Biology Resources

Contents:

Databases and Indexes

 

Reference Resources: Online

 

Reference Resources: Print

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias |Additional Resources

Finding Books

CLICnet | Library of Congress Classifications for Biology

 

Internet Resources

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias | Subject Guides and Directories | Government and Private Health Information | Government Science Sites | Electronic Science News Magazines

Reference Resources (Online)

Oxford Reference Online: Biological Sciences
Here's a great place to find an overview of a subject, or to check a fact. This online, searchable collection of high-quality reference books from Oxford University Press includes titles like A Dictionary of Plant Sciences and The Oxford Companion to the Body.

Reference Resources (Print)

The following list contains print resources located in the reference area, or at the reference desk, of the CSC St. Paul campus library. (Call numbers for reference resources that are held at the CSC Minneapolis campus library are noted in parentheses.)

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

 

Concise Encyclopedia of Biology. Trans. & Rev. Thomas A. Scott. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1996.
CSC St. Paul and Mpls. Libs: REF QH302.5 .A2313 1996

Desk Encyclopedia of Microbiology. Ed. Moselio Schaechter. Amsterdam; Boston: Elsevier/Academic Press, 2004.
CSC St. Paul Lib: REF QR9 .D47 2004.

Dictionary of Biology. Bill Indge. London; Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999.
CSC St. Paul Lib: REF QH 302.5 .I534 1999

Dictionary of Zoology. Ed. Michael Allaby. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
CSC St. Paul Lib: REF QL9 .C66 2003

Encyclopedia of Biodiversity. Ed. Simon Asher Levin. San Diego: Academic Press, 2001.
CSC St. Paul Lib: REF QH541 .I5 .B56 E53 2001

Encyclopedia of Bioethics. Ed. Warren T. Reich. New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1995.
CSC St. Paul and Mpls. Libs: REF QH332 .E52 1995 v.1-5

 

Encyclopedia of Environmental Biology. Ed. William A. Nierenberg. San Diego: Academic Press, 1995.
CSC St. Paul Lib: REF QH540.4 .E52 1995 v.1-3

 

Encyclopedia of Human Biology. Ed. Renato Dulbecco. San Diego: Academic Press, 1997.
CSC St. Paul Lib: REF QP11 .E53 1997 v.1-9

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. London: Nature Publishing Group, 2002.
CSC St. Paul Lib: REF QH302.5 .H54 2002 v. 1-10

Encyclopedia of Microbiology. Ed. Joshua Lederberg. San Diego: Academic Press, 1992.
CSC St. Paul and Mpls. Libs: REF QR9 .E53 2000

 

Encyclopedia of Reproduction. Eds. Ernst Knobil and Jimmy D. Neill. San Diego: Academic Press, 1998.
CSC St. Paul Lib:REF QP251 .E635 1998 v.1-4

 

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Wildlife. Lakeville, CT: Grey Castle Press, 1991.
CSC St. Paul Lib:REF QL7 .I44 1991 v.1-15

 

Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia of Plants and Earth Sciences. Ed. David M. Moore. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1988.
CSC St. Paul Lib: REF QK7 .M37 1988.

 

Mosby's Medical, Nursing, & Allied Health Dictionary. (5th ed.) Eds. Kenneth N. Anderson, Lois E. Anderson, and Walter D. Glanze. St. Louis: Mosby, 1998.
CSC St. Paul and Mpls. Libs:REF R121 .M89 1998.

 

Walker's Mammals of the World. (6th ed.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
CSC St. Paul Lib: REF QL703 .W222 1999 v.1-2

Additional Resources

Bibliography of Bioethics. Eds. LeRoy Walters and Tamar Joy Kahn. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University, 19uu.
St. Paul Lib: REF R724 .B43 v.1-25+
Mpls Lib: REF R724 .B53 v.15,20-24

 

Innovations in Biology. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1999.
St. Paul Lib: REF QH307.2 .I56 1999

 

Spector, David L., Robert D. Goldman, and Leslie A. Leinwand. Cells: A Laboratory Manual. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1998.
St. Paul Lib: REF QH583.2 .S64 1998 v.1-3

Using the Biological Literature: a Practical Guide. Diane Schmidt and Elisabeth B. Davis, Pamela F. Jacobs. New York: Marcel Dekker, c2002.
CSC St. Paul Lib: REF QH 303.6 .D38 2002

Finding Books

CLICnet

Use the CLICnet library catalog to locate books on your topic. CLICnet is the shared online library catalog for the College of St. Catherine Library as well as Augsburg, Bethel, Concordia, Hamline, Macalester, Northwestern, and St. Thomas. You may also browse either the catalog or the library bookshelves in the following call number ranges to get a sense of the available books.

Library of Congress Classifications for Biology

Call Number Area	Subject
QH 1 - 278.5	Natural history (General). Biology (General)
QH 75 - 77	Nature conservation. Landscape protection
QH 201 - 278.5	Microscopy
QH 301 - 705	Biology (General)
QH 426 - 470	Genetics
QH 471 - 489	Reproduction
QH 501 - 531	Life
QH 540 - 549	Ecology (Including general and animal ecology)
QH 573 - 671	Cytology
QH 705	Economic biology

Library of Congress Classifications for Fields Related to Biology

Call Number Area	Subject
QK 1 - 989	Botany
QL 1 - 991	Zoology
QM 1 - 695	Human Anatomy
QP 1 - 981	Physiology
QR 1 - 500	Microbiology

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Internet Resources

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

The Animal Diversity Web

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/
An online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology created and maintained by the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. Includes text, pictures, photographs, movies, and/or recordings of specimen activities and sounds.

 

BioTech's Life Science Dictionary

http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/search/dict-search.html
A resource with over 8300 terms related to biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, cell biology and genetics. Terms are also available for the fields of ecology, limnology, pharmacology, toxicology and medicine. From the University of Texas at Austin.

 

The Tree of Life

http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html
The Tree of Life is a multi-authored project containing information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their history, and characteristics. Information is linked together in the form of the evolutionary tree that connects all organisms to each other.

Subject Guides and Directories

 

BEN

http://biosciednet.org/portal/

Ben is the National Science Digital Library pathway for teaching and learning resources in the biological sciences.

 

Bio Netbook

http://www.pasteur.fr/recherche/BNB/bnb-en.html
A directory of Web pages relating to biology. Search by word, topic, or a combination of word and topic. A geographical directory is also provided. Maintained by the Institut Pasteur of Paris.

 

The Scout Report

http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/Current
Offers a selective collection of Internet resources covering topics in the sciences, physical sciences, and engineering fields. Selections chosen by librarians and content specialists in the given field of study.

 

Virtual Library: Biosciences

http://vlib.org/Biosciences.html
A gateway to important sites in the biosciences including biotechnology, botany, cell biology, developmental biology, genetics, medicine, microbiology, neurobiology, physiology, and zoology.

 

Government and Private Health Information

 

Mayo Clinic

http://www.mayoclinic.com/
Up-to-date information on a wide variety of health and medical topics.

 

National Health Information Center

http://www.health.gov/nhic/
A health information referral service, the National Health Information Center (NHIC) puts health professionals and consumers who have health questions in touch with those organizations that are best able to provide answers.

 

National Institutes of Health

http://www.nih.gov/
A part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the mission of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is to uncover new knowledge that will lead to better health for everyone. Browse the Health and Research sections.

 

National Women's Health Information Center

http://www.4woman.gov/
The National Women's Health Information Center, or NWHIC, is a gateway to women's health information developed by the Department of Health and Human Services. It is a federal clearinghouse of informaton links to over 1800 organizations and 4,300 publications.

 

Government Science Sites

Human Genome Project Information

http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/home.shtml
The major web site for human genome project information. The site is divided into broad sections for easy navigation, and provides history of the project, definitions, informaton resources, as well as a section on the ethical. legal and social issues of genetic research.

National Center for Biotechnology Information

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
The National Center for Biotechnology Information, or NCBI, creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information in order to further understanding the molecular processes affecting human health and disease.

Natural Resources Conservation Service

http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/
A division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Natural Resources Conservation Service works in partnership with citizens to conserve the country's natural resources. Site contains information, surveys, maps, images and technical tools for the study and preservation of air, soil, water, plant and animal resources.

 

National Science Foundation

http://www.nsf.gov/
The National Science Foundation, or NSF, is an independent U.S. government agency responsible for promoting science and engineering through programs supporting research and education projects. See the program area of Biology.

 

 

Electronic Science News Magazines

Current Biology

http://www.current-biology.com/

General journal which publishes original research across all areas of biology plus editorials. Extensive collection of full-text primers, quick guides, and question and answer interviews with scientists.

New Scientist

http://www.newscientist.com/
A weekly magazine offering information about science news and career resources.

 

ScienceDaily Magazine

http://www.sciencedaily.com/
An online magazine and Web portal devoted to science, technology, and medicine. Articles are selected from news releases submitted by leading universities and other research organizations around the world.

 

Scientific American

http://www.sciam.com/
Includes selected full-text articles from the print version of this magazine. Tracks the breaking science news stories and provide readers with links to related sites.

 

The Scientist - The News Journal for the Life Scientist

http://www.the-scientist.com/
Provides an open forum for examination and discussion of issues in research, technology, employment, funding, policy and other subjects important to the life science field.