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General Biology Subject Guide

Print Resources

Use the Voyager Online Catalog to search for print resources in the UH Library System. However, do not use this to search for specific journal articles. Instead, use one of the databases listed below, such as Biological Abstracts.

Hawaii Voyager | Search Guide

Reference Guide
An annotated list of particularly useful references found within the library

Map of Call Number locations within Hamilton Library

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Databases and Journals

Use these databases to find journal articles about biology.

Biological Abstracts | Search Guide

Citations with abstracts for journal articles covering all aspects of the life sciences dealing with animals (including humans), plants and microorganisms. Print volumes go back to 1926 and are located at QH 301.B37 in SciTech Reference.

PubMed | Search Guide

Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, citations, most with abstracts, for journal articles in biomedicine including research, clinical practice and health care services. Includes links to GenBank and protein sequence data and core medical, molecular biology and biochemistry textbooks.

Web of Science

Index (with citations/abstracts only) : 1980-present
A multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the sciences (Science Citation Index Expanded). Approximately 70% of the records have author abstracts.

JSTOR Biological Sciences

The Biological Sciences Collection will include at least one hundred titles when it is completed in 2007. This collection brings together the twenty-nine journals available in our existing Ecology & Botany Collection with more than seventy titles new to JSTOR. Coverage in this collection offers greater depth in fields such as biodiversity, conservation, paleontology, and plant science, in addition to introducing new areas such as cell biology and zoology.

Zoological Record

Zoological Record Plus (ZR Plus), produced by BIOSIS, provides extensive coverage of the world's zoological and animal science literature, covering all research from biochemistry to veterinary medicine. The database provides an easily searched collection of references from over 4,500 international serial publications, plus books, meetings, reviews and other non serial literature from over 100 countries.

Annual Reviews

Annual Reviews in Biomedical, Physical and Social Sciences, thirty different Annual Review titles, providing substantive review articles by authorities in the fields reviewed.

Dissertations and Theses

Index 1861-present with full text for dissertations 1997 to present
Includes bibliographic citations for the doctoral and master's work of authors from more than 1,000 graduate schools and universities dating back to 1861.

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Online Web Resources

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Created by Jonathan Young, UH LIS Student, Summer 2009

Last updated 23 Oct 2009 (Eileen Herring: eherring@hawaii.edu)

 

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