Use the MERLIN Library Catalog and the
MOBIUS Union Catalog to find resources relevant
to your research. Relevant works can be found using subject headings (Library of Congress) such
as:
The (Library of Congress) subject heading Biology is broken down into many subtopics and related subjects. If you do not wish to browse the headings, do a keyword search on your topic and follow the subject heading links at the bottom of the relevant record(s) to find additional resources.
If you do not find what you are looking for in the Miller Nichols Collection or if what you want is checked out, try the suggestions found on our FAQ page under the heading "What I need is not at the UMKC Libraries. What do I do?" You will find out a lot more basic information about the University Libraries on this page also.
If you still are not finding what you need, then you will probably need to use our Interlibrary Loan service. (But keep in mind that requesting items out of state can take three days to three weeks for delivery.) Also keep in mind that the time of check out will be determined by the library sending the item(s), so check out times can vary.
QH and QR are the call number ranges where books on Biology and Cell Biology, Immunology and Cytology are shelved in the Miller Nichols Library. Biotechnology can be found in the TP call number range. (In medical and vetenary library collections, QW and WR are used.) General circulating books that can be checked out in this call number range can be found on the Second Floor of the Miller Nichols Library. Reference materials, which are not checked out, in this call number range can be found in the Information Commons on the First Floor of the Library.
To find the location of a book in Miller Nichols Library, see the
Location Guide.
Remote (off-campus) access to databases is available only to UMKC students,
faculty, and staff. All other users must access online resources within the Libraries. Begin
searching by selecting a database. After selection you will be prompted to provide a
UMKC Single Sign-On user name and password OR a 9-digit UMKC ID number followed by the letter k (example: 0123456789k) and last name, as needed.
Before you do your research, you may want to read a little about how science and scientists publish the information they discover in the course of their research and why one source of information may not be as good as another. Sence about Science.
- Biological Abstracts (Ovid) 1980-present.
Save to del.icio.us
Biological Abstracts (Ovid)
1985-present. Save to del.icio.us
Biological Abstracts (Ovid)
1997-present. Save to del.icio.usProvides comprehensive coverage to the worldwide journal literature in the life
sciences, scanning over 5,000 journal titles. Disciplines represented include:
agriculture, biochemistry, bioengineering, biotechnology, botany, ecology, genetics,
immunology, microbiology, neuroscience, pharmacology, public health, toxicology,
and zoology.
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BioOne 2000 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Full text. Coverage varies by title.
Full text, peer-reviewed journals focusing on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. Articles contain all illustrations and links from their print counterparts. Most of the journals are published by scholarly societies, museums and professional organizations, many of which are members of the American Institute for Biological Sciences.
- Company of Biologists journals (Company of Biologists) 1923
- present; coverage varies by title. Save to del.icio.us
Full text 1923 - present; coverage varies by title.
Full text of journals published by the Company of Biologists. The titles
are: Development, Journal of Cell Science, and Journal
of Experimental Biology.
- Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (Wiley) Current edition. Save to del.icio.us
Full text.Signed, peer-reviewed articles on a range of biological topics provide information at different levels of complexity.
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Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost) 1975 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1975 - present.
This multidisciplinary database indexes and abstracts journals in a broad range of subjects. Full text is available for a large proportion of the titles. A high percentage of titles are peer-reviewed. Dates of coverage vary widely by title. All content of Academic
Search Elite is included in this resource.
- arXiv.org is an archive for over 350,000 electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science and biology which can be accessed via the internet. The site is hosted and operated by Cornell University. A majority of the preprints are submitted to journals for publication, but some work, including even very influential papers, remains purely as e-prints and is never published in a peer-reviewed journal.
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Nature (Nature
Publishing Group) 1997 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Full text 1997 - present.
Full-text access to the weekly journal Nature.
- Nature Research and Reviews (Nature Publishing Group) Coverage varies by title. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text; coverage varies by title.
Full-text access to selected journals published by the Nature Publishing
Group.
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Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 1996 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Full text October 1996 - present.
Full-text access to the weekly science magazine.
- ScienceNOW (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 1996
- present. Save to del.icio.us
Full text 1996 - present.
An online news service from Science magazine. Articles are posted daily
except U.S. holidays.
- AGRICOLA 15th century - present. Save to del.icio.us
The National Agriculture Library’s AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) contains citations to a wide variety of publications in agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences.
- Annual Reviews (Annual Reviews) 1996 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1996 - present.
Full-text access to selected Annual Review publications containing authoritative,
analytic reviews of primary research in 30
focused disciplines within the
biomedical, physical and social sciences.
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Dissertations
& Theses (ProQuest) 1861 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1963 - present (Includes UMKC dissertations and theses only).
"The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database
is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and
theses. It is the database of record for graduate research, with over 2.3
million dissertations and theses included from around the world. Each dissertation
published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author.
Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic
citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861, and more than
60,000 new citations are added to the database every year."
Selected full text for UMKC dissertations and theses is available. [Source:
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Database information page; accessed January
3, 2007.]
- GEOBASE
(FirstSearch) 1980 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Links to full text 1998 - present.
"GEOBASE is a unique multidisciplinary database supplying bibliographic information
and abstracts for development studies, the Earth sciences, ecology, geomechanics,
human geography, and oceanography. The database provides current coverage of
almost 2,000 international journals, including both peer-reviewed titles and
trade publications, and provides archival coverage of several thousand additional
journal titles and books." [Source: GEOBASE
description page at Elsevier.com; accessed June 21, 2006.]
- ISI Web of Science
Note: This database is no longer available. Permits multidisciplinary searching for articles from international academic
journals in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts and humanities. This combined
database for the Science Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index, and
the Arts & Humanities Citation Index offers cited reference searching. Link
to ISI Web of Science user's
guide.
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Journals@Ovid (Ovid) 1993 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1993 - present.
Covers scientific, technical, medical, and dental journals. Link to Ovid Web user's guide.
- JSTOR 1838 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Full text. Coverage varies by title.
New Additional
journals are now available
with the addition of these collections: A&S Complement,
A&S V, and Business II.
Contains fully searchable scanned articles from selected journals in a broad
range of disciplines, including African-American studies, art, ecology, economics,
education, history, law, literature, music, general science, sociology, and statistics.
(To see a complete list of discipines and journal titles, link to the JSTOR
browse list.) Covers the full run of journals from the first issue of volume
one; however, the most recent three to five years of journals are not generally
available.
- MEDLINE (Ovid) 1950 - present. Save to del.icio.us
MEDLINE (Ovid) 1950 - 1995. Save to del.icio.us
MEDLINE (Ovid) 1996 - present. Save to del.icio.us
MEDLINE Daily Update (Ovid) Current edition. Save to del.icio.us
Links to full text.
This National Library of Medicine database indexes international biomedical
literature. Link to Ovid Web
user's guide.
- OmniFile V Full Text (Wilson) 1982 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1994 - present.
Provides indexing, abstracts, and some full-text from five of Wilson's full-text indexes: General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
- Paleobiology Database. Current edition. Save to del.icio.us
Full text.
This freely accessible database, funded by the National Science Foundation
and hosted by National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the
University of California Santa Barbara, contains information on more than 30,000
different fossil collections. According to the database Website, "its
purpose is to provide global, collection-based occurrence and taxonomic data
for marine and terrestrial animals and plants of any geological age, as well
as web-based software for statistical analysis of the data."
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PubMed 1951
- present. Save to del.icio.us
Links to full text.
PubMed was designed to provide access to citations from biomedical literature that includes MEDLINE and OLDMEDLINE, and access to full-text articles at journal Web sites and other related Web resources. PubMed also provides access and links to the other Entrez molecular biology databases.
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ScienceDirect Save to del.icio.us (Elsevier) 1823 - present; coverage
varies by title.
Selected full text 2000 - present; Clinics of North America titles 1996 - present.
New Additional journals are now available with the addition of the Freedom Collection.
This database indexes scholarly journals published by Elsevier on all subjects,
but primarily in the sciences and social sciences. It includes 2500+ journals
(2000+ with full text from the Freedom Collection). Much of the newer material
(since the 1970s) is also searchable in Scopus. Books (6000+) are also indexed
(no full text).
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Scirus 1920
- present. Save to del.icio.us
Large in scope with a user-friendly interface, this search engine is
an excellent research tool for finding scientific information on the Internet.
It indexes more than 167 million web pages
as well is a number of online article citation collections. The citations
often link to full text, but a subscription to the specific journal might
be required to access the document.
University Libraries Photocopying and Printing
Services
Selected Journals
This list includes journals available in the University Libraries (check the
MERLIN Library Catalog for holdings and location
information). To identify additional related journals, search
MERLIN by subject or keyword.
Print/Online Journals Available at UMKC:
Many of UMKC's biological journals are located at the Health Sciences Library on Hospital Hill. (Links to electronic versions, if available, are found on the MERLIN record site. These are accessible on campus only.)
To search the Linda Hall Library catalog, select Search Leonardo
and search by: All Titles Alphabetical. (Linda Hall Journals are accessible through the Linda Hall Library only.) Below is an example of some journals found at the Linda Hall Library:
Electronic Journals via Databases:
Serials Solutions
Serials Solutions is one of the tools you can use to find full-text journals, magazines and newspapers available online through many of the databases to which the UMKC University Libraries subscribe.
Use the search engine to find out whether full text of a specific publication is available through one or more online databases, or use the links to view alphabetized lists of these titles. Each entry includes information on coverage (dates) as well as links to the databases through which full-text access is available.
Reference Sources: Encyclopedias, Dictionaries,Handbooks, Citation Resources
Reference sources are useful for locating background information, definitions, general descriptions,
and basic facts. Use these books to help you select or focus your research topic.
All call numbers in this guide refer to the UMKC Miller Nichols Library, unless
otherwise noted.
| Encyclopedia of Cell Technology |
Ref TP248.A53 E53 2000 |
| The Dictionary of Cell Biology |
QH575.D5 |
| Clinical Handbook for Biotherapy |
RC271.B53.R54 |
Citation Guides
| A Short Guide to Writing about Biology |
Ref QH304.P43 |
| Scientific style and format : the CBE manual for authors, editors, and publishers |
Ready Ref T11.C68 |
| Writing Papers in the Biological Sciences |
Ref QH304 .M36 |
Other online citation guides can be found on the Miller Nichols Library website at Citation Style.
For further assistance, please contact the
Miller Nichols Library Reference Desk at (816) 235-1534.
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