SubjectsPlus: Biology
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Books
Information Strategy 
A basic guide for tracking down relevant, high-quality information needed for papers, lab reports, discussions, and other purposes.
Define...
... a topic by gathering background/overview information; help formulate your question.
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Glossaries, etc.
AccessScience 
Off-campus access
The online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and Yearbooks and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, and more.
Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology
Call Number: Science Library Oversize QR81 .B46x 2001
Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
Call Number: Science Library Reference QL3 .G7813
The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
For easy-to-understand, authoritative information about human diseases and disorders.
Natural Communities
Glossary; Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
Oxford Reference Online (ORO) Off-campus access
Provides full text of a wealth of facts, figures, definitions, and translations from 175+ Oxford reference titles, many of which are in-depth, scholarly entries.
Reference Universe Off-campus access
Some full text. Reference Universe helps you find the right article--the authoritative article--to begin your research, whether it's on your shelves in a reference work or in an online reference database
Textbooks
NCBI Bookshelf
The full text of 70+ well-known biology and other science textbooks and other materials.
Identify
... specific sources of information about the defined topic--to answer your question
Databases
LexisNexis Academic Off-campus access
1-popular Useful for coverage of newspapers and some popular magazines 1980's-present; use the Power Search.
Access World News Off-campus access
Mostly 1990's-present online resource that provides full-text information from over 1,000 United States and international newspapers and news services.
Academic Search Premier Off-campus access
2-popular/primary
JSTOR Off-campus access
Full text access to past years of 100+ journals covering the Biological and General Sciences; years of coverage depend upon the journal but access is not usually available to the most current 2-5 years of each journal.
CSA Biological Sciences/Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management/MEDLINE Off-campus access
3-primary; search these 3 databases at the same time; a good way to start searching for primary literature about almost any topic in Biology.
Entrez: the Life Sciences Search Engine
Allows many NCBI databases to be searched simultaneously--including PubMed/MEDLINE.
NCBI PubMed (MEDLINE)
The NCBI interface to MEDLINE.
MEDLINE Off-campus access
1953-current; FirstSearch interface. One of the premier sources for bibliographic coverage of medicine, medical research, health care, molecular biology, physiological psychology, and more.
AGRICOLA Off-campus access
Provides citations to the wide range of agricultural literature.
WormBase
Caenorhabditis elegans
Google Scholar
Look for links to publications available through Grinnell; use only as a supplement to the sources above and below.
Science Citation Index
4-primary Contact Kevin Engel for access to the Science Citation Index. A unique database that allows you to discover who has cited (referred to) a particular article or book since it was originally published.
BIOSIS Previews
5-primary Contact the Science Librarian for use of this database.
WorldCat Off-campus access
Before 1000 B.C. to the present. The OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other materials held in libraries worldwide. Contains millions of records.
Reference Sources
AP images (Associated Press) Off-campus access
Provides 24/7 access to over 4.9 million primary source photos from 1825 to the present. Additionally, provides audio, video, graphics and interactives. Constantly updated, AP Images is an important resource for virtually every discipline. This database may be used for educational purposes only. Images may not be posted on the Web or otherwise made available electronically to anyone outside the Grinnell College community. These images may not be republished or distributed in newspapers, newsletters, magazines, brochures, catalogs, yearbooks, calendars, posters, or similar materials.
BLAST
BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool--a set of similarity search programs designed to explore all of the available sequence databases regardless of whether the query is protein or DNA--from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/blast_overview.html)
Caenorhabditis elegans WWW Server
Leon Avery
Collembola collection
This database includes all records of Collembola which are or were in the Collection of K. Christiansen. The records are mainly from North America but include some specimens from Mexico and Lebanon, Syria and China.
Nucleotides Database
Genetic sequences; National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine
Plants Database
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Saccharomyces Genome Database
SGD is a scientific database of the molecular biology and genetics of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is commonly known as baker's or budding yeast.
Protein Database
National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine
Sequence Retrieval System
For searching across multiple databases in Biochemistry including SWISS PROT and BLAST; allows searching of proteins by molecular weight and other characteristics.
SWISS PROT
Full-text search option; for finding the molecular weight of and much other data about proteins.
Taxonomy Database
National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine.
TOXNET
Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas; National Library of Medicine.
Trends Online: A Compendium of Data on Global Change
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy.
Ground Water & Drinking Water
United States Environmental Protection Agency
List of Drinking Water Contaminants & MCLs
Ground Water & Drinking Water Topics
Standard methods for the examination of water and wastewater
Call Number: Science Library QD142 .A5
USGS Water Resources Data of the United States
Locate
... the publications identified above at Grinnell or elsewhere--get your information
Grinnell College Libraries
Books, media, Web sites, databases, art work, and more
Journal Finder
Journals, magazines, and newspapers available through the Grinnell College Libraries.
Other Library Catalogs
Iowa State University Library Catalog
University of Iowa Libraries Catalog
Evaluate
...the validity, objectivity, and usefulness of the information
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