Biology & Biotechnology Resources
at Greenley Library
and on the Web

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Databases/Indexes .

Full-text Access Science Infotrac Health Reference Lexis-Nexis ScienceDirect UMI Proquest	Citation/Abstracts only Medline (FirstSearch) PubMed (free)
Use these databases to find articles on Biology, Biotechnology, and related fields. If you are OFF-CAMPUS, go to our logon page for details.

Circulating Books
The following is just a small selection of our recent acquisitions.

• Search our catalog for comprehensive coverage.

R726.5 .H43225 2001	Health and behavior : the interplay of biological, behavioral, and societal influences
QK47 .S836 2000	Stern, K., Introductory plant biology
QH314 .C35 1999	Camenson, B., Great jobs for biology majors
QH506 .L443 2000	Lewontin, R., The triple helix : gene, organism, and environment
QH315.5 .F75 1999	Fried, G., Schaum's outline of theory and problems of biology
QH308.2 .S72 2000	Starr, C. Biology : the unity and diversity of life
RA418.5.P6 F37 1999	Farmer, P., Infections and inequalities : the modern plagues

Reference Books

REF QH302.5 .W67 1999	McGrath, Kimberley A., World of biology
REF QH302.5 .M382 1997	Parker, S., McGraw-Hill dictionary of bioscience
REF QH83 .M36 1998	Margulis, L., Five kingdoms : an illustrated guide to the phyla of life on earth
REF QH307.2 .I56 1999	Walters, M., Innovations in biology

Videos in the Library

VTC 929	1997	Life
VTC 1043, 4 parts	1995	Planet of life

Journals in the Library

• For a complete list of journals held by Greenley Library, including many in the field of biology, please go to our online journals list at http://www.farmingdale.edu/Library/titlesag.html, or our Government Documents Journals list at http://www.farmingdale.edu/Library/govser.html. We also have access to a number of full text journals through the databases listed above.

American Biology Teacher, 1975-

American Journal of Human Genetics, 1979-

Bioscience, 1977-1998

Biotechnic and Histochemistry, 1991-

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 1981-

Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR., 1997-

Formerly Microbiological Reviews, 1978-1996

Quarterly Review of Biology, 1951-

General Websites

• BiologyChem Hub
  http://biochemhub.com/biochem/biochemhub.cfm
  Aimed at high school students, this site provides info on topics with in biology, and AP test reviews.
  
  
• BioTech Resources Web Project
  http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/
  Contains a dictionary, chemical acronyms database, an interactive ebook about Glycolysis, an introduction to bioinformatics, a huge annotated list of related websites, and professional resources. Maintained by Indiana U. and U Texas Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology.
  
  
• Agricultural Biotechnology-USDA
  http://www.usda.gov/agencies/biotech/
  The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is one of three Federal Agencies, primarily responsible for regulating biotechnology in the US. Laws and Regulations, research, trade, etc.
  
  
• Cell and Molecular Biology Online
  http://www.cellbio.com/
  "An Informational Resource for Cell and Molecular Biologists." Contains links to journals, conferences, protocols and methods, education resources, and more.
  
  
• Martindale's Biosci & Biotech Center
  http://www.martindalecenter.com/GradBioscience.html
  It may be ugly, but the content makes up for that. Great links. Also includes section on ejournals.
  
  
• The MIT Biology Hyper-Textbook
  http://web.mit.edu/esgbio/www/7001main.html
  This hypertext textbook is arranged by chapter, with a searchable index, a complete set of on-line practice problems to help you learn introductory molecular biology. Award Winning Site!
  
  
• National Center for Biotechnology
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
  "Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease."
  
  
• On-Line Biology Book
  http://gened.emc.maricopa.edu/bio/bio181/BIOBK/BioBookTOC.html
  Recently revised ebook by Prof. M.J. Farabee with hyperlinks. Meant for freshman-level biology
  
  
• The Tree of Life
  http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html
  A collaborative Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity.
  
  
• The UC Museum of Paleontology at Berkeley
  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/
  Online exhibits about animals, plants, phylogeny, evolution and more.
  
  
• Weizmann Institute of Science Genome Ctr. and Bioinformatics Unit
  http://bip.weizmann.ac.il/
  Contains a lot of informatin about genetics, including links to databases such as the GeneLoc (formerly known as the Unified Database for Human Genome Mapping) (UDB) and GeneCards, a database of human genes, proteins, and diseases.
  
  

Jobs

• BioCareer - The Biotechnology Career Center
  http://www.biocareer.com/
  Claims to have over 4,000 listings. I only found one in NY in April, 2000. Resume hosting available.
  
  
• LabTechnicianJobs.com
  http://www.labtechnicianjobs.com/
  Part of the Health Care Job Store, this site lets you look for a job, get resume help, and research employers. As of April, 2000, there were a few NY jobs listed, including some in Melville. Search by keyword. A subset of Health Care Job Store.com.
  
  
• MedZilla
  http://www.medzilla.com/
  Not the best interface, but lots of bio-related jobs.
  
  
• SciJobs.org
  http://www.scijobs.org/
  Scijobs.org indexes biology jobs, chemistry jobs, biochemistry jobs, biotechnology jobs, and a range of related science jobs. As of April 27, 2000, the database included more than 11,600 jobs from 354 different university, nonprofit, and industrial employers, many in New York. Submit your resume online.
  
  

Organizations

• Biological Societies on the Web
  http://biodiversity.uno.edu/cgi-bin/hl?societies
  Links to websites for app. 40 organizations related to biology, such as the Society of Nematologists or the World Congress of Malacology
  
  

Listservs

• BioSci Listservs
  http://www.bio.net/archives.html
  Find listservs on many topics, such as "G-protein coupled receptor systems" or "The biology of grasses."
  
  

eJournals

• BioOne
  http://www.bioone.org/
  BioOne brings to the Web a uniquely valuable aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of BioOne’s titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers, and, until now, have been available only in printed form.
• Biological Procedures Online
  http://www.biologicalprocedures.com/
  BPO publishes new research techniques or novel adaptations of existing techniques. Free online.
  
  
• BioMedNet
  http://www.biomednet.com/
  Access the abstracts and tables of contents for over 100 journals, with the option to buy (for $17.50!).
  
  
• Journals in Cell and Molecular Biology
  http://www.cellbio.com/elecpubs.html
  This is an extensive list of journals, both free full-text and pay-per-article. Most have free access to abstracts or tables of contents.
  
  

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