Electronic Resource of the Month

Henderson’s Dictionary of Biology

With over 22,000 entries, Henderson’s Dictionary of Biology is an essential reference for students studying any of the biological sciences. We now have online access to the fifteenth edition (2011) which includes many updated and revised definitions and has included new terms from emerging areas such as stem-cell research.

It gives you clear definitions and explanations and covers a wide range of topics within the biological sciences. It also includes up-to-date classification tables for the kingdoms of living organisms.
 
Try Henderson's Dictionary of Biology
 
More online reference resources for the Biological Sciences

Resources for Pharmacy students

The Library now has a number of online reference works useful for Pharmacy students - a select list is below:

A-Z of Medicinal Drugs
Black's Medical Dictionary
Dictionary of Medical Terms
Mosby's Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary
Oxford Companion to Medicine
Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary
Pharmaceutical Medicine Dictionary
Royal Society of Medicine Health Encyclopaedia

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Online Reference works from Knovel

Looking for scientific data? The Library has access to several online reference works from Knovel which may help. These include:

*International critical tables of numerical data - physics, chemistry and technology
*Knovel critical tables
*Metallic materials properties
*Smithsonian Physical tables

See the full list and access these reference works here

ChemSpider

ChemSpider http://www.chemspider.com/ is a free chemical structure search engine covering millions of chemical structures with physical and chemical properties, spectra, links to Internet resources and more. You can search by name, structure or substructure, properties, etc

Online Chemistry Reference Works

Birkbeck students and staff have access to a range of online Chemistry reference works including encyclopaedias, dictionaries, handbooks, critical tables and data sheets. See the list at http://www.bbk.ac.uk/lib/subguides/science/chemical/databases/#ref