LibGuides: Biology: Explore Your Topic

Explore Your Topic

Sometimes it can be hard to know where to start, especially if you are unfamiliar with a topic. Online encyclopedias are a good starting point for research. Look for keywords that can you help search strategically later. Prefer print books? Try searching OneSearch to locate a book on your topic.

Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.”The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.”
Encyclopedia of Life
EOL provides information and pictures of all species know to science.

Gale In Context: Science This link opens in a new window
Provides contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. The collection includes millions of full-text articles that includes national and global publications as well as 200+ experiments, projects, and top reference content.
Science In Context showcases how scientific disciplines relate to real-world issues ranging from bacteria to obesity and weather.
Ebook Central Proquest This link opens in a new window
Ebook Central Proquest includes CSU system-wide shared Academic Complete collection of over 180,000 titles as well as campus purchased titles covering multidisciplinary topics.
Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window
Offers an online collection of premier reference eBooks including encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. You can search a single eBook or across an entire eBook collection.
The collection contains the following subjects: art, biography, business, education, environment, history, information and publishing, law, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, nation and world, religion, science, social science, and technology.

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Explore Your Topic