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Biology

This guide from the DVC Library will help you do research in biology for class assignments and research projects.

Books and eBooks - Biology

Articles - Biology

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)

This database has full-text academic articles in almost every subject, including quite a few peer-reviewed and scholarly journals. A good choice for almost any topic.

AccessScience

Full-text articles from the latest edition of The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology featuring biographies of scientists, definitions of scientific and technical terms, late-breaking science and technology news.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.

PubMed

PubMed is a service of the National Library of Medicine that includes over 15 million citations from MEDLINE and other life sciences journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

Credo Reference Academic Core (Infobase)

Includes reference encyclopedias and handbooks, which feature easy-to-read overviews and background information on thousands of topics. Credo also features videos, illustrations, photographs, visual aids, and maps.

Films - Biology

Biology - Films on Demand

Watch award-winning documentaries and educational programs about animal biology, anatomy & physiology, ecology, microbiology, plant biology, and more.

Biology - Academic Video Online (AVON)

Educational programs from well-known producers like A&E, BBC, and PBS.

Internet Resources - Biology

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Animal Diversity Web

Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CDC.gov provides users with credible, reliable health information on Data and Statistics, Diseases and Conditions, Emergencies and Disasters, and more.

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California Academy of Sciences

The mission of the California Academy of Sciences is to explore, explain and protect the natural world. Discover Science includes science videos, blogs and news.

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Encyclopedia of Life

The mission of Encyclopedia of Life is to increase awareness and understanding of living nature through a resource that gathers, generates, and shares knowledge in an open, freely accessible and trusted digital resource.

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The Cell Image Library | UCSD

The Cell Image Library is a public and easily accessible resource database of images, videos, and animations of cells, capturing a wide diversity of organisms, cell types, and cellular processes. The purpose of this database is to advance research on cellular activity, with the ultimate goal of improving human health.

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Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make available for open access the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections.

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