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Resources in Life Sciences: Encyclopedias

The following materials can be found in the Biomedical Library's core reference collection, located behind the reference desk on the first floor, unless otherwise noted.

  • Animal Diversity Web

  • Bailey, Liberty H. and E. Z. Bailey. Hortus Third: A Concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada. New York: Macmillan, 1976: call number SB 45 B153h 1976

  • Birds of North America Online

  • Creighton, Thomas E. Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology. Four volumes. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1999: call number QH 506 E53 1999

  • Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior. Marc Bekoff, editor.  Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2004: call number QL750.3 E56 2004

  • Encyclopedia of Biodiversity. Simon Asher Levin, editor-in-chief. San Diego: Academic Press, 2001: call number QH541.15.B56 E56 2001

  • Encyclopedia of Environmental Biology. William A. Nierenberg, editor. Three volumes. San Diego: Academic Press, 1995: call number QH 540.4 E19 1995

  • Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics, and Bioinformatics. Lynn B. Jorde, Peter F.R. Little, Michael J. Dunn, editors. New York: Wiley Interscience, 2007.

  • Encyclopedia of Human Biology. Renato Dulbecco, editor. Second edition. Nine volumes. San Diego: Academic Press, 1997: call number QH 302.5 E57 1997

  • Encyclopedia of Immunology. Ivan M. Roitt, editor. Second edition. Four volumes. San Diego: Academic Press, 1998: call number QW 513 E56 1998

  • Encyclopedia of Insects. Vincent H. Resh, Ring T. Cardé, editors. San Diego: Academic Press, 2003: call number QL 462.3 E56 2003

  • Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

  • Encyclopedia of Microbiology. Joshua Lederberg, editor. Second edition. Four volumes. San Diego: Academic Press, 2000: call number QW 13 E56 2000

  • Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology. John Kendrew et al., editors. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Science, 1994: call number QH 506 E56 1994 (shelved in the General Stacks)

  • Encyclopedia of Virology. Robert G. Webster and Allan Granoff, editors. Second edition. Three volumes. San Diego: Academic Press, 1999: call number QW 13 E562 1999

  • Environmental Encyclopedia. Marci Bortman, editor. 2 volumes. Detroit: Thomson-Gale, 2003: call number GE 10 E61 2003

  • Everett, Thomas H. New York Botanical Garden Illustrated Encyclopedia of Horticulture. Ten volumes. New York: Garland Pub., 1980-82: call number SB 317.58 E93n 1981

  • Graf, A.B. Exotica International, Series Four: Pictorial Cyclopedia of Exotic Plants from Tropical and Near-Tropic Regions. Eleventh edition. Two volumes. East Rutherford, NJ: Roehrs Co., 1982: call number SB 407 G757ea 1982

  • Grzimek, Bernard. Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. Thirteen volumes. Second edition. Detroit: Gale, 2003-04: call number QL 7 G929t 2003. Also available online

  • Grzimek, Bernard. Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals. Five volumes. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1990: call number QL 701 G895 1990 (shelved in the General Stacks)

  • New Encyclopedia of Mammals. David Macdonald, editor. Oxford: New York: Oxford University Press, 2001: call number QL 701.2 N532 2001

  • Nowak, Ronald M. Walker’s Mammals of the World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999: call number QL 703 N946w 1999

  • Official World Wildlife Fund Guide to Endangered Species of North America. Four volumes. Washington, DC: Beacham Publishing, Inc., 1990: call number QL 84.2 O32 1990

  • Vidhyasekaran, P. Concise Encyclopedia of Plant Pathology. New York: Food Products Press, 2004: call number SB 728 V652c 2004 (shelved in the General Stacks)