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Biology 

A guide to resources in Biology at UMass and beyond.
Last update: Oct 19th, 2009 URL: http://guides.library.umass.edu/BioLib  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Biology Course and Textbook Websites

MIT OpenCourseWare for Biology
Free lecture notes, exams, and other resources from MIT courses.

Online Biology Book
Hosted by Estrella Mountain Community College. Modified lecture outlines developed by Prof Michael J. Farabee over many years of teaching college-level introductory biology.

NCBI Bookshelf
From the National Center for Biotechnology Information. A growing collection of biomedical books that can be searched directly by typing a concept into the textbox above and selecting "Go".

Bioinformatics Tutorials Series (BITS)
Developed by the MIT Engineering and Science Libraries and Harvard's Countway Library of Medicine, with instructions on using online resources such as NCBI Entrez, BLAST, and the UCSC Genome Browser

 

Biology Departments and Lab Pages

 

Contact me

Profile ImageMaxine Schmidt
Contact Info:
Integrated Sciences and Engineering Library
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003
413-545-6739
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Subjects:
biology, geology, geography, resource economics, environmental sciences

 
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