Associations & Societies

American Psychological Association (APA) - connect to information broken down by topics, from addictions to workplace issues.

Association for Psychological Science - links to external psychology sites, "psychology in the news," and the latest advancements in psychological science.

BC Psychological Association - local psychology news.

Canadian Mental Health Association - "supports the resilience and recovery of people experiencing mental illness" through research, advocacy, service and education (About).

Canadian Psychological Association - find out what's new in Canada's psychology sector, read the "psychology quick facts" in the resource center, and browse through Psynopsis, CPA's online magazine.

Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) - of King's College London. Links to information on disorders such as anxiety, depression, obssessive compulsive disorder, eating disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Databases

Academic Search Complete - includes Medline, which indexes over 400 psychology journals.

ERIC - covers a whole range of educational issues, including psychological, from kindergarten to post-secondary.

E-STAT- allows users to track health issues in populations across Canada according to census results.

Global Issues in Context - worldwide coverage of mental health issues.

GREENR - search within the "Human Health" portal for mental health issues.

Medline - a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

Public Library of Science (PLoS) - freely available public resource on science and medical literature.

PubMed - be sure to "filter your results" to "Free Full Text" for optimal search success.

JSTOR - full-text access to psychology journals including Child Development, The American Journal of Psychology, Psychological Science in the Public Interest, and more.

Directories

dmoz open directory project - "Biochemistry and Molecular Biology." Largest, human-edited directory on the web.

Yahoo Directory: Molecular Biology

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - Oxford Reference Online. Short and informative entries on the fields of Bioinformatics, Cell Biology, Genetics, etc.

Oxford Dictionary of Genetics - Oxford Reference Online. Includes terms from a wide range of disciplines including molecular biology, cell biology, medicine, botany and evolutionary studies.

Dictionary of Scientific Biography - discover the lives of influential scientists in the fields of molecular biology and genetics

World Encyclopedia - Oxford Reference Online. Concise entries providing essential information in many fields, including science and technology.

Online Journals

BMC Molecular Biology - open-access, peer-reviewed, online journal focused on all aspects of DNA and RNA in a cellular context.

Biotechnology and Molecular Biology Reviews - their goal is to "publish the most exciting, cutting-edge reviews in all areas of applied biochemistry, industrial microbiology, genomics and proteomics, and metabolic engineering" (Home).

Biochemistry and Cell Biology - National Research Council Canada. Bimonthly journal with up-to-date coverage on cellular and molecular biology.

Cell - explores biological questions.

Journal of Molecular Biology - publishes "original scientific research concerning studies of organisms or their components at the molecular level" (Home).

Print Resources

Understanding DNA: The molecule and how it works.
QP624 C34 2004

Oxford dictionary of biochemistry and molecular biology (Reference, non-circulating).
QP512 O94 2006. Also available online.

Molecular biology of the cell (Reference, non-circulating).
QH581.2 M64 2008.

Fundamentals of molecular diagnostics.
RB43.7 B78 2007

Principles of virology : molecular biology, pathogenesis, and control of animal viruses.
QR360 P697 2004.

Web Resources

Cell and Molecular Biology Online - an information resource for cell and molecular biologists. Good list of recommended web sites.

ClustalW2 - "a general purpose multiple sequence allignment program" (Home).

ExPASy (Expert Protein Analysis System) Proteomics Server - of the Swiss Institute of Bioninformatics (SIB). This site is "dedicated to the analysis of protein sequences and structures" (Home).

National Center for Biotechnology Information - provides researchers access to the volume and complexity of molecular data.

Scirus - comprehensive, science-specific search engine.