The Agricultural University Library

BIOLOGY, ECOLOGY AND GENETICS RESOURCES ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB

This guide aims to give a brief introduction to key useful information sources available on the World Wide Web for Biology, Ecology and Genetics. It is intended to provide some helpful starting points, and is not intended to be definitive.

Information gateways for different subject areas, electronic journal services etc

http://www.bdt.org.br/bin21/
Biodiversity Information Network server in Brazil

http://www.ou.edu/research/electron/www-vl/noframes.shtml
Virtual library for light and electron microscopy

http://www.newscientist.com/
Planet Science the New Scientist resource (you need to register online)

http://www.amsci.org
back issues and coverstories from American Scientist not to be confused with Scientific American

http://www.cruzio.com/~gooderth/virtcave/tracks/tracks.html
Curiouser and curiouser. Animal tracks for speleologists from a Mexican jungle cave.

http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/marslife/
NASA space scientists present their evidence for has-been life on Mars from an Antarctic meteorite

http://www.bubl.bath.ac.uk/BUBL/Environment.html
links to environmental resorces via BUBL

http://www.epa.gov/epahome/finding.html
US Environment Protection Agency (EPA) with library catalogue and Information Centers and Government Information Locator Service (GILS)
http://www.epa.gov/gils/

http://www.tufts.edu/as/biology/
http://www.tufts.edu/~lsabol/
tutorial resources for Tufts’ organism biology course with library resources, writing for biology, footnotes, and information handling

http://expasy.hcuge.ch/
protein and nucleic acid sequences (Swiss-Prot)on the University of Geneva’s server, with Enzyme Commission nomenclature and other features
http://expasy.hcuge.ch/sprot/enzyme.html
http://expasy.hcuge.ch/cgi-bin/search-biochem-index
see also the Library’s separate guide to resources in Molecular Biology
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/documents/web.htm

http://www.sanger.ac.uk/~sjj/C.elegans_Home.html
the home page for Caenorhabditis elegans research

http://www.ebi.ac.uk:7081/docs/flydocs/flybase/About-flybase.html
http://www.ebi.ac.uk:7081/
database of fruit fly Drosophila information including gene maps, bibliography, methods and directory of research workers

http://www.xenopus.com/
http://www.widomaker.com/~kea/edward/xlinfo.html
http://www-cbd.ups-tlse.fr/bio/xenopus.html
supplies, care and normal table for the clawed frog Xenopus laevis widely used in developmental biology and endocrinology
http://www.cshl.org/meetings/97cxeno.htm
course materials not only at Cold Spring harbor, but also a virtual embryo of the cyberfrog:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~browder/index.html

http://zebra.sc.edu/guides.html
http://zebra.sc.edu/resources.html
homepage server of the Zebrafish research community, and access to their internet newgroup news:bionet.organisms.zebrafish

http://probe.nalusda.gov:8000/plant/index.html
Agricultural Genome Information Server at the US National Agricultural Library includes maize, Arabidopsis, Medicago and Phaseolus

http://www.keil.ukans.edu/%7Efungi/#DIR
directory of resources for mycologists (including mushrooms and molecular genetics)

http://www.mindspring.com/~zoonet/www_virtual_lib/zoos.html
links to public, private and commercial zoos, and special collections, with pictures
http://www.mindspring.com/~zoonet/www_virtual_lib/zoos.html#pictures

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/museum/lifegal/interface/p1.html
Natural History Museum (South Kensington) Life Galleries exhibits
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/info/info.html
including Information Services, Library and Picture Library, Museum Archives, Publications and online library catalogue (OPAC)
telnet://libcat@library.nhm.ac.uk

http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/kewscientist/
internet access to “Kew Scientist” issues from October 1994

http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/others.html
providing onward links to divers botanical resources (not quite alphabetical) like the Missouri Botanical Garden WWW server
http://www.mobot.org/
Iceland (Reykjavik Botanic Garden)
http://www.arctic.is/itn/botanic/botanic.html
or The Vatican
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Experimental/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/g-nature/Botany.html
early herbals from the Vatican

http://www.english-nature.org.uk/
biodiversity and conservation of wildlife (plants and animals) in England [sic] with relevance to Agenda 21 (the Rio de Janiero Earth Summit) implementation; information on National Nature Reserves, SSSIs and Special Protection Areas and contact addresses for EN local teams:
http://www.english-nature.org.uk/lteams.htm
http://www.coi.gov.uk/coi/depts/GNV/GNV.html
press releases from the UK Department of the Environment

http://www.open.gov.uk/gwd/gwdhome.htm
Global Widlife Division of the UK Department of the Environment with CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) documentation

http://sdb.bio.purdue.edu/Other/VL_DB.html
Society for Developmental Biology’s Virtual Library for developmental biology with organisms index, research resources etc

http://www.demon.co.uk/bes/
forthcoming meetings, specialist group activities, journals and other publications of the British Ecological Society
http://biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr/Ecology-WWW.html
links to sites of ecological interest, including
http://www.sdsc.edu/~ESA/ESA.html
the Ecological Society of America

http://www.faseb.org/
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology with members directory, career resources, publications and FASEB Journal (FJ) with browse and search options for FJ abstracts

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/ejour/ejlist.htm
lists journals now available electronically, often with PDF (Adobe Acrobat) fulltext files

http://BioMedNet.com/entrance/lee
provides access to electronic journals, research vacancies and more

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/funding/home.html
homepage of the Wellcome Trust and information on grants and support for biomedical research, with telnet access to the WISDOM database of funding sources (the Trust and other sources) login by typing: wisdom
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/wisdom/home.html
telnet://wisdom.wellcome.ac.uk

http://www.bl.uk/bin/dsc-serials
searchable list of journals available through inter library loan (ILL) from the British Library Document Supply Centre at Boston Spa (8198 on Leeds University switchboard)

http://www.bl.uk/sris/
http://www.bl.uk/sris/srisread.html
Science Reference & Information Service of the British Library in London with map
http://www.bl.uk/sris/srisread.html#map