Electronic Books
Access Medicine
(McGraw-Hill)
A suite of books including Harrison's Online, Hurst's The Heart, Metabolic
and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease (MMBID), AccessLANGE, and CMDT Online. Please log out properly when finished. This is a trial access with limited
ports.
ADA Nutrition Care Manual (American Dietetic Association)
The ADA Nutrition Care Manual (NCM) is a publication of the American Dietetic Association. It is the preeminent source of research-based nutrition information and clinical tools available to dietitians, dietetic technicians and other health care professionals.
Annals of the New York Academy
of Sciences
The ANNALS ONLINE contains the full content of each volume in the series,
including all figures and tables. In addition, the full text is searchable
by keyword, and the cited references include hyperlinks to Medline and to
the full text of many other online journals. Online full-text content begins
with Volume 1, December 1879.
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions joined together to form the Biodiversity Heritage Library Project. They are developing a strategy and operational plan to digitize the published literature of biodiversity held in their respective collections and make it available through a global “biodiversity commons.”
Birds of North America
The electronic version of Birds of North America provides detailed scientific
information for each of the 716 species of birds nesting in the USA and Canada.
The print version of BNA was completed in 2002, a joint 10-year project of
the American Ornithologists' Union, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and the
Academy of Natural Sciences.
Botanicus Digital Library
A freely accessible, Web-based encyclopedia of historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library.
Complete Charles Darwin Online (University of Cambridge)
Darwin's complete publications (incl. Origin of Species, Voyage of the Beagle, Zoology, & Descent of Man), thousands of handwritten manuscripts and the largest Darwin bibliography and manuscript catalogue ever published; also hundreds of supplementary works: biographies, obituaries, reviews, reference works and more.
NOTE: The Bioscience Library has the World's most complete collection of all British and American Printings of Darwin's work during his lifetime. See the Bioscience Library Reference desk for assistance.
Core Historical
Literature of Agriculture (CHLA)
A core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between
the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Full-text
materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science,
crops and their protection, food science,forestry, human nutrition, rural
sociology, and soil science. From the Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University.
CRCnetBASE
A selection of electronic books published by CRC Press is available via CRCnetBASE. The following is a partial list of the collections to which UC Berkeley has subscriber access:
CRCnetBASE Troubleshooting Guide (Kresge Engineering Library, UC Berkeley)
Current
Protocols (Wiley Interscience)
For other protocols, check the Bioscience Library's list of Methods and Protocols sites.
Dissertations and Theses
Provides access to the full text of all dissertations from UC since 1997 (many
issued in late 1996 are also available). The first twenty-four pages from
all other dissertations for which images exist online are also available.
Also included, with more than 1.5 million entries, is the Dissertation Abstracts
International (DAI) database, the authoritative source for information about
doctoral dissertations. It is possible to search this database by thesis advisor!
EcoSal
A continually updated Web resource based on the classic ASM Press publication
Escherichia coli and Salmonella: Cellular and Molecular Biology.
This project is a comprehensive archive of the entire corpus of knowledge
about the enteric bacterial cell.
Encyclopedia of Water Science
(Dekker)
The Encyclopedia of Water Science provides instant access to the most effective
procedures in agricultural water engineering — unveiling a wide spectrum
of design concepts, methodologies, and solutions for enhanced performance
of water quality, treatment, conservation, and irrigation methods, as well
as improved water efficiency in agricultural programs.
Feeding
America: The Historic American Cookbook Project
"... an online collection of some of the most important and influential
American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century" from Michigan
State University.
Knovel Library
A collection of over 800 scientific reference handbooks, texts, and databases. Areas of special interest are the collections in:
Online
Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)
OMIM is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders. It contains textual information, references, and copious links to MEDLINE and sequence records in the Entrez system, and links to additional related resources.
OMIM is intended for use primarily by physicians and other professionals concerned with genetic disorders, by genetics researchers, and by advanced students in science and medicine.
Merck
Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
(AKA Merck Manual, or, "The Merck")
National Academies Press
"NAP publishes over 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science,
engineering, and health, capturing the most authoritative views on important
issues in science and health policy."
Oxford Scholarship Online
The scope and content of this resource for biologists can be described in general terms as "Ecology and Evolution", with a particular reputation for quality in the fields of evolutionary biology and epidemiology. As well as maintaining these strengths, the list continues to expand in the fields of ecology, conservation biology, physiology, animal biology, marine biology and plant science.
PubMed
Bookshelf
The Bookshelf is a growing collection of full-text biomedical books available from NLM.
The following are just a sample of titles available through the PubMed Bookshelf:
- Basic Neurochemistry, Molecular, Cellular, and Medical Aspects, 6th ed.
- Cancer Medicine, 5th ed.
- The Cell - A Molecular Approach, 2nd ed.
- Developmental Biology, 6th ed.
- Immunobiology, 5th ed.
- Molecular Biology of the Cell, 3rd ed.
- Molecular Cell Biology, 4th ed.
Springer Publishing Life Sciences Library
Books and book series, such as Advances in Biochemical Engineering and The Prokaryotes.
Springer Protocols (formerly BioMedProtocols)
Methods in Molecular Biology and Methods in Molecular Medicine online.
STAT!Ref
Search the full text of many medical reference books, including Mosby's GenRx, Family Medicine, Griffith's 5-Minute Clinical Consult, Geriatric Medicine, Current
Diagnosis & Treatment in Cardiology, Current OB-GYN Diagnosis
& Treatment, Current Pediatric Diagnosis & Treatment, Smith's General Urology, Basic & Clinical Pharmacology, Medical
Immunology, Review of Medical Physiology, and Dictionary of Medical
Acronyms & Abbreviations.
Studies in Mycology
Taxonomy and evolution of fungi, from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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