Biology

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Key databases

Annual Reviews Online (ANO) Full Text
ANO provides a comprehensive series of full-text reviews in biomedical sciences, physical sciences and social sciences.

BioOne Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals published by small societies and non-commercial publishers in the United States.

BIOSCIENCEnetBASE Full Text
BIOSCIENCEnetBASE contains the full text of books on topics such as bioengineering, genomics, tissue engineering, biofuels, nanotechnology, drug delivery, and immunology.

CSIRO Journals
The latest research by leading Australian and overseas scientists.
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JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text of hundreds of journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology. Many journal backsets begin in the nineteenth or early twentieth century, however most publishers included in JSTOR have negotiated 3-5 year embargoes, so the latest issues are not included.

Includes 194 Biological Sciences journals, 11 Developmental & Cell Biology titles and 53 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology titles

ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest has 8,000 magazines and newspapers, 30,000 theses and 4,500 market reports in full text. Other content includes Hoover’s Company Records and 25,000 working papers from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

PubMed Central (PMC) Selected Full Text
PubMed Central is a digital archive of journal literature on the life sciences.

PubMed Selected Full Text
PubMed provides access to over 15 million MEDLINE citations dating back to the mid-1960s.
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ScienceDirect Full Text
Access 227 Elsevier journals through the ScienceDirect platform.
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SpringerLink Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals in astronomy, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine and physics.

Web of Knowledge
Search Web of Science, Current Contents Connect, CAB Abstracts and Journal Citation Reports.

Wiley InterScience Full Text
Search current journals in a wide range of disciplines.
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American Chemical Society (ACS) Archives Selected Full Text
3 million pages of information on every aspect of chemical science. Articles can date back as far as 1879.

Biological Abstracts
Research literature in a broad array of subjects related to biology and the life sciences. Please note that our subscription covers 1998 to 2001 only.

Biological Sciences Selected Full Text
This database covers research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology,ecology, and specific aspects of agriculture and veterinary science.

Cochrane Library Full Text
Covers evidence-based medicine and evidence-based health care. Also indexed in CINAHL and Medline.

CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
Platform used to search Biological Sciences Collection, EconLit, ERIC, PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO, Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts.
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Click on 'Specific Databases' next to 'Select' and tick the boxes next to Biological Sciences, Biology Digest, BioOne, Conference Papers Index, Medline, and Toxline. Click 'Continue to Search' to search across all 6 databases. Limited full text.

Gale Databases Full Text
These cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes peer-reviewed articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.

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SciFinder Scholar
SciFinder Scholar connects users to the Chemical Abstracts database produced by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS). In addition to research in pure chemistry, the database covers literature in the following areas: Agricultural Science, Biology and Life Sciences, Engineering Sciences, Food Sciences, General Chemistry, Geological Sciences, Material Sciences, Medical Sciences and Physics and Polymer Science. For further information, see the SciFinder Scholar page.

Assignment help

BIOL 120 Waratahs

Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Cambridge Dictionary of Human Biology and Evolution
Concise Dictionary of Biomedicine and Molecular Biology
Dictionary of Biomedical Sciences
Dictionary of Parasitology
Encyclopedia of Bioethics
Encyclopedia of genetics, genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics
Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders
Lange Educational Library - includes Basic Science and Clinical Science reference titles.
Oxford Reference Online — Select from 12 Biological Sciences Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Sage eReference— titles include Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society, Encyclopedia of Epidemiology, Encyclopedia of Stem Cell Research, Encyclopedia of Global Health, Encyclopedia of Health & Aging
World of Microbiology and Immunology

High impact journals

These journals have been selected using Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a resource tool for journal evaluation. According to JCR, these journals have a high impact on the scientific literature when compared with other journals in the field.

Annual Review of Biochemistry
Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology
Cell
Nature
Nature Cell Biology
Science - Vol. 1 (1880) - v. 298 (2002); Recent issues available in print at P505/SCI.

Recommended journals

Microbiology Australia
Biology and Life Science Journals from Directory of Open Access Journals
BioMed Central Journals
FASEB Journal
PLoS Biology
PNAS — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.

Web sites and Internet resources

General Sites

Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) — the aim of ABRS is to provide the underlying taxonomic knowledge necessary for the conservation and sustainable use of Australia’s biodiversity.
Australian Society for Microbiology
AuthorMapper - A free tool visualizing scientific research areas and trends through timeline graphs and bar charts, allowing users to locate other experts in a field of study.
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Bioethics Portal — This site links all the key bioethics websites and issues in Australia.
Biological Journals and Abbreviations
BiologyBrowser — search by organism, subject, or geography.
The Biology Project — an online interactive resource for learning biology from the University of Arizona.
Biotechnology Online — balanced and factual information about biotechnology.
ExPASy Proteomics Server — The ExPASy (Expert Protein Analysis System) proteomics server of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) is dedicated to the analysis of protein sequences and structures.
General Microbiology Reference Links
Institute for Systems Biology
Open Directory Project - Science — a search portal indexing educational and research resources across the sciences.
ScientificCommons.org - aims to provide the most comprehensive and freely available access to scientific knowledge on the internet.
ScienceResearch.com - searching across science collections
Scitable - A free science library and personal learning tool currently concentrating on genetics, the study of evolution, variation, and the rich complexity of living organisms.
Scitopia - searches across patents, US government documents, science portals
Tree of Life Project — a collaborative effort of biologists from around the world providing information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history (phylogeny), and characteristics.
Wolfram Alpha - A computational knowledge engine which generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching the web and returning links.

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Cell and Molecular Biology Online — an informational resource for Cell and Molecular Biologists
Immunology Link
Intute Health and Life Sciences
Microbiology Information Portal
Molecular biology gateway
NetBioChem — covers many topics in Biochemistry.

Multimedia and images

Dennis Kunkel Microscopy — Electron Microscopy Gallery
MicrobeWorld — videos of 'unseen life on earth'
Molecular Visualization Freeware — 5 different molecular visualization tools showing 3-D molecular structures
TV News — includes videos of TV programmes such as Catalyst, Landline, Mythbusters, New Inventors - check the Title List.