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Biological Sciences

This guide highlights resources relevant to research in Biological Sciences

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Subjects: Biology, Evolutionary Anthropology, Global Health, 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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