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Reference

AccessScience
(Bioscience/Plant  Science/Zoology)

Biology  (4 vol encyclopedia)

Encyclopedia of Life
Highly anticipated "ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about all life on Earth accessible to anyone."

OMIM, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
This database is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders 
 Also in Print - REF QH442.4 .M35

Beacham's Guide to the Endangered Species of North America

Dictionary of scientific biography
REF Q141 .D5

Encyclopedia of animal behavior
REF QL750.3 .E53 2004

Medical Encyclopedia (from Medline)

Websites

Genetic Disorders

OMIM, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man. This database is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders authored and edited by Dr. Victor A. McKusick and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere, and developed for the World Wide Web by NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

Taxonomy

The Tree of Life
http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html
A distributed Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity. The Tree of Life Phylogenetic Navigator is a system designed to link biological information available on the Internet. It provides taxonomic and systematic information (diversity, phylogeny) of various groups of organisms. The display of these links is in the form of a phylogenetic tree linking the organisms

Miscellaneous

OdonataCentral
http://www.odonatacentral.org/
This site is designed to make available what we know about the distribution, biogeography, biodiversity, and identification of Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) world-wide.

Scirus
http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/
Comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches over 167 million science-specific Web pages, enabling you to quickly:

BioMed Central
http://www.biomedcentral.com/
Online free journals

Science.gov
http://www.science.gov/ 
Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results.

BIOSCI
http://www.bio.net/
BIOSCI is a set of electronic communication forums - the bionet USENET newsgroups and parallel e-mail lists - used by biological scientists worldwide. No fees are charged for the service

Bioterrorism Resources on the Internet: A Primer
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/mar02/perkins.htm 

ISI Highly Cited
http://isihighlycited.com
Search by author of science subject for the most highly cited scientist in their fields

PubMed Central (PMC)  
http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/
U.S. National Library of Medicine's free full text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature

Encyclopedia of Life
http://www.eol.org/ 
A highly anticipated project starting in 2008