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General Indexes

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.

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

 

Subject Indexes

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.

BasicBiosis(Firstsearch) contains citations and abstracts for articles from life science journals.

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.

Birds of North America is an up-to-date, comprehensive resource covering the life histories of North American birds. This resource provides detailed scientific information for each of the 716 species of birds nesting in the USA and Canada, including images and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, and more.

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).

Species Information Library (NISC) is a reference database with 45,000 pages of species profiles for North American mammals and selected invertebrates.

Science & Technology Collection (Ebsco) provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,700 publications of which over 800 leading full text journals cover relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community. Topics include astrophysics, biology, chemistry, computer technology, geology, physics, archaeology, and materials science.

Scirus: for scientific information only searches more than 150 million science-related Web sites, along with 11 journal databases with full text articles often included.

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

TreeSearch is "the largest freely available collection of online forestry research in the world" and includes publications of the USDA Forest Service.

Wildlife Worldwide (NISC) 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.

Gale Virtual Reference Library - Access the content of reference books electronically, anytime, anywhere.
Beacham's Guide to the Endangered Species of North America

Online Books: Zoology

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Websites

General Zoology
Invertebrate Zoology
Vertebrate Zoology

General Zoology

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

BIOME
Gateway to internet resources in the Health and Life Sciences.

BIOSIS
Zoological resources: taxonomy, internet research guide, glossaries.

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

the Glossarist
A searchable dictionary of glossaries and topical dictionaries.

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.

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.

Paleobiology Database
Search by collection or reference, generate maps.

Red List of Threatened Species (2003).
(International Union for the Conservation of Nature).

Scientific and standard English names of amphibians and reptiles of North America...
Published by the Herpetologists' League, the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles.

Scirus: for scientific information only
Search more than 150 million science-related Web sites, along with 11 journal databases (full text often included). Advanced search options allow you to specify date, media, file type, content source and a range of subjects in the life and physical sciences and anthropology.

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

Threatened and endangered species system (TESS)
By the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Search for endangered and threatened species.

T.I.D.E.S.
(Teaching, Images, and Digital Experiences) offers primary resource material from East Texas Libraries and museums.
Birds (331 images).
Mammals (178 images).
Reptiles (260 images).

Government Organizations

Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute
Includes links to databases (including an invasive species database) and publications .

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Information on West Nile virus, other diseases.

Environmental Protection Agency

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

National Park Service

National Science Foundation

Patent and Trademark Office
The Official U.S. Patent and Trademark Office offers searching capability to the patent database. Most patents retrieved are full-text. Patents are also searchable in the Chemical Abstracts database by appointment with the Science Librarian.

Texas Parks and Wildlife
Find information on: conservation (including endangered species), wildlife management areas, publications and much more.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Including threatened and endangered species information & laws, hunting information, habitat programs, conservation education, and images.

U.S. Geological Survey
Includes West Nile virus information and maps. Also fact sheets, biological resources.

Independent Organizations

Defenders of Wildlife
International Wildlife Coalition
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
National Wildlife Federation
The Nature Conservancy
Species Survival Commission (International Union for the Conservation of Nature)
Texas Wildlife Association
Wetland Habitat Alliance of Texas
Wildlife Interest Group
Wildlife Land Trust
The Wildlife Society
World Wildlife Fund

Professional Organizations

Ecological Society of America
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
Willi Hennig Society

Invertebrate Zoology

BioTech
Life sciences resources and reference tools for scientists, educators and students.

CephBase
Database of information on all living cephalopods: life history, images, distribution, etc.

Jumping Spiders of America North of Mexico
University of Arizona.

West Nile Virus in Texas
The Texas Department of Health. Also see the USGS and CDC sites.

WWW Virtual Library Biosciences Section

Independent Organization
bioethics.net

Professional Organizations
Entomological Society of America
Society for Economic Botany

Vertebrate Zoology

Amphibian Species of the World
A searchable database, by the American Museum of Natural History.

AmphibiaWeb
A database of over 5,000 amphibian species. Includes (for most species) species accounts, range maps, images, conservation status.

Animal Diversity Web
An online database featuring natural history, distribution, images.

Avian Flu
Free bird flu news, commentary and timelines from Nature.

BIRDNET
Ornithological information source.

Endemic Bird Areas of the World
By Birdlife International. Search by region for habitat types and status, and lists of birds endemic to each. Species profiles included. References.

Mammal Species of the World
(Smithsonian Institution)

Mammals of Texas
A field guide.

North American Fossil Mammal Systematics Database
Phylogenies, taxonomic histories, age-ranges, body-mass estimates for species and genera.

Project Vireo
By the Academy of Natural Sciences. Visual resources for ornithology.

Scientific and standard English names of amphibians and reptiles of North America...
Published by the Herpetologists' League, the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles.

National Biological Information Infrastructure

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

National Park Service

National Science Foundation

Patent and Trademark Office
The Official U.S. Patent and Trademark Office offers searching capability to the patent database. Most patents retrieved are full-text. Patents are also searchable in the Chemical Abstracts database by appointment with the Science Librarian.

Texas Parks and Wildlife
Find information on: conservation (including endangered species), wildlife management areas, publications and much more.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Including threatened and endangered species information & laws, hunting information, habitat programs, conservation education, and images.

U.S. Geological Survey
Includes West Nile virus information and maps. Also fact sheets, biological resources.

West Nile Virus in Texas
The Texas Department of Health. Also see human-animal transmissible diseases (including maps), pet/wildlife law, etc.

WWW Virtual Library Biosciences Section

Independent Organizations

American Museum of Natural History
Audubon Society
Birdlife International
Predator Conservation Alliance

Professional Organizations

Animal Behavior Society
American Ornithologists' Union
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
American Society of Mammalogists
Association of Field Ornithologists
Cooper Ornithological Society
Herpetologists' League
Quaternary Research Association
Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
Texas Ornithological Society
Raptor Research Foundation
Wilson Ornithological Society

 

 

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