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Research Guide:  Biology
Finding Background Info  [help]
     Tip:  use these sources for quick overviews, to develop vocabulary for searching and/or for more sources
  Oxford Reference Online Database - access to over 140 online reference books  
Annual Review of Biochemistry 
Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology   --- Ref QR 81 .B46 1984/2001 v.1-4
The Prokaryotes --- Ref QR 72.5 P76 1991 v. 1 - 4
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Finding Articles [help]
    Open Source Portals
   

PubMed Central --This is the open access portal for all government funded research publications after six months 

    BioMed Central -- Online publisher of free peer-reviewed scientific articles in all areas of medical research and biology
    Public Library of Science -- Peer-reviewed, open access scientific and medical journals that include original research as well as timely feature articles
   
  Biological Abstracts -- a complete collection of bibliographic references covering life science and biomedical research literature published from more than 4,000 journals internationally. This database contains more than 10 million archival records from as far back as 1969, with more than 370,000 citations added each year
  MEDLINE -- provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more
  ScienceDirect College Edition - Health & Life Sciences Journal Collection  --  access to peer-reviewed health and life sciences journal articles 
 

Science Citation Index   --  Researchers can search citation data (from the footnotes of each article), taking a known, relevant paper or work and finding other, more recent papers that cite it.

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Finding Books [help]
  Library Catalog -- search by subject, keyword, author or title!
  Tip:  use the advanced search feature to search by subject and title.  This is a good way to start a search w/out knowing a specific title.      example:  "ethics" as title and "biology" as subject.  Find a book that looks promising and navigate through the catalog using the subject headings in the box on the right on the screen!
 
Web Resources
Mitomap: a human mitochondrial genome database -- Genome database of polymorphisms and mutations of the human mitochondrial DNA

National Center for Biotechnology Information  --  Includes, among many other resources, PubMed , BLAST , OMIM , Taxonomy Browser , and the NCBI Structure Group

National Human Genome Research Institute -- provides information on genetics, inherited disease research, genetics and rare diseases, online resources, and the ethical, legal, and social issues related to genetic research. There is also information on grant funding, careers and training, educational resources.

National Institutes of Health -- General health information, publications, news, and events; grants and funding opportunities; health resources; and an annotated directory of the more than twenty-five individual medical and research organizations that make up the US National Institutes of Health

National Library of Medicine -- Includes, among many other resources, the specialized databases US Drug Information and  AIDS info , and a Chemical Information with information on drugs, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and other potential toxins.
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