Biology
Books
Coverage: 10th Edition
Immunobiology is the premier text for immunology at the advanced undergraduate, graduate, and medical school levels. Every chapter is reviewed with experts to ensure accuracy, authority, currency, and depth.
Databases
JoVE Core series brings biology to life through over 300 concise and easy-to-understand animated video lessons that explain key concepts in biology, plus more than 150 scientist-in-action videos that show actual research experiments conducted in today’s laboratories.
JoVE Science Education is a revolutionary video database, dedicated to teaching laboratory fundamentals through simple, easy-to-understand video demonstrations. The 'Advanced Biology' module offers videos in Neuroscience, Developmental Biology, Genetics, Cell Biology, Immunology and Microbiology.
Coverage: Coverage varies (Full text)
Access to archival issues of journals with coverage usually ending three to five years before present. Back issues of over 1500 journals in the arts, humanities, science, and social sciences with links to current issues available in Project Muse.
Coverage: Full text
More than 90 peer-reviewed journals in the areas of biomedical research, biotechnology and regenerative medicine, medicine and surgery, public health research and policy, technology and engineering, environmental research and policy, and law.
Coverage: Citations and abstracts
The PubMed platform contains MEDLINE, PubMed Central, and additional PubMed records, and indexes journal articles and more back to 1947. It covers medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, preclinical sciences, and related areas. It is developed and maintained by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), both at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the US. As of December 2020, PubMed contains over 30 million records. Links to full text content of items indexed in PubMed are usually available via Library Search, publisher websites or library interlibrary loan.
- Victoria University provides video guide on searching for research literature in PubMed. The guide includes using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and covers why truncation and phrase searching might not get the best results.
- Prairie View A&M University has created a guide titled MEDLINE, PubMed & Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Under the title 4 Steps to Using the MeSH Database, note that you can restrict to MeSH Major Topic so that your search will retrieve only citations where your subject is one of the main topics discussed in the article. This means you don't get results where the concept is mentioned, but not the main focus. It also talks about when NOT to use MeSH.
- PubMed Search Tips – How to Use MeSH: Medical Subject Headings
Coverage: Some full text
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) publishes over 50 peer-reviewed journals that cover the core chemical sciences including related fields such as biology, biophysics, energy and environment, engineering, materials, medicine and physics.
Coverage: 1995 to present (Full text)
Full-text access to over 3500 journals primarily in the Sciences, but also including Business, Education, Linguistics, Management, Sociology, etc. For personalised features, please register (by creating an Elsevier User profile/Personal Account) & log in with those credentials.
Coverage: 1997 to present (Full text)
Wiley Online Library is an extensive multidisciplinary resource that provides access to a vast collection of high-quality academic content. This database offers a wide range of scholarly materials, including journals, books, reference works, and other resources across various disciplines.
Dictionaries
Includes a vast range of terms and concepts dealing with biochemistry, cell and developmental biology, immunology, hereditary diseases, and molecular evolution, as well as the state of the art in genomics and proteomics.
Encyclopedias
The Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior covers all aspects of animal behaviour. Alphabetically arranged major sections, such as Antipredatory behavior, Learning, Reproductive behavior, and Social organisation, are organised into subtopics, examples of which include Animal consciousness, Audience effect in whales, Orangutan culture, Tool use and manufacture by birds, and Veterinary ethics and behavior.
Covers not only human evolution, but also a wide variety of other areas, including developmental biology, social behavior, consciousness, evolution of disease, systematics, population biology, complexity theory, and even art in prehistory. Some biographical articles are also included.
Includes coverage of biomedical science, chemistry, cosmology, information science, environmental science, nanotechnology, and theoretical physics.
Covers animal life; biosciences; chemistry; earth and atmospheric sciences; energy sources and power technology; mathematics and engineering sciences; medicine, anatomy, and physiology; physics; plant sciences; space and planetary sciences.
Journals
Covers topics like climate change, tourism, the Scott Base Rebuild, the Antarctic Treaty, atmospherics, marine biology, geology, history and the heritage of the region, technology, and more. Published by the New Zealand Antarctic Society, an independent body dedicated to sharing knowledge about the region, supporting its protection and promoting New Zealand’s interests.
Websites
An online resource for teachers and students in the fields of evolution and geological time.
New Zealand's Crown Research Institute (CRI) for our land environment.
The New Zealand Ecological Society was formed in 1951 to promote the study of ecology and the application of ecological knowledge in all its aspects. Provides links to publications and resources for ecology in New Zealand.
Regional council for the Waikato region. The website provides links to publications.