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Botany

Subject Databases
E-Text
Websites

Research Library Liaison - Erica Lopez

Email: z_lopezer@titan.sfasu.edu
Phone: (936) 468-6270
Office: 202j

General Databases

Academic Search Complete (Ebsco) is a multidisciplinary index giving access to articles in over 8000 journals with many available in full text.

Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale Cengage Learning) is a general database with indexing for journal, magazine and newspaper articles, with many of the articles available full text.

Google Scholar provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.

Wilson Select Plus (FirstSearch) is a general database that contains full text articles from popular and scholarly journals and magazines.

 

Subject Databases

Agricola (Ebsco) contains over 3 million citations to materials acquired by the National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions.

American Chemical Society Web Editions (ACS Web Edition and Archive) provides online full-text access to all the ACS journal and magazine publications (presently, about 36), with coverage from volume 1 to current for each.

Biology Digest (FirstSearch) covers articles on the life sciences for undergraduates and high school students.

Biological and Agricultural Index (FirstSearch) cites articles from journals, both popular and professional, that pertain to biology and agriculture.

DIScovering Science provides comprehensive coverage of scientific disciplines including Physical Sciences, Medicine, Technology, Information Sciences and Mathematics.

Medline (FirstSearch) is a database that covers all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. There is no full text access, but most records include substantial abstracts.

PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service with access to 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals).

SciFinder is an access point to several Chemical Abstracts databases providing chemical literature from over 10,000 journals, 1907-present; organic and inorganic substance information (CAS registry); patents; structure diagrams; and more. New users start here.

Stat!Ref is a full text collection of 35 medical and drug reference titles, including the Merck Manual and Stedman's Medical Dictionary.

Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide (Ebsco) is a source for locating literature, from 1935 to the present time, on mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians.

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E-Text


ESP: Electronic Scholarly Publishing Full text reproductions of classic publications in: the history of science, genetics, computational biology, and genome research.

Google Print
Search inside books online (full text available for some).

NetLibrary is a collection of electronic books (eBooks) especially selected to meet the needs of the university curriculum.

Online Books: Biology
Online Books: Botany

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Websites

Informational

actionbioscience.org
A non-commercial site offering peer-reviewed articles on bioscience issues. Among others, features genomics, biotechnology, evolution, biodiversity, environment and education.


eNature.com
Produced by the National Wildlife Federation, this site contains field guides for 4800 species, habitat guides, etc.

INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections, Biological, Agricultural, and Medical Sciences
Collection can be searched or browsed by subject, keyword or title. Part of the Library of the University of California, Riverside's INFOMINE.


Intute: Health & Life Sciences
Gateway to internet resources in the Health and Life Sciences.

IMB Jena Image Library of Biological Macromolecules

MedBioWorld
A reference resource providing 25,000 links to journals, associations and databases.

NEARCTICA
The great outdoors of North America: conservation, environmental protection, education, home and yard pests, butterflies, birds, weather, dinosaurs, biking, coloring books for kids.

Plants Database
Produced by the USDA, this site allows you to search for plant information by common and scientific name and symbol. Explore invasive and noxious plants, threatened and endangered plants, and fact sheets for over 130 species of plants.


Red List of Threatened Species (2000).
(International Union for the Conservation of Nature).

Species in Parks - Flora and Fauna Databases
Database of plant and vertebrate animal species found on National Park Services land with searching by park name or species.

The Tree of Life Web Project
Collaborative project amassing information about phylogeny and biodiversity.

T.I.D.E.S.
(Teaching, Images, and Digital Experiences) Offers primary resource material from East Texas Libraries and museums. Nast Arboretum (64 images)

The Flora of Texas Consortium

Vascular Plants Image Gallery

WWW Virtual Library Biosciences Section

Government Organizations

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Environmental assessment, prediction and stewardship. Includes maps, climate forecasts.

National Science Foundation
United States Department of Agriculture
U.S. Geological Survey

Independent Organizations

Botanical Research Institute of Texas
The Nature Conservancy
International Union for the Conservation of Nature

Professional Organizations

American Bryological and Lichenological Society
American Society of Plant Biologists
American Society of Plant Taxonomists
American Phytopathological Society
International Society of Plant Pathology
Society for Economic Botany
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
Native Plant Society of Texas
Willi Hennig Society

 

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