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• BioMedNet
  BioMedNet itself is an online club and meeting place for educators and researchers to exchange ideas and information. They offer a trial membership with free 3 months access to the full text of Current Biology, and free access to the abstracts of 40 other journals, such as Current Opinion in Biotechnology, Current Opinion in Cell Biology, Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, Current Opinion in Immunology, and Current Opinion in Neurobiology. Access to full articles costs $1 each.

   

• Entrez
  WWW Entrez allows you to retrieve citations and records in the area of molecular biology from the databases of the National Center for Biotechnology Information. These databases include MEDLINE (the National Library of Medicine database of biomedical articles), protein sequence databases from around the world, and nucleotides from GenBank.
  • Entrez Hints from the U. of Minnesota's College of Biological Sciences

   

• German Human Genome Project
  This server incorporates the Reference Library DataBase for Molecular Genetics, previously maintained by the Genome Analysis Lab at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London. It provides access to several biological databases. Membership is required for most of the site (by filling out a form online) and parts are searchable for non-members.

   

• The WWW Virtual Library: Biosciences
  Maintained by Harvard. It is an exhaustive, searchable list of all kinds of life sciences resources on the Web. It is broken down by discipline and a Spanish language mirror site is available.

   

• The WWW Virtual Library: Biotechnology
  Similar to the Biosciences Virtual Library, though a great deal shorter. Categories include pharmaceutical development, genetic engineering and medical device development.

• AgBioForum
  This is a quarterly online magazine devoted to the economics and management of agricultural biotechnology, edited at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
• Annals of Biomedical Engineering
  This journal of the Biomedical Engineering Society contains the full text of articles published every other month. Information about the society, subscriptions, and submissions is also available.

   

• ASBMB's Journal of Biological Chemistry
  The electronic format of The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology's Journal of Biological Chemistry is the same as the printed version. The online version, however, is searchable and makes it a much more convenient source for information. The journal is published online by the Highwire Press of Stanford University.

   

• Bioline Journals
  This publisher has made all of the titles and abstracts of its journals available for searching free of charge. Full text and associated materials may be requested online. The journals that are offered by Bioline include: BioSafety, Biocontrol Science and Technology, Biotechnology Letters, Biotechnology Techniques, The Genetic Engineer & Biotechnologist, and The World Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology.

   

• BioChemNet
  Biology and Chemistry resources for educators, organized by subject. It includes chapters from textbooks, links to informational sites, and ideas for lessons.

   

• BioOptics Online
  BioOptics Online bills itself as a link between clinicians, physicists and engineers working on biomedical optics problems. It's a web-only 'zine aimed at doctors in search of new techniques and physicists in search of new problems.

   

• Biotechnology Today
  This electronic publication features biotechnology news, updated daily. It also has a section containing web resources and background information about biotechnology.

   

• Cell Press
  This publisher has job listings and is the home of Cell, Immunity, and Neuron, all of which contain abstracts from articles and papers in their print versions.

   

• Chemistry & Industry
  This international science and business magazine's site includes news, features, a readers' forum, job search info, and archived issues.

   

• Chemistry Today
  This site, dedicated to information about chemistry, has a news section updated daily as well as searchable job and meetings databases. It is produced by the creators of Chemistry and Industry.

   

• Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
  The CSHL Press publishes online the indices of its top journals, including Genes and Development, Genome Research, PCR Methods and Applications, and Learning and Memory.

   

• COMPLEXITY INTERNATIONAL
  An electronic journal of complex systems research, COMPLEXITY INTERNATIONAL is a journal for scientific papers dealing with any area of complex systems research. The theme of the journal is the field of complex systems, the generation of complex behaviour from the interaction of multiple parallel processes. Relevant topics include (but are not restricted to): artificial life, cellular automata, chaos theory, control theory, evolutionary programming, fractals, genetic algorithms, information systems, neural networks, non-linear dynamics, and parallel computation. Papers dealing with applications of these topics are also encouraged.

   

• Conservation Ecology
  Conservation Ecology is an on-line peer-reviewed journal in conservational biology. The journal is published by the Ecological Society of America.

   

• International Antiviral News
  Contains full-text, full-graphics articles, abstracts, book reviews, and brief news reports. An example issue is available for free viewing, but the other editions are password-protected and require a subscription. Antiviral Chemistry and Chemotherapy is also available.

   

• Journal of Molecular Biology
  Each week, JMB Online adds papers from the latest issue of the published Journal. Registered subscribers can download abstracts and full articles from the journal, as well as search the abstracts online.

   

• Journal of Molecular Diversity
  This journal is dedicated to the fast growing field of molecular diversity generation and utilization. The journal will publish electronic versions of accepted articles immediately, as opposed to waiting for the publication of the printed version. Full text files are available to subscribers of the current printed version.

   

• Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  Contains full-text NCI news articles written for a general audience and abstracts of scientific papers published in the print version of the magazine.

   

• Nature Biotechnology
  This subset of the Nature weekly science journal site includes full editorial essays and selected abstracts of articles from the print version. The parent site includes job info and product reviews; weekly news is available to registered subscribers.

   

• Nucleic Acids Research
  Oxford Online Journals is launching an online version of the Nucleic Acids Research CD-ROM. Full text articles, as well as abstracts, will be available for downloading prior to publication in the printed format.

   

• Oak Ridge National Laboratory Review
  An electronic journal offering a wide range of articles in the area of science and technology that are written for those who are interested in science but who may or may not be scientists. Subjects covered include energy and the environment, biotechnology, genetics, computational sciences, neutron research and technology transfer, among others. Issues of the journal are also searchable.

   

• Protein Science
  Protein Science serves as an international forum for publishing original reports on proteins in the broadest sense. The journal aims to unify this field by cutting across established disciplinary lines and focusing on "protein-centered" science. Electronic publication of the journal is about four weeks ahead of the printed version.

   

• Science
  The on-line version of the AAAS's fine publication. Includes current and back issues, a searchable index, job listings, market reports, and a special feature for science students.

   

• Science Notes
  This attractive online general science magazine is written, illustrated and designed by the graduate students of the science communication program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The articles are bright, lively essays intended for a general audience. An all-round good read, even if you already know the science.

   

• The Scientist
  This bi-weekly newspaper is primarily aimed at life scientists. The full text of all articles is available free, as well as a search mechanism and a job listing area. The articles are written in easy to understand language.

   

• Biotechnology Notes
  The full text of this newsletter is published free 10 times a year by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Office of Agricultural Biotechnology.

   

• Biotech Scotland Bulletin
  This attractive quarterly newsletter contains articles and newsbriefs on Scottish biotechnology research.

   

• Entomology Newsletter
  The Entomology Newsletter is published by the Colorado State University Department of Entomology and offers the full text of the printed journal, as well as a variety of links to other entomology resources.

   

• Fungal Genetics Newsletter
  This WWW site offers reprints and bibliographies from the Fungal Genetics Newsletter dating back to 1990. An index of earlier issues is also included. The newsletter is published by the Fungal Genetics Stock Center.

   

• Human Genome Center Newsletter
  The Human Genome Center Newsletter is the newsletter of the Human Genome Center at the Baylor College of Medicine. It include recent news at the center as well as publications from members of the staff.

   

• Human Genome News
  Human Genome News (HGN) was co-founded by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Human Genome Program at the National Institutes of Health and is currently exclusively funded by the DOE. The newsletter's primary purpose is to facilitate communcation among genome researchers. This WWW site will allow one to browse previous issues of the newsletter, and a gopher server is available to search all back issues as well.

   

• Science Daily
  Daily research news from a variety of sources; sometimes slow to load.

   

• UniSci
  Frequently-updated research news from U.S. Universities; the editor states that stories are posted as soon as possible.

   

• Electronic Scholarly Publishing
  This site contains classic papers in genetics as well as other recent science-related papers. Files are in Adobe Acrobat 2.0 .pdf format.

   

• Charles Darwin's Manuscripts
  This site from Classics at the Online Literature Library contains the text of Voyage of the Beagle and The Origin of Species.

   

• Shufflebrain
  This fascinating collection of essays and papers on neurological research by Indiana University's Paul Pietsch is definitely worth reading.