Cell Biology BLY 342 Fall 2009 Dr. Tim Sherman Biology Dept. University of South Alabama

Databases: (Available remotely through the University Library homepage under "Articles, Indexes, and Databases".)

Biological Abstracts: No full-text, but has some links to other databases with full-text. Please logout as we are allowed only three users at a time.

Ebsco's Academic Search Premier: Some full-text. Includes book reviews.

Academic OneFile (Gale/InfoTrac): Larger, more diverse collection than previous one.

ScienceDirect: Full-text journals from Elsevier.

BioOne: [Use BioOne Indexes and Abstracts for searching it, because of its better, and easier, search engine.] An aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of BioOne's titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers and are focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.

JSTOR: JSTOR is an archive of back issues of academic journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences with full-text as a graphic image. Included is a collection of botany and ecology journals.

Wiley InterScience: From John Wiley & Sons publishers, we have the full text of over 300 scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals, plus major reference works and Current Protocols laboratory manuals.

PLoS Biology [Public Library of Science - Biology] "PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource." http://www.plosbiology.org/plosonline/?request=index-html

Web of Science: A "citation" index. Useful for tracking other articles by the same author and also for seeing how many times other writers have cited an article in their bibliographies.

AGRICOLA: National Agricultural Library's (NAL) Web Gateway to AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access). It indexes books and articles on all aspects of agriculture. Publicly available.

Oxford Journals Online: Full-text.

BioMedCentral Journals: http://www.biomedcentral.com/ --Open access content

DOAJ -- Directory of Open Access Journals. Free online journals.

Highwire --repository of free online journals.

Some Free Cell Biology Journals on the Public Web

American Journal of Physiology : Cell Physiology
American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology
Blood Cells, Molecules and Diseases
BMC Cell Biology
Cancer Cell International
Cell and Chromosome
Cell Biology Education : A Journal of Life Science Education
Cell Growth and Differentiation : the Molecular Biology Journal of the American Association for Cancer Research -
Cell Research
Eukaryotic Cell
Journal of Cell Biology
Journal of Cell Science
Microbial Cell Factories
Molecular Biology of the Cell
PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States
Plant Cell
Stem Cells
Plant Biotechnology

Web Sites:

Biology Department Links -- http://www.usouthal.edu/biology/links.html
Cn3D Home Page -- view 3-dimensional structure
Internet Public Library Cell Biology Collection
Librarians' Index to the Internet: Biology. Search "cell biology."
Internet Directory for Botany : Searchable and browsable index of botany resources.
Kimball's Biology Pages : Online reference manual to terms in cellular and molecular biology.
CellsAlive: Great animations and videos of cell activity
Parasitic Plant Connection : A hierarchical arrangement of information on parasitic plants.
PLANTS National Database Home Page : An effort to provide a single source of standardized information about plants including plant names, symbols, and other attributes.
National Academy Press --free books and reports full-text and searchable

Library Resource Guides:

Marine Sciences --Best Sites on the Web by Amy Prendergast

Biology--Guide to Biology Resources in the Library by Amy Prendergast

Style Guide:

Research and Documentation Online--Science: Documenting Sources http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resdoc/sciences/sample.htm

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