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Biology Resources

Alphabetical list of biology references

http://www.bioreference.net/

Harvard Biology Links http://mcb.harvard.edu/BioLinks.html
Biology digital libraries http://www.academicinfo.net/biodatalibrary.html
High Wire Press free journals online http://highwire.stanford.edu/
Darwin 2000 - Student Research in Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology, and Evolution http://www.rickhershberger.com/darwin2000/
Medical Ignorance Collaboration Univ. Arizona http://www.medicalignorance.org/
Lefalophodon
An Informal History of Evolutionary Biology		 http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~alroy/lefa/lophodon.html
Colorado Futurescience http://www.futurescience.com/
Science & Technology Archives and Oral Histories http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Biotech/archive/
Books and other Educational resources  
Education Portal Academy- Bio 101

http://education-portal.com/academy/course/index.html#introduction-to-biology
Online Biology Book http://gened.emc.maricopa.edu/bio/bio181/BIOBK/BioBookTOC.html 
Online bacteriology textbook http://www.textbookofbacteriology.net/
Cell Biology animations from John Kyrk http://www.johnkyrk.com/
Chemistry Virtual Textbook by Dr. Lower at Simon Fraser http://www.chem1.com/acad/webtext/virtualtextbook.html
Animations about Biology from Davidson http://www.bio.davidson.edu/courses/movies.html
Professor Malcolm Campbell at Davidson's Immunology course http://www.bio.davidson.edu/courses/Immunology/bio307.html
Great animations of various Biology concepts http://www.usa-people-search.com/content-biology-animations,-movies-interactive-links.aspx
Immunology animations from publisher http://www.blink.uk.com/immunoanimations/
More immunology animations http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/facilities/multimedia/index.php?Page=283
An Informational Resource for Cell and Molecular Biologists

http://www.cellbio.com/

HHMI Biology interactive http://www.biointeractive.org/
Genetics Science Learning Center  Univ. Utah http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/
Biodiversity and Worldmap http://www.nhm.ac.uk/science/projects/worldmap/
Human Genetics Information http://history.nih.gov/exhibits/genetics/
Science Museum in London:  an animated history of technology since 1750 and links scenes to educational material 

http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk
The Tech Museum of Innovation-Understanding Genetics http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/ugenetics/
Science Museum in London: contextualizes and presents 30,000 images of pictures and artifacts from the museum's collections

http://www.ingenious.org.uk
Electrophoresis resources http://www.aesociety.org/
Indiana U. Molecular Structure Resources http://www.iumsc.indiana.edu/index.html
Clinical conversions calculator http://dwjay.tripod.com/conversion.html
Human Genome  http://www.genome.gov/
Whonamedit.com is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. http://www.whonamedit.com/
BioMedical Acronyms- over 200,000 entries! http://lethargy.swmed.edu/argh/ARGH.asp
Geological Society's  BioGeosciences Organization http://www.biogeosciences.org
The Human Serum Proteome http://bpp.nci.nih.gov
National Science Digital Library http://nsdl.org/
NASA's Earth Observatory http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/
Teaching Science
The BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium actively supports educators interested in the reform of undergraduate biology and engages in the collaborative development of curricula http://bioquest.org/index.html
Cell Biology Education --A journal of Life Science Education http://www.cellbioed.org
Digital library for teaching and learning Biology http://www.biosciednet.org/portal/
Electronic Journal in Excellence in College Teaching http://ject.lib.muohio.edu/
Science Teaching Reconsidered (a book) http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/str/

Internet searching advice

http://www.library.vcu.edu/help/adv.html
PUBMED - National Library of Medicine Resources http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
PUBMED Central- more books and resources than you could possible imagine! http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
Food & Drug Administration (FDA) http://www.fda.gov
National Institutes of Health (NIH) http://www.nih.gov/
NIH Health Information http://health.nih.gov/
Biology Browser http://www.biologybrowser.org/

Help in evaluating web resources

http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/teaching_backgrounders/internet/decon_web_pages.cfm
http://www.fno.org/jun97/eval.htm
http://www.ithaca.edu/library/Training/hott.html