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Individual Works

Arabidopsis Book

Biotech Life Science Dictionary (Online)

The Birds of North American Online

Current Protocols in Bioinformatics
Current Protocols in Cell Biology

Current Protocols in Cytometry
Current Protocols in Human Genetics
Current Protocols in Immunology
Current Protocols in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Current Protocols in Molecular Biology
Current Protocols in Neuroscience
Current Protocols in Nucleic Acid Chemistry
Current Protocols in Pharmacology
Current Protocols in Protein Science
Current Protocols in Toxicology

CHEMnetBASE
This database provides online access to the following major chemical reference works from Chapman & Hall/CRC:

Combined Chemical Dictionary (CCD)
The Handbook of Chemistry & Physics 84th Ed. available
Polymers: A Property Database
Properties of Organic Compounds Updated

Cytokine Reference

Danforth's Obstetrics and Gynecology

Descriptions of Plant Viruses

Over 390 individual descriptions of plant viruses or virus groups are provided.

 

EBSCO Animals

 

EcoSal Escherichia coli and Salmonella : cellular and molecular biology

 

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

 

Epicurious eating dictionary

 

Epicurious wine dictionary

 

Field Manual of Wildlife Diseases: general field procedures and diseases of birds

 

FAO Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture
Contains 3,196 terms and related definitions in the field of agricultural
biotechnology and genetic engineering.

 

Flora and Fauna of the Great Lakes Region: University of Michigan Herbarium Fungus Monographs

 

Glossarist: Life Sciences Dictionaries and Glossaries

 

Gray's Anatomy

The Bartleby.com edition of Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247 vibrant engravings-many in color-from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries. 

   

Human development report

 

International Field Guides

 

International Plant Names Index

The data in the IPNI comes from three sources: the Index Kewensis (IK), the Gray Card Index (GCI) and the Australian Plant Names Index (APNI).

 

Linscott's Directory of Immunological & Biological Reagents
Find sources for antibodies, cytokines, enzymes, recombinant proteins, lectins, neuropeptides and immunoassays.

 

Methods in Enzymology

 

National Agricultural Library Thesaurus

 

Online Biology Book

 

Prokaryotes

 

Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America
North of Mexico, with Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding

 

Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols and Abbreviations

Provides searchable and browsable database of acronym, symbols and abbreviations. The site also provides a number of reference tables, including the Greek alphabet, Roman numerals, mathematical symbols and signs,etc.

 

The Trichomycetes: Fungal Associates of Arthropods
Revised Edition, 2001 by Robert W. Lichtwardt, Matías J. Cafaro, Merlin M. White

Collections of Works

The Online Books Pages

This Penn State page has links to over 200 online biological science books.

 

Historic Floras and Faunas OnlineElectronic versions of these works, featuring beautiful illustrations.

 

MD Consult

Use the "Open Generic Edition" Button to access books. Once in the system, you must click on "New Search" and enter the general search term using the qualifier "Search within Reference Books". At this time, authors and specific titles cannot be used as search terms, only keywords may be used.

 

netLibrary
Use netLibrary's interface to search UIUC's collection of e-books.

 

National Academy Press
The National Academy Press (NAP) was created by the National Academies to publish the reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council, all operating under a charter granted by the Congress of the United States.

 

Nature Biotechnology Directory

Produced in association with Nature Publishing Group Reference, each entry provides free contact information and brief company description for over 8,000 organizations, product and service providers around the world in the biotechnology industry. More extensive details are available for a fee.

 

Oxford Reference Online

Contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books. Includes such titles as A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition, A Dictionary of Biology, A Dictionary of Ecology, A Dictionary of Plant Sciences, Food and Fitness: A Dictionary of Diet and Exercise, A Dictionary of Scientists, etc.

 

Project Gutenberg

Includes many works by Charles Darwin.

 

PubMed Bookshelf

Contains a growing collection of biomedical books such as Lodish's Molecular Biology of the Cell (3rd ed) and Riddle's C. elegans II.

 

Guide to Works

Using the Biological Literature Web Resources

 

Guide to Reference and Information Sources in the Zoological Sciences Web Resources

 

 

Life Sciences Division Homepage

 
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