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A compendium of cytokines and other mediators of host defense.
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. To use:
Click on the link above and select "EBSCO" from the list of General Interest Databases
From the EBSCO Publishing screen select "School Databases"
Then select "EBSCO Animals"
Encyclopedia of Food Microbiology
Currently the largest reference work in the field of food microbiology. Articles are cover a variety of food related microbiology and are written by both academics and industrial food microbiologists.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
A searchable database of 3,000 specially commissioned, peer-reviewed, and continually updated articles, plus daily news from Nature, and more. Browse glossaries and indexes, or search full text.Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy and Spectrometry
This encyclopedia provides a comprehensive and up-to-date explanation of the most important spectroscopic and related techniques together with their applications.
Encyclopedia of Virology 2nd Edition
The encyclopedia assembles the basic and practical aspects of virology in a concise form, providing a rapidly accessible synopsis of each subject for the use of both professional and lay readers.
Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture *NEW*
This "Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture" is a revised, augmented version of the "Glossary of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering" published by FAO in 1999. The glossary is also available in a searchable format.
International Field Guides
A companion website to the book A Guide to Field Guides by Diane Schmidt, Biology Librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, 17th Ed.
The Prokaryotes
Online, current edition of the widely used book first published by Springer in 1981. Browse organism, organism property, or concept indexes, or search full text.Collections of Works
The Online Books Pages *NEW*
This Penn State page has links to over 200 online biological science books.
Historic Floras and Faunas Online
Electronic versions of these works, featuring beautiful illustrations.netLibrary
A user-friendly interface for accessing the full text of reference, scholarly, and professional electronic books. Use netLibrary's interface to search UIUC's collection of e-books. Search by author, title, subject, keywords, publisher, year of publication, or search in the full text. The e-books may be browsed online, "checked out" and read online, or downloaded for reading offline.Oxford Reference Online - Biological Sciences *NEW*
Contains a collection of electronic biological science dictionaries. Dictionaries may be searched individually or as a group.
Project Guttenberg provides free full-text downloads of public domain books (usually published prior to 1923). The site contains many works by Charles Darwin.
Contains a growing collection of biomedical books such as Lodish's Molecular Biology of the Cell (3rd ed) and Riddle's C. elegans II.
xipolis.net - German Reference Database
This site contains a number of German dictionaries and encyclopedias,
many of which relate to the life sciences. Among them are Das
Lexikon der Arzneipflanzen und Drogen (medicinal plants), Das Lexikon der
Biochemie, Das Lexicon der Biologie, and Das Lexikon der
Neurowissenschaft.Guide to Works
Using the Biological Literature Web Resources
A companion website to the book Using the Biological Literature: A Practical Guide by Diane Schmidt, Elisabeth Davis, and Pamela Jacobs.
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