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Article Resources
AGRICOLA serves as the catalog and index to the collections of the National Agricultural Library. The records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences. AGRICOLA is organized into two data sets. The NAL Public Access Catalog contains citations to books, audiovisuals, serials, and other materials. The Article Citation Database contains citations, many with abstracts, to journal articles, book chapters, reports, and reprints.
Arctic & Antarctic Regions (AAR) is the world's largest collection of international polar databases. Coverage is multidisciplinary. A wide variety of sources are indexed including: scientific periodicals, monographs, proceedings of conferences and symposia, government reports, theses, dissertations, and books. Many are indexed only in AAR -- the best resource for research on cold regions anywhere, from temperate regions with cold winters to the Himalayas of Tibet."--NISC product factsheet
Also known as BIOSIS Previews, indexes the worldwide literature of research in the biological and biomedical sciences. The database covers the entire field of life sciences including original research reports and reviews in field, laboratory, clinical, experimental, and theoretical work. BIOSIS indexes journals, technical reports, meeting proceedings, United States patents, and books in biology, biomedicine, and related areas. The database indexes literature published from 1926 to the present. Over 500,000 journal articles and other documents from over 6,000 journals and other sources are indexed each year.
CAB Abstracts indexes journal articles in the applied life sciences. It covers the fields of agriculture, forestry, animal and veterinary sciences, human health and communicable diseases, human nutrition, food science, animal health and welfare, microbiology and parasitology, leisure and tourism, plant science and crop science, and the management and conservation of natural resources. The database indexes literature published from 1910 to the present. Over 9,000 serials representing 125 countries are indexed in full or in part.
Developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), Pubmed is a free version of MEDLINE that offers links to GenBank records, other molecular sequence data, and other resources. MEDLINE, produced by the National Library of Medicine, is an index to journal articles in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences, including both basic biomedical sciences and clinical practice. It indexes over 4,000 journals. The database contains citations from 1950 to the present with some older citations. An important feature of MEDLINE is the use of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), a powerful tool for searching specific topics or for comprehensive general searches. MEDLINE is also available to Stanford users via EBSCO, ISI Web of Knowledge, NLM Gateway, OCLC ,and Ovid.
The Web of Science service, available via ISI Web of Knowledge, includes three core component databases: the expanded version of Science Citation Index (SciSearch), Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. The Science Citation Index provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in the world's leading scholarly science and technical journals covering over 100 disciplines from 1900 to the present. An important feature of SciSearch is the ability to perform cited reference searching to find recent articles that cite an earlier work.
xSearch, developed through the Stanford University Libraries' partnership with Deep Web Technologies, provides Stanford researchers and students with a single search option for multiple online resources. Searches may be limited to specific databases, or all available sources may be searched simultaneously. Search results are merged into one relevance ranked list, and are clustered by topic, author, source publication, publisher, and date. Custom searches using any selection of available databases can be created and re-used. Users may also create alerts in order to be informed automatically of new items that match search criteria.
Zoological Record indexes the world's zoological and animal science literature, covering all research from biochemistry to veterinary medicine. The database provides a collection of references from over 4,500 international serial publications, plus books, meetings, reviews and other no- serial literature from over 100 countries. It is the oldest continuing database of animal biology, indexing literature published from 1864 to the present. Zoological Record has long been recognized as the "unofficial register" for taxonomy and systematics, but other topics in animal biology are also covered
Web Resources
The AIBS site supplies information about news, publications, programs and services provided in the biological sciences field.
The ATCC is a global nonprofit bioresource center that offers biological products, technical services, and educational programs to private industry, government, and academic organizations. Subjects included are ATCC distributors, ATCC cultures, ATCC byproducts, and ATCC special collections.
The BioNetbook is a large directory of pages on the web about Biology. Searching parameters include searching by a word, searching by topics, combining words and topics, lookup in a geographical directory, or browsing the entire database.
This virtual library contains information on various subjects, such as biodiversity, botany, medicine, parasites, microbiology and zoology. Each subject heading leads to a listing of databases, servers and links about that subject.
BiologyBrowser, produced by BIOSIS, is a free web site offering resources for the life sciences information community. The information provided is either produced exclusively for BIOSIS, or collected from reputable outside sources.
Biology online is broken into three categories, dictionary of biology, biology tutorials and biology on the web. Each category offers information on a variety of biological subjects, such as cell biology, genetics, ecology and neurology.
BioModels Database is a data resource that allows biologists to store, search and retrieve published mathematical models of biological interests. Models present in BioModels Database are annotated and linked to relevant data resources, such as publications, databases of compounds and pathways, controlled vocabularies, etc.
The Department of Biology website includes information about the Carnegie institute, research interests and news, personnel directory, publications, protocols and a seminar schedule. The listing of links also includes information regarding Stanford research, departments and programs.
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols is an interdisciplinary digital journal providing a definitive source of research methods in cell, developmental and molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, protein science, computational biology, immunology, neuroscience and imaging. Each monthly issue details multiple essential methods—a mix of cutting-edge and well-established techniques. Newly commissioned protocols and unsolicited submissions are supplemented with articles based on Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s courses and manuals.
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is an ambitious project to organize and make available via the Internet virtually all information about life present on Earth. At its heart lies a series of Web sites, one for each of the approximately 1.8 million known species, that provide the entry points to this vast array of knowledge. The entry-point for each site is a species page suitable for the general public, but with several linked pages aimed at more specialized users. The sites provide both text and images.
Infomine has over 100,000 searchable, academically valuable resources, most specifically a section on biological, agricultural and medical sciences. After searching for a specific term, Infomine retrieves a myriad of databases and sources pertaining to that term.
The IMSR, sponsored by the Jackson Laboratory, is a searchable online database of mouse strains and stocks available worldwide, including inbred, mutant, and genetically engineered mice. The goal of the IMSR is to assist the international scientific community in locating and obtaining mouse resources for research.
Representative of an online biology textbook, this site makes available many subjects in hypertext allowing the cross referencing of hundreds of subjects.
The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) is a broad, collaborative program to provide increased access to data and information on the nation's biological resources. The NBII links diverse, high-quality biological databases, information products, and analytical tools maintained by NBII partners and other contributors in government agencies, academic institutions, non-government organizations, and private industry.
This E-Book contains over 50 chapters with general biology information. Some of the chapter titles are cells, proteins, thermodynamics, reactions, plants and diversity. The end of each chapter contains learning objectives, terms, review questions and links.
This online directory includes lists of resources for multiple topics in biology, such as biology 101, botany, zoology, insects and evolution. Also listed are the top 20 sites for Biology.
This educations resource has information about colleges/universities, graduate programs, test preparation, essay and resume services, financial aid and distance learning.
ResearchGATE is a free professional network for scientists. It promotes communication with other scientists, discovery of new methods, papers, and people through a research based search engine, and collaboration using a suite of applications built specifically for researchers.
This website contains information about the programs offered at Stanford, as well as student resources and faculty information. Also listed are research sites on campus such as BioStores and Hopkins Marine Station.
SBO is the Systems Biology Ontologies project, another cornerstone of the BioModels.net effort. The goal of SBO is to develop controlled vocabularies and ontologies tailored specifically for the kinds of problems being faced in Systems Biology, especially in the context of computational modeling.
Developed at the University of Arizona, the biology project is a comprehensive database of resources about multiple biological subjects. Also provided are many teaching and learning tools such as tutorials and problem sets.