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Biology Reference Guide: Zoology
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Looking for books on biological sciences topics? Here's where to look in Rodgers Library:
QH 1-705
Natural history, biology QL 1-991 Zoology QH 1-278.5 General natural history QL 1-355 General zoology QH 201‑278.5 Microscopy QL 360‑599.82 Invertebrates QH 359-425 Evolution QL 605-739.8 Chordates, vertebrates QH 426-470 Genetics QL 750-795 Animal behavior and psychology QH 471-489 Reproduction QL 801-950.9 Comparative anatomy QH 501-531 Life QL 951-991 Embryology QH 540-549.5 Ecology QH 573-671 Cytology QM 1-695
Human anatomy QH 705-705.5 Economic biology QP 1-981 Physiology QK 1-989 Botany
QP 1-345 General QK 1-474.5 General QP 351-495 Neurophysiology, Neuropsychology QK 474-495 Spermatophyta, Phanerogams QP 501-801 Animal Biochemistry QK 504-638 Crytogams QP 901-981 Experimental Pharmacology QK 640-673 Plant anatomy QK 710-899 Plant physiology QR 1-502 Microbiology QK 900-989 Plant ecology QR 180-189.5 Immunology QK 930‑938 Physiographic regions QR 301-327 Micro-organisms of animals QK 980‑989 Evolution of plants QR 355-502 Virology Z 5320 Biology Bibliography Z 6704 Microscopy Bibliography Z 5351 Botany Bibliography Z 6828 Nature Bibliography Z 6662 Anatomy and Physiology Bibliography Z 7991 Zoology Bibliography You may also find related books in the Library of Congress classification for agriculture.
S 1‑954 Agriculture (General) SF 1‑1100 Animal Culture SB 1-998 Plant Culture SH 1-661 Aquaculture, fisheries SD 1‑668 Forestry SK 1-579 Hunting
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 the Dissertations & 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.
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 labeled Article 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
Database: Biological Abstracts
Largest index with abstracts covering research journals in the biological sciences. 1969-current. Access: UA, Remote
Print: Biological Abstracts SEF REF QH 301 .B37, 1926-1996Database: Biological Abstracts/RRM (Reports/Reviews/Meetings)
Companion index to Biological Abstracts. 1989-current. Access: UA, Remote
Print: Bioresearch Index SEF REF QH 301 .B37x, 1967-1973PubMed (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, RemoteDatabase: 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, 1965-2001Database: Biological & Agricultural Index Plus
Indexes 312 scientific English language journals. 1983-current. Access: UA, Remote
Print: Biological & Agricultural Index
SEL REF Z 5073 .A46, 1964/65 - 1995/96ScienceDirect (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, RemoteDatabase: 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 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 NeuroscienceASM Journals Online (American Society for Microbiology)
Full text from 1916 to the present. Access: UA, RemoteScience (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
Includes full text of selected 19th and 20th century journals in botany and plant sciences, ecology and evolutionary biology, general science, and history of science and technology, among other disciplines. Does not include the latest 3 to 5 years of current titles. Access: UA, RemoteAgricola (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, RemoteCatalog 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=NP00188Additional 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 DatabasesSEL...........Science and Engineering Library, second floor
SEL REF....Reference Section, on the first floor
red.............Link to electronic bookDICTIONARIES, 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.
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, RemoteDatabase: 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).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 netLibraryThe Facts on File Dictionary of Biology
SEL REF QH 302.5 .F38 2005Frontiers Of Life
SEL REF QH302.5 .F76 2002McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Bioscience. 2nd. ed.
SEL REF QH 302.5 .M382 2003Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms
SEL REF QH 83 .S89, 2 vols.Alabama Wildlife
SEL REF QL 606.52.U6 A58 2004, 4 vols.Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southeastern United States: Dicotyledons
SEL QK 125 .G59Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southeastern United States: Monocotyledons
SEL QK 125 .G6Beachcomber's Guide to Gulf Coast Marine Life: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida
SEL REF QL 134 .R68 2004Biodiversity 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 2001Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Alabama from the John D. Freeman Herbarium and the University of Alabama Herbarium
SEL QK 145 .M67 2002Discovering Alabama Wetlands
SEL QH 105.A2 P48 2002Ferns of Alabama and Fern Allies
SEL QK 525.5.A4 D4Field Guide to Coastal Wetland Plants of the Southeastern United States
SEL QK 125 .T55 1993Fishes of Alabama
SEL QL 628.A2 B67 2004 Shelved at SEL ReserveFishes of Alabama and the Mobile Basin
SEL QL 628 .A2 M47 1996Forest Trees: A Guide to the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic Regions of the United States
SEL REF QK 125 .S26 2003Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses
SEL REF QK 125 .M55 2005Guide and Key to Alabama Trees
SEL QK 145 .D39 1999A Guide to the Birds of the Southeastern States: Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi
SEL QL 683.S6 R37 2006Handbook of Mammals of the South-central States
SEL REF QL 719.S83 C48 1994Mosses of the Gulf South: from the Rio Grande to the Apalachicola
SEL QK 541.5 .G84 R43 1984Poisonous 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 2005Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of Northern Florida and Adjacent Georgia and Alabama
SEL QK154 .G63 1988Vascular Flora of the Southeastern United States.
SEL QK 125 .V37Wildflowers 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 2004Zooplankton of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts: A Guide to their Identification and Ecology
SEL REF QL 123 .J649 2005Aquatic Entomology: The Fisherman's and Ecologists' Illustrated Guide to Insects and Their Relatives
SEL QL 473 .M35The Biology of Lakes and Ponds. 2nd ed.
SEL QH 96 .B724 2005The Biology of Streams and Rivers
SEL QH 541.5 .S7 G55 1998Discovering Alabama Wetlands
SEL QH 105.A2 P48 2002The Ecological Basis for River Management
SEL QH 541.5 .S7 E26 1995Freshwater Algae of North America: Ecology and Classification
SEL QK 570.5 .F74 2003 • Table of contentsIn the Realm of Rivers: Alabama’s Mobile-Tensaw Delta
Hoole Library Alabama Collection QH 105.A2 W25 2004
On order for SELNational Wetlands: Issues and Developments
SEL QH 76 .N266 2004The New Encyclopedia of Aquatic Life
SEL QL 120 .N49 2004, 2 volsThe 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 contentsRivers of the World: A Social, Geographical, and Environmental Sourcebook
SEL GB 1201.4 .P46 2001Streams: Their Ecology and Life
SEL QH 541.5.S7 C87 2001Water Plants of the World: A Manual for the Identification of the Genera of Freshwater Macrophytes
SEL QK 105 .W37Zoogeography of Fresh Waters
SEL QL141 .B35 1990 3 volsZooplankton of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts: A Guide to their Identification and Ecology
SEL REF QL 123 .J649 2005 • Table of contentsThe Atlas of Endangered Species. 2nd ed.
SEL REF QH 75 .A85 1999Beacham'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 LibraryBeacham's Guide to International Endangered Species
SEL REF QL 82 .B435 1998, 2 vols.Biodiversity a Reference Handbook
An electronic book accessible in netLibraryBiodiversity of the Southeastern United States
SEL QH 104.5.S59 B565 1993 2 volsEncyclopedia of Biodiversity
SEL REF QH541.15.B56 E53 2001 5 volsEncyclopedia of Endangered Species. Compiled by the IUCN World Conservation Union
SEL REF QH 75.A1 E53, 2 volsLife 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.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 2002The Concise Lexicon of Environmental Terms: With a List of Scientific Abbreviations and Glossary of Acronyms
SEL REF K 3584.3 .C66 1995xA 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 2001A Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
SEL REF QH5 40.4 .L56The 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 2005Handbook of Ecological Restoration
SEL QH 541.15.R45 H36 2002 2 vols.Rainforests of the World: A Reference Handbook
SEL QH541.5.R27 G39 2001The Cambridge Dictionary of Human Biology and Evolution
SEL QP 34.5 .M24 2005 • Table of contentsEncyclopedia of Evolution
SEL REF QH 360.2 .E54 2002, 2 vols.Handbook of Evolution
SEL REF B 818 .H36 2004, 2 vols.A Clinician's Dictionary of Pathogenic Microorganisms
SEL REF QR 81 .J67 2004The Desk Encyclopedia of Microbiology
SEL REF QR 9 .D47 2004The Dictionary of Environmental Microbiology
SEL REF QR 100 .S74 2003A Dictionary of Virology. 3rd ed.
SEL QR 358 .M34 2001Encyclopedia of Environmental Microbiology
SEL REF QR 100 .B58 2002, 6 vols. • Table of contentsEncyclopedia of Microbiology
SEL REF QR 9 .E53 2000, 4 vols. • Table of contentsHandbook 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 1990Bergey'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 2003Practical Atlas for Bacterial Identification
SEL REF QR 54 .C85 2000International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria (1990 revision) available on the Web from NCBI.
1975 ed. available in print in SEL REF QR 81 .I57More resources for parasitology are listed on Rodgers Library Course-related Pages.
Atlas of Human Parasitology. 4th edition.
SEL REF RC 119 .A8 1997Encyclopedic Reference of Parasitology
SEL REF QL 757 .E64 2001, 2 vols.Essentials of Human Parasitology
SEL REF RC 119 .H44 2001The Parasites of Homo Sapiens: An Annotated Checklist of the Protozoa, Helminths, and Arthropods for Which We are Home
SEL REF QR 251 .A83 2003Parasites of Medical Importance
• Available as an electronic book in netLibraryA Dictionary of Virology. 3rd ed.
SEL QR 358 .M34 2001Virus Taxonomy: Classification and Nomenclature of Viruses: Seventh Report of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
SEL REF QR 394 .I58 2000 • Table of contentsMore online dictionaries and encyclopedias in
Internet Resources: ReferenceLITERATURE GUIDES
Using the Biological Literature: A Practical Guide. 3rd. ed., rev. and expanded. • Using the Biological Literature Web Resources
SEL REF QH 303.6 .D38 2002 • Table of contentsInformation Sources in the Life Sciences
SEL REF QH 303.6 .I54 1997A Guide to Field Guides: Identifying the Natural History of North America (e-book in Netlibrary)
also SEL REF QH 102 .S36 1999
• also see International Field Guides: A Web Supplement to A Guide to Field Guides by Diane SchmidtUsing the Agricultural, Environmental, and Food Literature
SEL REF S 494.5.A39 U75 2002 • Table of contentsGuide to Sources for Agricultural and Biological Research
Gorgas Library Z 5071 .G83 (1981)
STYLE MANUALS, PUBLISHING, MEETINGS
Scientific Style and Format: The CBE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers. 6th. ed. (Council of Biology Editors)
SEL REF QH 304 .C33 1994 (Ref Desk) • Table of contents
• The 7th ed. of Scientific Style and Format is in progress from the Council of Science Editors.
• The Council of Biology Editors (now Council of Science Editors) CBE Style of Documentation in Science and Mathematics
• Using CBE style to Cite and Document sources (from Online!)• Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences
• BioMedCentral Information for Authors
Writing Papers in the Biological Sciences. 4th ed.
SEL REF QH 304 .M36 2006
SEL REF QH 304 .M25 1988 1st ed. temporarily on SEL Reserve.A Student Handbook for Writing in Biology
SEL REF QH 304 .K59 2005Successful Scientific writing: A Step-by-step Guide for the Biological and Medical Sciences
SEL REF R 119 .M28 2000MIT Guide to Science and Engineering Communication (e-book in netLIbrary)
also SEL REF Q 223 .P33 2002Chicago Manual of Style. 15th. ed.
SEL REF Z 253 .U69 2003 (Ref Desk) • Chicago-Style Citation Quick GuideChicago Guide to Communicating Science
SEL REF T 10.5 .M65 2003The Chicago Guide to Landing a Job in Academic Biology
SEL REF QH 314 .C43 2007Chicago Guide to Writing About Numbers
SEL REF T 11 .M485 2004The ACS Style Guide: Effective Communication of Scientific Information. 3rd. ed.
SEL REF QD 8.5 .A25 2006 • ACS Reference style guidelines • A Quick Guide to Citing Using the ACS Style Guide, 3rd. ed. (Penn State)Database: Journal Citation Reports Science edition
The JCR Science edition database gives the following annual information for each journal which is a source journal for Science Citation Index: impact factor, immediacy index, number of articles published, cited half-life, and citing half-life. 2006 to current. Access: UA, Remote
Print and microfiche: SCI-JCR: Journal Citation Reports
SEF REF Z7401 .S366x (Ref Desk) 1989-2006Online!: A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources
SEL REF TK 5105.888 .H37 2001 • Also available as an electronic book on the Web.MInd: The Meetings Index (InterDok)
[http://www.interdok.com/mind/index.cfm]ORGANIZATIONS
• Scholarly Societies in Biology & Environment
• Supercrawler/Biology/Associations
• Organizations and Associations (NBII)
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
• Alabama Legue of Environmental Action Voters
• 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
• Warrior Mountains links
• Wild SouthThe 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 ScientistsUnited Kingdom
• Freshwater Biological Association (UK)
• British Phycological SocietyInternational
• 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 AssociationDIRECTORIES AND SEARCH ENGINES
• Supercrawler/Science/Biology/
• WWW Virtual Library: Biosciences
• All the Virology on the WWW
• Open Directory Project: Science/Biology/• Biodiversity and Biological Collections
• Biology-Online.org
• Biome
• Biological Science Links (SUNY Albany)
• Biology (from Argus Clearinghouse)
• 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.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.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 OpportunitiesBIBLIOGRAPHIES, 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: Research Communications for Scientists and EngineersREFERENCE
• Academic Programs in the Aquatic Sciences
• Alabama NRCS Program Information
• Aquatic Fauna in Peril: The Southeastern Perspective Updated 2000.
• Glossary: Life in the Universe
• 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 Ecological Database
• 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
• National Biological Information Infrastructure
• National Wetlands Inventory
• SAIN Resources about Freshwaters (Southern Appalachian Information Node)
• Wild World (National Geographic) Interactive maps: Global 2000 (conservation) and Terrestrial Ecosystems of the World
• Tree of Life web project
• UA Career Center: BiologyDATA
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Biological Data Sources
• Treebase: A Database of Phylogenetic Knowledge
• Phylogeny Programs
Software packages for phylogenypatents
• 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
• Ag Biotechnology Patents and New Technologies (NAL)
• DNA Patent Database (Georgetown University)PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND BIOETHICS
• Codes of Ethics and Conduct (Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science)
• 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
• NSPE Ethics Reference Guide (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.
• Bioethicsweb (UK)
• CODEX Rules & Guidelines for Research
• Estuarine Research Federation Code of Ethics
Code begins halfway down the web page.
• Google Directory: Environmental Ethics
• National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature (NRCBL) Databases
• Online Ethics Center: Environmental Ethics
• Open Directory Project: BioethicsHISTORY
• Ecology Hall of Fame
• Timetable of the American environmental movement
• Google/Science/Biology/History/
• History of Biology (from HistoryWorld)
• 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 OnlineCOURSES AND TUTORIALS
• MIT OpenCourseWare - Biology
• World Lecture Hall
Browse by area: biology/botany
• BiosciEdNet (BEN)
• Interactive tutorial on searching SciFinder Scholar database for biology information
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