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Library Liaison
Nancy "Sam" Urtz
Contents
Selected Reference Books
Find Journal Articles
Find Books
Find Scientific Reviews
Selected Websites
How to Cite Your Sources
Course Guides
BI 102 – General Biology
BI 329 – Environmental Biology
of Plants
BI 335 – Animal Behavior
BI 338 – Invertebrate Zoology
Department Website
Biology Department
Biology Department Homepage
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Animal
Ref QL45.2 .A56
Beacham's Guide to Environmental Issues & Sources
Ref GE115.B43 (5 volumes)
Beacham's Guide to the Endangered Species of North America
Ref QH77.N56 B43 (2 volumes)
Biotechnology from A-Z
Ref TP248.16 .B33
Cambridge Dictionary of Human Biology and Evolution
Ref QP34.5 .M24
Concise Encyclopedia Biology
Ref QH302.5 .A2313
The Concise Encyclopedia of the Ethics of New Technologies
Ref QH332 .C66
CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology
Ref QK13 .Q38 (4 volumes)
The Creation/Evolution Controversy
Ref QH366.2 .H39
Describing Species: Practical Taxonomic Procedure for Biologists
Ref QH83 .W57
Dictionary of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Ref QH324.2 .D53
A Dictionary of Biology
Ref QH302.5 .D5
Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
Ref QH540.4 .L56
A Dictionary of Zoology
Ref QL9 .D5
Encyclopedia of Bioethics (2004 edition)
Ref QH332 .E52 (print version)
Encyclopedia of Endangered Species
Ref QH75 .A1 E53
Encyclopedia of Evolution
Ref QH360.2 .E54 (2 volumes)
Encyclopedia of Genetics
Ref QH427 .E53
Encyclopedia of Human Biology
Ref QP11 .E53
Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory
Ref GN281 .E53
Encyclopedia of Life: EOL
Encyclopedia of Mammals
Ref QL701.2 .E53
Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
From the Gale Virtual Reference Library
Environmental Encyclopedia
Ref GE10 .E58 (2 volumes)
Gray's Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Medicine and Surgery
Online edition of the classic 1918 edition
Ref QM23.2 .G73
Grzimek Animal Life Encyclopedia
From the Gale Virtual Reference Library
Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
Ref QL701 .G7913
Henderson's Dictionary of Biological Terms
Ref QH302.5 .H65
Magill's Survey of Science. Life Science Series
Ref QH307.2.M34 (6 volumes)
McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
Medical School Admission Requirements, United States and Canada
Ref R745.A8 (Latest copy on Reserve at the Circulation Desk)
Official World Wildlife Fund Guide to Endangered Species of North America
Ref QL84.2 .O35
Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Ref QD415 .A25 O94
Oxford Reference Collection Online: Biological Sciences
Included are these helpful reference works: Dictionary of animal behaviour, Dictionary of biology, Oxford companion to the body, Dictionary of ecology, Dictionary of the plant sciences, Dictionary of scientists and Dictionary of zoology.
Physicians' Desk Reference: PDR
Ref RS75 .P5
Using the Biological Literature: A Practical Guide
Ref QH303.6 .D38
World of Biology
Ref QH302.5 .W67
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Search the following databases to locate citations and/or full text of journal articles. In some cases, the database will provide links to the full text of articles. If you see a  button next to an article of interest, click it to determine whether the journal is available in the Geisel Library or in full text via another electronic database. WebBridge will also help you request articles through Interlibrary Loan if they aren't available through our library. If there is no WebBridge button, search for the journal's availability using the Journal Finder. Journals listed as being in "Geisel Library Paper Holdings" are shelved alphabetically by journal title on the Lower Level of the library.
Core Resources
Biological Sciences (CSA)
This interdisciplinary database offers abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine,
biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Get access to literature from over 6,000 serials, as well as conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs and selected books and patents.
BioOne
This website houses the full-text of over 100 high-impact bioscience, environmental science, and ecology research journals. Most are published by small scientific societies and non-commercial publishers, and are unavailable through other biology journal databases.
Additional Subject Resources
AGRICOLA
Comprehensive database covering agriculture as well as the life sciences.
ETHX on the Web
A bibliographic database on bioethics and professional ethics.
GEOBASE via Firstsearch
Covers journals, books, monographs, conference proceedings, and reports related to the fields of geography, geology, and ecology.
GreenFILE
This database provides citations and abstracts from both scholarly and general interest publications about environmental issues. The journal articles, government documents, and reports indexed in GreenFILE offer perspectives from the scientific, medical, legal, and political communities on the challenges facing our environment. (1973–present)
Medline
"MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information with some full text on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses (MeSH) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,000 current biomedical journals. Included are citations from Index Medicus, the International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, PREMEDLINE, AIDSLINE, BIOETHICSLINE and
HealthSTAR."
Ornithological Worldwide Literature (OWL)
"OWL is a compilation of citations and abstracts from the worldwide scientific literature that pertain to the science of ornithology. A major attraction is its coverage of the 'grey' literature, which are not abstracted by commercial databases such as Zoological Record or the Science Citation Index."
Plant Science
Bibliographic index for research literature on all aspects of plant science. Coverage is from 1994 to the present.
SciFinder Scholar
SciFinder Scholar provides access to Chemical Abstracts from 1907 to the present. Visit the library's SciFinder Scholar page for more information on this database.
TOXLINE
This database from the National Library of Medicine is an "extensive collection of online bibliographic information covering the biochemical, pharmacological, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals." Coverage is five years ago to the present. Access restricted to Saint Anselm College community.
Supplemental Resources
Academic Search Premier
A broad index providing abstracts and some full-text for a range of academic areas, including biology.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar indexes a subset of scholarly literature in all fields. Coverage appears to be strong in the area of biology, especially for scholarship that is available online. More information about Google Scholar.
ingenta.com
"The world's largest website for the search and delivery of research articles, ingenta.com offers you access to article summaries from over 20,000 publications."
JSTOR
This is a collection of online journals from many disciplines, including Botany, Ecology and General Science. Please note: While this
database goes back to the very first volume of these journal titles, it does not cover the most recent 3–5 years of a title. User Guide
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Search the library catalog to locate books in Geisel Library. Search by keyword (e.g., migratory behavior) if you are unsure of the title you are looking for. Most biology books are located on the Upper Level of the library in the QH through QR sections.
Search WorldCat to search the collections of libraries worldwide. Find a book in this database, and, if not owned by SAC, you can request it from Interlibrary Loan with one click. Your book(s) will be available for pickup in the library within 7-14 days. Ask for help in using this database at the reference desk, in person, or online at Ask a Librarian.
Ebrary is an online library containing thousands of e-books spanning across all scholarly disciplines. Books can either be opened in QuickView for instant viewing or in the ebrary Reader (a downloadable plug-in), which provides enhanced functionality such as the ability to copy/paste, highlight, or take notes in a particular book.
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Scientific reviews critically survey a narrowly defined topic in a discipline. Most often, scientific reviews appear in annual publications entitled "Annual review of ...", "Advances in ..." and in journals, especially those which have "review" as part of the title. Many of them are available full-text online.
As part of a search strategy, review papers are an excellent "research tool" to use since they pull together information on the existing "state of the art" of a specific topic. Check out the latest few years for review literature in one of the following.
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Advances in Ecological Research QH540 .A23
Advances in Human Genetics QH431 .A1 A32
Annual Review of Biochemistry (print version: QP501 .A7)
Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology (print version: QH573 .A568)
Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics (print version: QH540 .A54)
Annual Review of Entomology (print version: QL463 .A5)
Annual Review of Environment and Resources (print version: TJ163.2 .A57)
Annual Review of Genetics (print version: QH431.A1 A54)
Annual Review of Microbiology (print version: QR1 .A5)
Annual Review of Physiology (print version: QP1 .A535)
Annual Review of Plant Biology (print version: QK1 .A5)
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Searching the World Wide Web can yield a vast amount of information, but in terms of quality and reliability,
your results may be uneven at best. The ease and speed with which individuals can publish information on the web,
regardless of accuracy or quality, makes it imperative that when doing research on the web you know how to evaluate
the information you find.To learn more, see Judging What You Find.
General
BioInteractive
From the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Major destinations in the site include virtual laboratories
and animations of biological processes such as T-cell proliferation.
Biology Department – Saint Anselm College
Find information about courses and faculty web pages.
BiologyBrowser
A free website from BIOSIS.
Biology Links
Comprehensive site with links to other useful educational and commercial sites and e-journals, brought to you by the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at Harvard University.
Biology News Net
The latest news and articles on popular topics. International focus. Can set up RSS news feeds.
Biology Web Resources from Westfield State College
Ely library compiles useful links for undergrads. List contains links to general, biodiversity, biomedical, genetics and more.
CSU Bioweb
36 categories are included on this California State University Biological Science Web Server.
Encyclopedia of Life
The Encyclopedia of Life, launched in 2008, is a global cooperative effort to fully catalog and describe more than 1.8 million species.
Infomine: Biological, Agricultural and Medical Sciences
A directory of academic sites that are evaluated and chosen by librarians.
The National Biological Information Infrastructure
"A broad, collaborative program to provide increased access to data and information on the nation's biological resources."
OhioLINK Subject Guide: Biology
A guide to internet resources created by a group of OhioLINK subject experts.
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. PLoS publishes peer-reviewed, open access scientific and medical journals, including PLoS Biology.
SciCentral: Biological Sciences
Extensive directory of resources in biology, biochemistry, and many other specialties.
Science and Arts Gateway for Education
An excellent gateway site from Cornell Theory Center (CTC) at Cornell University.
Scirus
Helps you quickly locate scientific information (including Biology-related information) on the Web searching more than 450 million science-related pages. Many of the links are to peer-reviewed journal information. Some is freely accessible full-text. Others may be available via Saint Anselm College or Interlibrary loan.
Tree of Life
This site provides information about the diversity of organisms, their evolutionary history, and characteristics.
Virtual Library: Bio Sciences
A collection of links on 16 bioscience topics; many have sub-topics.
Virtual Library (Science)
Includes biosciences.
Bioethics
National Reference Center for bioethics literature
This is a good starting place for research in bioethics. Links to
ETHX on the Web, an online bibliographic database for books and journal articles on the subject.
Biomedical
BioMed Central
"BioMed Central publishes peer-reviewed research across all areas of biology and medicine, with immediate, barrier-free access for all."
Biostatistics Resources on the World Wide Web
From the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.
The Merck Manual of Medical Information – Home Edition
A full-text, searchable consumer edition of the famous Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy.
NIH Stem Cell Information
From the National Institute of Health, this site provides links to the wide range of resources on this topic, including press releases, primers, and fact sheets.
PharmWeb
An extensive collection of links to a wide variety of company and drug related information.
Medi-Lexicon
"A dictionary of over 85,000 medical, pharmaceutical, biomedical & healthcare acronyms and abbreviations."
Biochemical
Biology Links: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
From Harvard University's Department of Molecular and Cell Biology.
Biochemistry Online: An Approach Based on Chemical Logic
A web-based textbook developed by Dr. Henry Jakubowski for his first-semester biochemistry students at the College of St. Benedict / St. John's University.
Botanical
The Electronic Plant Information Centre / Kew Gardens
ePIC is a major project to bring together all of Kew's digitized information about plants, thus making it easier to search.
Internet Directory for Botany
A collection of links to resources and images.
Plants Database
Provides a single source of standardized information about plants.
Scott's Botanical Links / U of Oklahoma
Compilation of botany education resources for advanced high school and college levels.
Developmental/Molecular & Cell Biology
Cell and Molecular Biology Online
"An informational resource for cell and molecular biologists."
Evolutionary Biology Resources from Saint Anselm College
Developed by Dr. Jay Pitocchelli for use as supplementary class material.
Genetics Education Center
From Kansas University Medical Center (KUMC) and includes a large number of genetics-related sites, including the Human Genome Project.
Hypermedia Glossary of Genetic Terms
Search or browse through over 600 entries.
Kimball's Biology Pages
These pages include a hypertext dictionary specializing in cell and molecular biology, from 'Absorption Spectrum' to 'Zygote'.
Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
This effort to computerize current knowledge of molecular and cellular biology has been undertaken in the Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University as a part of the Japanese Human Genome Program.
Species 2000
This project aims to enumerate "all known species of plants, animals, fungi and microbes on earth as the baseline dataset for studies of
global biodiversity."
Structure of the Human Body
From the Loyola University of Medical Education Network (LUMEN).
Environmental
Biodiversity
From the World Resources Institute.
FishBase WWW
Key data on all important finfish; taxonomy, pictures, extensive literature references.
Environmental Protection Agency
A considerable number of full-text files are available on this EPA site, such as excerpts from the Federal Register related to the
environment and transcripts of speeches.
National Library for the Environment
Created by the National Council for Science and the Environment, "to improve the scientific basis for making decisions on environmental
issues."
NatureServe: an Online Encyclopedia of Life
Provides in-depth information on rare and endangered species, but includes common plants and animals, too.
North American Breeding Bird Survey: Results and Analysis, 1966–2003
A project of the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, MD, this site monitors North American bird populations during the
breeding season.
Tide Charts for the New England Coast
Includes charts for 6 months of tides.
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Includes many full text reports from the agency, links to sites on endangered species, fisheries, and to regional offices.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Part of the United Nations Environment Programme, the WCMC provides information on conservation and sustainable use of the world's living resources.
Zoological
Amphibiaweb
A communications network on worldwide vanishing amphibians.
Animal Diversity Web
From the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, this site contains "thousands of species accounts about individual animal species".
Entomology Index of Internet Resources
A directory and search engine of insect-related resources on the Internet.
Internet Public Library: Zoology
This IPL site, hosted by the University of Michigan, is a good general site for many biology topics, including vertebrate and invertebrate zoology.
Mammal Species of the World (MSW)
A database of mammalian taxonomy.
PrimateLit
From the Wisconsin Primate Research Center, the University of Wisconsin Libraries in Madison, and the Primate Information Center at the
Washington National Primate Research Center in Seattle. This is a searchable database to over 200,000 citations in the literature of
primatology.
Tree of Life
This site provides information about the diversity of organisms, vertebrate and invertebrate, their evolutionary history, and characteristics.
Web Lift to Taxa
From the University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) at Berkeley. Includes vertebrates and invertebrates.
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Citing Information: CSE/CBE Style
CSE Citation Style Examples
USE "Scientific Style and Format: The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers"
Paper copy: Ready Ref T11 .S386
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