2008* Bio-Sciences (non-medical) 'Core' or Essential Reference Tools Results

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  1. Grzimeks Animal Life Encyclopedia
  2. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (print and online)
  3. Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry, Encyclopedia of Evolution (Oxford U. Press), Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Scientific Style and Format: the CSE manual for authors, editors, and publishers, Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms

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  1. INFOMINE: Biological, Agricultural & Medical Sciences Collection - http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?category=bioag, Intute: Health and Life Sciences - http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/, Tree of Life - http://tolweb.org/tree/
  2. Amino Acid Information - http://prowl.rockefeller.edu/aainfo/contents.htm, Arkive - http://www.arkive.org/, Biopharmaceutical Glossary - http://www.genomicglossaries.com/, Canadian Biodiversity Web Site - http://canadianbiodiversity.mcgill.ca/english/index.htm, EarthTrends - http://earthtrends.wri.org/, WWW Virtual Library: Biosciences - http://vlib.org/Biosciences

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  1. USDA Plants Database - http://plants.usda.gov, Canadian Biodiversity Information Network (CBIN) - http://www.cbin.ec.gc.ca/index.cfm?lang=e
  2. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center - http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/, Computational Molecular Biology At NIH - http://molbio.info.nih.gov/desk.html, National Agricultural Library Catalog - http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/, National Agricultural Statistics Service - http://www.nass.usda.gov/index.asp, National Biological Information Infrastructure - http://www.nbii.gov, NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/, Stem Cell Information - http://stemcells.nih.gov/info, U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service - http://www.fws.gov/endangered/wildlife.html, US Geological Survey - http://www.usgs.gov

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  1. Biosis Previews (Thomson-Reuters) - http://www.thomsonreuters.com/products_services/scientific/BIOSIS_Previews
  2. Web of Science - http://www.thomsonreuters.com/products_services/scientific/Web_of_Science
  3. CSA Biological Sciences Database (ProQuest) - http://www.csa.com/factsheets/biolclust-set-c.php, Environment Complete (EBSCOhost) - http://www.ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?topicID=623&marketID=1, Geobase - http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bibliographicdatabasedescription.cws_home/422597/description#description, SciFinder Scholar - http://www.cas.org/SCIFINDER/SCHOLAR/, Zoological Record - http://www.thomsonreuters.com/products_services/scientific/Zoological_Record

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