course-related guides: * Environmental Chemistry of Pollution * Bioethics *
reference -- * endangered species* and * Mammal Species of the World * and * Dictionary of Cell Biology * and * 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species * and * Protocol Online * and * taxonomy resources *

Yale Biology Courses ||| Science Libraries ||| Yale Libraries

Yale-Selected Biology Internet Resources

databases and sites

• Biology Links - from Harvard University, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology
• biology, subject category browsing from Yahoo
• Bill Wasserman's Developmental Biology Page, from Loyola University of Chicago

• Agricola - from the National Agricultural Library (NAL catalog) - OR search Agricola 1970 to present with more searching capabilities
• Internet Directory for Botany - search alphabetical list or browse subject categories, from Anthony R. Brach (Harvard University Herbarium) and Raino Lampinen (Botanical Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History)
• Plants - Smithsonian Institution
• Carnivorous Plant Database ~3000 entries
• Botanical Museum, Botanical Garden, and Zoological Museum - Finnish Museum of Natural History
• Database of Macromolecular Movements, from M. Gerstein, Yale Univ.
• Gray Card Index Database (for New World vascular plants), from Harvard University Herbaria.
• SenseLab, with neuronal and olfactory databases, from Yale University.
• Protein Data Bank, from Brookhaven National Laboratory.
• Yeast Databases (World-Wide Web Virtual Library)
  Material Safety and hazardous properties information- information and connection links
  Internet-accessible sites and other library resources are identified here.

  Some Internet Search Tools

  • Yahoo - search keywords or browse by subject -- most selective retrieval
  • WebCrawler - keyword search
  • Science Libraries' Web Gateway - for alternative search tools
  • Scirus - a science search engine from Elsevier

  Worldwide Links to Libraries - WWW

organizations, societies, people:

• biology-related , from Yahoo
• American Museum of Natural History - with exhibitions and shops
• BiologyBrowser - Search by organism, subject, or geographic area. Includes a guide to animal names.
• New York Botanical Garden
• Missouri Botanical Garden
• Smithsonian Institution
• U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service - with endangered species information
• Society servers - Biology , from Scholarly Societies Project, Univ. of Waterloo
• Science Libraries Web Gateway, with alternative search tools such as telephone or e-mail directories and other Society servers

other WWW resources:

• Pedro's BioMolecular Research Tools BIOSCI/Bionet a discussion group
  

• Tree of Life , a worldwide collaboration. Editors: DR Maddison and KS Schulz 1996-2006.
• Structure of DNA, from Access Excellence the national health museum.
• Reader's Guide to James D. Watson's The Double Helix, from Kenneth R. Miller, Brown Univ.
• Interactive Frog Dissection - online tutorial, from R Strauss, J Foss, and M Kinzie, Univ. of Virginia and others.
  
• hummingbirds - from L. Chambers, Creative Services.

Selected Interesting Reference Sources

book or publisher information:
• Amazon Books
• Publishers' Catalogues Home Page

  reference:

• Taxonomy and Classification Resources Guide

• Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, from Grove's Dictionaries Inc./Macmillan Publishers, Ltd.
• 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, from IUCN Species Survival Commission.
• Mammal Species of the World - a taxonomic and geographic reference , DE Wilson and DM Reeder (Eds.), 1993.
• Dictionary of Cell Biology, Eds.) J.M. Lackie and J.A.T. Dow, Academic Press, 3rd ed., c1999. - a searchable dictionary with over 7000 entries
• Protocol Online - lab methods in biochemistry, cell biology, microbiology, molecular biology and more
• Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy - a searchable edition
• Endangered Species, from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Includes species information.
• grants resources
• U.S. Zip Code Directory