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Background Information (Encyclopedias, Dictionaries and Handbooks)

A History of the Life Sciences
Location: netLibrary
Online electronic book on the history of biology and the life sciences. Includes narratives on the origins of biology and the life sciences from Greek and Renaissance scientific revolution times to modern science foundations and instruments; embryology and cells; physiology; microbiology, virology, and immunology; evolution, genetics and molecular biology. Includes an index.

Information Sources in the Life Sciences
Location: JPL Stacks QH303.6 .I54 1997
Current state-of-the-art status of bibliographic print and electronic information resources available in the late twentieth century. Covers resources for current awareness: journals, tables of contents, electronic & CD-ROM information, newsletters; reference works, statistical methods, libraries and museums, foreign language sources and translations. Information resources for genetics, biotechnology and patents, biochemical, molecular sciences, microbiology, virology, immunology, parasitology, zoology, animal ecology and behavior, botany, plant sciences, ecology and environment are included with an index.

The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists: Biologists
Location: JPL Reference Stacks QH26.B54 1984
Brief biographical and historical sketches of biologists and their scientific contributions, discoveries and terms. Index and glossary.

Henderson's Dictionary of Biological Terms
Location: JPL Reference Stacks QH13 .H38 1989
Dictionary of biological terms. Includes Greek alphabet, outlines of Plant, Fungi and Animal Kingdoms, and common chemical elements.

Biological Nomenclature Today
Location: JPL Stacks JPL QH83 .I49 1985
A review of the state and current issues of biological animals, plants, bacteria and viruses from the 3rd International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology.

Biological Nomenclature
Location: JPL Stacks QH83 .J43 1977
Concise, inclusive coverage of systematics, classification, nomenclature and taxonomy names and codes in the biological sciences.

Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms
Location: JPL Reference Stacks QH83 .S89
General comprehensive classification of all living organisms from viruses, bacteria to plants and the Animal Kingdom with an index.

SciCentral
Free Website: http://www.scicentral.com/
This general science Web directory includes a gateway to the biological sciences. The highly regarded site provides recent news in the field and allows searching for journals, literature, scientific databases, companies, products, and much more. Includes specialty gateways to, among others, the neurosciences, microbiology, the environment, ecology, and biodiversity, and biochemistry.

The Nation's Biological Information System
Free Website: http://www.nbii.gov/
The Nation's Biological Information System (NBII) provides access to biological databases, information products, and analytical tools that contain information about national biological resources. Contributors include both governmental and non-governmental entities in addition to academic institutions.

The Virtual Library: Bio Sciences
Free Website: http://www.vlib.org/Biosciences.html
The Virtual Library is a high quality guide run by volunteers who are experts in their fields. The biological sciences section includes links to other sites covering most areas of biology, including zoology, botany, neurology, and ecology.

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Books

Books and Materials at the UTSA Library

UCAT, UTSA Library Online Catalog
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Databases & Article Searching

The UTSA Library may not always own the items listed in the resources below. Search the UCAT to see if the library owns or subscribes to a particular item.

Biological Abstracts (UTSA subscription)
Location: JPL Reference Stacks QH 301 .B37.
Online version of Biological Abstracts. One of the foremost sources of citations to journal literature in the life sciences. Coverage is international and includes agriculture, biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, botany, ecology, microbiology, pharmacology, and zoology. Coverage begins in 1980. Citations Only

Health Reference Center (UTSA subscription)
Provides selected abstracts and full text access to a variety of health information sources including 40 nursing and allied health journals, consumer health magazines, reference books, newsletters, health pamphlets, newspaper articles, and general interest titles, from 1994 to the present. Full Text & Full Image

MEDLINE (UTSA subscription)
Index of medical literature from the National Library of Medicine. Citations Only

Neurosciences Abstracts (UTSA subscription)
provides indexing and abstracting to more than 200 journals from 1982 to the present for all aspects of vertebrate and invertebrate neuroscience. Citations Only

JSTOR (UTSA subscription)
Full image access to a comprehensive archive to many scholarly journals. At least 12 subject areas are represented, including the sciences, with new subjects and titles added regularly. Includes material formerly in IDEAL. Full Image

Kluwer Online (UTSA subscription)
Provides full text/full image access to journals published by Kluwer in all academic disciplines. Updated constantly. Full Text & Full Image

ScienceDirect (UTSA subscription)
Provides full text/full image access to approximately 700 journals published by Elsevier Science. Indexes and abstracts articles from more than 1,100 journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. Full Text & Full Image

Wiley InterScience (UTSA subscription)
Provides full text access to approximately 200 of the more than 400 journals published by Wiley, plus tables of contents and abstracts. Updated constantly. Full Text

Highwire Press: Library of the Sciences and Medicine
Free Website: http://highwire.stanford.edu/
Provides searching capability for journal articles in the science and medical fields. Although UTSA does not have a subscription to the full version of Highwire Press, hundreds of thousands of the articles are available at no cost. Other articles can be purchased individually or a subscription service can be purchased for access to more articles. In addition to Highwire Press journals, the database covers materials available in Medline.

Medline Plus: Health Information
Free Website: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
MEDLINEplus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MEDLINEplus brings together, by health topic, authoritative information from the National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other government, non-profit and other health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MEDLINEplus and give easy access to the medical research literature. It also provides you with a database of full text drug information and an illustrated medical encyclopedia.

Scirus
Free Website:
http://www.scirus.com/?ap
Like Highwire Press, Scirus covers both free materials and those that charge a fee. It contains over 80 million science-related pages from the Web. Additionally, it covers journal sources such as ScienceDirect, US Patent Office, MEDLINE on BioMedNet, Beilstein on ChemWeb, BioMed Central and Neuroscion.

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Botany

Elsevier's Dictionary of Plant Names and Their Origins
Location: JPL Reference Stacks QK13.E565 2000
Arranged alphabetically by common name, this source provides the scientific name and a description of where the common name originated. Some entries include geographic information.

Gray's Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Central and Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. Eighth Edition.
Location: JPL Reference Stacks QK 117 .G75 1988
Provides descriptions of flowering plants, ferns, and fern-allies found in the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Arranged by division, family, then species. Includes a synopsis of the orders and families and a summary of families.

The American Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants
Location: JPL Reference Stacks SB 403.2 .A45 1997
A dictionary of garden plants arranged by genus and using botanical names. Includes a common name index and provides scientific names. Information on cultivation, propagation, and pests and diseases are provided at the genus level. Also contains sections on botany for the gardener, cultivation, and ornamental plant groups. Over 5,000 photographs are provided.

Flowering Plant Gateway
Free Website: http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/newgate/gateopen.htm
Created for biology students at Texas A&M University, this site provides information on four systems of flowering plant classification. Includes an alphabetical listing of family names with links to data about them.

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Zoology

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
Location: JPL Reference Stacks QL45 .G813
Thirteen volume encyclopedia of the world of animals. Lower animals, insects, mollusks, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Classification, multilingual animal dictionary, metric conversion tables, index. Illustrations.

A Dictionary of Zoology
Location: Downtown Reference QL9.C66 1999
Recent, current, up-to-date comprehensive one-volume paperback dictionary on all aspects of the study of animals. Includes animal behavior, ecology, physiology, cytology, and new entries on genetics, evolution and mammalian physiology. Full and updated revised taxonomic coverage of arthropods, invertebrates, fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals. Appendices include an endangered animals list, the universal genetic code, geologic time-scale table, and the SI Units measurements (International System of Units of measurements).

The Official World Wildlife Fund guide to endangered species of North America
Location: JPL Reference Stacks QL84.2 .O35 1990
Two volume guide with ready reference name index to endangered plants, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals of the world.

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Biochemistry

Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Location: JPL Reference Stacks QP512.O94 2000
Up-to-date one volume biochemistry and molecular biology dictionary. Includes appendices for the Greek alphabet, nomenclature, organizations, Internet websites, and species names.

Enzyme Handbook
Location: JPL Reference Stacks QP601.B2435
Two volume handbook on molecular and kinetic data of enzymes with an index.

Biochemical Pathways: An Atlas of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Location: JPL Folio Stacks QP171 .B685 1999
A current concise atlas on general biochemistry and molecular biology of bacteria, plants, yeasts and animals. Includes metabolic interrelationships and regulation. Includes an index and electronic sources on the storage of biochemical information.

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Genetics

Mendelian inheritance in man; catalogs of autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive, and X-linked phenotypes
Location: JPL Stacks Z6675 .M4M33 1975
Standard landmark reference by Victor A. McKusick on genetic inheritance in man. Catalogs of autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive, and x-linked genetic chromosome phenotypes. Includes syndrome names, chromosome abnormalities and malformations, and inherited disorders with author and subject indexes.

Principles of Genetics
Location: JPL Stacks QH430 .S68 2000
Fundamental current textbook on the basics of genetics including human genetics and new developments. Includes an index.