Biochemistry
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Selected Resources for: Biochemistry (Display only the highlighted/core resources).
Subject Description: This subject guide covers the study of the chemistry of living things.
Updated: 2006-03-30 (RL) Modified: 2007-07 (PD) Revised: 2009-05-20 (DL)
Abstracts and Indexes
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
Biological and Agricultural Index Plus
- "Biological & Agricultural Index Plus offers researchers convenient online access to the core literature of biology and agriculture-much of it from peer-reviewed journals-plus full text. Full text citations also link to PDF page images, featuring graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and illustrations indispensable to science research."
- "General Science Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain plus the full text of selected periodicals. Periodical coverage includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals. General Science Full Text also covers The New York Times Science Section (published weekly on Tuesday). Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in March 1993. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full text coverage begins in January 1995."
- The National Library of Medicine "provides a wide variety of resources related to the biomedical and health sciences, both past and present. The format of these resources varies: searchable databases & databanks, bibliographic citations, full text (when available), archival collections and images." Medline is a part of this collection and is an index with abstracts of articles from hundreds of medical journals.
- Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions. Nature also provides rapid, authoritative, insightful and arresting news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public.
- "ScienceDirect is the world's largest electronic collection of science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information."
- "SciFinder Scholar provides college students and faculty with quick and easy access to a wide diversity of research from many scientific disciplines. Faculty and students can explore the CAS database content created by scientists; references from over 9,500 currently published journals and patent information from more than 50 active patent issuing authorities; important discoveries that span the scientific century back to 1900; the latest scientific breakthroughs almost as soon as they are published with references added daily and some patent information as recent as two days ago; complete coverage of chemistry and the life sciences including biochemistry, biology, pharmacology, medicine, and related disciplines; and the world's largest collection of organic and inorganic substance information." Available from four LAN workstations and lab within the Moore Library, and in Science Hall on campus.
General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
- "Academic Search Premier provides full text from nearly 3,180 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies."
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive Available in Full Text Authentication Required
- JSTOR is a collection of journals from the the fields of arts, sciences, business, education, and social sciences. The archive begins with the first issue of most of these journals and continues to within the past three to five years.
- “Provides full-text access to a wide range of news, business, legal, medical, and reference information.”
- Currently, Project MUSE offers nearly 200 quality journal titles from some 30 scholarly publishers. ...Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others." Project MUSE includes the full content of each journal with the exception of advertisements.
- Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition provides indexes, abstracts, and full text from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business FullText. Other full-text articles from additional periodical databases are also included when available: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and Library Literataure & Information Science Full Text.
Audio/Visual Resources
DVD Collection
Bhopal: the Second Tragedy
- More than ten years after "the world�s biggest chemical disaster," there remain unresolved serious issues of unpaid damages, legal accountability, environmental reform and institutional failure on the part of Union Carbide, the chemical industry, and the U.S. and Indian governments.
- Call Number: HD7269.C452 I522 2004
- Shelving Location: Circulation Desk
Controlling your risks, HIV in the research laboratory
- Call Number: T55 .C75 1994
- Shelving Location: Circulation Desk
Ethics in Biomedical Research
- Call Number: QH332 .E84 2005
- Shelving Location: Circulation Desk
Inside Cancer: Multimedia Guide to Cancer Biology (Website)
- Call Number: RC268 .C36 2006
- Also available at Circulation Desk
Safety in the Research Laboratory
- Call Number: T55 .S215 1997
- Shelving Location: Circulation Desk
VHS Collection
Centrifugation hazards, chemical storage hazards, glassware washing hazards
- Call Number: T55.H3 S38 1995
- Shelving Location: Circulation Desk
Radionuclide hazards, Chemical hazards, Emergency response
- Call Number: T55.3.H3 R34 1995
- Shelving Location: Circulation Desk
X-ray Diffraction Hazards
- Call Number: T55.3.H3 X63 1997
- Shelving Location: Circulation Desk
Catalogs and Bibliographies
Catalogs
- Find any or all journals available to the Rider Community.
MATILDA, the Rider University ONLINE CATALOG
- Search MATILDA for books, journals, government documents, videos, selected internet resources available to Rider University students at Moore Library on the Lawrenceville Campus and at Talbott Library on the Princeton campus.
General Book Collection
Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology
- Call number: RM16 .A63
Biochemistry and molecular biology
- Call Number: QP518.3 .S93 2007
Computational modeling of genetic and biochemical networks
- Call Number: QP517.M3 C638 2001
Controlling chemical exposure : industrial hygiene fact sheets : concise guidance on 16 components of industrial hygiene controls / [written by Eileen Senn ... et al.].
- Call Number: TP149 .C66 2001
Development of scientific thinking skills
- Call Number: Q175 .K927 1988
Lehninger principles of biochemistry
- Call Number: QD415 .L44 2005
Lippincotts illustrated reviews: biochemistry
- Call Number: QP514.2 .C48 2005
Marks basic medical biochemistry : a clinical approach
- Call Number: QP514.2 .S574 2005
- Notes: Accompanying CD-ROM at Circulation Desk.
Medical biochemistry : pearls of wisdom
- Call Number: QP514.2 .E35 2006
Medical biochemistry at a glance
- Call Number: QP514.2 .G76 2006
Organic chemistry of sugars
- Call Number: QD321 .O74 2006
Physical chemistry for the life sciences
- Call Number: QP517.P49 A86 2006
Principles and techniques of biochemistry and molecular biology
- Call Number: QD321 .O74 2006
Strategic applications of named reactions in organic synthesis : background and detailed mechanisms
- Call Number: QD262 .K87 2005
General Reference Sources
Biographical Sources
American Men and Women of Science
- Call Number: Ref Q141 .A47
Biographical Dictionary of Scientists
- Call Number: Ref Q141 .B528 2000
Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists
- Call Number: Ref Q141 .C128 2002
Dictionary of Scientific Biography
- Call Number: Ref Q141 .D5
Dictionaries
A to Z DNA Science: What Scientists Mean When They Talk About Genes and Genomes
- Call Number: Ref QH427 .W58 2001
American heritage science dictionary
- Call Number: Ref Q123 .A5178 2005
Dictionary of Genetics
- Call Number: Ref QH427 .K55 2002
Facts On File Dictionary of Biochemistry
- Call Number: Ref QP512 .F33 2003
Oxford Reference Online: Science
Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of chemistry
- Call Number: Ref QD4 .R57 2005
Encyclopedia of Evolution
- Call Number: Ref QH360.2 .E54 2002
Encyclopedia of Genetics
- Call Number: Ref QH427 .E53 2004
Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology
- Call Number: Ref QH506 .E53 1994
Life on Earth: An Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Ecology, and Evolution
- Call Number: Ref H541.15.B56 L54 2002
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
- Call Number: Ref Q121 .M3 2007
Van Nostrand's Encyclopedia of Chemistry
- Call Number: Ref QD4 .V36 2005
General Reference Works
Burger's Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery
- Call Number: Ref RS403 .B8 2003
Textbook of Biochemistry: With Clinical Discovery
- Call Number: Ref QP514.2 .T4 2006
Handbooks and Manuals
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics: A Ready-Reference Book of Chemical and Physical Data
- Call Number: Ref QD65 .C72 2004
Merck Index: An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals
- Call Number: Ref RS51 .M4 2001
Pocket Guide to Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering
- Call Number: Ref TP248.2 .S34 2003
Internet Resources
Full Text Journals
Directory of Open Access Journals
- This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
Gateways & Megasites
- Problem sets and tutorials for high school and college students in biochemistry, cell biology, chemicals & human health, developmental biology, genetics, and more.
Cheminfo: Chemcial Information Sources
- Chemical information sources from Indiana University. Contains selected and well reviewed web sites in chemistry as well as instructional materials for chemistry.
- “Each week, Science's NetWatch scours the Internet, reader email, and other sources for interesting science Web sites. Here you can look up reviews of the hundreds of sites we've highlighted since April 1998.” Links are not checked for activity.
- Annotated Web links to relevant K-16 science and math subjects arranged as directories and portals, searchable sites, search engines, and interactive Web sites. By Rider University's Associate Professor-Librarian Robert J. Lackie.
- “Science Accelerator…via resources made available by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), U.S. Department of Energy. Science Accelerator was developed and is made available by OSTI as a free public service.” This tool searches across collections including the Information Bridge, Energy Citations Database, Science Conference Proceedings, DOEpatents, E-Print Network, Energy files, DOE R&D Project Summaries, and DOE R&D Accomplishments.
- “Gateway for US Government science and technology information organized by subject.”
ScienceResearch.com: your one-stop source for scientific research
- “Deep Web Technologies is proud to present ScienceResearch.com-a free, publicly available web portal allowing access to numerous scientific journals, public science databases & pertinent science information quickly and easily.
WorldWideScience.org: the global science gateway
- "...connect[s] you to national and international scientific databases and portals. WorldWideScience.org accelerates scientific discovery and progress by providing one-stop searching of global science sources. The WorldWideScience Alliance, a multilateral partnership, consists of participating member countries and provides the governance structure for WorldWideScience.org." This site is created and maintained by the "Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), an element of the Office of Science within the U.S. Department of Energy."
WWW Virtual Library: Biosciences
- The WWW Virtual Library (VL) is the oldest catalogue of the Web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of HTML and of the Web itself, in 1991 at CERN in Geneva. It is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn't the biggest index of the Web, the VL pages are widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the Web.
Teaching Resources
Welcome to Virtual Worlds Almanac
- "This is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable guide to virtual worlds. So far we have 156 entries on virtual worlds written and edited by people from around the globe. Check out the Help page to see how you can edit any page right now or the Projectsemantic-enabled and uses various properties and templates that make editing easy and uniform. Please see our Introduction to learn how this wiki is different than most." This wiki is produced by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) and covers a number of disciplines at various grade levels, including undergraduate and graduate levels. page for more information about us and getting involved.
Websites
How to Interpret MSDS Information Sheets
- “This webpage provides a little guidance on the interpretation of MSDS data sheets. These sheets may at first seem complicated and difficult to understand, but they are reliable source of data you need to handle chemicals safely.”
- “In an ongoing effort to achieve a safe laboratory environment, the following laboratory safety document is presented.”
- “Where to find Material Safety Data Sheets on the Internet”
Online Safety Library: Material Safety Data Sheets
- Oklahoma State University’s Environmental Health and Safety website
Right to Know Hazardous Substance Fact Sheets
- New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services’ website listing more than 1700 Fact Sheets on “pure substances and contain information on health hazards, exposure limits, personal protective equipment, proper handling, first aid, and emergency procedures for fires and spills.”
Scientific Commons: a Community for Scientific Information
- "The major aim of the project is to develop the world’s largest communication medium for scientific knowledge products which is freely accessible to the public. A key challenge of the project is to support the rapidly growing number of movements and archives who admit the free distribution and access to scientific knowledge....Currently ScientificCommons.org has indexed about 13 million scientific publications and successfully extracted 6 million authors' names out of this data (January 2007)...ScientificCommons.org is a project of the University of St.Gallen (Switzerland) and hosted and developed at the Institute for Media and Communications Management."
Career Information Resources
Online Translation Tools
Rider Faculty Publications
Chemistry & Physics Department
NIH Public Access Policy for submission of journal articles in PubMedCentral
- "The Office of Extramural Research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently made several updates to the NIH Public Access web page to clarify the submission process. The site explains four methods to ensure that a manuscript is submitted to PubMed Central in compliance with the NIH public access policy. These methods vary based on the version of the paper submitted and the actions undertaken by the author and publisher."
Societies, Agencies, and Organizations
Official Agency & Organization Websites
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)
- A nonprofit scientific and educational organization for those who teach and conduct research to advance the science of biochemistry and molecular biology.
Resources of Scholarly Societies: Biochemistry
Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography Software
- NoodleBib 6 Generate, edit, and publish an MLA Works Cited list or APA References list that complies with the rules of the current MLA Handbook and APA Publication Manual. Starter and Advanced versions.The user's guide is also available for download. © Copyright 1999-2006 NoodleTools, Inc.
Style Manuals
ACS style guide : effective communication of scientific information.
- Call Number: QD8.5 .A25 2006
Scientific Style and Format: The CBE Manual for Authors, Editor, and Publishers
- Call Number: T11 .S386 1994
The Council of Biology Editors (CBE) Style of Documentation in Science and Mathematics
Writing Guides
Art of scientific writing : from student reports to professional publications in chemistry and related fields
- Call Number: QD9.15 .E23 2004
Beginner’s guide to scientific method
- Call Number: Q175 .C27 1994
Doing science : design, analysis, and communication of scientific research
- Call Number: Q180.A1 V35 2001
How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper
- Call Number: T11 .D33 1988
Rider University Libraries: Avoiding Plagiarism
Scientific papers and presentations
- Call Number: Q175 .C27 1994
Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals:
- Provides guidance, general background, and rationale for preparing manuscripts for any biomedical, including the format of manuscripts submitted, retraction of research findings, order of authorship, and conflict of interest issues, among others.
Library Information
Moore Library
- Moore Library is a comprehensive general library with heavy emphasis on business, education, language and literature, communication and science. A collection of video and DVD formats and the Riderana/University Archives provide special support.
- Located on Rider's Lawrenceville campus, the building is named for Franklin F. Moore.
Address: 2083 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
Telephone: 609-896-5115 (Reference/Information Desk)
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Hours URL:http://www.rider.edu/15478_6194.htm
Patricia Dawson Science & Interlibrary Loan Librarian
Office: Moore Library 331
Phone: 609-896-5114
Fax: 609-896-8029
pdawson@rider.edu
