The Owen library contains many resources for students and faculty interested in Biology. If you have any questions not answered on the WSU Libraries website or would like to request a book or journal on any subject related to Biology, please contact Betty Galbraith. For questions concerning the Biology program, please visit the School of Biological Sciences.

The Owen Science and Engineering Library contains many resources for students and faculty interested in Biology. If you have any questions not answered on the WSU Libraries website or would like to request a book or journal on any subject related to general biology, please contact Betty Galbraith.  

Find a Book or Compilation:

• Find a book from here at WSU
• Find/borrow a book from WSU, nearby schools and the world using WorldCat
• Borrow a book from anywhere in the world using InterLibray Loan
• Request that we buy a book for the WSU library (don't forget your WSU contact info!).
• Come by and browse the shelves! Here are the call numbers where you can find most biology topics on the 5th floor of the Owen Science and Engineering Library.

Find an Article or Conference Presentation:

• If you know the name of the journal the article is published in, look for the title at WSU.
• If you need articles, but don't know where to begin, there are a large number of places to search. WSU pays for some resources to help:
  • Go to the WSU Libraries' databases of Biology journal articles
  • To search within any one of these databases, click on the name and it'll take you to that database.
  • If you want more information about a database, like how far back do the articles go, click on the to the right of the name.
  • Watch for the button:
    Click on this button and the computer will open a new window where you can see if we have an article electronically, check the catalog for it, or borrow it from another library.

Find a Dissertation:

• An international database of dissertations.
• An up-to-date list of WSU dissertations housed in the WSU Libraries.
• A list of WSU dissertations available digitally. Some are full text, others may have to be ordered.

Find a Protocol:

• Helpful information on finding protocols online.
• Finding protocols in the library

Find a Patent:

• Helpful information on patent searching.
• Search for a U.S. Patent.
• Google Patents if you need full text patent searching before 1975.
• Search for a European patent

Find a Technical Report:

• Think U.S. Government documents:
  • NTIS : the National Technical Information Service
  • Science Accelerator: Searches science, including R&D results, project descriptions, and more, via resources made available by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), U.S. Department of Energy.
  • USA.gov : U.S. government's official web portal
  • Or even science.gov : Technical reports, journal citations, databases, Federal web sites from 14 scientific and technical information organizations

Internet Resources

• Google scholar - advanced search
• Yahoo: Biology
• Yahoo: Life Sciences
• Try biology portals on the internet

Places to publish in:

• Guide to selecting journals for submitting your manuscripts.

     Open Access Scholarly Publishers

• BioOne:  A collection of high impact journals produced by scholarly societies.