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This guide highlights resources relevant to research in Biological Sciences
Getting Started
Organizing Your Citations
Writing and Presenting on Your Work
Managing and Visualizing Your Data
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Hannah Rozear
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Evolutionary Anthropology
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Global Health
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Health & Medical Sciences
,
Social Sciences
Starting Points for Biology Literature
Web of Science
A huge database of scholarly literature across the sciences, strong in both historical and current coverage. Includes extensive citation mapping.
Scopus
Another broad literature database with strengths in current scientific publications and citation mapping.
PubMed
A large database of biomedical and related literature. It's strengths are controlled subject searching and linking with other NCBI resources.
BIOSIS Citation Index
Covers journals, proceedings, books, and reports in the life sciences back to 1926. Includes citation mapping.
Zoological Record
Covers articles on all aspects of zoological research dating back to 1864. Includes citation mapping.
Some Online Reference Works
A Dictionary of Biology
by
Robert Hine (Editor)
Publication Date: 2019
A Dictionary of Ecology
by
Michael Allaby (editor)
Publication Date: 2015
A Dictionary of Genetics
by
Robert C. King; William D. Stansfield; Pamela K. Mulligan (editors)
Publication Date: 2013
A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
by
Michael Allaby
Publication Date: 2019
Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria
by
William B. Whitman (Editor)
Publication Date: 2015
Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior
by
Michael D. Breed (Editor-In-Chief); Janice Moore (Editor-In-Chief)
Publication Date: 2010
Encyclopedia of Behavioral Neuroscience
by
Richard F. Thompson (Editor-In-Chief); George F. Koob (Editor-In-Chief); Michel Le Moal (Editor-In-Chief)
Publication Date: 2010
Encyclopedia of Ecology
by
S. E. Jorgensen (editor)
Publication Date: 2008
Encyclopedia of Evolution
by
Mark D. Pagel (editor)
Publication Date: 2002
Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics, and Informatics
by
George P. Rédei (editor)
Publication Date: 2008
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
by
Wiley (publisher)
Publication Date: began 2001 updated continually
Encyclopedia of Microbiology
by
Moselio Schaechter (Editor-In-Chief)
Publication Date: 2009
Encyclopedia of Neuroscience
by
Larry R. Squire (Editor-In-Chief)
Publication Date: 2009
Methods
SpringerNature Experiments
Search for laboratory protocols in biomedical and life sciences. Duke has access to: biotechnology, bioinformatics, and genetics/genomics
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