronic book in net Library 
Also available in Gorgas Library GF501 .M47 2002

The Concise Lexicon of Environmental Terms: With a List of Scientific Abbreviations and Glossary of Acronyms 
SEL REF K 3584.3 .C66 1995x

A Dictionary of Ecology
SEL REF QH 540.4 .C66 1998 • Also available as an electronic book in netLibrary.

Description of the Ecoregions of the United States
Gorgas Library Gov. Doc. Microforms A 1.38:1391/995 • Also available on the Web.

Dictionary of Ecology and the Environment 
SEL REF QH 540.4 .C65 2001

A Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 
SEL REF QH5 40.4 .L56

The Encyclopedia of Ecology & Environmental Management
SEL REF GE 300 .E53 1998 • Also available as an electronic book in netLibrary.

Encyclopedia of Environmental Biology
SEL REF QH 540.4 .E52 1995, 3 vols.

Encyclopedia of Coastal Science
SEL REF QE 5 .E513 2005

Handbook of Ecological Restoration 
SEL QH 541.15.R45 H36 2002 2 vols.

Rainforests of the World: A Reference Handbook
SEL QH541.5.R27 G39 2001

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Evolution

The Cambridge Dictionary of Human Biology and Evolution 
SEL QP 34.5 .M24 2005 • Table of contents

Encyclopedia of Evolution
SEL REF QH 360.2 .E54 2002, 2 vols.

Handbook of Evolution 
SEL REF B 818 .H36 2004, 2 vols.

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Microbiology

A Clinician's Dictionary of Pathogenic Microorganisms
SEL REF QR 81 .J67 2004

The Desk Encyclopedia of Microbiology
SEL REF QR 9 .D47 2004

The Dictionary of Environmental Microbiology
SEL REF QR 100 .S74 2003

A Dictionary of Virology. 3rd ed. 
SEL QR 358 .M34 2001

Encyclopedia of Environmental Microbiology
SEL REF QR 100 .B58 2002, 6 vols. • Table of contents

Encyclopedia of Microbiology
SEL REF QR 9 .E53 2000, 4 vols. • Table of contents

Handbook of Protoctista: the structure, cultivation, habitats, and life histories of the eukaryotic microorganisms and their descendants exclusive of animals, plants, and fungi: a guide to the algae, ciliates, foraminifera, sporozoa, water molds, slime molds, and the other protoctists 
SEL REF QR 74.5 .H36 1990

Bacteria

Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology
SEL REF QR 81 .B46 2001 vols.1, 2A, 2B, 2C
• Available electronically-- Taxonomic Outline of the Prokaryotes. Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. 2nd ed. (free registration required for online access)

Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology
SEL REF QR 81 .A5 1993 (Ref Desk)

A Field Guide to Bacteria
SEL REF QR100 .D946 2003

Practical Atlas for Bacterial Identification 
SEL REF QR 54 .C85 2000

International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria (1990 revision) available on the Web from NCBI. 
1975 ed. available in print in SEL REF QR 81 .I57

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Parasitology

More resources for parasitology are listed on Rodgers Library Course-related Pages.

Atlas of Human Parasitology. 4th edition. 
SEL REF RC 119 .A8 1997

Encyclopedic Reference of Parasitology 
SEL REF QL 757 .E64 2001, 2 vols.

Essentials of Human Parasitology 
SEL REF RC 119 .H44 2001

The Parasites of Homo Sapiens: An Annotated Checklist of the Protozoa, Helminths, and Arthropods for Which We are Home
SEL REF QR 251 .A83 2003

Parasites of Medical Importance 
• Available as an electronic book in netLibrary

Viruses

A Dictionary of Virology. 3rd ed. 
SEL QR 358 .M34 2001

Virus Taxonomy: Classification and Nomenclature of Viruses: Seventh Report of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
SEL REF QR 394 .I58 2000 • Table of contents

More online dictionaries and encyclopedias in 
Internet Resources: Reference

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LITERATURE GUIDES

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STYLE MANUALS, PUBLISHING, MEETINGS

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INTERNET RESOURCES

ORGANIZATIONS

• Scholarly Societies in Biology & Environment

Alabama and Regional

• UA Student Chapter of the Tri-Beta National Biological Honor Society
       • JOSHUA: Journal of Science and Health at the University of Alabama
• Alabama Fisheries Association
• Conservation Alabama 
• Alabama Environmental Council
• Alabama Rivers Alliance
• Association of Southeastern Biologists
• Cahaba River Society
• Desert Fishes Council
• Gulf Estuarine Research Society
• Southeast Aquatic Research Institute (related to or aka, Tennessee Aquarium Research Institute (TNARI))
• Southeastern Estuarine Research Society
• Southeastern Fishes Council
• Wild South

The Americas

• American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) 
AIBS partners with the Natural Science Collections Alliance (NSC Alliance) with around 300 combined member societies or scientific organizations. 
List of groups begins more than halfway down the web page.

Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) 
Member Societies
       • The American Physiological Society (APS)
       • American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)
       • American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET)
       • American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP)
       • American Society for Nutritional Sciences (ASNS)
       • The American Association of Immunologists (AAI)
       • Biophysical Society
       • American Association of Anatomists (AAA)
       • The Protein Society
       • The American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR)
       • American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI)
       • The Endocrine Society
       • The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)
       • Society for Developmental Biology (SDB)
       • American Peptide Society
       • Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities
       • Society for the Study of Reproduction
       • Teratology Society
       • Radiation Research Society
       • Society for Gynecologic Investigation
       • Environmental Mutagen Society
       • International Society for Computational Biology
       • Association of American Physicians

• American Fisheries Society
• American Microscopical Society 
• American Society for Microbiology
• American Society of Cell Biology
• American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
• American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO)
• American Society of Mammalogists
• American Society of Naturalists
• American Society of Plant Taxonomists
• Association of Ecosystem Research Centers
       UA's Center for Freshwater Studies is one of 43 members.
• The Botanical Society of America
• Ecological Society of America
• Entomological Society of America
• Estuarine Research Federation
Regional affiliates are from Canada, U.S., and Mexico.
• National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST)
• National Association of Biology Teachers
• North American Benthological Society 
• Phycological Society of America
• Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society of North America
• Society for Industrial Microbiology 
• Society for Conservation Biology
• Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine
• Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
• Society for the Study of Evolution
• Society of Systematic Biologists
• Society of Wetland Scientists

United Kingdom

• Freshwater Biological Association (UK) 
• British Phycological Society

International

• International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS)
This web site lists the over 100 member societies of IUBS.       

• International Phycological Society 
• International Society of Protistologists
• International Seaweed Association

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DIRECTORIES AND SEARCH ENGINES

• WWW Virtual Library: Biosciences
• All the Virology on the WWW
• Open Directory Project: Science/Biology/

• Biodiversity and Biological Collections
• Biology-Online.org
• Intute: Health and Life Sciences
• Biological Science Links (SUNY Albany)
• Biology Browser
• Central Southwest/Gulf Coast Information Node (NBII)
• CSUBIOWEB
• Freshwater Life
• Guide to Aquatic Science Literature (Fogler LIbrary) 
• Infomine Scholarly Internet Resources: Biological, Agricultural, & Medical Sciences 
• Information Resources for Biology: Botany, Ecology, Evolution, Marine Biology, Zoology (UCSB)
• Internet Public Library: Life Sciences
• Microbe Library (ASM)
• A Moment of Science
• Open Directory Project: Regional: North America: United States: Alabama: Science and Environment
• Open Directory Project: Regional: North America: United States: Regions: South and Southeast: Science and Environment
• Southern Appalachian Information Node (NBII)
Gateway to Southern Appalachian biodiversity information. 
• SCIRUS: For Scientific Information
• Wetland Web Links 
• ISI Highly Cited - A search tool to identify individuals, departments, and laboratories that have recently made major contributions to current science and technology.

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ALERT SERVICES AND CURRENT AWARENESS

ScienceDirect
Register or log in at the top right of the main page. Search for a journal and choose Alert Me when new Journal Issues are available. You can also create a Favorite Journals list. Or perform a search and click on Save as Search Alert.

Web of Science
• Register first time and log in at the top right of ISI Web of Knowledge Home page.
• Click on Open Saved Searches or Citation Alerts from the top right of the ISI Web of Knowledge Home page, from the beginning Web of Science page, or from the Web of Science Advanced Search page.
• Citation Alerts: Receive an email when an article of interest is cited in WoS. In the full record of the article of interest, click on Create Citation Alert.

Wiley InterScience
• Register or log in at the top right of main page. 
• Search for a journal and click on Set E-Mail Alert.
• Perform a search and click on Save Search. Activate alert.

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FUNDING SOURCES

• Community of Science (COS) Available to UA faculty and research staff to search for funding opportunities. Access: log into COS Workbench with individual user names and passwords received from the UA Office of Sponsored Programs (348-5152).
• NIH Grants and Funding Opportunities
       • Career Award Wizard 
• Grants.gov
• NSF Active Funding Opportunities

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BIBLIOGRAPHIES, REPORTS, AND E-PRINTS

• Animals, Plants, and Other Organisms (from Scence.gov)
• Center for Conservation Biology Technical Reports
• Cooperative Research Centre for the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area Technical Reports
• Virtual Technical Reports Center 
• E-print Network: Energy, science, and technology for the research community!

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REFERENCE

• Alabama NRCS Program Information
• Aquatic Fauna in Peril: The Southeastern Perspective
• Biodiversity Glossary of Terms 
• Biology Dictionaries 
• Biology Resources (USGS)
• Encyclopedia of the Earth Wiki-based encyclopedia published by the Environmental Information Coalition (EIC) of the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE), Washington D.C., USA. 
• Freshwater Life 
• Gulf Coast's Ecological Heritage at Risk (Union of Concerned Scientists)
• Gulfbase: Resource Database for the Gulf of New Mexico 
• Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network
• IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (IUCN is the World Conservation Union formerly International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.) 
• Kimball's Biology Pages
• Listing of Threatened and Endangered Species in Alabama 
• Listing of Alabama Species on the Federal List for Threatened and Endangered Species
• National Biological Information Infrastructure
• National Wetlands Inventory
• Southern Appalachian Information Node (SAIN)
   Part of the National Biological Information Infrastructure
• Wild World (National Geographic) Interactive maps: Global 2000 (conservation) and Terrestrial Ecosystems of the World
• Tree of Life web project 
• UA Career Center: Biology 
• AlgaeBASE

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DATA

• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Biological Data Sources 
• Treebase: A Database of Phylogenetic Knowledge
• Phylogeny Programs 
Software packages for phylogeny

PATENTS

• USPTO Patent Databases (bibliographic, citation, and full text data, 1976)
• USPTO Patent Application Information Retrieval Search patent application status by patent number. 
• Patent Lens from CAMBIA / BIOS (Biological Innovation for Open Society)
http://www.bios.net/daisy/bios/50
Free Full-text Life Science Patent Database
• DNA Patent Database (Georgetown University)

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PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND BIOETHICS

• Online Ethics Center at the National Academy for Engineering
• Codes of Ethics Online: Science (Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions)
• CSE's White Paper on Promoting Integrity in Scientific Journal Publications
• International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility
• International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility
• Ethics (National Society of Professional Engineers)
• Office of Research Integrity 
• Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions (IU Bloomington)

• Bioethics.net
Produced by the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. It includes current articles in full text from the American Journal of Bioethics online as well as tables of contents of other ethics journals. Updated daily with today’s bioethics headlines.
• Intute Bioethicsweb (UK)
• CODEX Rules & Guidelines for Research
• Estuarine Research Federation Code of Ethics
Code begins halfway down the web page.
• Google Directory: Environmental Ethics
• Open Directory Project: Bioethics

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HISTORY

• Ecology Hall of Fame 
    • Timetable of the American environmental movement
• Google/Science/Biology/History/
• History of Biology (from HistoryWorld) 
• Ecology Hall of Fame
• Library of Congress American Memory Project: Environment and Conservation
    • Evolution of the Conservation Movement 
    • Ecology and the American Environment
    • Reclaiming the Everglades
• Rachel Carson
• The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online

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COURSES AND TUTORIALS

• MIT OpenCourseWare - Biology
• World Lecture Hall 
Browse by area: biology/botany
• BiosciEdNet (BEN)
• Bama Undergraduate Information Literacy Tutorial (BUILT) for Sciences (Rodgers Library for Science and Engineering)

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INTERLIBRARY LOAN

University of Alabama faculty, staff, and students may use UA Libraries Interlibrary Loan to borrow materials not owned or licensed by the University of Alabama Libraries. See the Interlibrary Loan Department web page, “Frequently Asked Questions about Interlibrary Loan”for more information. Requests are made electronically at[http://illserver.lib.ua.edu/illiad/logon.html].

Requested journal articles are sent to your email address. Books are picked up at the Service Desk at Gorgas Library, Floor 2.

Revised 09/08

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