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Contents

Research Guides and Bibliographies

REF Z 7401.M28
Science and Engineering Literature
A guide to the major science bibliographies and abstracting services.

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Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Handbooks

QH 310.A392
Biology Data Book
Collection of biological data and tables.

REF QH 13.G7
Encyclopedia of the Biological Sciences
Brief summary of topics. Includes index and some bibliographies

REF Q 121.M3
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
15,250 illustrations and 7,700 readable articles that provide coverage of the rapid advances that characterize many of the sciences in recent years.

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Indexes and Abstracts

Bound Periodical
Biological Abstracts 1968-1984
Major abstracting service available for biological sciences.

REF Z 5073.A46
Biological and Agricultural Index 1962-
Indexes literature in areas of biology, agriculture, botany, forestry, conservation, etc.

REF Z 7401.G46
General Science Index
A subject index to periodicals covering a variety of scientific fields, including biology.

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Annual Reviews

QP 501.A7
Annual Review of Biochemistry
QH 540.A53
Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics
QH 431.A1A54
Annual Review of Genetics
QR 1.A5
Annual Review of Microbiology

Annual Reviews provide an overview of the developments that have occurred in the various sciences. Each volume covers a specific discipline.

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Histories

QH 305.M26
The Growth of Biological Thought
Emphasizes the background and development of ideas dominating modern biology.

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Journals

American Biology Teacher
Journal of Applied Physiology:
American Journal of Botany
Respiratory, Environmental and Exercise Physiology
American Journal of Human Genetics
Journal of Bacteriology
American Naturalist
Journal of Biological Chemistry
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
Journal of Field Ornithology
Auk
Journal of Mammalogy
Bioscience
Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
Nature Biotechnology
Copeia
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Ecological Monographs
Quarterly Review of Biology
Ecology
Seminars in Oncology
Evolution
Trends in Biotechnology
Human Biology
Wilson Bulletin

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Electronic Indexes

Annual Review of Biomedical Sciences
Annual Reviews publishes authoritative, analytic reviews in 29 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.

Basic BIOSIS
Index to the basic core of life science journals found in college and university libraries and written for undergraduate non-biology majors. Includes over 350 popular and scholarly science journals.

BioOne
Aggregation of high impact bioscience research journals, focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.

Blackwell Synergy
Blackwell Synergy holds the content for most of Blackwell's journals

CINAHL
This database covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, consumer health, and 17 allied health disciplines, and contains indexing for over 1,200 nursing journals and publications dating back to 1982, abstracts for over 250 journals, indexing for journals, books and book chapters, dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, pamphlets, educational software packages and audiovisual material. Full text for over 300 journals is provided.

Clinical Pharmacology
Clinical Pharmacology contains current, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs.

Encyclopedia of Animals
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.

Hayworth Press
E-journal subscriptions in social work and pharmacy, including the following journals: Child & Family Behavior Therapy, Journal of Gerontological Social Work, Journal of Pharmaceutical Marketing & Management, Journal of Teaching in Social Work, Social Work in Health Care, and Social Work With Groups.

Health Source Consumer Edition
Provides abstracts and indexing for nearly 500 consumer health, nutrition and professional periodicals from 1984 to present.

Health Source Nursing-Academic Edition
Provides more than 400 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 500 journals. This product offering also includes USP Pharmacopoeia DI: Volume II Advice for the Lay Patient and Stedman's Medical Dictionary.

HighWire Press
HighWire Press at Stanford University develops and maintains the Web versions of important journals in biomedicine and other disciplines. There are more than 582,270 free full-text articles available online.

JSTOR
Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, and Statistics.

Medline Plus
MEDLINEplus has extensive information for health professionals and consumers from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on hundreds of diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and dictionaries, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials.

Medscape
Free selected articles from a number of medical journals.

Oxford Journals
Campbell University has subscriptions of online version of the following journal titles from this database: The English Historical Review, Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Journal of Semitic Studies, The Musical Quarterly, Notes and Queries, Past & Present.

PubMed
A service of the National Library of Medicine, PubMed provides access to over 11 million citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

PubMed Central
An archive of life science journals including BMJ, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, and others.

ScienceDirect Web Editions
Full text articles from several journals published by Elsevier Science.

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Internet Resources

www.freemedicaljournals.com
Contains a listing of medical journals that are available online.

www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/ej.html
A listing of PubMed journals that are available online for free.


HighWire Press
A listing of free medical jouranls available through highwire press

American Medical Association

Andean Botanical Information System
The Andean Botanical Information System (ABIS) presents information from floristic and systematic investigations of the flowering plants (phanerogams) of Andean South America. Topics include selected geographic regions and groups of Andean plants, flora of coastal Peru and Chile, floristic inventories from a variety of habitats in northern Peru, bibliographic resources, and searchable databases.

BioTech
One of the main goals of BioTech is to evaluate and explain the features of some of the more popular Web sites for biology students and researchers.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


The Free Medical Journals Site
Dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet.

Harvard Dept of MCB Biology Links
Directory of internet biological sciences resources.

Healthfinder
A key resource for finding the best government and nonprofit health and human services information on the Internet.

HealthLink Plus
Access to consumer health informationfrom sites selected by Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County's professional Information Services staff.

HealthWeb
HealthWeb is a collaborative project of the health sciences libraries of the Greater Midwest Region (GMR) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) and those of the Committee for Institutional Cooperation.

HIV InSite Gateway to HIV and AIDS knowledge.

KFF State Health Facts Online
This resource contains the latest state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation.

MayoClinic
Access to the experience and knowledge of the more than 2,000 physicians and scientists of Mayo Clinic.

MEDEM
The premier physician-patient communications network, designed to facilitate online access to information and care for more than 90,000 physicians, their practices and their patients, while saving patients time and money and helping physicians generate revenue.

MedicineNet.com
Health and medical information: diseases and conditions, medical dictionary, procedures and test, medications, that is reliable, relevant and produced by doctors.

Merck Manual of Medical Information
Limited sections of the Merck Manual of Medical Information-Second Home Edition.

National Institute of Health (NIH)

The National Women's Health Information Center
Health information gateway especially for women.

New England Journal of Medicine

NIAAA Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database (ETOH)
The most comprehensive online bibliographic database containing over 100,000 records on alcohol abuse and alcoholism.

NOAH: New York Online Access to Health Home Page
Provides end-users a place on the World Wide Web to reach reliable consumer health information.

OncoLink
Provides accurate cancer-related information to help cancer patients, families, health care professionals and the general public.

PubMed
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

World Health Organization

WWW Virtual Library: Biosciences: Medicine
Directory of internet resources on medicine.

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