Resources By Subject

Databases

General

ScienceDirect College Edition
Full text access to Elsevier publications in the Sciences back to 1996. GFU subscribes to the Life Sciences, Health Sciences, and Physical Sciences and Engineering journal packages.

Academic Search Premier
An interdisciplinary database that provides full text articles. This is the only database at GFU that includes full text access to the Journal of Chemical Physics (1 year embargo).

Web of Science
The Web of Science includes the Science Citation Index from 1979 to the present, Index Chemicus and Current Chemical Reactions. The Science Citation Index Expanded provides access to bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references from over 6,650 of the world’s leading scholarly science and technology journals covering more than 150 disciplines.

SciFinder
Explore scientific information in journal and patent literature from around the world, including References from more than 10,000 currently published journals and patents from more than 57 patent authorities; important scientific discoveries from the present to the mid-1800s; the latest scientific breakthroughs almost as soon as they are published with references added daily and some patent information as recent as 2 days ago. The world's largest collection of organic and inorganic substance information. You will need to set up an account before accessing this database.  See your Biology professor or a Reference Librarian in the MLRC for account set up information.

Environmental Resources

Agricola
This database contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage for AGRICOLA dates back to 1970 and includes more than 4.1 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture.

BioOne
BioOne provides integrated access to interrelated journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. Coverage begins in 2000.

Biosis
Provides worldwide coverage of research in the biological and biomedical sciences.  GFU has coverage from 1991 to 2004.

Birds of North America Online
A comprehensive reference covering the life histories of North American birds. BNA Online contains image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, and more. Each online species account contains recordings of that bird's songs and calls, selected from the extensive collection in Cornell's Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds. 

Environmental Studies and Policy Collection
A collection of over 700 journals and 6 subject specific reference titles provide robust coverage of environmental issues and policies, including diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.

GreenFILE
A multidisciplinary database that draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.

JSTOR Plant Science
JSTOR Plant Science is an online environment that provides access to foundational content vital to plant science – plant type specimens, taxonomic structures, scientific literature, and related materials. It also provides an easy to use interface with powerful functionality that supports research and teaching, including the ability to measure and record plant specimens, share observations and objects with colleagues and classmates, and investigate global plant biodiversity. It is useful for those researching, teaching or studying botany, biology, ecology, environmental and conservation studies.

Medical/cell biology/genetics

Academic Search Premier
The world's largest scholarly, multidiscipline, full-text database designed specifically for academic institutions. Contains full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications, in nearly all academic areas of study.

Biosis
Coverage from 1991 to 2004. Provides worldwide coverage of research in the biological and biomedical sciences.

Medline via Ebsco
Covers the literature of biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences. 1965 to the present.

Over 200 academic and research journals covering a broad range of subject areas, two-thirds of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organizations.

PubMed
From the National Library of Medicine, PubMed includes MEDLINE and related databases. Over 18 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's.

ScienceDirect College Edition
Full-text access to most Elsevier journals in the physical sciences and life sciences, from 2002 to the present. To see only full-text content, click on their green search button and then change the "source" to "Subscribed Journals."

SpringerLink
Search the nearly 2,000 journals published by Springer, most of which are available through our libraries, as well as more than 20,000 full text e-books.

Web of Science
The Web of Science includes the Science Citation Index from 1987 to the present, Index Chemicus and Current Chemical Reactions. The Science Citation Index Expanded provides access to bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references from over 6,650 of the world’s leading scholarly science and technology journals covering more than 150 disciplines.

Wiley Interscience
Full text for most of Wiley's several hundred journals.

Web resources

PubMed 

National Center for Biotechnology Information

National Library of Medicine 

Birdnet

NOAA/ESRL Global Monitoring Division

Global Change Mastery Directory

Science.gov

SciVee
A social media site that enables scientists to share their research with combined video, documentation and data in a rich-media format. Target audience is K12--professional.

Open Culture
Edited by the Director & Associate Dean of Stanford’s Continuing Studies Program, it includes a large collection of videos for teaching and sharing of science and technology. The site reviews and explains the content of each video. It also compiles podcasts and audio files.

Dictionaries

General

Dictionary of Biology

Henderson's Dictionary of Biological Terms

Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography e-book accessible via Credo General Reference 100

Environmental

A Dictionary of Animal Behaviour (Oxford e-book)

Dictionary of the Environment

Oxford Dictionary of Ecology

A Dictionary of Ecology (e-book)

Dictionary of Plant Sciences (Oxford e-book)

Cell biology/genetics

Dictionary of Cell Biology

Dictionary of Developmental Biology and Embryology (2002 ed) e-book accessible via Credo Reference

Dictionary of Genetics

Dictionary of Genetics (Oxford e-book)

Key Words and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology e-book accessible via Credo Reference

Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Oxford e-book)

Units, Symbols and Terminology for Plant Physiology

Encyclopedias

General

Using the Biological Literature 

Environmental

Concise Encyclopedia of Plant Pathology e-book accessible via Credo Reference

Encyclopedia of BioDiversity

Encyclopedia of Rainforests

New Encyclopedia of Birds (Oxford e-book)

Atlas of Woody Plant Stems

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia 

Medical/cell

Encyclopedia of BioEthics

Encyclopedia of the Human Genome 

Professional organizations

The American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS)

American Ornithologists’ Union

Association of Field Ornithologists

Finding books

By subject search

Below are some links to various subject searches in the catalog. The subject search is a specific and helpful way to find materials about your area of interest. Explore these or try some of your own subject searches using the "Subject" tab in Foxtrax. For more information on "power searching" by subject, ask your reference librarian.

Botany

Ornithology

Genetics

Microbiology

Physiology

By call number

If you want to browse for books in the library, use the call numbers below to find the subject areas that are of interest to you. You can use them to browse the reference section or the main stacks. The Library of Congress website may have a more detailed outline of call numbers for your subject area.

Google Search: Biology

This Google Custom Search engine searches quality, discipline specific web sites selected by the librarians.