Find biology articles in scientific journals by searching in these databases (which the library provides for students, faculty, and staff exclusively).

• Biodiversity: A Reference Handbook
• A Dictionary of Biology
• A Dictionary of Genetics
• A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
• A Dictionary of Public Health
• Encyclopedia Britannica Online
• Encyclopedia of Evolution
• Encyclopedia of Underwater Life
• Introduction to Cell and Tissue Culture: Theory and Technique
• The New Encyclopedia of Birds

American Naturalist
Online access: 1993 to one year ago.

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology
Online access: 1996 to present.

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
Online access: 1970 (v. 1) to one year ago.

Annual Review of Entomology
Online access: 1997 to present.

Annual Review of Microbiology
Online access: 1995 to present.

Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology
Online access: 1996 to 2001.

BioScience
Online access: 1988 to present.

Ecological Applications
Online access: 1991 to 2002.

Ecology Letters
Online access: 1998 to one year ago

Genes & Development
Online access: 1997 (v. 11) to present.

Nature
Online access: June 1997 to one year ago.

Nature Cell Biology
Online access: May 1999 to one year ago.

Nature Genetics
Online access: June 1998 to one year ago.

Nature Medicine
Online access: September 1998 to one year ago.

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Online access: July 1998 to one year ago.

Nature Reviews Cancer
Online access: October 2001 to one year ago.

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
Online access: 2002 to one year ago.

Nature Reviews Genetics
Online access: October 2000 to one year ago.

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
Online access: October 2000 to one year ago.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Online access: 1915 (v. 1) to six months ago.

Science
Online access: 1988 to one year ago.

Search for free biology articles, journals, and citations online:

• BioMed Central - 140 full-text journals in biology and medicine
• Directory of Open Access Journals - 115 full-text journals in "Biology & Life Sciences"
• E-Print Network - preprints, scholarly papers, etc. in biology and more
• Google Scholar
• HighWire Press - peer-reviewed articles provided by Stanford University
• PubMed - citations and some full-text of biomedical articles from the Nat. Lib. of Med.
• PubMed Central - archive of life sciences journals
• Science Magazine - free full text from 1988 to one year ago (SU subscription)
• See also the subscription databases provided by SU (above) and the full text online journals SU subscribes to (below)

Online databases & tools:

• BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) - search for DNA sequences
• Clustal W
• RCSB PDB (Protein Data Bank) - largest repository of proten structure data

Keep up with science news:

• National Institutes of Health News Releases
• National Science Foundation (NSF) Biology News
• NewScientist.com News - summaries of the latest news stories from New Scientist
• ScienceDaily - science news & press releases from around the world
• The Scientist

Learn about scientific information and ethics:

• Bioethics Resources on the Web - from NIH
• Identifying Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources
• On Being A Scientist: Responsible Conduct In Research - from NAS
• Science and Technology Sources on the Internet
• Sorting Out Sources: Guidelines for Evaluating Scientific Information

Search for info on organisms:

Several or all types of organisms:
• IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
• Nature Online: Life - photos, info, and streaming videos about all sorts of organisms
• Natural Selection - provides great links to botany, mycology, and zoology info
• The Tree of Life - 340 biologists contribute info on biodiversity and organisms

Algae:
• Algaebase - photos and info for thousands of species of algae

Amphibians, crocodilians, reptiles, and turtles:
• Center for North American Herpetology

Aquatic life:
• MarLIN: The Marine life information network for Britain & Ireland
• AquaNIC: Aquaculture Network Information Center - click on "Species"

Birds:
• The Internet Bird Collection - a free library of videos of the world's birds
• Searchable Ornithological Research Archive - core ornithology journals online
• Ornithological Worldwide Literature - citations & abstracts of articles about birds

Insects:
• The Hive and the Honeybee - full text of ten rare apiculture books

Microorganisms:
• Bad Bug Book - FDA info about foodborne pathogenic microorganisms

Plants:
• Hort.net - images and info for over 3,800 plants
• PLANTS Database - photos and info about plants, from the USDA

General biology websites:

• Agricultural Research Center - job postings, nutrition info, and more from the USDA
• Biology Animation Library - from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
• BioResearch - gateway to quality web resources in biology and biomedicine
• BiosciEdNet - useful digital library from AAAS; requires free registration
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Epi-Log Newsletter - communicable disease & epidemiology news from King County
• Ergito - online textbooks in biology; some are free
• Ethnobotanical and Phytochemical Database - from the USDA
• Evolution Research News - news & reports on evolutionary biology grouped by year
• Evolution Website - from BBC
• MicrobeWorld - info about microbiology, including podcasts
• National Biological Information Infrastructure
• Nature Online - info & streaming videos from London's Natural History Museum
• Natural Selection - gateway to quality web resources about the natural world
• North American Fossil Mammal Systematics Database
• Paleobiology Database
• Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Database - from the USDA
• United States Geological Survey (USGS)
• USGS Biological Resources
• The World's Biomes - from UC Berkeley's Museum of Paleontology

Biology-related organizations and associations:

• American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)
• American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
• American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO)
• American Society for Microbiology
• Botanical Society of America
• Center for North American Herpetology - amphibian, crocodilian, reptile & turtle info
• Ducks Unlimited - organization dedicated to wetlands conservation
• Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
• MarLIN: The Marine life information network for Britain & Ireland
• National Center for Science Education
• NatureServe - nonprofit conservation organization
• Organization of Biological Field Stations (OBFS)
• The Society for In Vitro Biology (SIVB)
• Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB)
• The Society for Systematic Biologists
• Teratology Society
• Wildland Invasive Species Program