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Life Sciences Libraries

 

Web Resources for Biologists

Biology Web Directories

Open Directory Project. Provides over 18,000 generally appropriate biology sites selected and categorized by volunteers.

About.com. This site is a good place to go for basic, easy-to-understand information.

Academic Info: Biology & Biological Sciences Gateway .  Includes academic-level Web sites in a variety of subjects.

Biozone.  A nice site from New Zealand; of interest to the general public and students. Has a directory of over 500 links with lots of good ecology/biodiversity sites.

INFOMINE Comprehensive Biological, Agricultural, and Medical Resource Collection.   A venerable scholarly Web directory, with links selected by librarians. From the University of California-Riverside.

SciCentral: Gateway to the Best Science News Sources Online. Provides news stories and numerous links categorized by subject and type. A good source for background information and news on a variety of topics.

Other Useful Links

BIOSIS.  Publishers of Biological Abstracts.

NCBI (National Center for Biotechnological Information).  Access to Entrez, GenBank, PubMed, OMIM, others.

NSF Grants & Awards.  Funding information and guidelines from the National Science Foundation

GrantForward. Provides a searchable database of funding opportunities in all fields of study.