Books
Our online catalog is a great place to start. Use the search box below to find books, or try using the advanced search for more searching options.
Need a book on biology? The following call number ranges, located on the second floor of the library, are a good place to start.
| QH 301-705.5 | General Biology |
| QH 426-470 | Genetics |
| QH 41-489 | Reproduction |
| QH 501-531 | Life |
| QH 540-549.5 | Ecology |
| QH 573-671 | Cytology |
| QR 1-74.5 | General Microbiology |
| QR 75-99.5 | Bacteria |
| QR 180-189.5 | Immunology |
| QR 355-502 | Virology |
Use the search box below to find books through our online catalog. If you need more search options, try using the advanced search.
We also have several ebooks through NetLibrary which you can browse right from your computer. Adobe Reader is required to view them.
If we don't have it, somebody does. WorldCat is a catalog maintained by libraries world wide. If you can find a book in WorldCat, you can request it via interlibrary loan.
Articles
Our periodical collection (journals & magazines) is located on the first floor. You may find the journal title search on the articles page helpful as well. The list below includes some of our related periodicals:
| American Journal of Botany | 1963 - current Online |
| American Journal of Science | 1990 - current Online |
| Biology Direct | Online |
| Botanical Review | 1995 - current |
| Discover | 1995 - current Online |
| Herpetologica | 1995 - current Online |
| Herpetological Monographs | 1988 - current Online |
| Journal of Biology | Online (requires free registration) |
| Journal of College Science Teaching | 1995 - current |
| Journal of Experimental Biology | Online (articles at least six months old are freely available) |
| Journal of Freshwater Ecology | 1981 - current |
| Journal of Heredity | 1995 - current |
| Journal of Mammalogy | 1995 - current Online |
| Journal of Parasitology | 2004 - current Online |
| Lifescapes | 1995 - current |
| Limnology & Oceanography | 1995 - current |
| Molecular & Cellular Biology | Online (articles at least six months old are freely available) |
| Natural History | 1995 - current |
| PLoS Biology | Online |
| Quarterly Review of Biology | 1995 - current Online |
| Science | 1995 - current |
| Science Scope | 1997 - current |
| Scientific American | 1995 - current |
| Southwestern Naturalist | 1995 - current |
| Texas Journal of Science | 1949 - current |
| Texas Parks & Wildlife | 1994 - current |
Databases
Databases are an effective way of researching articles. Databases allow thousands of journals to be researched within a single search. The following should get you started:
Internet Sites
The following internet sites have been reviewed by our staff or suggested by professors in the relating field:
- Biology Articles - Hundreds of articles in dozens of biological subfields.
- Biology Browser - Extensive guide to internet biology resources, arranged by organism, subject and geography.
- Bio NetBook - Databases of web pages for biology
- National Center for Biotechnology Information - creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information
- Online Analysis Tools - Collection of online tools (glossary, diagrams, models, etc.) for molecular biology