Warren Hunting Smith Library: Biology: Subject Guide

SUBJECT | BIOLOGY

Keywords and Phrases

The success of your search will depend, in large part, on the keywords and phrases that you select. You can search them in combination or use the advanced search features and Boolean AND, OR & NOT to expand or narrow your results. For more savvy search tips, see the guide: How To: Begin Your Research Here. Hint: put phrases in quotations!
Here are some sample search combinations for Biology:

(bird* OR ornitholog*) AND "New York"
(snake* OR reptile*) AND (poison* OR venom* OR toxi*)
"influenza virus" AND genetics NOT (equine OR avian)

Scholarly Articles

Natural Science Collection This link opens in a new window
Scholarly articles and reports about the biological and life sciences.
BioOne Complete This link opens in a new window
Articles about Biology, including but not limited to animals, plants, birds, and marine life.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Articles from peer reviewed journals in all areas of the sciences.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Index to scholarly and research biomedical articles back to the 1950's. Note that this resource is primarily for locating citations. Only some of the content is linked to full-text articles.
PubMed offers a very broad and expansive search tool of all articles indexed by the NIH Library. You may need to take some citations and then search in the library's subscription-based content to access full text.
This resource differs from PubMed Central by offering many more citations, but much less linking to full-text articles.
General Science Index with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Articles from a wide range of publications covering science-related questions, topics and subjects

Visual Experiments

JoVE This link opens in a new window
Science videos in such areas as biology, chemistry, neuroscience, behavior, general lab techniques, lab animal research, and lab safety.

Documentaries

Biology in Films on Demand This link opens in a new window

Ebooks

Very Short Introductions in the Biological Sciences
Browse the available ebooks in the Biological Sciences in the Very Short Introductions series.

Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary collection of ebooks. Most (not all) are unlimited in usage.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary collection of scholarly articles and ebooks.

Birds of the World

Birds of the World This link opens in a new window
Detailed information about bird species around the world. [NOTE: Will be offline for server maintenance Mar 19-21.]

Biology