Biology
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Subject Description: This subject guide covers the study of living things. PD.sw.dl (revised May 2009wiki/2.2007)
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."
- "GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records."
- 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. Funded by the New Jersey State Library and the New Jersey Knowledge Initiative.
- 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
- 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.”
- 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
- A fifty-five minute DVD discussing genetics. There is a downloadable teacher's guide at www.discoveryschool.com for this resource. From the DVD's content description: "To what degree are we genetically programmed with certain traits and abilities? In this episode, students consider the classic nature-versus-nurture discussion in light of recent technologies and discoveries."
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 genetics
- Call number: QH431.A1 A54
Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology
- Call number: RM16 .A63
Annual review of plant biology
- Call number: QK1 .A48
Annual review of plant physiology
- Call number: QK1 .A48
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 gene technology : genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics
- Call Number: Ref QH506 .K333 2004
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 Evolution
- Call Number: Ref QH360.2 .E54 2002
Encyclopedia of Genetics
- Call Number: Ref QH427 .E53 2004
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
General Reference Works
Guide to reference and information sources in plant biology
- Call Number: Ref QK45.2 .G85 2006
Textbook of Biochemistry: With Clinical Discovery
- Call Number: Ref QP514.2 .T4 2006
Handbooks and Manuals
Handbook of Soil Science
- Call Number: Ref S591 .H23 2000
Merck Index
- Call Number: Ref RS51 .M4
Pocket Guide to Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering
- Call Number: Ref TP248.2 .S34 2003
Internet Resources
Full Text Journals
Annual Review of Biochemistry (QP501 .A7)
Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology (QH573 .A56)
Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics (QH540 .A53)
Annual Review of Immunology (QR180 .A576)
Annual Review of Microbiology (QR1 .A5)
Annual Review of neuroscience (QP351 .A68)
Annual Review of Physiology (QP1 .A535)
Full Text Book, Image, Video, Molecules collections
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Image and Video Library
- “A collection of peer-reviewed cell images, video clips, and digitized texts that illustrate the structure, function and biology of the cell, the fundamental unit of life.”
- 150+ open access fulltext journals
- An “interactive zoomable high-resolution digital brain atlas and virtual microscope.”
- "Largest collection of Darwin's writings ever assembled."
Directory of Open Access Journals: Biology and Life Sciences
- This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
- “Spanning the entire spectrum of life sciences, the Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS) features more than 3,900 specially commissioned and peer-reviewed articles, making it an essential read for life scientists and a valuable resource for teaching…Coverage includes: Biochemistry, cell biology, developmental biology, ecology, evolution and diversity of life, functional and comparative morphology, genetics and disease, genetics and molecular biology, immunology, microbiology, neuroscience, plant science, science and society, structural biology, and virology."
Lycoming College Macromolecular and Bioinformatics page
- Bioinformatics assignments and links to additional resources.
National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Here you will find the GenBank Sequence Database with instructions for searching it, other database services such as MEDLINE, and other NCBI resources.
National Center for Biotechnology Information [NCBI Book List]
- This is a list of searchable books, some as recent as 1999, and one can access text and figures within the titles.
- Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man is a ¡§catalog of human genes and genetic disorders authored and edited by Dr. Victor A. McKusick and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere, and developed for the World Wide Web by NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology Information.¡¨
- "A peer-reviewed open-access journal published by the Public Library of Science."
- "Provides information on the biological activities of small molecules."
- This service from the U.S. National Library of Medicine provides abstracts of articles from medical and biomedical journals. It is a good source of information on sports injuries and sports physiology. It is freely available, no password is required either on or off-campus
- One of Rutgers¡¦ Digital Projects; ¡§a compilation of [retracted articles] from a variety of sources.¡¨
- Digitized copy of the 1953 Nature paper.
Gateways & Megasites
- General gateway site to many resources and articles on astrobiology.
- US FDA/CFSAN’s “foodborne pathogenic microorganisms and natural toxins handbook”.
- Bioinformatics.org “The Bioinformatics Organization, Inc serves the scientific and educational needs of bioinformatic practitioners and the general public. We develop and maintain computational resources to facilitate world-wide communications and collaborations between people of all educational and professional levels.”
- Problem sets and tutorials for high school and college students in biochemistry, cell biology, chemicals & human health, developmental biology, genetics, and more.
- “Thomson Zoological provides resources - such as the Nomenclature Glossary for Zoology, the Zoological Record Thesaurus, and more - for free on BiologyBrowser. Find links to current science news stories, relevant web sites, and more.”
- Bioinformatics home page: forums, news, stock prices, job postings.
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.
Drug Information Portal: Quick access to quality drug information
- "The NLM Drug Information Portal gives users a gateway to selected drug information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and other key U.S. Government agencies. At the top of the page are links to individual resources with potential drug information, including summaries tailored to various audiences. Resources include the NLM search systems useful in searching for a drug, NLM research resources, resources organized by audience and class, and other NIH and government resources such as FDA and CDC."
National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Here you will find the GenBank Sequence Database with instructions for searching it, other database services such as MEDLINE, and other NCBI resources.
NSDL - The National Science Digital Library
- The National Science Digital Library is “the Nation’s online library for education and research in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.”
Resources of Scholarly Societies: Biology and Environment
- Sponsored by the University of Waterloo Library
- 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.
Wildfinder: Mapping the World’s Species
- “WildFinder is a map-driven, searchable database of more than 26,000 species worldwide.”
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.
Online Encyclopedias
- According to the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper article (July 21, 2009, e1, e8) the Biodiversity Heritage Library consists of a consortium of libraries that are scanning images of first described plants and animals and making them available online. Danianne Mizzy, Library Director at the Academy of Natural Sciences, states "Taxonomic literature is the opposite of wanting to know only what's the most current and up to date by which everything is superceded....the first description [of a plant or animal] is always the typeset, so the half-life of 'how long is this relevant in taxonomic literature' is much longer than any other scientific literature." This project involves scanning published material only and will collaborate with another project called the Encyclopedia of Life (www.eol.org).
- "...is an ambitious, even audacious project to organize and make available via the Internet virtually all information about life present on Earth. At its heart lies a series of Web sites—one for each of the approximately 1.8 million known species—that provide the entry points to this vast array of knowledge. The entry-point for each site is a species page suitable for the general public, but with several linked pages aimed at more specialized users. The sites sparkle with text and images that are enticing to everyone, as well as providing deep links to specific data.
Teaching Resources
BioEd Online: Biology Teacher Resources from Baylor College of Medicine
- "...the online educational resource for educators, students, and parents. BioEd Online utilizes state-of-the-art technology to give you instant access to reliable, cutting-edge information and educational tools for biology and related subjects. Our goal is to provide useful, accurate, and current information and materials that build upon and enhance the skills and knowledge of science educators."
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
- AmphibiaWeb, a site inspired by global amphibian declines, is an online system that allows free access to information on amphibian biology and conservation.
- This website contains North Carolina State University's Horticultural Information Leaflet.
Gardening Resources: Your portal to gardening information at Cornell
- Covers all aspects of gardening and search engine available to find specific information on particular plants and flowers.
- "Genes to Cognition (G2C) Online is about modern neuroscience. It focuses on cognitive disorders, cognitive processes, and research approaches. Use the dynamic network maps to explore our library of 750+ unique items. Or, use the linear Selected Items menu on top of each map to tour selected content."
HealthMap Global Disease Alert Map
- This map "brings together disparate data sources to achieve a unified and comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health. This freely available Web site integrates outbreak data of varying reliability, ranging from news sources (such as Google News) to curated personal accounts (such as ProMED) to validated official alerts (such as World Health Organization). Through an automated text processing system, the data is aggregated by disease and displayed by location for user-friendly access to the original alert. HealthMap provides a jumping-off point for real-time information on emerging infectious diseases and has particular interest for public health officials and international travelers."
The Global Library of Women's Medicine
- "This is a FREE resource designed to support the medical profession in their care of women – made possible by over 750 expert clinicians who are generously providing their contributions without any remuneration and by the publishers who are paying for its development in memory of their daughter."
- " A unique teaching tool, the Inside Cancer Teacher Center helps participants build and share lesson plans and customize multimedia presentations that focus on syllabus-centered instruction." This is an interactive teaching tool for faculty and students to use in studying and learning about cancer.
- " This freely accessible Web site gives research professionals working in a variety of occupations an invaluable tool to identify individuals, departments and laboratories that have made fundamental contributions to the advancement of science and technology in recent decades...the people behind the accomplishments in 21 broad subject categories in life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, engineering and social sciences. These individuals are the most highly cited within each category for the period 1981-1999, and comprise less than one-half of one percent of all publishing researchers--truly an extraordinary accomplishment." One can search for a specific researcher, institution, country, or by category.
Macauley Library at the Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology
- "The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is the world's largest natural sound and video archive of animal behavior. Its mission is to collect <http://macaulaylibrary.org/inside/build/index.do> and preserve <http://macaulaylibrary.org/inside/build/archival/index.do> recordings of each species behavior and natural history and to make them available <http://macaulaylibrary.org/inside/use/index.do> for research, education, conservation, zoos and aquaria, wildlife managers, publishers, the arts, and both public and commercial media."
National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
- "This publication discusses some of the basic production and marketing concerns for edible flowers and offers some cautions on non-edible or toxic flowers. Also included are sources of additional information on edible flowers, in print and on the Internet." There is a link to a pdf version of this document which is over 400 pages long that allows searching in the document.
Neuroscience Information Framework: an initiative of the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research
- "Established in 2004, the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research brings the 16 NIH Institutes, Centers and Offices that support neuroscience research into a collaborative framework to coordinate their ongoing efforts and to plan new cross-cutting initiatives. Working together, representatives from the partner Institutes, Centers, and Offices identify pervasive challenges in neuroscience and any technological barriers to solving them.
- Early in their deliberations Blueprint representatives recognized that a framework for identifying, locating, relating, accessing, integrating, and analyzing information from the neuroscience research enterprise is critical to enhancing cooperative activities in the neurosciences."
- "Pillbox was developed to aid in the identification of unknown solid dosage pharmaceuticals. The system combines high-resolution images of tablets and capsules with FDA-approved appearance information (imprint, shape, color, etc.) to enable users to visually search for and identify an unknown solid dosage pharmaceutical.
This system is designed for use by emergency physicians, first responders, other health care providers, Poison Control Center staff, and concerned citizens."
North American Bird Phenology Program
- "...houses a unique and largely forgotten collection of six million Migration Observer Cards that illuminate migration patterns and population status of birds in North America. These handwritten cards contain almost all of what was known of bird distribution and natural history from the Second World War back to the later part of the 19th century. The bulk of the records are the result of a network of observers who recorded migration arrival dates in the spring and fall that, in its heyday, involved 3000 participants. Today, those records are being processed and placed into a modern database for analysis. This information will be used, along with recently collected arrival times of migrant birds, in conjunction with historical weather data to show how migration is effected by climate change." This website has a link for those who would be interested in volunteering to enter data from these cards into a database.
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."
Scitable: a collaborative space for science
- "A free science library and personal learning tool brought to you by Nature Publishing Group, the world's leading publisher of science.
- Scitable currently concentrates on genetics, the study of evolution, variation, and the rich complexity of living organisms. As you cultivate your understanding of modern genetics on Scitable, you will explore not only what we know about genetics and the ways it impacts our society, but also the data and evidence that supports our knowledge."
Vadlo: Biomedical and Life Sciences Search Engine
- "Vadlo is brought to you by two biology scientists who wish to make it easier to locate biology research related information on the web.
- Vadlo search engine caters to all branches of life sciences. VADLO allows users to search within five categories: Protocols, Online Tools, Seminars, Databases and Software...feel free to copy the Cartoons for your personal use and powerpoint presentations!"
Career Information Resources
Online Translation Tools
Rider Faculty Publications
Chemistry & Physics Department
Geological and Marine science Department
Societies, Agencies, and Organizations
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.
- Biotechnology Institute “The Biotechnology Institute is dedicated to educating teachers, students and the public about the promise and challenges of biotechnology.” Conducts annual Educator’s conference aimed at high school teachers, community college and 4 year college faculty.
- “Since 1817, the New York Academy of Sciences has been bringing together scientists of different disciplines from around the world.” Produces annals, conferences, podcasts, ebriefings, webcasts.
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: A Manual for Authors and Editors
- Call Number: QD8.5 .A25 1997
Scientific Style and Format: The CBE Manual for Authors, Editor, and Publishers
- Call Number: T11 .S386 1994
Writing Guides
How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper
- Call Number: T11 .D33 1988
Rider University Libraries: Avoiding Plagiarism
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.
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."
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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Patricia Dawson Science & Interlibrary Loan Librarian
Office: Moore Library 331
Phone: 609-896-5114
Fax: 609-896-8029
pdawson@rider.edu
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