Biology

ARTICLES

The databases below are especially helpful for accessing articles and citations in your discipline.

If you are off-campus, use the link for off-campus access to our databases provided at the end of each description on the Find Articles page.

Academic Search Premier - large interdisciplinary database, with much full-text content
AccessScience - McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology online
Cambridge Histories Online - full-text content on history of science and other areas
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences - from Wiley InterScience
General Science Full Text - large science-related database, with much full-text content
GreenFILE - scholarly, government, and popular information on the environment
JSTOR - large, interdisciplinary full-text database
OmniFile Full Text Mega - multi-disciplinary database, with much full-text content 
Science Direct - selected fulltext scholarly content from the Elsevier publisher
Wiley InterScience Journals - fulltext scholarly journals in biology and other disciplines

Click here for all Ryan Library databases.
Also try Google Scholar to search for scholarly articles.

BOOKS

The databases NetLibrary Collection and Oxford Reference Online have full-text books online.

Below is a representative list of subject encylopedias at Ryan Library.

Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior
Encyclopedia of Bioethics
Encyclopedia of Biodiversity
Encyclopedia of Evolution
Encyclopedia of Microbiology
Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
Nature Encyclopedia of the Human Genome
Penguin Dictionary of Biology

Check Phineas, Ryan Library's onlline catalog, for more books.

WEB RESOURCES

Intute: health & life sciences (formerly BIOME) - excellent biology portal / search engine
JoVE - Journal of Visualized Experiments - biological research in video format
Science.gov - search engine for U.S. government science information
Scirus - comprehensive science search engine

Dr. Frank Quinn, Director of Ryan Library and Biology Liaison
Ryan Library, Room 208D
619-849-2338
FrankQuinn@pointloma.edu

Phyllis E. Fox, Instructional Services Librarian for Graduate Studies
Ryan Library, Technical Services
619-849-2409
PhyllisFox@pointloma.edu