Shaw University Library Guides: Biology: Websites, Images and Videos

Videos

Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Allows you to view over 5,000 streaming videos in subject areas including Humanities & Social Science, Science, Business, Economics and Health.

JoVE - Video Journals
A peer reviewed, PubMed indexed journal devoted to the publication of biological, medical, chemical and physical research in a video format.
Films for Action
According to their website, "Films For Action uses the power of film to raise awareness of important social, environmental, and media-related issues not covered by the mainstream news. Our goal is to provide citizens with the information and perspectives essential to creating a more just, sustainable, and democratic society."
Science Cinema
ScienceCinema highlights leading-edge research from the U.S. Department of Energy and CERN - allows users to search for specific words and phrases spoken within video files.
Macaulay Library
The Macaulay Library is the world's largest and oldest scientific archive of biodiversity audio and video recordings.
PBS
Frontline
TED Talks

News sources

Image Resources

Cells Alive
Film and computer-enhanced images of living cells and organisms for education and medical research.
Wellcome Images
One of the world's richest and most unique collections, with themes ranging from medical and social history to contemporary healthcare and biomedical science.
ASM Mammal Image Library
A non-profit educational service of the American Society of Mammalogists. A visual resource at all levels of instruction.
BIODIC: The Ultrastructures
BIODIC offers the widest series of electron micrographs available on the web in the field of biology; over 1600 high resolution images are currently available.
The Micropolitan Museum
The Micropolitan Museum exhibits captured images of micro-organisms.
USDA Plant Image Gallery
Photos and line drawings of U.S. Plants, including many cultivated or foreign taxa.

Organizations

Associations and Organizations advance the discipline and profession they represent, advocate for issues, hold conferences, offer networking and leadership opportunities, post jobs, and publish journals and newsletters. They provide resources on their websites, and more benefits and involvement if you become a member.

Research organizations

Research organizations perform, collect, present, and encourage research. On their websites, they provide resources you can use in your research, as well as information on research funding opportunities, news, and events.

Other useful sites

Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
National Center for Biotechnology Information
The NICBI advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information

The Nucleic Acid Database This link opens in a new window
The NDB contains information about experimentally determined nucleic acids and complex assemblies. Perform searches based on annotations relating to sequence, structure, and function.

The Tree of Life Project
The Tree of Life Project (TOL) is a collaborative effort of biologists and nature enthusiasts from around the world. More than 10,000 pages providing information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history.

Biology: Websites, Images and Videos