Subject Guides: Biological Sciences: eBooks and eResources

CSE Citation Style

Scientific Style and Format (Online)
Citation guidelines for Council of Science Editors (CSE) style.

Finding dissertations

Dissertations & Theses @ University of Alberta This link opens in a new window This content of this database is a subset of Dissertations and Theses Global, covering University of Alberta publications from 1954 through 2014. Full text is available for many, but not all, titles. NOTE: UofA no longer contributes content to this database. See also: Electronic Theses and Dissertations (University of Alberta).
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Contains text in Afrikaans, Arabic, Basque, Bosnian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French / Français, German, Greek, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Middle English, North American Indian, Old English, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Syriac, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Venda, Welsh, and Yiddish and languages.
Dissertations and Theses Global This link opens in a new window Also known as:|Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global|. Includes contributions from North American graduate schools and European universities. Coverage begins with the first U.S. dissertation accepted in 1861. UofA theses and dissertations are included from 1954 through 2014, with full text available for many, but not all, titles. NOTE: UofA no longer contributes content to this database. See also: Electronic Theses and Dissertations (University of Alberta).
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Theses Canada Portal This link opens in a new window This site is a collaboration between Library and Archives Canada and Canadian universities. It provides free access to the full text electronic versions of Canadian theses and dissertations.
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Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations This link opens in a new window The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations.
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Key Collections

SpringerNature Experiments This link opens in a new window
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This database brings together a collection of experimental protocols and methods, with content from the former Springer Protocols database, as well as from the journals Nature Methods, Nature Protocols, and Nature Reviews Methods Primers.
Taylor & Francis eBooks This link opens in a new window
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Taylor & Francis eBooks now include the CRC Press ebook collections (formerly CRCnetBASE).

eBooks: Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Handbooks

A Dictionary of Biology
Highly recommended dictionary of over 4,500 terms & concepts, with clear and concise entries provide comprehensive coverage of biology, biophysics, and biochemistry.
A Dictionary of Genetics
A unique dictionary of over 7,000 terms & concepts in genetics.
The Dictionary of Cell & Molecular Biology
Provides definitions for 12,000 terms used in the study of cell and molecular biology.
Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
A comprehensive survey of current biochemistry and molecular biology, containing over 21,000 main entries.
Using the Biological Literature: A Practical Guide
An annotated guide to important resources in the biological sciences.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
Citable reviews in the life sciences covering many topics and themes.

Open Textbooks

The following are online open textbooks that you can access for free to supplement the textbooks in your courses. To learn more about open textbooks visit the Open Educational Resources guide.

Concepts of Biology
Concepts of Biology is designed for the typical introductory biology course for nonmajors, covering standard scope and sequence requirements. The text includes interesting applications and conveys the major themes of biology, with content that is meaningful and easy to understand. The book is designed to demonstrate biology concepts and to promote scientific literacy.
Biology 2e
Biology 2e is designed to cover the scope and sequence requirements of a typical two-semester biology course for science majors. The text provides comprehensive coverage of foundational research and core biology concepts through an evolutionary lens.
Microbiology
Microbiology covers the scope and sequence requirements for a single-semester microbiology course for non-majors. The book presents the core concepts of microbiology with a focus on applications for careers in allied health.

eJournal Collections

ACS Publications This link opens in a new window
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Complete archive of all American Chemical Society journals

AIP Scitation
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Titles from the American Institute of Physics and affiliated society publishers

Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
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Complete archive of all Annual Reviews journals
DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
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Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly open access journals in all subjects and languages
Journals published in Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Aragonese, Armenian, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Castilian, Spanish, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Farsi, Filipino, Finnish, Flemish, French, Ga, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Moldavian, Moldovan, Nepali, Norwegian, NorwegianBokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Provençal, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Scots, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Valencian, Venda, Vietnamese, Xhosa and Zulu languages.

Nature Publishing
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Selected titles, including Nature archive from 1869

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) eJournals This link opens in a new window
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Complete archive of all RSC journals

Science Journals (AAAS)
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All AAAS journals, including the complete archive of Science from 1880

ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
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Complete archive of all Elsevier journals. Also includes Cell Press journals
SpringerLink This link opens in a new window
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Complete archive of all journals from Springer-Verlag and associated publishers
Taylor & Francis Online Journals This link opens in a new window
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Complete archive of Taylor & Francis journals
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
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Complete archive of all Wiley, AGU, and former Blackwell journals