- CHEMISTRY E-JOURNALS (ACS INCLUDED)

 - Biology Department, Roanoke College
 - Chemistry Department, Roanoke College
 - A Guide to Biology Reference Sources
 - A Guide to Chemistry Reference Sources
 

Databases:

• AGRICOLA
• Alternative Press Index
• Alternative Press Index Archive
• Biology Digest
• BusinessOrgs
• Fish and Wildlife Service Reference Databases
• GEOBASE
• Health Reference Center
• SciFinder Scholar (aka Chemical Abstracts) : located on Library Reference workstations; ask a Librarian for assistance.

Recommended Internet Sites:

• Biology Browser

Botany:

• Scott's Botanical Links - Contains a "link of the day" archive (5 days a week), and a Site Index subject hierarchy. Particularly authoritative sites are marked with an exclamation point. The site is searchable.
• The Tree of Life- Contains information about phylogeny and biodiversity

Cell and Molecular Biology:

• Kimball's Biology Pages- A hypertext dictionary adaptation of the 6th edition of John W. Kimball's Biology. Each entry may contain a definition, cross links to other definitions, or mini-essays about the topic.

Chemistry:

• Biographical snapshots - famous women/minority chemists
• BioTech
• Chemist's Net - site for chemistry teachers
• Chemistry WebBook - Contains spectroscopic and thermodynamic data on over 5,000 organic and small inorganic compounds, plus data on ion energetics and fluid physics.
• Food and Nutrition Information Center - USDA nutrient data lab, food composition data and more.
• Medline via the National Library of Medicine

Ecology:

• NBII:  The Nation's Biological Information System
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre - Conservation Databases- The World Conservation Monitoring Centre provides 5 searchable databases: 1)country, 2)protected areas of the world, 3)forest statistics & maps, 4)marine statistics & maps, and 5)national biodiversity profiles.
• Cornell Theory Center
• BRD:  The Biological Resource's Division of USGS

Genetics:

• The Human Transcript Map- The first report of the international research consortium organized to map gene-based sequence tagged site markers is available on the Web as an integrated gene map.