Biology
Legend
- McGill users only
- Open access resource
- Free resource
- In-library-use only
- Catalogue record
Sources for Background Information
- A dictionary of Plant Sciences
- A Dictionary of Biology
- A Dictionary of Animal Behaviour
- Dictionary of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
- A Dictionary of Genetics
- The Oxford Companion of the Body
- Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
- Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology
- Encyclopedia of Molecular Medicine
- A Dictionary of Zoology
- Index to Organism Names
Searching the Library Catalogue
Use the basic word(s) anywhere or advanced keyword search in the library catalogue. You can search using words like - antibiotic, biochem?, molecul?, etc.
Search tips for the library catalogue
| Truncation symbol: | ? | e.g. biolog? will retrieve catalogue records containing the words biology, biologist, biological, etc. |
| Phrase searching: | "___" | e.g. "cell migration" will retrieve catalogue records containing the phrase cell migration |
| Boolean operators: | (), AND, OR, NOT default: AND |
e.g. biology AND (methods OR research) will retrieve catalogue records containing the word biology and either methods or research |
Get more catalogue search tips.
Search the Library catalogue: Keyword(s):
You can also browse the catalogue, or the shelves at the following National Library of Medicine Classification call numbers
| Call Number | Subject |
| QH 301-705.5 | Biology (General) |
| QH 359-425 | Evolution |
| QH 426-470 | Genetics |
| QH 471-489 | Reproduction |
| QH 501-531 | Life |
| QH 540-549.5 | Ecology |
| QH 573-671 | Cytology |
| QH 705-705.5 | Economic biology |
Core and additional databases
- BIOSIS Previews - life sciences
- PubMed - database of the National Library of Medicine
- MEDLINE (1996-) - database of the National Library of Medicine (or search MEDLINE (1950-))
- BioOne - Bibliographic database
- Zoological Record
Multidisciplinary Databases
Methods & techniques
- Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
- Current Protocols Online
- Journal of visualized experiments (JoVE)
- SpringerProtocols
Selected Internet Sites
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- IPNI - The International Plant Names Index
Model Organisms
- TAIR - The Arabidopsis Information Resource
- Mice and Rats - The Whole Mouse Catalogue
- Xenbase - Xenopus laevis and Xenopus tropicalis biology and genomics resource
- ZFIN - The Zebrafish Model Organism Database
Search engines
- iSpecies - a species search engine
- Entrez - the life sciences search engine
- Scirus - scientific information
- Scitopia.org - science and technology
Societies
- The American Physiological Society
- American Society for Cell Biology
- American Society of Plant Biologists
- The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
Other Resources
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