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Printer-friendly versionFor 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 biology resource information, see also the following guides:
Biology Reference Guide: General Biology and Ecology
Biology Reference Guide: Zoology
Biology Reference Guide: Plants and Fungi
Please select one of the following options or scroll down to browse choices:TABLE OF CONTENTS
| 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 |
The following are some of the subject headings you may want to search in the online catalog. Subject or keyword searches of the catalog may work better than browsing call numbers alone. These are a few suggested subject headings for molecular and cellular biology, not all of the subject headings. Click on the links below to perform these subject searches. You may also try other subject headings, or try keyword searches.
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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.
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 has 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
The following databases are useful for molecular and cellular biology topics:
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
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 15 million biomedical journal article citations back to the mid-1960's. Open access. Also use Chilibot tofind gene and protein relationships in PubMed.
Database: SciFinder Scholar SciFinder Web is available on campus and via remote access to UA faculty, staff, and students.
Comprehensive index, with abstracts, to chemical and related literature, including molecular and cellular biology. Includes citations to articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, patents, and more; as well as a chemical substance database and a chemical reaction database. It also includes CHEMCATS, useful for locating suppliers of a chemical.
Print: Chemical Abstracts SEL REF QD 1 .A51, 1907-2001
SciFinder Scholar access on computers in Rodgers Library: UA faculty, staff, and students may go directly to the the SciFinder Scholar icon located on the computers' desktops. (Icon is a purple diamond with white graduation cap in center.) Access is available only for UA-affiliated users. SciFinder Scholar access on campus: You can also use SciFinder Scholar (the traditional client version) from most campus locations, but the SciFinder Scholar client (a special piece of software) must be installed on your computer. The SciFinder Scholar Agreement Page has a link to the software for SciFinder Scholar. Use your myBama account username and password.
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
Entrez the Life Sciences Search Engine Cross database search page from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
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
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
Images of the full text of 11 developmental and cell biology titles, as wellas 48 zoology titles, 8 aquatic science titles, 185 biological science titles, 41 botany and plant science 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
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
SEL...........Science and Engineering Library, second floor
SEL REF....Reference Section, on the first floor
red.............Link to electronic book
DICTIONARIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS, AND HANDBOOKS
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
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 asbiochemistry, biology, & biotechnology. One may also access individual handbooks. Handbooks are 1999-current. Access: UA, Remote
NetLibrary
UA purchases selected electronic titles from netLibrary, including some books in the subject areas of molecular and cellular biology, such as Molecular and Cellular Biology of Neuroprotection in the CNS. The netLibrary titles to which we have access are listed in thelibrary 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).
Cytokine Reference: A Compendium of Cytokines and Other Mediators of Host Defense
SEL REF QR 185.8.C95 C98169 2001, 2 vols.
Conn's Biological Stains: A Handbook of Dyes, Stains and Fluorochromes for Use in Biology and Medicine
SEL REF QH 237 .C755 2002
Concise Dictionary of Biomedicine and Molecular Biology
SEL REF R 121 .J86 2002
Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
SEL REF QP 512 .S73 1989 • Also available as an electronic book in Knovel.
The Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
SEL REF QH 575 .L24 1999x
The Dictionary of Gene Technology: Genomics, Transcriptomics, Proteomics
SEL REF QH 506 .K333 2004, 2 vols.
A Dictionary of Gene Technology Terms
SEL REF QH 442 .Z48 2001
A Dictionary of Genetics. 6th ed.
SEL REF QH 427 .K55 2002
Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry
SEL REF QD 415.A25 E53 2004, 4 vols.
Encyclopedia of Hormones
SEL REF QP 571 .E53 2003, 3 vols.
Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology
SEL REF QH 506 .E53 1999, 4 vols. • Also available as an electronic book in Knovel.
Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology and Molecular Medicine
SEL REF QH 506 .E534 1996 6 vols.
Encyclopedia of Microbiology
SEL REF QR 9 .E53 2000, 4 vols. • Table of contents
Enzyme Handbook
SEL REF QP 601 .B2435, 2 vols.
The Facts on File Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
SEL REF QH 575 .F33 2003
Glossary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
SEL REF QP 512 .G55 1990 • Also available on the web.
Glossary of Genetics: Classical and Molecular
SEL REF QH 427 .R54 1991
Notes orginator of terms.
Handbook of Genetics
SEL REF QH 431 .K54 5 vols.
Handbook of Metalloproteins
SEL REF QP 552.M46 H363 2001, 3 vols.
Handbook of RNA Biochemistry
SEL REF QP 623 .H36 2005, 2 vols.
Nature Encyclopedia of the Human Genome
SEL REF QH 427 .N38 2003 5 vols.
Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Rev. ed.
SEL REF QD 415.A25 O94 2000x
Springer Handbook of Enzymes
SEL REF QP 601 .E5158 2001, 18 vols.
Wiley Encyclopedia of Molecular Medicine
• Available as an electronic book in Knovel .
More online dictionaries and encyclopedias in
Internet Resources: Reference
LITERATURE GUIDES
Using the Biological Literature: A Practical Guide. 3rd. ed., rev. and expanded.
SEL REF QH 303.6 .D38 2002
Information Sources in the Life Sciences
SEL REF QH 303.6 .I54 1997
Information Sources in Science and Technology
SEL REF Z 7401 .H85 1998 • Also available as an electronic book in netLibrary.
The Internet for Cell and Molecular Biologists 2nd. ed.
SEL QH 585.5.D38 I57 2004
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 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
A Student Handbook for Writing in Biology
SEL REF QH 304 .K59 2005 • Table of contents
Successful Scientific writing: A Step-by-step Guide for the Biological and Medical Sciences
SEL REF R 119 .M28 2000 • Table of contents
MIT Guide to Science and Engineering Communication (e-book in netLIbrary)
also SEL REF Q 223 .P33 2002
AMA Manual of Style : A Guide for Authors and Editors. 10th ed.
SEL REF R 119 .A533 2007
ACS Style Guide : A Manual for Authors and Editors. 2nd ed.
SEL REF QD 8.5 .A25 1997 (Ref Desk) (On order-The ACS Style Guide: Effective Communication of Scientific Information. 2006 3rd ed.) • ACS Reference style guidelines• A Quick Guide to Citing Using the ACS Style Guide, 3rd. ed. (Penn State)
Chicago Manual of Style. 15th. ed.
SEL REF Z 253 .U69 2003 (Ref Desk) • Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide
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). 1989-2006
ACS Style Guide : A Manual for Authors and Editors. 2nd ed. American Chemical Society.
SEL REF QD 8.5 .A25 1997 (Ref Desk) (3rd ed. on order.)
• ACS Reference style guidelines
AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors. 10th ed. 2007. American Medical Association.
On order for SEL REF
Online!: 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 Cell Biology, Cytology, and Histology
• Scholarly Societies in Molecular Biology
• Organizations and Associations (NBII)
• UA Student Chapter of the Tri-Beta National Biological Honor Society
• JOSHUA: Journal of Science and Health at the University of Alabama
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 member groups begins more than halfway down the web page.
Includes Cell Stress Society International
• Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
Full List of Member Societies
Includes
• American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)
• The American Association of Immunologists (AAI)
• Biophysical Society
• The Protein Society
• The Endocrine Society
• The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)
• Society for Developmental Biology (SDB)
• American Genetics Association
• American Microscopical Society
• American Society for Cell Biology
CBE Life Sciences Education (journal)
• American Society for Microbiology
• Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
• National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST)
• RNA Society
• Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society of North America
• Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine
• Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
• Society for the Study of Evolution
International
• International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS)
This web site lists the over 100 member societies of IUBS.
DIRECTORIES AND SEARCH ENGINES
• BioChemWeb.org: WWW Virtual Library of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
• WWW Virtual Library on Genetics
• Galaxy Cell Biology
• Systems Biology Gateway (BioMed Central)
• All the Virology on the WWW
• Biology Links [Harvard University Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology]
• Biome
• BioTech's Science Resources
• Bill Wasserman's Developmental Biology Page
• Caenorhabditis elegans WWW Server
• ExPASy Life Science Directory
• ExPASy Proteomics Server
• Gateway to Neuroscience Resources on the Web
• Index to Organism Names
• Internet Public Library: Cell Biology
• Internet Public Library: Molecular Biology
• Internet Resources for Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology (Infosurf)
• ISI Highly Cited - A search tool to identify individuals, departments, and laboratories that have recently made major contributions to current science and technology.
• Jackson Laboratory
Resources for the study of the mouse genome.
• Links to the Genetics World (Human Genome Project)
• Molecular Phylogeny
• National Center for Biotechnology Information Resource Guide
• NIH Center for Molecular Modeling
• Open Directory Project: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Open Directory Project: Cell Biology
• Pedro's Biomolecular Biology Research Tools
• CMS Molecular Biology Resource
• SCIRUS: For Scientific Information
• Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
ALERT SERVICES AND CURRENT AWARENESS
SciFinder Scholar - Keep Me Posted
SciFinder's Keep Me Posted feature lets you quickly and easily set up alerts for referencesor substances of interest. Alerts can also be set up for sequences.
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 Opportunities
BIBLIOGRAPHIES, REPORTS, AND E-PRINTS
• Bibliography of Genetic Variation in Natural Populations
• Bibliography on Computational Gene Recognition
• Genetics and Molecular Biology ( from Science.gov)
REFERENCE
• BioABACUS: Biotechnology ABbreviation and ACronym Uncovering Service
• Biotech Life Science Dictionary
• Chromatin Structure & Function Page
• CMS Molecular Biology Resource
• C O P E Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
• CSA-NBII Biocomplexity Thesaurus
• EMBnet.org
• Gene Almanac
• Gene Ontology
• Glossary of Genetics
• Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
• Resources for Genetic and Cytogenetic Nomenclature (Council of Science Editors)
DATA
• CarpeDB Epilepsy Genetics Database
• GDB Human Genome Database
• Human Genome Project
• International HapMap Project
• IU Bio Archive biology data and software
• OMIM - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
• PubChem
• Timetree
• UniProt (Universal Protein Resource)
• WormBook: The Online Review of C. Elegans Biology
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
• Ag Biotechnology Patents and New Technologies (NAL)
• DNA Patent Database (Georgetown University)
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
• 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. It’s updated daily with today’s bioethics headlines.
• Bioethicsweb (UK)
• CODEX Rules & Guidelines for Research
• National Information Resource on Ethics and Human Genetics
HISTORY
• History of Bioinformatics
• History of Molecular Biology (from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Cell Theory
COURSES AND TUTORIALS
• Biology Project: Cell Biology
• European Initiative for Biotechnology Education
• MIT OpenCourseWare - Biology
• National Institutes of Health Science Education
• World Lecture Hall
Browse by area: biology/botany
• BiosciEdNet-Cell Biology (BEN)
• BiosciEdNet-Molecular Biology (BEN)
• Bama Undergraduate Information Literacy Tutorial (BUILT) for Sciences (Rodgers Library for Science and Engineering)
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.
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