BIOLOGY

Subject Area

BIOLOGY

Good places to find sources for Biology (after doing

background reading in Wikipedia or your Biology textbook)

Ontario Curriculum

• The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 9 and 10: Science, 2008 (revised)
• The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 11 and 12: Science, 2008 (revised)

• Library Learning Commons
• Britannica School
• The Canadian Encyclopedia
• EBSCO
• Google Scholar
• JSTOR
• Academic One File (GALE)
• List of Biology Journals

Climate Change Resources

• ATom NASA research project to help measure climate change
• Nature is Speaking
  Let’s Talk Science – Climate Change
• David Suzuki Climate Change
  Smithsonian Ocean Portal.
• Climate change from The Financial Times
• Environmental Defence Fund
• The Guardian

Additional Resources:

• Biology Open
• Open Access Journals
• PLOS Biology PLOS Biology features works of exceptional significance, originality, and relevance in all areas of biological science, from molecules to ecosystems, including works at the interface of other disciplines, such as chemistry, medicine, and mathematics.
• The Whole Brain Atlas A medical resource created by Harvard Medical School about the brain, which includes neuroimages Sources of Biological Data.
• NCBI – National Centre for Biotechnology Information
• PubMed – PubMed® comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
• NASA Climate Change
• Satellite Data – GOES’ geostationary status (in which the satellite is always in the same position with respect to the rotating Earth) allows it to hover over one position on the Earth’s surface and provide a constant vigil for the atmospheric “triggers” for severe weather conditions such as tornadoes, flash floods, hail storms and hurricanes.
• USDA nutrient database – US Department of Agriculture. Contains a complete nutrition profile for various food and drink items.
• RCSB Protein Data Bank – the single worldwide archive for macromolecular structure data.
• ALFRED – allele frequency
• The Red List – list of threatened and endangered species
• National Wildlife Health Center – wildlife and ecosystem information
• eBird – The Cornell Lab of Ornithology
• Vadlo
• Ocean Tracks – Using the interactive map and data analysis tools, students can explore and quantify patterns in animal tracks by taking measurements, such as speed and diving depth, to support hypotheses about marine animal behaviour. 
• WorldWideScience 
• International System for Agricultural Science and Technology (AGRIS) 
• The arXiv (a free online database with publications relating to physics, computer sciences, mathematics, finance and biology)