Selected Internet Resources on Biology

Electronic Journals
Databases
General Guides
Government and Professional Bodies
Dictionaries
Other Useful Sites

Electronic Journals

• Directory of Open Access Journals: Biology
• Directory of Open Access Journals: Biochemistry
• Directory of Open Access Journals: Biotechnology
• Biochemical Journal
• The Journal of Biological Chemistry Online

Databases

• The Bibliography of Systematic Mycology
• BioABACUS : Biotechnology Abbreviations and Acronyms Uncovering Service
• CBS Databases (Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, Netherlands)
• ECOTOX Database (an ecotoxicology database)
• Entrez (allows you to retrieve molecular biology data and bibliographic citations from the NCBI's integrated databases)
• Expertise Databases and Directories
• Fungal Databases (Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
• GenBank
• GenomeNet
• Nucleic Acid Database
• Protein Data Bank
• PubMed (covering MEDLINE)
• The Universal Virus Database of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
• TOXNET (a cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas)
• World Biodiversity Database
• World Data Centre for Microorganisms (select links under "SEARCH ENGINE")

General Guides

• Academic Info : Biology & Biological Sciences Gateway
• BioTech
• BUBL LINK : Life Sciences, Biology
• Intute: Health and Life Sciences - Natural History (gateway to resources relating to the natural world)
• EEVL (Enhanced and Evaluated Virtual Library) : Bioengineering
• INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections : Biological, Agricultural & Medical Sciences
• Intute: Health and Life Sciences - BioResearch
• Open Directory : Science : Biology
• The WWW Virtual Library : Biosciences

• All the Virology on the WWW
• Genetics Education Centre (University of Kansas Medical Center)
• CMS Molecular Biology Resource

Government and Professional Bodies

Local

• Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department, HKSAR
• Environmental Protection Department, HKSAR
• Hong Kong Institute of Biotechnology Ltd.

International

• Academic Info: Biotechnology Organizations
• Academic Info: Genetics Organizations & Societies
• Academic Info: Biochemistry Societies & Centers
• Academic Info: Microbiology Organizations

• Mycological Society of America
• National Wetlands Research Center, U.S. Geological Survey
• The Society for Conservation Biology
• U.S. Department of Agriculture
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Dictionaries

• Biology Dictionaries (by Washington University Libraries)

Other Useful Sites

• Food Science Central (click "REGISTER" for free registration)