SUNY Ulster - Biology

Selected Resources ~ Biology

|| Reference Books in Library Databases || Encyclopedias ||

|| Dictionaries || Other Books || Journals || Web Sites ||

The following is just a small sample of biology resources that are available at the Macdonald DeWitt Library.


REFERENCE BOOKS AVAILABLE IN LIBRARY DATABASES

Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

A Dictionary of Biology

The Oxford Companion to the Body

A Dictionary of Genetics

The New Encyclopedia of Birds

A Dictionary of Plant Sciences

A Dictionary of Zoology

The Encyclopedia of Underwater Life

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ENCYCLOPEDIAS

ABC Biologie. Concise Encyclopedia Biology. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1996. REF 570.3 A134 1996

Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals. New York: McGraw-Hill, [1989] REF 599 G895 1990

The New Larousse Encyclopedia of Animal Life. New York: Bonanza Books, 1984. REF 591 N39

Novák, Frantisek A. The Pictorial Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers. New York: Crown Publishers, 1966. REF 581.022 N68

Stanek, V. J. The Pictorial Encyclopedia of Insects. New York: P. Hamlyn, 1969. REF 595.7 S82

Terres, John K. The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds. New York: Knopf, distributed by Random House, 1980. REF 598.297 T37

US Department of Agriculture Plants National Database

Walker, Ernest P. Walker's Mammals of the World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. REF 599 W25

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DICTIONARIES

Bailey, L. H. Hortus third : A Concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada. New York: Macmillan, 1976. REF 582.061 B24

Clapper, Russell B. Glossary of Genetics and other Biological Terms. New York: Vantage Press, 1961.

A Dictionary of Life Sciences. New York: Pica Press, distributed by Universe Books, 1977. REF 574.03 D42

Gutteridge, Anne C. Barnes & Noble Thesaurus of Biology : The Principles of Biology Explained and Illustrated. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1983. REF 574.03 G88

International Dictionary of Medicine and Biology. New York: Wiley, 1986. REF 610.321 I61

UCMP Glossary of Biological Terms

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OTHER BOOKS

For books on individual topics, search by subject or keyword in Catalist, SUNY Ulster's Online Catalog. In the catalog, you will find both Reference books, for use in the Library, and books in the general collection, which may be checked out.

Books at Other Libraries

If you don't find the books you need in Catalist, you may use the SENY Virtual Union Catalog to access online catalogs for most academic libraries in the region or use the WorldCat database to locate more books on your topic. To request a needed book from another library, visit the Reference Desk in the Library and fill out an InterLibrary Loan Request form.

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JOURNALS

~ Journals available at SUNY Ulster

Search the Serials Solutions E-Journal Portal to find out if SUNY Ulster has a subscriptions to the journal you are looking for.

The Macdonald DeWitt Library has electronic access to journal articles through subscription databases. For example, in the general databases, Academic Search Premier contains many full text science journals, and in the specialized databases, Science Direct contains full-text to many more.

~ Journals on the Web

The following are some of the journals that have web sites and post content online. This content varies from a few feature articles in a current issue to searchable archives of past issues.

Archives of Toxicology

Biochemical Journal

Contemporary Herpetology

Conservation Biology Newsletter

FASEB Newsletter
  (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology)

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology

Molecular Biology Today

Network Science: The Web Journal of Science & Computers

The Plant Cell

Plant Physiology

Science Online

Signals
Online magazine of biotechnology industry analysis.

Systematic Biology

Locating journal articles online

Biolinks - Journals

Biology Digest. ( READY REF 574.016 B615 1995-1996 and 574.016 B615 1989-1995 with cumulative index.)

HIGHWIRE free electronic science journals (Stanford University)

NEON Free Electronic Journals (University of Nevada) .

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BIOLOGY ON THE WEB

Specialized Directories and Search Engines

Librarian's Index to the Internet -- Biology

Biolinks. Science directory and search engine

BioBot. Search engine for biology on the internet

Biology Browser.


A Few Selected Links

All the Virology on the Web

eNature Online Field Guides

Endangered Species U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Gray's Anatomy, 1918 edition.

The Interactive Frog Dissection

Internet Resource Guide to Zoology

Online Biology Textbook by M.J. Farabee, Maricopa (AZ) Community College.

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For assistance, you can call us, e-mail us,
or speak to a Reference Librarian at the Reference Desk.
Phone: 845-687-5208
E-mail: askref@sunyulster.edu

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