Databases

• AGRICOLA Agriculture, animal sciences, horticulture, and hydrology..
• Animal Behavior Abstracts Behavioral ecology and ethnology, including aggression, learning, foraging and ingestion.
• Annual Reviews Biomedical sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences.
• Aquatic Sciences Searches several databases simultaneously including Aqualine, Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts, Ecology Abstracts, Oceanic Abstracts, Water Resources Abstracts and more.
• Biological & Medical Sciences Searches several databases simultaneously in the areas of biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology.
• BioOne Journal Collection
• BioOne Abstracts and Indexes A better search interface than the one on the BioOne website--search here and then use the links to full text.
• General Science Full Text
• MEDLINE from EBSCO or MEDLINE from PubMed MEDLINE searches areas in medical research, clinical practice and policy issues.
• Plant Science Plant pathology, symbiosis, biochemistry and genetics.
• PrimateLit A bibliographic database of primatology.
• SciFinder Scholar NEW Web version. Searches CA PLus (bibliographic data), Medline (biomedical literature), CAS Registry (chemical structures and names), patents and more. Links to full-text where available. You must first set up and activate an account.
• Zoological Record Zoology, animal sciences, taxonomy and systematics from 1997-Current.

Databases in Related Disciplines

• AnthroSource Journals, bulletins, and newsletters from the American Anthropological Association.
• Applied Sciences & Technology Full Text Acoustics, aeronautics, neural networks, nuclear engineering, communication and information technology, geology, chemistry, waste management, mathematics, chemistry, space science.
• CINAHL Nursing, health professions, biomedical sciences and consumer health.
• CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
• Environment Complete Environmental sciences - including natural resources, pollution, renewable energy sources, and aquatic life.
• Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Searches mutliple databases at once. Covers aquatic science, bacteriology, ecology, environmental biotechnology, environmental health, human population and natural resource management, microbiology, toxicology, pollution, risk and sustainablity science.
• Highwire Press
• Human Population & Natural Resource Management
• Oceanic Abstracts Oceanography, marine and brackish-water environment.
• OMNIFile Mega Full Text Combines full-text, abstracts and indexing from many Wilson databases. Includes full-text from 1,484 publications.
• PsycINFO Articles and books in psychology including full-text content of American Psychological Association publications from PsycARTICLES and of health profession and psychology journals.
• Safety Science and Risk Public health, safety, risk assessment and management.
• TOXLINE Toxicology, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and antidotes.
• Water Resources Abstracts Water resources, water and wastewater treatment and water pollution.

For a complete listing of databases provided by UMW Libraries, please see Databases A-Z.

selected resources in simpson library

• Atlas of Human Parasitology REFB RC119 .A8 1997
• Atlas of Immunology REFB QR182 .C78 2003
• Dictionary of Microbiology and Molecular Biology REFB QR9 .S56 2006
• Encyclopedia of Bioethics REFB QH332.E52 2004
• Encyclopedia of Evolution REFB QH360.2 .R53 2007
• Encyclopedia of Human Biology REFB QP11.E53 1997
• Encyclopedia of Life Sciences REFB QH302.5.E53 1996
• Encyclopedia of Mammals REFB QL703 .E53 2006
• Encyclopedia of Microbiology REFB QR9.E53 2000
• Encyclopedic Reference of Parasitology REFB QL 757 .E64 2001
• Encyclopedia of Virology REFB QR358.E53 1999
• Facts on File Biology Handbook REFB QH310 .F23 2006

online reference works (umw/vIVA SUBSCRIPTION )

• Dictionary of Animal Behaviour
• Dictionary of Biology
• Dictionary of Ecology
• Dictionary of Genetics
• Dictionary of Zoology

Websites

OTHER online reference works

• Flora of North America
• Online Biology Book

directories

• Biology-Online.org
• Molecular Biology Gateway
• Science.gov - Biology & Nature
• Virtual Library of Botany/Plant Biology

Biology News

• Bio-Web
• EurekaAlert Biology
• NewScientist.com
• SciCentral Biosciences

Biology data

• Encyclopedia of Life "Comprehensive, collaborative, ever-growing, and personalized, the Encyclopedia of Life is an ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about all life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world."
• FishBase "30,000 species, 259,300 common names, 44,500
  pictures, 40,200 references, 1480 collaborators, 24 million hits/month"
• PLANTS Database USDA - Provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. It is a good place to look for non-native or introduced species.
• RCSB Protein Data Bank
• Wildfinder: Mapping the World's Species

Biology miscellaneous web resources

• ActionBioscience.org
• Biology Program of the U.S. Geological Survey
• BiologyBrowser
• Darwin Digital Library of Evolution
• Endangered Species Program
• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - Teaching Resources and Lesson Plans from the Federal Government This link is for the sciences. There are many other topics as well.
• ITIS, the Integrated Taxonomic Information System
• National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII)
• National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
• National Wetlands Inventory
• NatureServe A non-profit public-private partnership dedicated to providing the scientific basis for effective conservation of natural resources.
• Weeds Gone Wild: Alien Plant Invaders of Natural Areas

Biology Images

• Animal and Human Parasite Images
• BIODIDAC
• Cyanobacterial Image Gallery
• Native Plants Database Explore the wealth of native plants in North America. Search for 7,009 native plants by scientific or common name or choose a particular family of plants.
• PLANTS Database
• NBII Digital Image Library
• Visible Human Project