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Academic Search Complete Restricted Resource Some full text available
Index and full text of magazines, newspapers, reports, conference proceedings, and scholarly journals in a wide variety of disciplines.
Agricola Restricted Resource Some full text available
Containing bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library, AGRICOLA provides millions of citations relating to the field of agriculture. Citations are comprised of journal articles, book chapters, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials and technical reports to support agricultural research.
BioOne Complete Some full text available
BioOne Complete is a database of over 200 titles focused in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals Some full text available
DOAJ is a database of open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. And you can connect to the library for full text links to show up right there in Google!
JSTOR Restricted Resource Some full text available
An electronic repository of full-text journals in a variety of disciplines, JSTOR includes the full text of journals starting from the origin of their publication, but often does not have the most recent 2-5 years.
JSTOR: Global Plants Resource contains images
Global Plants is a community-contributed database where worldwide herbaria can share their plant type specimens, experts can determine and update naming structures, students can discover and learn about plants in context, and a record of plant life can be preserved for future generations.
GreenFile Restricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
PubMed
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to 1948. PubMed includes links to some free full text articles and other related resources.

Reference Materials

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Credo is an easy-to-use tool for starting research. Gather background information on your topic from hundreds of full-text general and subject-specific reference titles, as well as 500,000+ images and audio files and over 1,000 videos.


Plants Database Some full text available Resource contains images
The USDA PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. It includes names, plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics, images, crop information, automated tools, onward Web links, and references.

Video

Crash Course: ALL Biology Videos
Links to all Crash Course YouTube videos concerning the subject of Biology.
Crash Course: Anatomy & Physiology
In 47 episodes, Hank Green will teach you anatomy and physiology.  This course is based on an introductory college level curriculum, with Human Anatomy and Physiology, 9th edition, by Marieb and Hoehn as its main reference text.
Crash Course: Biology
In 50 episodes, Crash Course Biology covers the science of life, exploring topics like evolution, genetics, ecology, and cell biology. Dr. Samuel Ramsey leads the series, highlighting biology's interconnectedness and sharing lesser-known stories of biologists along the way.

Websites

BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (Biology Focus)
BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic open access web resources. BASE facilitates effective and targeted searches and retrieves high quality, academically relevant results.

BMC - BioMed Central
BioMed Central (BMC) is an open-access publisher offering peer-reviewed research in biology, health, and medicine. Their journals provide free access to high-quality studies, supporting global collaboration among researchers.
Biologos
Videos, articles, and curricula from hundreds of authors concerning the intersection between faith and science.
BioRender Resource contains images
Create publication-quality figures for the life sciences with pre-made icons and templates. Covers categories like cells, chemistry, human anatomy, and proteins.
National Science Digital Library
The NSDL is a part of OER Commons, and contains an extensive library of resources in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.