LibGuides: Biology: Biology Home

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AGRICOLA This link opens in a new window
1970 - present. Unlimited users.
Updated daily. Contains bibliographic citations with some abstracts covering agriculture, animal husbandry, animal and human nutrition, forestry, plant pathology, plant science, human ecology, agricultural economics and rural sociology. Includes journal articles, books, state extension and experiment station publications and USDA documents.
Access the USDA National Agricultural Library through AGRICOLA Books.

ResearchGate
Connect with other researchers.
Science.gov
Provides information on technical reports generated through federally-funded research and development projects.

UT Biodiversity Center Collections
Collections include: Plants, Ichthyology, Herpetology, Entomology, Cave Arthropods, Ornithology and Mammalogy
Texas Memorial Museum
University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences

ARAPORT Arabidopsis Information Portal
The Arabidopsis Information Portal is an open-access online community resource for Arabidopsis research.
Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online
All of Darwin's published writings and many of his manuscripts available both as searchable text and as scanned images.
EDGE
The EDGE of Existence programme is the only global conservation initiative to focus specifically on threatened species that represent a significant amount of unique evolutionary history.
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
Imagine an electronic page for each species of organism on Earth.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Searchable data on species, countries, or datasets.
International Field Guides
A searchable database of field guides for plants, animals, and other objects in North America and around the world.
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ is widely recognized as the most comprehensive, objective global approach for evaluating the conservation status of plant and animal species.
The Tree of Life Web Project
A web project produced by biologists from around the world. Taxonomic and identifying information about organisms, including drawings, photographs, references, and related information.
Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio)
National Resource for Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) funded by the National Science Foundation. Through ADBC, data and images for millions of biological specimens are being made available in electronic format for the research community, government agencies, students, educators, and the general public.