Scope Note
The field of biology and its related technical disciplines has expanded to include topics as diverse as ecology, human engineering, biophysics, and genetics. With the mapping of the human genome, the evolution of “wetware,” and the turning to natural solutions to human problems (biomimicry), biological advances and research are expanding exponentially. This guide cannot be exhaustive, but will attempt to provide research terms, top resources, and current awareness methods for this evolving field.
Agricola
http://firstsearch.oclc.org/fsip;dbname=agricola
Materials relating to all aspects of agriculture, forestry, and animal science from the National Agriculture Library. 1970 to the present.
Annual Reviews
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/search/advanced
Editorial committees comprised of the most distinguished scholars in a discipline select topics for review, and review articles on these topics are written by authors who are recognized experts in the field.
Engineering Village 2 -- Compendex
http://www.engineeringvillage2.org/
Compendex is an outstanding interdisciplinary engineering database. More than 5,000 engineering journals are indexed dating as far back as 1970. Full text is available to journals published my Elsevier and IEEE. Other articles can be directly ordered from the Linda Hall Library. Compendex uses a controlled vocabulary to index articles. A sampling of terms relating to biology and bioengineering are:
| Biochemical engineering | Biomedical Engineering |
| Biochemistry | Biotechnology |
| Bio-communications | Cybernetics |
| Biocompatibility | Ecology |
| Biocontrol | Ecosystems |
| Bioconversion | Environmental Engineering |
| Biodiversity | Genes |
| Bioelectric potentials | Genetic Engineering |
| Biofeedback | Human Engineering |
| Biological Materials | Man machine systems |
| Biology | Microorganisms |
| Biomass | Molecular Biology |
| Biomaterials | |
| Biomechanics |
Biology Digest
http://firstsearch.oclc.org/fsip;dbname=biodigest
Life-science information written in a non-technical style. Abstracts of articles in approximately 200 journals.
Infotrac - Expanded Academic ASAP
http://web6.infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/1/1/1/purl=rc6_EAIM
From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images. 1980 - present.
JSTOR
All of the journals in JSTOR are available full text going back to volume I, issue I in each title. In some cases, titles can go back more than a hundred years. Biology topics can be searched in Ecology (6 journals) and General Science (7 journals).
Knovel (Scientific & Engineering Handbooks)
Knovel has a database of over 400 of some of the leading engineering and science reference handbooks, databases, and conference proceedings. It is a provider of aggregated engineering and applied science data that can be accessed utilizing proprietary tabular analysis tools. Targets engineers and researchers in the applied science discipline. Has links for biotechnology, biology and biochemistry, food science, and safety, health and hygiene.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
http://lexisnexis.com/universe
This is a general database covering thousands of full text newspapers and magazines from around the world. The “guided news search” is recommended for advanced searching. Here you can choose collections, specific titles, dates, and other fields.
National Center for Biotechnology Information
Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease.
PubMed Central
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
Science Citation Index Expanded
http://isi10.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi?DestApp=WOS&Func=Frame
Web of Science offers access to journal articles in the sciences, social sciences and arts and humanities. Containing over 100 years of valuable research, articles are fully indexed and cross-searchable both by citations used and by number of times cited.
E-journal portal
http://du7gb4je7n.search.serialssolutions.com/
Starting here will provide mapping to all of Olin’s electronic journals. Use the search box to search by journal title, browse titles alphabetically, or browse by subject, such as "Health and Biological Sciences." Clicking on any one of the sub-topics will create a list of Olin journals within that area.
Nature
Nature online is the homepage of the international weekly journal of science, and the flagship product of the Nature family of journals.
Science
A publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Biology Browser
BiologyBrowser, produced by BIOSIS, is a free web site offering resources for the life sciences information community. Subjects include Organisms (Chordates, Invertebrates, Plants, etc.), Subjects (biodiversity, botany, genetics, etc.), and Geography (the continents, etc.). BIOSIS provides resources - such as the Nomenclature Glossary for Zoology and the Zoological Record Thesaurus. Links point to current science news stories, relevant web sites, and more.
Biology Online – Information in the Life Sciences
http://www.biology-online.org/
A dictionary and tutorials on nine topics in the biological sciences written in laymen’s terms.
Biospace.com
BioSpace Beat (the industry today), Hotbed communities, breaking news, feature stories, career center.
Biotech
http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/
Life sciences resources and reference tools. Chemical acronyms, dictionary, introduction to glycolysis, medicinal botany, bioinformatics, science and professional resources. From Indiana University.
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