Choose from among the following: Starting Points: Comprehensive Guides, Gateways, & Portals Biological Databases Biology Issues & News Atlases & Images Guides to Finding Articles Teaching & Learning Resources Reference Tools Information Literacy in Biology Biology Faculty Recommended Sites Starting Points: Comprehensive Guides, Gateways and Portals Biology & Biological Sciences Gateway (from Academic Info) Biology Links (Harvard Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology) The Bio-Web: Resources for Molecular and Cell Biologists Martindale’s Bioscience & Biotechnology Center NBII: National Biological Information Infrastructure The Virtual Library: Bio Sciences   Biology Issues and News ActionBioscience.org (site designed to promote bioscience literacy; from the American Institute of Biological Sciences) Biology News on the Net (from about.com) Current Biology Issues (from the National Biological Information Infrstructure) Ongoing Biology (from the Rivista di Biologia / Biology Forum) SciCentral: Biology News   Guides to finding articles and more… [Some links are for MSU patrons only] Agricola: (index to books and articles on all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines) Annual Reviews: (index to review articles in a number of areas of science and some social sciences. Full text available from  some Annual Review titles) [MSU Only] Biological & Agricultural Index: (index to periodicals in biology, agriculture and related fields, from 1983 to date. Full text of some articles available)  [MSU Only] BioMed Central ("an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research") BioOne: (full text database of articles from a variety of journals in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences) [MSU Only] BioVisa.net (links to free online journals) EBSCO Academic: (index to articles of general academic interest. Full text of many articles available) [MSU Only] Highwire Press: (index to journals in the sciences and other fields published by Stanford University Press. Many articles are available for free) Infotrac-Expanded Acad. Index: (general academic index to articles on a variety of subjects. Full text of many articles available) [MSU Only] Ingenta: (formerly Uncover; index and table-of-contents of over 20,000 journals on a wide variety of subjects. Full text of some articles available.  Other articles are available in full-text for a fee) JSTOR: (archive of full-text journal articles.  Contains core journals in ecology, from the first issue of the first volume to a three to five year moving wall to the last published issue) Ornithological Worldwide Literature (OWL) ("citations and abstracts from the worldwide scientific literature that pertain to the science of ornithology.  A major attraction is its coverage of the 'grey' literature, which are not abstracted by commercial databases such as Zoological Record or the Science Citation Index.") PubMed (MedLine): (comprehensive index to biomedical journals) The Quantitative Biology Archives: (preprints in biological physics, computational biology, neural science, systems biology, bioinformatics, mathematical biology, and theoretical biology)  Science Direct: (database of more than 1,200 scientific journals published by Elsevier. Recent years of about half of the journals are available in full text) [MSU Only] US Geological Service National Biological Information Infrastructure  Reference Tools: Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.   BioABACUS (abbreviations and acronyms in biotechnology) Biology Dictionaries (Washington University Libraries) BioTech’s Life Science Dictionary Glossary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Kimball's Biology Pages (an online biology textbook that relies on hyperlinking) KEGG: Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes Online Biology Dictionary Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms (from the Nat’l Human Genome Research Inst.)   Biological Databases Biological Databases (from Academic Info) World Biodiversity Database (a “taxonomic database…that aims at documenting all presently known species)   Atlases and Images BBID-Biological Biochemical Image Database (“images of putative biological pathways, macromolecular structures, gene families, and cellular relationships” from the National Institute on Aging) Biological Sciences Image Galleries (from Academic Info) Cartographic Links for Botanists LTSN Bioscience ImageBank OBIS: Ocean Biogeographic Information System (“global digital atlas to biological information about the ocean”)   Teaching and Learning Resources BioDiTRL ("an online database with digital media that can be used to assist in teaching biology") Biology Education Resources (from Academic Info) Biology Online Tutorials The Biology Project (from the University of Arizona) Biology Resources for Active Learning (from Idaho State University) General Biology Lesson Plans (U. of Arizona Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics) MBN Online Courses (links to the Molecular Biology Notebooks Online and to other biology courses on the Web) ResearchLink 2000 (“research-based experimental systems to the undergraduate biology curriculum” from the Council on Undergraduate Research) The Virtual Biology Labs (from Rutgers University)   Information Literacy in Biology Academic Writing: Reviews of the Literature (from the Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison) How to Write a Literature Review (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz) The Literature Review: A Few Tips On Conducting It (from the Univ. of Toronto) The Research Publication Process (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana) Research Publication Process (Univ. of Washington at Tacoma)   Biology Faculty Recommended Sites National Center for Biotechnology Information    Last Updated: Feb. 12, 2004 Contact Steven Shapiro for suggestions, corrections, etc.