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Links to Resources in the Biological Sciences courtesy of BioSci at LSU

General

Biological Abstracts (LSU users only).
Web of Science (LSU users only).
Link to scientific journal homepages.
SciCentral online resources in biology
Organism-specific resources.
MetaCrawler power web-search tool.

Funding sources

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American Philosophical Society- see "Franklin Research grant" section.
Earthwatch Institute funds research involving volunteers.
Searchable engine through the Chronicle of philanthropy.
Foundation Center private funding sources.
GrantsWeb: government and private funding.
National Geographic Society research grants.
National Institutes of Health (NIH), application forms.
National Science Foundation (NSF), proposal writing guide.
Office of Sponsored Programs (LSU OSP).
Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research.
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Job searching

Search ads in Science magazine.
Search ads in Nature magazine.
Search ads in The Chronicle for Higher Education.

Genetics & Biochemistry

Bank-It: Genbank sequence submissions.
Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST).
Genbank nucleotide query form: Old / New.
Advanced Medline search.
Pedro's biomolecular research tools.
Other genetic tools.

Ecology & Evolution

Evoldir lists job openings & researchers in evolutionary biology.
Global climate change links and info page.
Long-term ecological research sites worldwide.
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.
National Wildife Federation.
Population genetic software packages.
Tree of Life Homepage.
US Dept. of the Interior.
WWW Virtual Library: Evolution.

Louisiana Local Lagniappe

LSU homepage.
LOUIS Library catalogs.
Forecast for weather in Baton Rouge.
Other links about Baton Rouge and Louisiana.
Louisiana Department of Natural Resources.

Miscellaneous

Material Data Safety Sheets (MSDS).
Compute sunrise/sunset times worldwide.
Link to Mapquest Interactive atlas.
Look up: address/phone number, +4 zip code, or name from a phone number.
US Gazetteer provides population/latitude/longitude of cities in the US.

-courtesy of AMNH