Research Guides: Biological Sciences: Botany

Electronic Resources

These are a selection of databases available online through FSU but there are many more databases for the wide variety of specializations in biological science. Many of them are accessible through the general "@FSU-Biology Databases" link. Please contact the liaison for Biological Sciences if you have questions or would like assistance locating an item.

AGRICOLA
(AGRICultural OnLine Access) Covers journal articles, monographs, theses, microforms, audiovisuals, software and technical reports. Consists of two data sets: NAL Online Public Access Catalog and NAL's Article Citation Database, also known as: Journal Articles. Each data set may be searched separately, or together. Index to materials related to agriculture back to 1970.

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Resource URL: http://search.proquest.com/agricolamodule/advanced/science/fromDatabasesLayer?accountid=4840
Abbreviation: agricola
Vendor: ProQuest
Coverage: 1970–Current
Subjects: Earth Science, Environmental Sciences
Type: Indexes / Catalogs
Ecology Abstracts
Focuses on how organisms of all kinds—microbes, plants, and animals—interact with their environments and with other organisms. Included are relevant papers on evolutionary biology, economics, and systems analysis as they relate to ecosystems or the environment.

Resource URL: http://search.proquest.com/ecology/advanced?accountid=4840
Abbreviation: ecology
Vendor: ProQuest
Coverage: 1982–Current
Subjects: Biology, Environmental Sciences
Type: Indexes / Catalogs
Plant Science
A bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts of scientific literature on plant science, focusing on all plant scientific aspects, especially on pathology, symbiosis, biochemistry, genetics, biotechnology techniques, and environmental biology.

Resource URL: http://search.proquest.com/plantscience/advanced?accountid=4840
Abbreviation: plantsci
Vendor: ProQuest
Coverage: 1996–Current
Subjects: Biology
Type: E-Book Collections, E-Journal Collections, Indexes / Catalogs

Botanical Societies

Suggested Journals

High Impact Journals in Plant Sciences:

Taxonomy

USDA PLANTS Database
AlgaeBase
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Funding and sponsorship: Ocean Harvest Ltd, the British Phycological Society, the International Phycological Society, the Phycological Society of America, and the Korean Phycological Society kindly subvent AlgaeBase annually and AlgaeBase licenses its data to other websites to support its activities.
International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
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IPNI is the product of a collaboration between The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, The Harvard University Herbaria, and the Australian National Herbarium.
The Plant List: a working list of all plant species
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Collaboration between the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden enabled the creation of The Plant List by combining multiple checklist data sets held by these institutions and other collaborators.

Biological Sciences

Botany in the News

Electronic Resources

Botanical Societies

Suggested Journals

Taxonomy