Biographies and Nobel Laureates
Dictionaries
Directories
Encyclopedias
Field Data
Handbooks/Manuals
Historical Documents
Research Article Indexes
Statistical Methods
Style Guides
Textbook Companions

Biographies and Nobel Laureates

In print:
General profiles and short biographies of scientists
(Ask at the reference desk for the Collective Biographies location)

WORLD of BIOLOGY
(Shelved with reference books under QH 302.5 .W67382 1999)

Online:
Nobel Prize Internet Archive
FREE Internet site <http://www.nobelprizes.com/>

Dictionaries

In print:
DICTIONARY of BIOSCIENCE
(Shelved with reference books under QH 302.5 .M382 1997)

DICTIONARY of MICROBIOLOGY and MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, 2nd Edition
(Shelved with reference books under QR 9 .S56 1994)

General Genetics dictionaries
(Shelved with reference books under QH 427)

McGRAW-HILL DICTIONARY of BIOSCIENCE
(Shelved with reference books under QH 302.5 .M382 1997)

OXFORD DICTIONARY of BIOCHEMISTRY and MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
(Shelved with reference books under QP 512 .O94 1997)

Directories

Online:
CANCER ROLODEX
FREE Internet site <http://resresources.nci.nih.gov>

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
FREE Internet site <http://www.nsf.gov>

Encyclopedias

Online resources--available on campus. Off-campus, enter Hunter email & password to access.

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOETHICS
Available through the Gale Virtual Reference Library link. Enter name of encyclopedia in search box.

ENCYCLOPEDIA of LIFE SCIENCES
http://www.els.net
A premier resource--comprehensive, authoritative, continuously updated. Includes peer-reviewed articles.

GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MEDICINE
Available through the Gale Virtual Reference Library link. Enter name of encyclopedia in search box.

Print resources: Located in Hunter main library, 4th Floor Reference collection:

ENCYCLOPEDIA of ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
(Shelved with reference books under QR 100 .B58 2002)

ENCYCLOPEDIA of MICROBIOLOGY (1st/2nd Editions)
(Shelved with reference books under QR 9 .E53 1992/2000)

ENCYCLOPEDIA of GENETICS
(Shelved with reference books under QH 427 .E535 1999)

ENCYCLOPEDIA of HUMAN BIOLOGY
(Shelved with reference books under QP11 .E53 1997)

 

Field Data

Online:
NATURESERV
Database of  50,000 plant/animal species from U.S. and Canada. 
FREE Internet site <http://www.natureserve.org>

PLANTS DATABASE
From the U. S. Department of Agriculture
FREE Internet site <http://plants.usda.gov>

Handbooks/Manuals

In print:
BERGEY'S MANUAL of DETERMINATIVE BACTERIOLOGY, 9th Edition
(Shelved in reserve book collection under QR 81 .A5 1993)

BERGEY'S MANUAL of SYSTEMATIC BACTERIOLOGY, Volumes 1-4
(Shelved in reserve book collection under QR 81 .B46 1984)

MERCK MANUAL
(Shelved on the Science Index Table)

MOLECULAR BIOLOGIST'S DESK REFERENCE
FREE Internet site <http://molbio.info.nih.gov/molbio/desk.html>

PHYSICIANS' DESK REFERENCE (PDR)
(Shelved on the Science Index Table)

Historical Documents

Online:
ESP: Electronic Scholarly Publishing
FREE Internet site specializing in republication of papers on classical genetics <http://www.esp.org>

Research Article Locators

Online:
PUBMED
FREE search utility to MEDLINE citations/abstracts from the Nat'l Library of Medicine <http://www4.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/>
(Ask for MEDLINE searching directions at the Reference Desk)

ONLINE MENDELIAN INHERITANCE OF MAN by Dr. Victor A. McKusick
FREE Internet site <http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Omim> 

Statistical Methods

In print:
BIOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS, 4th Ed. by Zar
(Shelved with reference books under QH 323.5 .Z37 1999)

STATISTICAL TABLES
(Shelved with reference books under QH 323.5 .R63 1981)

Style Guides

In print:
MANUAL of STYLE by the American Medical Association 
(Shelved with reference books under R 119 .A533 1998)

STYLE MANUAL by the Council of Biology Editors 
Shelved with reference books under QH 304 .C33 1983)

Online:
GRANT PROPOSAL GUIDE by the National Science Foundation 
FREE online publication in ASCII, HTML, and PDF <http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?gpg>
 

Textbook Companions

Online:
Virtual Library of Developmental Biology
FREE Internet site supplementing Developemntal Biology by Gilbert <http://zygote.swarthmore.edu>

Biology by Kimball
FREE Internet site created by the textbook's author John W. Kimball. <http://www.ultranet.com/~jkimball/BiologyPages>

Biology - Book Companion Sites
W. H. Freeman's FREE Internet site with supplementary content for selected college biology textbooks <http://www.whfreeman.com/biology/>. Hunter texts include Life, the Science of Biology by Purvis et. al., Molecular Cell Biology by Lodish, Immunology by Kuby, and Biochemistry by Stryer.

 

Last updated: 8-10-06

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