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For reference assistance or to arrange a library instruction class, also contact Barbara Hedges.
For additional information, see also the following guides:
Biology Reference Guide: General Biology and Ecology
Biology Reference Guide: Zoology
Biology Reference Guide: Molecular and Cellular Biology
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Looking for books on plants and fungi? Although fungi are not considered plants, the study of fungi historically developed as a part of botany, the study of plants. The Library of Congress classification for fungi developed out of this history and is QK 600 - QK 838, which is part of the botany classification QK.
Here's where to look in Rodgers Library:
| QK 1-989 | Botany | QK 640-673 | Plant anatomy |
| QK 1-474.5 | General | QK 710-899 | Plant physiology |
| QK 474-495 | Spermatophyta, Phanerogams | QK 900-989 | Plant ecology |
| QK 504-638 | Crytogams | QK 930‑938 | Physiographic regions |
| QK 564‑580.5 | Algae, algology | QK 980‑989 | Evolution of plants |
| QK 600-638 | Fungi (mycology) |
You may also find related books in the Library of Congress classification for agriculture.
| S 1‑954 | Agriculture (General) | SB 599-990.5 | Plant Pests & Diseases |
| SB 1-998 | Plant Culture | SD 1‑668 | Forestry |
| SB 107-109 | Economic Botany |
Return to TopBooks - 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 plant biology and fungi 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
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. 2000-present. 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
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: 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: Kew Bibliographic Databases
Provides access to Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature, Micromorphology Bibliography, and Economic Botany Bibliography from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.Open Access.
• Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature
A bibliography of over 200,000 publications relating to the taxonomy of flowering plants, gymnosperms, and ferns. It also includes references on phytogeography, nomenclature, chromosome surveys, floras and botanical institutions, along with relevant bibliographies and biographies. Covers 1971 to the present.
• Micromorphology Bibliography
Citations to publications relating to all aspects of vegetative and reproductive anatomy of flowering plants (angiosperm and gymnosperm), and vegetative anatomy of ferns (pteridophytes). Subject areas include ontogeny, ultrastructure, techniques, paleobotany, embryology, and seed anatomy. Covers most works published in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and is regularly updated.
• Economic Botany Bibliography
33,000 references to publications relating to the uses by humans of flowering plants, gymnosperms and ferns. Covers late nineteenth century to 2003. Subjects covered include the ethnobotany of plant use in traditional societies, medical and industrial uses of plants, and their domestication and history. Coverage focuses on wild plants and minor crop plants.
Bibliography of Systematic Mycology
Images of the full text of 41 botany and plant science titles, as wellas 48 zoology titles, 8 aquatic science titles, 185 biological 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
Science (AAAS) (the electronic journal) is available full text from the Science web site from 1997 to present. UA libraries' subscription includes selected access rights.
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
Agricola (National Agricultural Library (NAL) Catalog)
Indexes book and journals owned by the National Agricultural Library. Open access.
Index to American Botanical LIterature (New York Botanical Garden)
[http://library.nybg.org/IndexToAmericanBotanicalLiterature.php] Open access.
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
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
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
Below is listed a selection of reference books useful for plant science topics. Rodgers Library has many more handbooks, both in print and electronic. Use the online catalog or Knovel, to locate more titles.
The reference books below are listed in the following categories:
• Collections of handbooks and e-books
• Life
• General botany
• Vascular plants
• Flowering plants
• Aquatic botany
• Algae
• Mosses
• Fungi
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
NetLibrary
UA purchases selected electronic titles from netLibrary, including books in the subject areas of plant science, such as Wildflowers of Alabama and adjoining States. 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.
Diversity of Life: The Illustrated Guide to the Five Kingdoms
• An electronic book accessible in netLibrary
Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms
SEL REF QH 83 .S89, 2 vols.
Authors of Plant Names: a list of authors of scientific names of plants, with recommended standard forms of their names, including abbreviations (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
SEL REF QK 96 .A87 1992
The Cambridge Illustrated Glossary of Botanical Terms
SEL QK 10 .H53 2000
Chemical Dictionary of Economic Plants
SEL REF QK 861 .C45 2001
Concise Encyclopedia of Plant Pathology
SEL REF SB728 .V525 2004
A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
SEL REF QK 9 .D52 1998x • Also available as an electronic book in netLibrary.
• Also available as an e-book in Oxford Reference
Encyclopedia of Applied Plant Sciences
SEL REF TP 248.16 .E537 2003, 3 vols.
Hortus Third: A Concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada
SEL SB 45 .B22 1976
Database: Index Herbariorum and Plant Specialists Index
From the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) and International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT). Directory of 3000+ public herbaria of the world and the 8800+ staff members. Continuously updated information for 2111 herbaria (71%) in 140 countries (86%) listed in INDEX HERBARIORUM, edition 8, and its supplements (published in TAXON).
Print: Index Herbariorum: A Guide to the Location and Contents of the World's Public Herbaria.: Regnum Vegetabile ; v. 120
SEL REF QK 96 .R4 vol. 120
Index Holmensis. A World Phytogeographic Index
(title varies, sometimes written Index Holmiensis)
SEL QK 11 .T73, 3 vols.
Index Nominum Genericorum (plantarum)
SEL QK 96 .R4 vol. 100-102 (SEL has vols 101-102 only)
• Index Nominum Genericorum also available on the Web from the U.S. National Herbarium, Department of Botany, Smithsonian Institution)
Index Kewensis plantarum phanerogamarum: nomina et synonyma omnium generum et specierum a Linnaeo usque ad annum MDCCCLXXXV complectens nomine recepto auctore patria unicuique plantae subjectis
Biological Sciences Dept. (Herbarium.) QK11 .I4 vols 1-2 and suppls 1-20
Index Kewensis. Supplement. Kew index for ..."Names of seed-bearing plants, ferns, and fern allies at the rank of family and below published during ... with some omissions from earlier years."
Biological Sciences Dept. (Herbarium.) QK11 .I4 Suppl.
International Bibliography of Vegetation Maps
SEL REF Z 6026.B6 K8, v.3-4
International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (16th International Botanical Congress, 1999).
Rodgers Library holds selected earlier years of the code in print.
SEL QK 96 .R4 vol.97 (12th Congress), vol. 82 (11th Congress)
SEL REF QK96 .L3 (7th Congress: 1952)
Invasive Plant Species of the World: A Reference Guide to Environmental Weeds
SEL SB 613.5 .W43 2003 • Table of contents
The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia of Plants and Earth Sciences
SEL REF QK7 .M37 1988, 10 vols.
Names in Current Use for Extant Plant Genera (NCU-3)
Regnum Vegetabile v. 129
SEL REF QK96 .R4 v.129
The Names of Plants
SEL REF QK 96 .G54 2002 • Table of contents
The Natural Geography of Plants. Henry A. Gleason and Arthur Cronquist.
SEL QK 101 .G57
North American Trees. 5th ed.
SEL QK 110 .P74 2002
The Plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants utilising Kubitzki's The families and genera of vascular plants (1990-), Cronquist's An integrated system of classification of flowering plants (1981), and current botanical literature arranged largely on the principles of editions 1-6 (1896/97-1931) of Willis's A dictionary of the flowering plants and ferns. 2nd.ed., rev.
SEL REF QK 11 .M29 1997
Plant Life of Alabama. An account of the distribution, modes of association, and adaptations of the flora of Alabama, together with a systematic catalogue of the plants growing in the state. Prepared by Charles Theodore Mohr, in cooperation with the Geological Survey of Alabama.
Hoole Library Alabama Collection QK 145 .M7 1901
SEL QK 145 .M7 1901
Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners: A Handbook on the Origin and Meaning of the Botanical Names of Some Cultivated Plants
SEL REF QK 11 .S56 2002
Taxonomy and Plant Conservation: The Cornerstone of the Conservation and the Sustainable Use of Plants
SEL QK 95 .T373 2006 • Table of contents
Species Plantarum. (Linne, Carl von) A facsim. of the 1st ed., 1753, With an introd. by W.T. Stearn.
SEL QK 91 .S6 1753a vols. 1 and 2
• Click here for other works by Linnaeus in UA Libraries
Vocabularium botanicum, Planten-terminologie. Plant-terminology. Nomenclature in six languages (Latin, Greek, Dutch, German, English and French)
SEL REF QK 9 .S8 1953
Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Alabama from the John D. Freeman Herbarium and the University of Alabama Herbarium
SEL QK 145 .M67 2002
The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants
Click here for volumes in SEL.
Ferns and Allied Plants: With Special Reference to Tropical America
SEL QK 524.4 .T78 1982
Ferns of Alabama and Fern Allies
SEL: QK 525.5.A4 D4
A Field Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of the Southern Appalachians
SEL QK 122.3 .S88 1994
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
Taxonomy and Ecology of Woody Plants in North American Forests (Excluding Mexico and Subtropical Florida)
SEL QK 115 .F73 2002 • Table of contents
Vascular Flora of the Southeastern United States.
SEL QK 125 .V37
Vascular Plant Families and Genera: a listing of the genera of vascular plants of the world according to their families, as recognised in the Kew Herbarium, with an analysis of relationships of the flowering plant families according to eight systems of classification
SEL REF QK 96 .B69 1992 • Also available on the Web.
A Synonymized Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 2nd ed.
SEL QK 110 .K37 1994
Trees and Shrubs of the Southeast
SEL QK 122.24 .D43 1988
Trees, Shrubs, and Woody vines of Northern Florida and Adjacent Georgia and Alabama
SEL QK 154 .G63 1988
Woody Plants of the Southeastern United States : A Winter Guide
SEL REF QK124 .L25 2004
Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants
SEL QK 495.A1 T345 1997
Flora Neotropica.
Published for Organization for Flora Neotropica by the New York Botanical Garden.
Click here for SEL holdings.
Flora of North America: North of Mexico
SEL REF QK 110 .F55 1993, v.1-3, v.22-v.23 • Web version is available.
Flowering Plants of the World
SEL QK 495.A1 F56 1978x
An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants
SEL QK 495.A1 C76
The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening
SEL REF SB 450.95 .D53 1999 4 vols.
The New York Botanical Garden illustrated Encyclopedia of Horticulture
SEL REF SB 317.58 .E94 1981x
Wildflowers of the Southeastern United States
SEL REF QK 124 .L25 2004
Wildflowers of Alabama and Adjoining States
SEL REF QK 145 .D4 (circulating copies also available) • Also available as an electronic book in netLibrary
Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southeastern United States: Monocotyledons
SEL QK 125 .G6
Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southeastern United States: Dicotyledons
SEL QK 125 .G59
Aquatic Plant Book
SEL QK 102 .C66 1996
Aquatic Plants of the United States
SEL QK 105 .M8
Field Guide to Coastal Wetland Plants of the Southeastern United States
SEL QK 125 .T55 1993
The Smithsonian Guide to Seaside Plants of the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts from Louisiana to Massachusetts, exclusive of lower peninsular Florida
SEL Q K122 .D86 1987
Water Plants of the World: A Manual for the Identification of the Genera of Freshwater Macrophytes
SEL QK 105 .W37
Index Bryologicus
ANNEX QK 537 .P3 1904, 5 vols.
Mosses of the Gulf South: From the Rio Grande to the Apalachicola
SEL QK 541.5 .G84 R43 1984
Catalogus Lichenum Universalis
ANNEX QK 583 .Z3, 10 vols.
Common Freshwater Algae of the United States: An Illustrated Key to the Genera (Excluding the Diatoms)
SEL QK 571 .D55 1999x
Freshwater Algae of North America: Ecology and Classification
SEL QK 570.5 .F74 2003 • Table of contents
Freshwater Algae of the Southeastern United States
SEL QK 571.5 .S685 D54 1989
Handbook of Algae, with Special Reference to Tennessee and the Southeastern United States
SEL QK 3 .T4 n.s., no. 155
Species Genera et Ordines Algarum
SEL QK 567 .A35 1977 Bd.31 3 vols
Tabulae Phycologicae
SEL QK 564 .B52 1977 20 vols in 4
Ainsworth & Bisby's Dictionary of the Fungi
SEL REF QK 600.35 .A35 2001 • Also available on the Web.
A Glossary of Mycology
SEL REF QK 603 .S53
Biodiversity of Fungi: Inventory and Monitoring Methods
SEL QK 603 .B49 2004
Fungal Populations and Species
SEL QK 602 .B86 2003
The Mycota: A Comprehensive Treatise on Fungi as Experimental Systems for Basic and Applied Research
SEL QK 603 .M87 1994 v.1-4, v.5:pt.a-b, v.6, v.7:pt.A-B, v.9-12, On order v.8, v.13
Medically Important Fungi: A Guide to Identification (ASM)
SEL QR245 .L37 2002
Mycology Guidebook (Mycology Guidebook Committee, Mycological Society of America )
SEL QK 604 .M93 1981
More online dictionaries and encyclopedias in
Internet Resources: Reference
LITERATURE GUIDES
Guide to Reference and Information Sources in Plant Biology
SEL REF QK 45.2 .G85 2006 • Web Resources in Guide to Reference and Information Sources in Plant Biology
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
A 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 Schmidt
Information Sources in the Life Sciences
SEL REF QH 303.6 .I54 1997
Guide to Standard Floras of the World: an annotated, geographically arranged systematic bibliography of the principal floras, enumerations, checklists, and chorological atlases of different areas.
SEL Z 5351 .F76 1984 • 2nd. ed, 2001, available as an e-book in netLibrary.
Taxonomic Literature: A Selective Guide to Botanical Publications with Dates, Commentaries and Types. 2nd ed. Regnum Vegetabile, v. 94-
SEL QK 96 .R4 vol. 94-etc. (7 vols)
Taxonomic Literature: A Selective Guide to Botanical Publications with Dates, Commentaries and Types. Supplement
Regnum Vegetabile ; v. 130, etc. (7 vols))
SEL QK 96 .R4 vol. 130, etc.
Using the Agricultural, Environmental, and Food Literature
SEL REF S 494.5.A39 U75 2002 • Table of contents
Guide to Sources for Agricultural and Biological Research
Gorgas Library Z5071 .G83 (1981) - Lists sources for searching the older agriculture and life science literature.
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)
The 7th ed. of Scientific Style and Format is in progress from the Council of Science Editors.
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 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
SEL REF Q 223 .P33 2002 • Also available as an electronic book in netLibrary.
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
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 Botany
• Supercrawler/Science/Biology/Botany/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
•Southeast Aquatic Research Institute (related to or aka, Tennessee Aquarium Research Institute (TNARI))
• Southeastern Estuarine Research Society
• Gulf Estuarine Research Society
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
• All Species Foundation
• American Microscopical Society
• American Society for Microbiology
• 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
• Deep Hyphae (fungi)
• Ecological 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 Conservation Biology
• Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
• Society for the Study of Evolution
• Society of Systematic Biologists
• Society of Wetland Scientists
United Kingdom
• British Phycological Society
• Freshwater Biological Association (UK)
International
• International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) This web site lists the over 100 member societies of IUBS.
• International Phycological Society
• International Seaweed Association
DIRECTORIES AND SEARCH ENGINES
• Supercrawler/Science/Biology/Botany/
• WWW Virtual Library of Botany / Plant Biology
• WWW Virtual Library: Mycology
• Open Directory Project: Science/Biology/Botany/
• Open Directory Project: Science/Biology/Mycology/
• Biology: Taxonomy Resources (CSUS)
• Botany- Botanical Links ( Smithsonian Institution)
• Botany (Biodiversity and Biological Collections)
• Freshwater Life
• Guide to Aquatic Science Literature (Fogler LIbrary)
• Guide to Reference and Information Sources in Plant BiologY (UIUC)
• Information Resources for Botany (UCSB)
• Information Sources For Mycology (UCSB)
• Internet Public Library: Life Sciences
• ISI Highly Cited - A search tool to identify individuals, departments, and laboratories that have recently made major contributions to current science and technology.
• Mycological and Licheonology Collection Catalogs
• Plant Links (Center for Plant Conservation)
• Plant systematics and evolution (TAMU)
• Plantae (Biology Browser) (Thomson BIOSIS)
• Taxonomy and Identification Keys (UT)
• Wetland Web Links
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 Opportunities
BIBLIOGRAPHIES, REPORTS, AND E-PRINTS
• Animals, Plants, and Other Organisms (from Science.gov)
• Center for Conservation Biology Technical Reports
REFERENCE
• Algae Links (Smithsonian)
• Botany Dictionaries
• Checklists and Flora (UCMP)
• Databases - Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
Includes • Categorical Glossary for the Flora of North America Project
• Comprehensive Scheme for Standardized Abbreviation of Useable Plant-Family Names and Type-Based Suprafamilial Names
• Index to Binomials Cited in the First Edition of Linnaeus' Species Plantarum
• Index to Scientific Names of Organisms Cited in the Linnaean Dissertations
• Original Linnaean Dissertations
• epic: electronic plant information centre (Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew)
• Family Names Database (fungi)
• Fungal Genome Initiative
• Fungi Images of the Net
• Glossary: Life in the Universe
• Glossary of Terms of Freshwater Algae
• Gulf Coast's Ecological Heritage at Risk (Union of Concerned Scientists)
• Gulfbase: Resource Database for the Gulf of New Mexico
• 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants
• Index Fungorum
• Index Herbarium. Part I. The Herbaria of the World
• Index Nominum Algarum (University of California, Berkeley)
• Index Nominum Supragenericorum Plantarum Vascularium
• International Plant Names Index
• ITIS Integrated Taxonomic Information System
• Land Plants Online
• Listing of Threatened and Endangered Species in Alabama
• Marine Flora Bibiography "Marine Floras" for the Americas, by Regional
• National Plants Database
• Plant Encyclopedia
• Plant Fossil Record
• UA Career Center: Biology
• Southern Appalachian Information Node (SAIN)
Part of the National Biological Information Infrastructure
• Species 2000
• Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory (US ARS)
• Threatened Plants Database
• Vascular Plant Family Nomenclature
DATA
• 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
• 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: Bioethics
HISTORY
• 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
COURSES AND TUTORIALS
• MIT OpenCourseWare - Biology
• World Lecture Hall
Browse by area: biology/botany
• BiosciEdNet - Botany and Plant Science
• BiosciEdNet - Mycology
• Classification of Living things: An Introduction to the Principles of Taxonomy with a Focus on Human Classification Categories (tutorial)
• Interactive tutorial on searching SciFinder Scholar database for biology information
• 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.
Revised 07/09
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