Reference Works
The reference section is located on the 1st floor of the library.
Books are shelved using the Library of Congress Classification scheme.
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries & Handbooks
Call numbers beginning with Ref are in the reference section and cannot be checked out.
Title/Description |
Call # |
Bergey’s manual of systematic bacteriology |
Ref QR 81.B46 |
Compendium of methods for the microbiological examination of foods |
Ref QR115.A5 2001 |
Dictionary of microbiology and molecular biology |
Ref QR9.S56 2001 |
Dictionary of Virology |
Ref QR358.M34 2009 |
Encyclopedia of Bioethics |
Ref QH332.E52 2004 |
Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry |
Ref QD415.A25E53 |
Encyclopedia of environmental microbiology |
Ref QR100.B58 2002 |
Encyclopedia of food microbiology |
Ref QR115.E53 2000 |
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences |
Ref QH302.5.E54 |
Encyclopedia of microbiology |
Ref QR9.E53 2000 |
Encyclopedic dictionary of genetics, genomics, and proteomics |
Ref QH427.R43 2003 |
Food microbiology: a laboratory manual |
QR115.Y686 2003 |
Handbook of Plant Biotechnology |
Ref TP248.27.P55H36 |
Handbook of water and wastewater microbiology |
QR48.H36 2003 |
Handbook of vitamins |
QP771. H35 2007 |
Manual of Environmental Microbiology |
Ref QR 100.M36 2007 |
Medical microbiology |
QR46.M4683 2009 |
The Springer index of viruses |
Ref QR360.S674 2002 |
Books
Books are located on the 3rd (H-Z) and 4th (A-G) floors organized by the Library of Congress Classification scheme.
Search for books (including the e-book collection) using the library catalog.
Call Number Areas to Browse
Description |
Call # |
Biochemistry |
QD241-441 |
Microbiology |
QR |
Medicine (General) |
R |
Public health, transmission of disease, epidemics, forensic medicine, toxicology |
RA |
Internal medicine, infectious diseases, neurosciences, psychiatry, special conditions, sports medicine |
RC |
Biotechnology |
TP248.13-248.65 |
Articles
Articles are generally more specific; use more specific keywords to create a narrower search.
Journals may contain both popular and scholarly sources (magazine, journal, and newspaper articles)
Search Article Databases
- American Society for Microbiology
Includes the 11 online journals published by ASM. Covers the spectrum of microbiology, from molecular and cellular biology to biomedical research and technology. 1995 – present.
- BIOSIS Previews
Online version of Biological Abstracts and Biological Abstracts/RRM, BIOSIS Previews is the largest collection of biological literature and contains references to primary journal literature on vital biological research. 1969 - present.
- Environmental Health and Toxicology databases
From the U.S. National Institutes of Health. A collection of toxicology and environmental health databases that includes the
Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB®), a database of potentially hazardous chemicals,
TOXLINE® (containing references to the world's toxicology literature), and
ChemIDplus® (a chemical dictionary and structure database)
- Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
Includes citations in bacteriology, biotechnology, applied and environmental microbiology. Can be searched with BioOne. 1967- present.
- Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)
JOVE is a peer reviewed, database devoted to the publication of biological research in a video format.
- PubMed (Medline)
Premier biomedical database from the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). Covers 1965 to the present. PubMed is the search interface from NLM. To get the 360 linker, which links to the articles that the UI Library owns, use the PubMed link provided here. Includes links to NCBI sequence and gene databases.
- SciFinder
The most comprehensive database for scholarly research in chemistry. Provides access to the following Chemical Abstracts Service databases and Medline:
- Chemical Abstracts (CAPLUS, bibliographic data, 1907-present)
- Registry(chemical structures, biosequences and names, with associated property and spectral data)
- CASREACT (single and multi-step organic reactions, 1840-present)
- Chemcats (commercial availability of chemicals from major suppliers)
- Chemlist (regulatory information on chemicals)
First time users can register for SciFinder access here. SciFinder tutorials are also available.
- Web of Science
Web of Science contains the Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index. The Science Citation Index Expanded is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences. It fully indexes thousands of major journals across 150 scientific disciplines and includes all cited references captured from indexed articles. 1900 – present.
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