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BIOLOGY: Structure & Function Course Guide

REFERENCE SOURCES

These are books and websites that will help you gain some background information on your topic, and they can be vital to your understanding of the subject and for topic development.

Encyclopedia of human biology

QP11 .E53 1997 (Science Reference)

Concise encyclopedia biochemistry and molecular biology

QD415 .A25 B713 1997 (Science Library)

Dictionary of genetics & cell biology

QH427 .M33 1987 (Science Library)

A dictionary of genetics

QH427 .K55 2002 (Science Reference)

Dictionary of endocrinology and related biomedical sciences

QP187 .M3458 1995 (Science Library)

Gray's anatomy : the anatomical basis of clinical practice

QM23.2 .G73 2005 (Science Reference)

Bartleby.com Gray's Anatomy

Documentation Styles for the Sciences

Journal Abbreviations in the Sciences

ONLINE DATABASES

Use online databases as you would a print periodical index.  Items retrieved from these databases have been evaluated for content and indexed by subject librarians, unlike items retrieved from a search engine.

Annual Review of Genetics

BasicBIOSIS

BioMed Central

BioOne

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts

IngentaConnect

PubMed / MEDLINE

ScienceDirect

SciFinder Scholar

Scopus

OTHER USEFUL WEBSITES

These websites have been evaluated by the librarians at W&L for relevancy, content, and objectivity.  They include tools to help with your research as well as useful supplemental materials.

Biology Resources at W&L (W&L University Libraries)

BioMed Central

Public Library of Science

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)

Nature Magazine

Science Magazine

Scirus

RefWorks

Biology Department Homepage (W&L University)

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