Yale University Library - Biology Resources

grants resources | Science Libraries Pages | selected library catalogs | biology reference sources |

course-related guides: * Environmental Chemistry of Pollution * Bioethics *
reference -- * endangered species* and * Mammal Species of the World * and * Dictionary of Cell Biology * and * IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals * and * Double Twist * 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

• Agricola - from the National Agricultural Library (1982 to present) - 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)
• Botany - Smithsonian Institution
• Carnivorous Plant Database ~3000 entries
• Botanical 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
  Material Safety databases - 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' Navigator Beyond Yale - for alternative search tools

  Worldwide Links to Libraries - WWW and gopher

• Geographical Directory of Biological Institutions , from Harvard
• biology-related , from Yahoo
• American Museum of Natural History - with exhibitions and shops
• Biosis - with taxonomy and nomenclature information
• 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 Navigator - Beyond Yale , with alternative search tools such as telephone or e-mail directories and other Society servers

other WWW resources:

• Pedro's BioMolecular Research Tools
• Science and the Environment
  BIOSCI a discussion group
  

• Tree of Life , from DR Maddison and WP Maddison - Univ. of Arizona
• Structure of DNA, from Genentech, Inc.
• 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.
• IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals, from World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 1996.
• 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, 2nd ed., c1995. - a searchable dictionary with over 5400 entries
• Double Twist - lab methods in molecular and cell biology
• Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy - a searchable edition
• Endangered Species Home Page , from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• grants resources
• U.S. Zip Code Directory

Yale University Library
By: Lori Bronars, Selector for Biology and Science Reference Librarian
lori.bronars@yale.edu
last modified : September 6, 2001
All contents copyright c1997, Yale University. All rights reserved