Research Guide for: Biology

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Sources

• Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
  
• Related Works
  
• Handbooks, Manuals, Atlases, Guides, & Directories
  
• Bibliographies
  
• Internet Resources
  

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Dictionaries

Title: Dictionary of Scientific Literacy
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: Q123 .B68 1991

Title: Chamber's Science and Technology Dictionary
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: Q123 .C482 1988

Title: McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: Q123 .M34 1994

Title: Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: Q141 .B5285 2000

Title: Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: Q141 .D5

Title: Dictionary of Scientists. [computer file]
Location: GALILEO netLibrary electronic book
Call Number: Q141 .D52 1994 "Online Resource (netLibrary)"
E-Resource: An electronic book accessible through GALILEO;click here

Title: Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: Q141 .N73 1995

Title: Facts on File Dictionary of Biology
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QH302.5 .F38 1999

Title: Dictionary of Biology
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QH302.5 .H33 1981

Title: Henderson's Dictionary of Biological Terms
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QH302.5 .H65 2000

Title: Dictionary of Ecology [computer file]
Location: GALILEO netLibrary electronic book
Call Number: QH540.4 .C66 1998 "Online Resource (netLibrary)"
E-Resource: An electronic book accessible through GALILEO; click here

Title: Blackwell's Concise Encyclopedia of Ecology [computer file]
Location: GALILEO netLibrary electronic book
Call Number: Online Resource (netLibrary)
E-Resource: An electronic book accessible through GALILEO; click here

Title: Dictionary of Plant Sciences [computer file]
Location: GALILEO netLibrary electronic book
Call Number: QK9 .C67 1998 "Online Resource (netLibrary)"
E-Resource: An electronic book accessible through GALILEO; click here

Title: Botanical Latin
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QK10 .S7 1995

Title: Dictionary of the Fungi
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QK600.35 .A35 2001

Title: Glossary of Mycology
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QK603 .S53 1971

Title: Oxford Dictionary of Zoology
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QL9 .C66 2003

Title: Dictionary of Entomology
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QL462.3 .G67 2001

Title: Fishes of the World
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QL614.7 .W47 1975

Title: New Dictionary of Birds
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QL673 .T48

Title: Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names [computer file]
Location: GALILEO netLibrary electronic book
Call Number: QL677 .J55 1991 "Online Resource (netLibrary)"
E-Resource: An electronic book accessible through GALILEO; click here

Title: Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QP512 .O94 1997

Encyclopedias

Title: AccessScience at McGraw-Hill(sci/tech encyclopedia)
This online full text GALILEO database covers a wide range of biology related topics.

Title: Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: Q121 .V3 1995

Title: Concise Encyclopedia Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QD415.A25 B713 1997

Title: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QH302.5 .E53X 2002

Title: Encyclopedia of Bioethics
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QH332 .E52

Title: Encyclopedia of Evolution
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QH360.2 .O83 2002

Title: Encyclopedia of Genetics
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QH427 .E53 2001

Title: Encyclopedia of Biodiversity
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QH541.15 .B56 .E53X 2001

Title: Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QL7 .G7813 2003

Title: Encyclopedia of Birds
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QL673 .E53 1985

Title: Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QL701 .G7913 1990

Title: Encyclopedia of Mammals
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QL703 .E53 2001

Title: Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QL713.2 .E53 2002

Title: Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QP141 .E526 1999

Title: Encyclopedia of Biochemistry
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QP512 .W5

Title: Encyclopedia of Microbiology
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QR9 .E53 1992

Title: Encyclopedia of Environmental Science and Engineering
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: TD9 .E5 1998

Related Works

Following is a list of biological periodicals currently subscribed to by Ingram Library. They are located in the Periodical section on the Main Floor and are arranged alphabetically by title. This is not a comprehensive list, other relevant periodicals may be available. To see if the Library has a particular periodical you can do a "Journal Title" search in the catalog.

• American Journal of Botany
• American Naturalist
• Audubon
• Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology
• Bioscience
• Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
• Cell
• Copeia
• Ecological Applications
• Ecology
• Environmental Biology of Fishes
• Fisheries Magazine
• Forest Science
• Genetics
• Journal of Animal Ecology
• Journal of Biological Chemistry
• Journal of Cell Biology
• Journal of Cell Science
• Journal of Experimental Botany
• Journal of Immunology
• Natural History
• Nature
• New England Journal of Medicine
• New Scientist
• North American Journal of Fisheries Management
• Nucleic Acids Research
• Philosophy of Science
• Quarterly Review of Biology
• Science
• Scientific American
• Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Handbooks, Manuals, Atlases, Guides, & Directories

Handbooks

Title: Handbook of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QH345 .H347 1975

Title: Handbook of Alkaloids and Alkaloid-Containing Plants
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QK898 .A4 R34

Title:American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QL474 .A76 1985

Title: Source Book of Enzymes
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QP601 .W446X 1997

Title: Prokaryotes
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QR72.5 .P76 1992

Title: CRC Handbook of Environmental Control
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: TD145 .C2

Title: Compilation of EPAs Sampling and Analysis Methods
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: TD193 .C65 1996

Manuals

Title: Gray's Manual of Botany
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QK117 .G75 1970

Title: Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QR81 .B46 1984

Atlases

Title: Atlas of Mammalian Chromosomes
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QH605 .A75

Title: Chromosome Atlas: Fish, Amphibians, Reptiles and Birds
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QH605 .C53

Title: Grays Anatomy
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QM23.2 .G73 1977

Title: Ciba Collection of Medical Illustrations
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QM25 .N472 1983

Title: Microbiology and Microbial Infections
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QR46 .T6 1998

Guides

Title: McGraw-Hill Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QH83 .S89

Title: Wild Flowers of the United States
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number:QK115 .R5

Title: Trees of Georgia and Adjacent States
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QK155.876 1990

Title: Index Muscorum
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number:QK 537 .I6X

Title: Georgia Birds
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QL684 .G4 B8

Title: Mammals of North America
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QL715 .H15 1981

Directories

Title: American Men and Women of Science
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: Q141 .A47

Bibliographies

Title: The Creation/Evolution Controversy : An Annotated Bibliography
Location: Reference Stacks (Main Floor)
Call Number: QH366.2 .H39x 1998

Internet Resources

Biodiversity Bioethics Biological Graphics Biological Indexes Biomedicine Botany

Developmental Biology Ecology Entomology E-Texts Evolutionary Biology General Biological Resources

Genetics Herpetology Ichthyology/Marine Biology Microbiology Miscellaneous Resources Ornithology