Biology

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BIOSIS Previews

A subset, by journal title and year, of BIOSIS Previews. Provides information on recent developments in 96 subject areas of the biological and biomedical sciences covering the most prestigious journals from 1969-present.

Biological Sciences

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 science1982 to present.

Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts

Aquatic Resources including serial publications, books, reports, conference proceedings, translations and limited distribution literature from 1978- present.

 

Ecology Abstracts

Focuses on how organisms of all kinds - microbes, plants, and animals - interact with their environments and with other organisms. Included are relevant papers on evolutionary biology, economics, and systems analysis as they relate to ecosystems or the environment from 1982 to present.

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Agricola

Index to materials related to agriculture back to 1970.

AIDS & Cancer Research

Literature as related to AIDS, immunology, virology and cancer genetics from 1982 to present.

Algology, Mycology & Protozoology Abstracts

Reproduction, growth, life cycles, biochemistry, genetics, and infection and immunity in man, other animals, and plants from 1982 to present.

MEDLINE (FirstSearch)

Covers all areas of medicine, including clinical medicine, experimental medicine, dentistry, nursing, health services administration, nutrition, and much more from 1965-

Science Citation Index Expanded (ISI Web of Knowledge)

Multidisciplinary index, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines.

Animal Behavior Abstracts

Behavioral and related studies from 1982-

Bacteriology Abstracts

This journal provides access to far-reaching clinical findings as well as all aspects of pure bacteriology, biochemistry, and genetics from 1982-

BioEngineering Abstracts

Deals with medical and biological applications of engineering knowledge from 1993-

Biological & Agricultural Index

Provides information from groundwater pollution to genetic engineering and covers the entire range of sciences related to biology and agriculture from 1985-The database includes abstracts and full text coverage for selected journals. Periodical coverage includes a wide range of scientific journals, from popular to professional, that pertain to biology and agriculture. About 45 percent of the focus is on agriculture.

Biological Sciences & Living Resources

All aspects of marine, freshwater, and brackish water organisms and environments are examined, including information on biology and ecology of aquatic organisms, exploitation of living resources, and related legal, policy, and socioeconomic issues from 1978-

Biotechnology & Bioengineering Abstracts

Provides bibliographic coverage of ground-breaking research, applications, regulatory developments and new patents across all areas of biotechnology and bioengineering, including medical, pharmaceutical, agricultural, environmental and marine biology from 1982 to present.

Chemoreception Abstracts

Brings together studies from many diverse disciplines relating to the neurobiology, chemistry, and physiology of taste, smell, internal chemoreception, and chemotaxis from 1982 to present.

CSA Neurosciences Abstracts

Covers all aspects of vertebrate and invertebrate neuroscience, emphasizing basic research studies but also including such devastating neural diseases as Alzheimer's from 1982 to present.

Entomology Abstracts

Indexes journal articles covering research on insects, arachnids, myriapods, onychophorans, and terrestrial isopods from 1981-

Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management

This multidisciplinary database provides unparalleled and comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences from 1981-

General Science Abstracts

140 titles, including areas of astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, earth science, environmental issues, mathematics, medicine, physics, and zoology from 1984-Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in March 1993. Full Text coverage begins in 1997.

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia

Upon connection select ADVANCED followed by BROWSE SOURCES.

Human Genome Abstracts

Offers a comprehensive source for developments and promising applications emerging from international genome research, including the massive Human Genome Project 1982-1995.

JSTOR

A database of the back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. The gap between the most recently published issue of any journal and the date of the most recent issue available in JSTOR is from 2 to 5 years.

Marine Biotechnology Abstracts

Marine biotechnology, molecular biology, and molecular genetics from 1978 to present.

Medical & Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Abstracts

Coverage focuses on worldwide studies in which biotechnology, molecular biology, or genetics are applied to medicine and pharmaceuticals, human health, or the diagnosis and treatment of disease from 1993 to present.

MEDLINE (First Search)

Medicine, including clinical medicine, experimental medicine, dentistry, nursing, health services administration, nutrition, and much more from 1965 to present.

MEDLINE (CSA)

Covers all areas of medicine, including clinical medicine, experimental medicine, dentistry, nursing, health services administration, nutrition, and much more from 1989 to present.

Nucleic Acids Abstracts

Purines, Pyrimidines, and Analogs; Nucleosides and Analogs; Nucleotides, Nucleoside Di- and Triphosphates and Analogs; Oligonucleotides, Polynucleotides, and Analogs; Transfer RNA; rRNA and Ribosomal Proteins; Protein Biosynthesis; mRNA; snRNA, snoRNA and ribonucleoproteins; DNA; Gene Regulation; Gene Manipulation; Enzymes; Immunological Aspects; Protein-Nucleic Acid Association. Coverage from 1982-

Oceanic Abstracts

Covers oceanic science and nautical engineering including biological oceanography ecology physical and chemical oceanography marine geology geophysics geochemistry marine pollution nonliving marine resources navigation and communications maritime law desalination ships shipping and marine biology from 1964-

Plant Science

A bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts of scientific literature on plant science, focussing on all plant scientific aspects, especially on pathology, symbiosis, biochemistry, genetics, biotechnology, techniques and environmental biology from July 1996-

PubMed

Provides access to over 16 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. MEDLINE is the primary database used for getting to the subject content of articles in medicine.

Science's Signal Transduction KE

Science's STKE provides a mix of tools and approaches (algorithms, schemas, programs, and human organizational structures) that are stable, scalable, inter-operable, and cost-effective for providing access to information on cell signaling. Nineteen publishers have agreed to include full-text access to ST articles from their journals in the STKE Virtual Journal.

TOXLINE

Bibliographic citations to toxicological, pharmacological, biochemical and physiological effects of drugs and other chemicals. Coverage is international but contains primarily English language items from 1994-

eJournals

American Society for Microbiology

Browsable and searchable online collection of all 11 journals of the American Society for Microbiology.

Annual Reviews

Provides searchable, full-text access to original scholarly review articles. These review articles provide periodic examination of scholarly advances in a number of scientific fields as well as reviews of the current state of research in a field from 1932-Present.

Berkeley Electronic Press

Provides full-text access to journals in the following categories: Economics, Business, and Marketing; Law; Political Science and Current Affairs; Biological Sciences; and Engineering. Coverage is from 1996 to the present.

Biology Journals at FSU

BioOne Abstracts and Indexes

This BioOne bibliographic database is an indexed and fully-searchable collection of abstracts that link to the fulltext articles available from the BioOne organization. BioOne provides a unique aggregation of over 82 high-impact bioscience research journals from more than 66 publishers. Additional publishers and journals will be added over time. These titles are produced by societies and non-commercial publishers and a majority were previously available only in printed form. BioOne was developed by the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), the University of Kansas, the Greater Western Library Alliance, and Allen Press. The organization is committed to a non-profit objective of disseminating important, scholarly information focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences by recovering costs while ensuring sustainability. More information can be found at www.bioone.org.

Cell Press

Full-text access to 6 Cell Press titles. Provides subject access for the following areas: biology, biotechnology, chemistry, general science, and neurology.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

The directory contains 350 quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the web. The service will continue to grow as new journals are identified. The directory resides at Lund University and is supported by the Information Program of the Open Society Institute and SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition).

ScienceDirect

The electronic full text version of approximately 650 traditional research journals published by Elsevier and Academic Press. These journals are primarily in the scientific, technical, and medical disciplines. From 1997 to present.

Springer LINK

An electronic journal service with over 410 full text electronic journals published by Springer. The journals are searchable and browsable by author, title, topic or individual issue. Coverage is 1996 - present. Varies by title.

Wiley Interscience Journals

The online content service from John Wiley & Sons delivering the full text of over 300 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals

Websites

FSU Department of Biological Science

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

The Merck Manual of Medical Information -Home Edition

The New England Journal of Medicine

Science.gov : USAgov for SCIENCE

government science portal

U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)

Virtual Library Biosciences Index

WorldFish Center

Formerly International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM).