Biology Reference Guide

The ALMNH Invertebrate Zoology Collection contains over 27,000 catalogued lots of marine, freshwater, and terrestrial invertebrates and an estimated 10,000 additional lots of uncatalogued specimens. Particular strengths of the collection include Antarctic marine invertebrates and freshwater mussels.

The Alabama Museum of Natural History created this project to give UA students, faculty, staff, and visitors an opportunity to share their natural history observations while contributing to growing citizen-science datasets on the distribution of the plants and animals that share campus with us.

Part of OSF (Open Science Framework) preprints for agriculture and allied sciences

Alabama Herbarium Consortium provide users with a comprehensive searchable database of plants that occur in the state of Alabama.

bioRxiv (pronounced "bio-archive") is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences.

A global species index.

The Cell Image Library™ is a freely accessible, easy-to-search, public repository of reviewed and annotated images, videos, and animations of cells from a variety of organisms, showcasing cell architecture, intracellular functionalities, and both normal and abnormal processes.

EOL is a database of information and pictures of all species known to science

This non-technical introduction to evolution, produced by the American Geological Institute in cooperation with the Paleontological Society, aims to help the general public gain a better understanding of one of the fundamental underlying concepts of modern science.

This is a global information system on fishes and includes practically all fish species known to science, including larval stages.

Open-data research infrastructure providing biodiversity data.

Searching specimen records from the U.S. National Science Foundations digitized collections database.

ION contains the organism names related data gathered from the scientific literature for Clarivate Analytics' Zoological Record® database. Viruses, bacteria and plant names will be added from other Clarivate databases such as BIOSIS Previews®.

The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is a peer reviewed journal that features research in video format so that you can watch experiments.

See species maps, look at all the species in a specific location, and more.

The National Science Digital Library provides high quality online educational resources for teaching and learning, with current emphasis on the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.

This USGS site shares research to develop and disseminate scientific information needed for understanding the ecology and values of our nation's wetlands.

TreeBASE is a repository of phylogenetic information, specifically user-submitted phylogenetic trees and the data used to generate them.

Data.gov is organized around metadata published by government offices. This metadata is harvested from external websites and aggregated on Data.gov.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. BHL is revolutionizing global research by providing free, worldwide access to knowledge about life on Earth.