Library and Internet Guide
The
following is a select list of resources available on the Internet
JCU Library Resources
 InfoHelp
- questions answered, assistance given online, or by phone or email
Catalogue
Library
Guides
Databases
- General Information
Indexing/Abstracting Databases
- Agricola Access to global information for agriculture
- Biological
Abstracts is a major source of references to the life science
journal literature (use BIOSIS
Previews for 2002+)
- CAB Direct covering
all aspects of the life sciences
- Current Contents Connect
is a multidisciplinary current awareness service for over 8,000
journals and more than 2,000 books
- Endanger: Threatened Species in Australia Indexes published and unpublished material on Australian threatened flora and fauna and related topics
- Faculty of 1000 Biology Reviews and evaluates the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of well over 1000 selected leading researchers.
- IngentaConnect provides book and journal article searches as well as search alerting and tables of contents services.
- The International Plant
Names Index Database of the names and associated
basic bibliographical details of all seed plants. Includes records previously
published in Index Kewensis and in Australian Plant Names Index.
- SciFinder
Scholar Primarily a chemistry database, but with significant
coverage of the life sciences.
- Web of Science Access
to Science Citation Index Expanded and other citation indexes.
As well as topic searching for journal articles, the citation indexes
allow "cited reference" searching and enable you to examine
a document's historical origin and follow through to its current position
in the research literature.
Full text databases and electronic journals
- BioOne Access is provided to over 65 bioscience research journals from more than 50 publishers
- Expanded
Academic ASAP - (via InfoTrac) - full-text articles from around 2,000 journals, and abstracts or citations for many more.
- ScienceDirect
- full-text for around 300 of 1700 titles, with contents pages and
abstracts for the remainder.
- Wiley
InterScience - provides full-text of around 400 Wiley journals
back to 1997.
- ProQuest includes ProQuest Science Journals and other databases covering a
range of disciplines.
- Electronic
journals - linked, alphabetical listing of full-text journals
available to members of James Cook University
- You can also link directly to journals via Tropicat:
the JCU Library Catalogue
Databases
on the WWW
- AgEcon Search A full-text library of agricultural and applied economics scholarly literature
- AGRIS International agricultural research, as well as grey literature such as white papers and informally published reports
- arXiv.org e-Print Archive Fully automated electronic archive and distribution server for research papers in Physics, Mathematics, Nonlinear Sciences, Computer Science and Quantitative Biology
- BioMed Central
- publishes peer reviewed research across all areas of biology and medicine
with free access for all
Associations
and Societies
Resources
- AAFC Online Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada provides information, research and technology, and policies and programs to achieve security of the food system, health of the environment and innovation for growth
- Agricultural Research Service
(U.S. Department of Agriculture)
- Angiosperm
Phylogeny Website A classification of angiosperms that can be navigated
either by phylogenic tree, Order, or Family. There are literature references
and links to other related Web sites.
- Australian National
Botanical Gardens
- Australian Plant
Web Links Sites relevant to Australian plants and their conservation
- Australian Science
and Technology on the Internet National Library's selective list
of Australian science and technology Internet sites
- Australian
Tropical Rain Forest Plants
- Biodiversity
hotspots Focuses on critically threatened ecosystems where biodiversity
is at greatest risk, providing information about them and their threatened
and endangered plant and vertebrate species for the purposes of planning
and decision-making
- Biology Image Library collection of images, movies, illustrations and animations for use in education and research
- BioPharmaceutical Glossary Cambridge Healthtech Institute's
biopharmaceutical glossary, taxonomies
and guide to 21st century therapeutics, technologies and trends
- Botany Compilation of practical botanical information - part of the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) site
- Centre for Plant
Biodiversity Research and Australian National Herbarium
- Crop Explorer Provides an analytical tool of crop condition information from around the world
- Department of Agriculture, Fisheries
and Forestry - Australia
- Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and
Ethnobotanical Databases Technical information on the chemicals
found in plants and their ethnobotanical uses
- Economic Botany
Links Selected links relating to uses of plants by humans, from
the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- eFloras.org Virtual library of online floras offering resources from leading international institutions of botanical research
- eNature.com Nature portal offering
online searchable field guides to over 4800 plant and animal species
- ePIC: Electronic Plant Information
Centre Serves as a single gateway to all digitized plant information
generated by Kew
- Food and Agriculture Organisation (United
Nations)
- Forestry AgNIC A
branch of the Agriculture Information Center's site, providing links
to a range of forestry-related topics
- Gramene: A Comparative Mapping Resource
for Grains Open-source, data resource for comparative genome analysis
in the grasses
- Hypomyces
Interactive key, images, descriptions, distributions and nomenclature
for the genus Hypomyces.
- Index Fungorum World database of fungal names at the species level and below.
- Index Herbariorum A joint
project of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy and The
New York Botanical Garden - a detailed directory of the public herbaria
of the world and the staff associated with them.
- International Centre for Tropical Agriculture Concerned with the viability of crops across the world
- International Legume Database and
Information Service Offers an introduction to the family Leguminosae,
a draft checklist of the legumes of the world, and online searching
of the World Database of Legumes.
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Conservation status, taxonomy, and distribution of animals and many plants, along with an evaluation of their risk of extinction
- Kimball's Biology Pages Biology textbook / encyclopedic dictionary
- Landcare Online Australian partnership between the
community, government and business to
tackle land degradation
- Lichen Determination
Keys Guide to lichen identification by the Botanic Garden and Botanical
Museum (BGBM), Berlin-Dahlem.
- Malaysian Agricultural Research and
Development Institute
- Melastomataceae
of the world Florida Museum of Natural History provides this clearinghouse
for information on this family of tropical plants.
- MERLOT
Biology Free and open resource with links to online learning materials
along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments.
- NatureServe Conservation
information on plants, animals and ecological communities.
- New Zealand Crop and Food Research
- PLANT Facts: Horticulture and Crop Science in Virtual Perspective Collections of data and multimedia tools
- Plant
Pathology Internet Guide Book Guide for plant pathology, applied
entomology, and all related fields
- PLANTS Database Focuses on
vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S.
- Plants in Motion time-lapse movies of plant growth, movement, and behavior in response to various stimuli
- PlantsP: Functional Genomics of
Plant Phosphorylation Searchable database for the study of protein
kinases and phosphatases and their roles in regulating plant function
- PlantsT: Functional genomics of
plant transporters
- Rainforest CRC Cooperative Research Centre for tropical rainforest ecology and management
- ScienceNet
Biology & Medical Science Resources
- Scott's Botanical
Links
- Smithsonian Department
of Botany
- Threatened
plants of the world Searchable database which includes the 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants
- Transgenic
crops: an introduction and resource guide From Colorado State University
- provides a summary of the work being done on transgenic crops and
offers many links to other resources on the technology and issues surrounding
transgenic crops.
- Tree of Life Collaborative
project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity
- TreeBASE - A
Database of Phylogenetic Knowledge Designed to manage and explore
information on phylogenetic relationships. Allows retrieval and recombination
of trees and data from different studies. Most material available deals
with plants, but vertebrates, invertebrates, and fungi are also represented.
- What's its Name? A concise
database of plant names & name changes for Australia based on the
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
- World Biodiversity
Database Provides taxonomic information, species names, synonyms,
descriptions, illustrations and literature references when available
on 200,000 taxa. The database can be explored using an expandable tree
of the five taxonomic kingdoms or by typing in a common or scientific
name.
Directories
and Gateways
- AgNIC, the Agriculture Network Information Center AgNIC is a portal to Web pages, databases, and search engines on all topics related to agriculture
- Bio Netbook
A directory of Web pages for biology
- BiologyBrowser Managed
by BIOSIS, features free resources and useful links, and provides a
forum for connecting researchers worldwide
- Biology Online.org
Biological dictionary, field-specific online tutorials
and a directory for Earth and Life Sciences sites
- BioVisa.Net An online community
promoting information sharing among life science researchers. Links
to research protocols, biological journals and forums. Customizable
to personal needs.
- eiNET: Science searchable Internet directory aims to provide contextually relevant information by integrating technology with the human touch
- Guide
to Internet Resources for Biological Taxonomy & Classification Prepared
by Montgomery College Library - some resources are specific to Montgomery
College but most are generally useful.
- Internet Directory for Botany
Has a search interface for botany Internet links in categories such
as botanical gardens, plant scientists; flora taxonomies, plant conservation;
economic botany; paleobotany; publishers and associations.
- Intute: health & life sciences Selected web resources for education and research
- MyBio.net community-built directory of tools, databases, protocols and other web resources for life sciences researchers in a wiki format which everyone can edit
- The National Biological Information Infrastructure Collaborative program to provide increased access to data and information on the biological resources of the USA
- The Plant Pathology Internet
Guide Book Resource guide for plant pathology, applied entomology,
and all
related fields
- SciCentral Gateway to scientific
research news sources
- Science and Industry
Portal Comprehensive Australian Commonwealth Government site delivering
science information and services to industry, investors and the research
community.
- ScitechResources.gov
Provides access to key U.S. Government resources
- The WWW Virtual Library: Biosciences
- www.science.gov.au Science information and services to industry, investors and the research and education communities
- Yahoo:
Australia: Botany
Search
Engines
- Athenus Resources in science and engineering on the web. Indexes subject-specific web sites, publications, news and other resources, providing users with a current, focused collection of topic-specific material.
- Google - simple, fast with excellent
results
- Internet
Searching Tools - check out some other search engines here
- Metacrawler
- if searching the Web with 11 popular search engines simultaneously
appeals, try this
- Scientific-search-engines.com
- SCiNet Science, engineering, and
medical search engine and directory
- Scirus for scientific, technical
and medical information sources
Research
and Study Aids
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