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BIOL 271 : Developmental Biology (BMC)
Finding Background Information:
Encyclopedia of life sciences
A fully searchable collection of articles by scientists and historians in all fields of biology.
Encyclopedia of toxicology
Publisher: San Diego : Academic Press, c1998.
3 volume set. Entries for compounds include information on chemical structure, exposure pathways, toxicokinetics, mechanism of toxicity, human and animal toxicity and clinical management.
The Merck index
Publisher: Whitehouse Station, NJ : Merck, 2006.
Entries for each compound include chemical, biological and pharmacological information.
Finding News Items:
News Sources
Links to news resources available through tri-co.
Finding Journal Articles:
Biological sciences
Abstracts and citations to journal articles in the biological sciences. Covers 1982-present. The past ten years of Pubmed can also be searched within this database.
Web of science
Provider: ISI
Search for scholarly articles in any discipline, or for articles that cite a known author or work. Provides access to the Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
PubMed
Provider: NCBI
Includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals.
Some Key Journals in Developmental Biology:
Annual review of neuroscience
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1997-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1978-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1978-present.
Publisher: Palo Alto, Calif. : Annual Reviews.
Cell
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1995-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1995-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1995-present.
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT,
Current biology
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1995-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1995-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1995-present.
Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : Elsevier Science.
Development (Cambridge, England : Online)
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1987-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1987-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1987-present.
Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. : Co. of Biologists.
Contains article full-text and abstracts of older issues; abstracts of current and prepublication issues. Includes WAIS-searching of subject and author indexes.
Developmental biology
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1993-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1993-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1993-present.
Publisher: Orlando, Fla. : Academic Press.
Developmental dynamics
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1996-present.
Publisher: New York, NY : John Wiley & Sons.
EMBO journal
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1982-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1982-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1982-present.
Publisher: London : Nature Pub. Group.
Journal of biological chemistry
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1905-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1905-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1905-present.
Publisher: Bethesda, Md. : American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Journal of cell biology
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1955-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1955-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1955-present.
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Rockefeller Institute Press,
Journal of neurobiology
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 2007-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 2007-present.
Publisher: New York, NY : John Wiley & Sons,
Journal of neuroscience
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1981-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1981-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1981-present.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Society for Neuroscience,
Nature
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1869-1949, 1990-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1990-present, 1869-1949.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1990-present, 1869-1949.
Publisher: [London] : Nature Pub. Group.
Neuron (Cambridge, Mass. : Online)
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1995-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1995-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1995-present.
Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Cell Press.
Neuroscience
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1995-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1995-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1995-present.
Publisher: [Oxford ; Pergamon.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1915-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1915-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1915-present.
Publisher: Washington, DC : National Academy of Sciences.
Science (New York, N.Y. : Online)
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1880-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1880-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1880-present.
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : [s.n.]
Trends in neurosciences (Monthly : Online)
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1995-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1995-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1995-present.
Publisher: [Kidlington, Oxford, UK] : Elsevier Science.
Off-Campus Access:
InterLibrary Loan & Tri-College Borrowing:
If you want to get a book or journal article that we don't have available in our library, you will need to use Inter-Library Loan (ILL).
Tri-College ILL - BOOKS: If you want a book from Swarthmore or Haverford, simply press the REQUEST button at the top of the Tripod screen. Enter your name & barcode, and select WHERE you want to pick up the book. Delivery takes approximately one day library to library.
Non-TriCollege ILL - BOOKS: For books NOT available in Tripod, try E-Z Borrow and request books directly from nearby Pennsylvania & NJ libraries. Books usually arrive within a few days. If the book is not available via EZ Borrow, try regular InterLibrary Loan. (Use Worldcat to get complete BOOK information).
JOURNAL ARTICLES: For articles in journals not available at Bryn Mawr, use the online ILL form.
Citation & Research Information:
A short guide to writing about biology
Publisher: New York : Pearson Longman, c2004.
This is on reserve behind the circulation desk at Collier Library.
Hazardous Substances Data Bank
Comprehensive, peer-reviewed toxicology data for about 5,000 chemicals from the National Library of Medicine.