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Biological Sciences

This research guide contains links to freely available online resources that may be useful to Biological Sciences research.

REFERENCE SITES

Encyclopedia of Life
http://www.eol.org/
This online reference set is an ongoing project of such scholarly institutions as Harvard University and the Smithsonian Institute. The goal is "to organize and make available via the Internet virtually all information about life present on Earth."

Integrated Taxonomic Information System
http://www.itis.gov/
This site provides "an easily accessible database with reliable information on species names and their hierarchical classification."

MedlinePlus
http://medlineplus.gov/
An excellent site for health-related information which "brings together authoritative information from [National Library of Medicine], the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations."

NCBI Bookshelf
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=Books
Provides access to the full text of dozens of life sciences textbooks, including such titles as Biochemistry, Developmental Biology, and Molecular Cell Biology. Books can be browsed or searched.

JOURNAL ARTICLES 

PubMed
http://www.pubmed.gov
"PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations ... for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources." To limit your search to freely available articles, click on "Limits" and then select "Links to free full text." Click here to view free online tutorials forPubMed.

FREE ONLINE TUTORIALS

Biology Project
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/DEFAULT.html
This website, provided by the University of Arizona, USA,  is "an interactive online resource for learning biology developed at The University of Arizona."

Learn Genetics
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/
This website, provided by the University of Utah, USA, is "a science and health education program located in the midst of the bioscience research being carried out at the University of Utah."

Net Frog Dissection
http://frog.edschool.virginia.edu/Frog2/
In this tutorial, provided by the University of Virginia, USA, each page explores a step in the frog dissection process, beginning with the materials set up, and concluding with a review and quiz. Each step is illustrated with images and links to additional facts, movies and activities.