Biology 101 Subject Guide

This guide is intended as a research tool to help you locate background information, books, articles, and internet/web links on a variety of general biology topics.

Background Information Sources

Available in the library’s reference area:

The Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing & Allied Health
REF RT 21 .G353 2007 V. 1-5
The Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders
REF RB155.5 .G35 2005 V.1 & 2
The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
REF RC41 .G35 2002 V.1-5
Encyclopedia of AIDS
REF RA 644 .A25 E53 1998
Obesity Epidemiology
REF RA 645 .O23 H8 2008
Encyclopedia of Women’s Health
REF RA 778 E5825 2004
The Cancer Handbook
REF RC 263 .C29168 2007 V. 1 & 2
Pathophysiology
REF RB 113 .P67 2009
Handbook of Eating Disorders and Obesity
REF RC 552 .E18 H362 2004
HIV/AIDS
REF RA 643.8 .W47 2008

Books

Search the online library catalog for books on your subject using words or word combinations below:

Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer
RC280.B8 B6655622 2009
Tamoxifen and breast cancer
RC280 .B8 D39 1994

Obesity

Obesity and the Family
RC 628 .O228 1994
Dieting, Overweight, and Obesity: Self- regulation in a Food-rich Environment
RC 628 .S829 2008
Generation Extra Large: Rescuing our Children from an Epidemic of Obesity
RJ339 .C6 T37 2004

Sickle Cell Anemia

Sickle Cell Disease
RC 641.7 .S5 S54 1989

HIV and AIDS

HIV/AIDS Education of Adults
RA 644 .A25 H55 2005
HIV and AIDS: Testing, Screening, and Confidentiality
RA 644 .25 H57855 1999
AIDS
RC 606.64 .A335 2008

Databases

  • PubMed Central :The U.S. National Institutes of Health's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition: Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong. In addition, this database includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
  • Health Reference Center Academic: Select this database from the list of Gale databases. This database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information. Health Reference Center Academic is also available off campus.
  • AccessScience: Full-text access to articles and research updates in all areas of science and technology — updated daily.
  • LexisNexis: Large database of current and archived newspaper articles.

Newspaper, Magazines, and Academic Journal Articles

  • New York Times
  • Boston Globe
  • Lancet
  • Science
  • The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
  • Scientific American
  • New England Journal of Medicine

Internet Resources

Several internet resources have been selected below. Additional links are available from Web Resources page; follow link for Biology/Science.