Botany Subject Guide
| Encyclopedias | Style Manuals |
| Handbooks | Biographies |
| Dictionaries | Indexes and Databases |
| Guides to the Literature | Internet Sites |
Encyclopedias
Encyclopaedia of House Plants
--Reference Stacks-- SB 419 .V47
Guide to Standard Floras of the World: An Annotated, Geographically Arranged Systematic Bibliography of the Principal Floras, Enumerations, Chcklists, and Chronological Atlases of Different Areas
--online--
Magill's Encyclopedia of Science: Plant Life
--online--
Magill's Survey of Science: Life Science Series
--Reference Stacks-- QH 307.2 .M34 (7 vol.)
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Trees of the World
--Reference Stacks-- QK 475 .O8
Plant Sciences
--Reference Stacks-- QK 49 .P52 (4 vol.)
Taylor's Encyclopedia of Garden Plants
--Reference Stacks-- SB 403.2 .T39
Wild Flowers of the United States
--Reference Stacks-- QK 115 .R5 (6 vol.)
Handbooks
Botanical Latin
--Reference Stacks-- QK 10 .S7 1995
Guide to Flowering Plant Families
--Reference Stacks-- QK 115 .Z65 1994
Dictionaries
Dictionary of Horticulture
--Reference Stacks-- SB 317.58 .D53 1994
Dictionary of Plant Names
--Reference Stacks-- QK 9 .C66 1994
A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
--online--
Guides to the Literature
Using the Biological Literature: A Practical Guide
--Reference Stacks-- QH 303.6 D38
Style Manuals
Scientific Style and Format: The CBE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers
--Ready Reference-- T 11 .S386 1994
Biographies
Dictionary of Scientific Biography
--Reference Stacks-- Q 141 .D5 (18 vol.)
The Great Scientists
--Reference Stacks-- Q 141 .G767 (12 vol.)
Notable Scientists from 1900 to the Present
--Reference Stacks-- Q 141 .N728 (5 vol.)
Indexes and Databases
Academic Search Complete-- Indexes, abstracts and provides selected full-text of articles published in scholarly publications from many disciplines.
Agricola-- Indexes and abstracts books, papers and journal articles in agriculture and allied disciplines.
Biological Abstracts-- Indexes and abstracts life science literature; provides some links to full-text articles.
BioOne-- Provides full text of 81 peer-reviewed journals and bulletins. Additional publishers and journals will be added over time to eventually include over 200 titles.
Internet Sites
Botany WWW Sites -- Sponsored by the Botanical Society of America, this website lists dealing with a variety of botanical information including career guidance.
Botany Libraries Botanical Links -- Compiled by researchers at the Harvard University Botany Libraries which supports the academic and research interests of the faculty and researchers of the Harvard University Herbaria and are open to an international community of scholars.
Internet Directory for Botany -- Provides more than 4,000 links to botanical information.
International Plants Name Index -- A database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants.
Plants National Database -- Includes checklists, species abstracts, distributional data, crop information, plants' symbols, plant growth data, references and other plant information.
Smithsonian Institution Botanical Links -- Includes many useful references for the botanical community, including taxonomic tools and regional checklists.
Virtual Library of Botany -- Widely recognized as being among the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the web.
