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Biology

Botany & zoology

Animal species: guide to finding information

Birds of the World
A comprehensive reference covering the life histories of birds from around the world. Includes family and species accounts, illustrations, and audio/video recordings.
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Maximum Users: Unlimited

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Biota of North America Program (BONAP)
Searchable by state, county and zipcode. Provides local plant distributions and images of plants. Allows users to create plant lists of North American Plants, an online plant set for a location, an online plant list for attribute keying, and research distributions, attributes, and images. Works best in Firefox browser.
Flora of Missouri

General

Gale eBooks
A database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Can be linked to Google or Microsoft account to quickly save entries.
Date Coverage: Varies
Maximum Users: Unlimited
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BioNumbers
Collection of common biological numbers that is useful to one’s research.

Molecular biology

NCBI Databases Site Map
A starting point for searching gene sequences and molecular biology information found in GenBank/Entrez, RefSeq, OMIM, LocusLink, and more. Use the Entrez Cross-database Search Page to do a global search across all Entrez resources.
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Search Guide: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Class/MLACourse/