Biology
Library Subscription Services
The following sources may be accessed through computers on campus or by current PVCC faculty, staff and students from off campus.
Journal Articles and Books
Academic Search Complete provides citations and abstracts or the full text of articles from a wide range of journals.
Environment Complete provides citations or full text of articles from journals relating to the environmental science, policy, law and more.
MasterFILE Premier has many full-text general interest reference books, as well as a large image collection.
Nature links to a weekly science journal.
Science links to a weekly journal of scientific research.
BioOne online journals provide access to inter-related journals that focus on biological, ecological and environmental sciences.
First Search has databases that can be searched for citations to journals and books.
CSA Illumina Cambridge Scientific Abstracts provides access to 35 scientific databases.
High Wire Press has 11 scientific journals with full text available online. In addition, High Wire Press has free links to many other full-text journals. Search by category.
Access Science has more than 7,000 articles covering a wide range of science topics, as well as a science dictionary and biographies of scientists. Search by keyword or topic.
Today's Science draws on major scientific journals, magazines and newspapers in the United States and abroad to present the latest scientific discoveries and the fundamental concepts that underlie them.
Annual Reviews provides systematic, periodic examinations of scholarly advances in science and social science through critical authoritative reviews. Search by broad subjects (called "suites") or by more narrow series, including microbiology, public health, psychology and sociology.
Reference Works
Biology
A Dictionary of Biology
A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
A Dictionary of Ecology
A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
A Dictionary of Scientists
Environmental Issues: Essential Primary Sources
Environmental Science In Context
The Oxford Companion to the Earth
The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science
Internet Resources
BIOSCI
CSU BIOWEB
The Chesapeake Bay Program
The Harmful Algae Page
The World's Water
OBIS: Ocean Biogeographic Information System
Hypomyces
Secrets of the Sequence Video Series
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Library of Medicine
Microbes.info
Kimball's Biology Pages
