Additional Tools for Biology Research
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ArXiv.org ePrint Archive This link opens in a new window
Use to find pre-prints and publicly available working documents in the field of physics, mathematics and computer science. Contains full-text preprints, and published scholarly articles.
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Birds of the World This link opens in a new windowUse to find information about birds from Birds of North America, The Handbook of Birds of the World, Neotropical Birds, and Bird Families of the World. Contains species and family accounts, maps, illustrations, videos, audio recordings, bird observations and other tools from the Cornell Ornithological Lab.
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Global Invasive Species DatabasePresents invasive alien species that threaten native biodiversity. Covers all groups from micro-organisms to animals and plants.
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GreenFile This link opens in a new windowUse to find resources about environmental science. Contains full-text and abstracts of articles from scholarly journals and magazines, images, and reports.
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PLANTS DatabaseThe PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.
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The Visible Human ProjectCreated by the National Library of Medicine, this is a complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies.
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WildfinderMaintained by World Wildlife Fund, this tool lets you search for species in particular place (by city, zip code, or country) or search a species name to see where it lives. The results list the species' scientific name, common name, threat status, distribution map, and a link to images found on Google.