Subject information Biology

Subject portals and databases, RUB subject libraries and other subject-related services are compiled here. In the materials section you will find tips on how to get started with literature research and other recommendations. The topic Open Access offers specific information for the subject Biology and on publication opportunities at RUB.

Subject portals

The ZB MED remote access – Your digital library for the life sciences
Virtual Library of Biology | Info
Specialised Information Service Biodiversity Research (BIOfid) | Info
Biology collection of the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library, Frankfurt am Main
PubPharm (Specialised Information Service Pharmacy | Info

Specialized databases

TOP databases

Reference works

Further databases

E-media at the RUB

In the RUB Primo Catalogue you can search for individual e-media titles and access the full text directly from there.

Electronic dissertations of the Faculty of Biology and Biochemistry of the RUB
Electronic Journals Library (EZB) (Biology, Biotechnology)
including: JoVe (Journal of Visualized Experiments):

RUB campus

Helpful materials

Literature research first steps

Search Guidelines for students

Teaching, tutorial, didactics

Link collections

Biology
- Biolinks.de: kommentierte handverlesene Links zur Biologie
- Biozone - Bio Links | Collection of links to all areas of biology from the international publishing house Biozone, New Zealand
- NatureServe (Association for Biodiversity Information (ABI))
Botany
Zoology, Fauna

Faculties

Links to neighboring universities with biology departments:

Dortmund University - Faculty of Biochemical and Chemical engineering
Dortmund University - Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
University of Duisburg-Essen - Faculty of Biology
Bielefeld University - Faculty of Biology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf - Department Biology
University of Münster - Faculty of Biology

Institutions

Open Access