Student Resources

Biology Study Tables

(BI105, BI210, BI220, BI230)

• Sunday, 6:00–8:00 PM, GH 202
• Monday, 6:00–8:00 PM, GH 202
• Tuesday, 6:00–8:00 PM, GH 202
• Wednesday, 6:00–8:00 PM, GH 202

Center for Academic Success and Exploration

• Visit the Center website
• Study Smarter, not Harder (PDF)
• In-class cell phones and laptops lower scores (PDF)
• Laptops are great but not for lecture or meeting (PDF)

Understanding Plagiarism

• Learn about plagiarism

Databases

• Visit the libraries database for biological sciences
• Pubmed is an NCBI peer-reviewed scientific literature database.
• VADLO is a biology specific search engine.
• Google Scholar gives bibliographic access to the scholarly literature.

General Biology

• The Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cell Biology collection of Biology Links.
• The Biosciences Virtual Library
• The BIOSCI/bionet Electronic Newsgroup Network for Biology houses the archives of many biological newsgroups as well some links to other web sites.
• Best of the Web—Plants and Animals: resource for researching plant and animal science

Biology Education

• Access Excellence
• BioChemNet is a directory of online resources for biology and chemistry education.
• Graduate School Resources
• Scholarship Searches

Ecology

• NatureServe: information about rare and endangered species and threatened ecosystems.
• The World Wide Web Virtual Library has an index of sites for Biodiversity, Ecology and the Environment. This index is now hosted by the Center for Conservation Biology Network, also a useful site.

Entomology

• Iowa State Entomology Index
• National Integrated Pest Management Network

Genetics

• Flybase provides extensive information on Drosophila genetics and molecular biology.
• Mendelweb has the actual text of Mendel’s papers in both English and German!

Government Organizations

• Department of Energy Office of Science
• National Agricultural Library. This site is particularly good for biotechnology.
• NIH
  • NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
  • National Library of Medicine
• NSF
• USDA

Microbiology

• American Type Culture Collection

Molecular Biology

• The Antibody Resource Page includes educational resources as well as links to databases, journals and commercial sources.
• The Baylor College of Medicine Search Launcher offers access to various molecular biology databases.
• Expasy Molecular Biology Server
• PHYLIP is a set of programs for generating phylogenetic trees available on the computers in Butler’s Biological Sciences Learning Center.

Plant Biology

• Friesner Herbarium, Butler University
• Missouri Botanical Garden
• New York Botanical Garden
• The American Phytopathological Society
• The USDA Plants Database: The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. It includes names, plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics, images, plant links, references, crop information, and automated tools.
• Wisconsin Vascular Plant Species, Wisconsin State Herbarium, searchable database for vascular plants in the Midwest.

Vertebrate Biology

• BIRDNET
• NIH Health information
• Human Anatomy Online