• 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

TOP databases

• PubMed | Info
• Scopus | Info
• Web of Science Core Collection | Info
• Zoological Record Archive | Info

Reference works

• Kompaktlexikon der Biologie | Info
• Lexikon der Biochemie | Info
• Lexikon der Biologie | Info
• Lexikon der Chemie | Info
• Oxford English Dictionary | Info
• Römpp Online | Info
• Tierlexikon

Further databases

• DBIS Biology
• CogPrints | Info
• On-Line Books Page: Biological Sciences

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

• E-books by subject area
• E-book collections from A to Z
• E-book highlights:
  • Concise Handbook of Analytical Spectroscopy: Theory, Applications, and Reference Materials (5 vol.)
  • Dictionary of Genomics, Transcriptomics and Proteomics
  • Encyclopedia of Cell Biology (4 vol.)
  • Encyclopedia of Neuroscience

• Electronic dissertations of the Faculty of Biology and Biochemistry of the RUB
• Electronic Journals Library (EZB) (Biology, Biotechnology)
  including: JoVe (Journal of Visualized Experiments):
  • JoVe Advanced Biology
  • JoVe Basic Biology
  • JoVe Behavior
  • JoVe Bioengineering
  • JoVe Biology
  • JoVe Immunology and Infection
  • JoVe Medicine
  • JoVe Neuroscience
  • Free JoVe-Videos (all Sections)

• Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology
• Library of the Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology
• Book suggestion University Library

Literature research first steps

• Search Guidelines for students

Teaching, tutorial, didactics

• Giftpflanzen. Compendium
• MendelWeb
• Zentrale für Unterrichtsmedien im Internet e.V

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
  
  • Arzneipflanzenlexikon
  • Heilpflanzen-Lexikon
  • California Plant Names, Word Meanings and Name Derivations
  • Wildflowers of Southern California: A Photographic Gallery
• Zoology, Fauna
  
  • Amphibia Web | Info
  • CalPhotos
  • European butterflies & moths

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

• American Society for Microbiology
• Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI)
• Smithsonian Institution
• German Life Science Association - VBIO e.V.

• Open Access in Biology
• Publishing with the RUB
• Financing