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Electronic Resources for the Life Sciences
Purdue Accessible Reference Books
The Purdue Libraries offers some materials as electronic full-text books. You will find these in the Libraries Online Catalog as well as on the Articles and Databases page. Databases can be found on the Articles and Databases page, by subject, and by subject Megasearch (be sure to switch button to Life Sciences category).
For e-journals available from the Purdue Libraries, please go to the Libraries E-Journals page.
A Quick Reference Guide to Online Bio-Ag Resources at Purdue
Below is a selected list of titles of potential interest to Life Scientists.
Note: titles with "WTS" after them require that you've loaded the free
ICA Client (a type of browser plug-in). Instructions for loading
the ICA client are available here.
- AHFS Drug Information
- Associations Unlimited (formerly "Encylopedia of Associations")
- Books in Print
- CASSI: Chemical Abstracts Serials Source Index (WTS)
- Current Protocols in Molecular Biology nces Library)
- Dictionary of Organic Compounds (WTS)
- Encyclopedia of Life Sciences Online (Nature)
- Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine - 16th Ed. (2005) (choose Table of Contents)
- Journal Citation Reports (1998 - present online)
- Knovel Library (engineering and science resources)
- Merck Index (WTS)
- ProKaryotes
Internet accessible Reference resources
Available to all via the Internet
The Libraries' Quick Reference page has some useful sites-- online dictionaries (general, international, scientific), thesauri, zipcode lookups, phone books, periodical tables, scientific unit conversion programs, maps, etc.
Selected reference resources that the Life Sciences Library Reference Staff find exceptionally useful include:
Dictionaries & Encylopedias
- Academic Press Dictionary of Science & Technology
- Biotech's Life Science Dictionary
- Dictionary of Units Use this to convert from one unit of measure to another (e.g., Fahrenheit <--> Celcius)
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Xreferplus (science subjects)
- Your Dictionary.com (multiple languages)
Miscellaneous Reference Resources
- Web sites for translating Full Journal Title <--> Abbreviated Journal Titles
- Directory of Published Proceedings -- locate literature from thousands of conferences, meetings and symposia.
- The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy -- medical information
- Patents -- search for US Patents. (Also see the Purdue Engineering Library Patents & Trademarks page).
- Community of Science -- What grants are available? What grants have been awarded? Who else is working in my research area in Indiana?