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Biology
 

algaeBASE
An electronic store of information on algae of the world, which includes terrestrial, marine, and freshwater forms.
http://www.algaebase.org/default.lasso?

American Association for the Advancement of Science's (AAAS) Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion (DoSER)
Provides educational materials on the theory of evolution and examines current issues on the topic.
http://www.aaas.org/spp/dser/

American Journal of Human Genetics
Full text articles address the application of genetic principles in medicine, psychology,
anthropology, and social services, and in related areas of molecular and cell biology. All issues from November 1997 to present are available to the Sarah Lawrence community.
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJHG/

Biodiversity & Biological Collections Web Server
A gateway to over 100 sites of interest to organismic biologists and systematists. These
sites originate from universities, museums, and professional societies, and are worldwide in scope.
http://biodiversity.uno.edu/

Biophysical Journal
An expanisve collection of articles concerning the many areas of science. Including chemistry, biology, physics, neurscience, and many other options.
http://www.biophysj.org/

Bio-Web
Focuses on resources for molecular and cell biologists. Features Molecular and Cell Biology-Bioinformatics-Technology news, sequencing tools, book reviews, articles, and software downloads.
http://biodiversity.uno.edu/


CiteSeer
Scientific Literature Digital Library
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/

Entomology Database Library
Presented by the Smithsonian, the library contains 50 plus databases concerning entomology.
http://entomology.si.edu/Entomology/data.lasso


e-Skeletons Project
This project enables you to view the bones of a human, gorilla, and baboon and gather information about them from a osteology database.
http://www.eskeletons.org/

Hypermedia Glossary of Genetic terms
Designed for those with a background in plant genetics.
http://www.weihenstephan.de/%7Eschlind/genglos.html

Illustrated Glossary of Plant Pathology
An A to Z listing of terms related to plant pathology complete with pictures.
http://www.apsnet.org/Education/IllustratedGlossary/

National Museum of Natural History: research & collections
Part of a larger site for the AMNH, this site is particularly strong in the botanical areas,
including the Index Nominum Genicorum, and an online set of 3,000 illustrations of plants
scanned from print sources.
http://www.mnh.si.edu/rc/

"Nuts and Bolts" of Taxonomy and Classification
An excellent overview organized to mirror biological classification schema.
http://jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/lab/TaxonomyLab.html

PLANTS National Database
Contains information about the approximately 45,000 currently recognized plant taxa known to occur as native or naturalized species within the boundaries of the U.S., including its territories. Currently, 1,000 photos of plants are available.

http://plants.usda.gov/

PrimateLit:A Bibliographic database for Primatology
PrimateLit provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities. Coverage of the database spans 1940 to present and includes all publication categories (articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations, book chapters, etc.).
http://primatelit.library.wisc.edu/

Recent Ornithological Literature Online
Brings primary ornithological literature within easy reach.
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET/ROL/

Scirus
A scientific search engine, that allows one to search both journal and web resources, which offer a multitude of resoucres in the various fields of science.
http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/

TreeBASE
A relational database of phylogenetic information hosted by the University at Buffalo.

http://www.treebase.org/treebase/index.html

 

 
 

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