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Top Biology resources
- MEDLINE / PubMed - biomedical and health literature, covering research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services
- Web of Science - multidisciplinary database covering the sciences, and provides citation counts, journal impact factors, and more
- Zoological Record - covers literature on a range of subjects including biodiversity, conservation, environmental science, and marine and freshwater biology
- Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts - abstracts from documents related to aquatic sciences and fisheries from around the world
- JoVE General Laboratory Techniques - videos that show how to use standard pieces of laboratory equipment
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Research Guides
New Biology books
- Ten birds that changed the world /
- Journeys with emperors : tracking the world's most extreme penguin /
- Trees of life /
- The Ecology of Collective Behavior /
- Mitochondria and anaerobic energy metabolism in eukaryotes : biochemistry and evolution /
- Feathered marvels : the natural history and extraordinary lives of birds /
- The lives of seaweeds : a natural history of our planet's seaweeds & other algae /
- Humpback highway : diving into the mysterious world of whales /
- The curious world of seahorses : the life and lore of a marine marvel /
- Tabula raza : mapping race and human diversity in American genome science /
- Animals and society : an introduction to human-animal studies /
- How I became a tree /
- Wild honey bees : an intimate portrait /
- Plants matter : exploring the becomings of plants and people /
- Bees of the World : A Guide to Every Family /
- Why animals talk : the new science of animal communication /
- Platypus matters : the extraordinary story of Australian mammals /
- The backyard bird chronicles /
- How life works : a user's guide to the new biology /
- The Lives of Sharks : A Natural History of Shark Life /
- The Restless Cell : Continuum Theories of Living Matter /
- Urban jungle : the history and future of nature in the city /
- 21st century chemistry /
- Urban pest management an environmental perspective
- The home place : memoirs of a colored man's love affair with nature /
- What we sow : on the personal, ecological, and cultural significance of seeds /
- Bite : an incisive history of teeth, from hagfish to humans /
- Kings of their own ocean : tuna, obsession, and the future of our seas /
- Animal entanglements : muddied living in dog-human worlds /
- The secret life of the universe : an astrobiologist's search for the origins and frontiers of life /