O. Cope Budge Library | Biology and Medicine

Biology Index		Medicine Index
Agriculture Anatomy/Physiology Botany Entomology Environment Evolution General Biology	Genetics Microbiology Molecular/Cell Biology Pedagogy Scientists Zoology	AIDS Alcohol Abuse Bioethics Cancer Databases Gateways	Hospitals Journals Organ Transplants Nutrition Pharmacology Statistics Viruses

Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet, searching over 150 million science-specific Web pages

AgNIC: Agriculture Network Information Center
AGRICOLA Most comprehensive database for all aspects of US agriculture; also covers life sciences. The Online Public Access catalog has citations for monographs, serials, theses, patents, etc. The Journal Article Citation Index provides access to journal articles, book chapters, reports, etc.

CalPhotos: Plants Contains more than 20,000 images of California plant species and habitats. You can search by common or scientific name, location, type, color, county.
California Wildflowers Photos, description and distribution information for every CA wildflower.
Internet Directory for Botany A comprehensive site with search engines. Probably the first place a botanist should stop on the WWW.
Natural History of Orange County, California
The Parasitic Plant Connection Excellent color photos of parasitic plants, though the site is useful mainly for experts who are familiar with terminology in this field.
Scott’s Botanical Links
Includes a nice Link-of-the-day feature.
Virtual Library of Botany
WebGarden Resources
Southern California Natural History Flora and fauna of SC habitats. Includes information on 20 amphibians, 52 reptiles, 172 birds, 41 mammals, and 200 plant species.

Biodiversity and Conservation A hypertext book created by Peter J. Bryant at UCI. Good list of links to related sites. Chapters include “Introduction to the History of Life” and “Endangered Species Protection.”
Ecology and Biodiversity Part of the Virtual Library Project and maintained by two professors.
US Environmental Protection Agency
EnviroLink News and articles from the environmentalist point of view.
National Library for the Environment
World Conservation Monitoring Centre: conservation databases

Science and Creationism – National Academy of Sciences Official NAS views on the debate between science and creationism.

BIODIDAC–a Bank of Digital Resources for Teaching Biology
BioTech: Life Sciences Resources and Reference Tools Useful site for chemistry and biology undergrads. It includes annotated links to WWW resources.
Kimball’s Biology Pages
The Biology Project: an Interactive Online Resource for Learning Biology
Brooks/Cole Biology Resource Center A virtual extension of biology textbooks published by Wadsworth-Brooks/Cole. Includes Web sites, information for biology instructors. Useful for undergraduate students.

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man Catalog of human genes and genetic disorders.

The Cephalopod Page
DUCKDATA
CalPhotos: Photos of California Animals (UCBerkeley) About 1200 images of 400 amphibians, brids, fish, invertebrates, mammals, and reptiles in California.

American Public Health Association
Federal Citizen Information Center Provides full text of government publications about nutrition and health. Click on Health on the left hand menu.
Digestive Diseases Information about treatments, symptoms, and causes of many digestive diseases from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases..
Doctor’s Guide to the Internet Sections that provide information on conditions and illnesses, plus news articles.
Disorders, Diseases, and Related Topics From Sweden’s Karolinska Institute Library. Provides many links to Web sites related to diseases, heath conditions, and disorders.
Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Sources List of directories for health subjects.
HealthAtoZ Search engine with links to many health-related WWW links.
Healthfinder U.S. Department of Health and Human Services links to federal government and consumer health sites. .
HealthWorld Online For the health consumer particularly interested in alternative medicine.
Martindale’s health science guide–2005
Mayo Health Clinic Thousands of articles about all aspects of medicine.

CDC National Prevention Information Network (formerly the National Aids Clearinghouse)
HIV InSite
The Body: The Complete AIDS and HIV Resource Provides access to a 30,000 document library, updated daily, with information on this subject. People can also post questions to be asked of experts in the field.

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Excellent site, with good links and some full-text information.

National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature A great place to start online research in bioethics.

Cancer Statistics American Cancer Society site with information on all types of cancer and statistics for 14 types.
OncoLink Much information about all aspects of cancer.

Merck
Medline Access to a huge medical periodical database
Cam Citation Index on PubMed: Office of Alternative Medicine Bibliographic database of more than 180,000 articles from 1966-1998. Covers subject such as diet-nutrition lifestyle changes, herbal medicine, and healing.