Subject Portal Biology and Biotechnology

The DFG funding programme "Specialized Information Services for Science" supports competence centers within the framework of supra-regional literature provision, which, among other things, acquire nationwide licenses for subject-specific electronic information resources. These information resources (journal packages, databases, etc.) are available to members of a discipline according to access criteria specifically agreed with the product providers.

• An overview of all FIDs can be found at Webis

The following offers are of particular relevance for the biology / biotechnology sciences in Bielefeld:​

• Specialised Information Service Biodiversity Research (BIOfid)
• Specialised Information Service Pharmacy
• PubPharm search platform

Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (NFDI)

Consortia with particular relevance for biology / biotechnology in Bielefeld:

• DataPLANT
• NFDI4Biodiversity
• NFDI4BIOIMAGE
• GHGA: German Human Genome-Phenome Archive
• NFDI4Health: National Research Data Infrastructure for Personal Health Data   

Important institutions, interest groups and scientific organizations in Germany, Europe and worldwide:

• Alliance of Science Organizations
  Suitable as a starting point for research to find important research institutes in Germany and to gain an overview of research policy in Germany.
• Research map
  Also suitable as a starting point for research to find important research institutions in Germany.
• Bundesamt für Naturschutz
• Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz, nukleare Sicherheit und Verbraucherschutz (BMUV)
• Umweltbundesamt
• ZB MED – Life Sciences Information Center
  • German National Library of Medicine, Public Health, Nutritional, Environmental and Agricultural Sciences
  • Conducts research into knowledge management and the analysis of large amounts of data and develops information services for the life sciences
  • Strategic alliance with the Bielefeld Institute for Bioinformatics Infrastructure (BIBI) and de.NBI
• Verband Biologie, Biowissenschaften und Biomedizin in Deutschland e.V. - VBIO
  • Large association with 25 specialist societies. The website also contains information on studies and careers as well as links to teaching resources.
• btS e.V. - The Life Sciences Student Initiative
• NABU (Naturschutzbund Deutschland) e.V.
• Greenpeace e.V.
• WWF Deutschland
• European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
• European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
• ExPASy
  Swiss Bioinformatics Resource Portal
• National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
• aibs: The American Institute of Biological Sciences
  US umbrella organization for biologists of all disciplines
• IUBS: International Union of Biological Sciences

BieJournals

https://www.biejournals.de/

Open Access journals published at Bielefeld University.

BieJournals with particular relevance for biology:

• Biologie in unserer Zeit
• BU praktisch - Das Online-Journal für den Biologieunterricht
• Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Biologie (ZDB) - Biologie Lehren und Lernen

Grey literature (such as research reports, conference reports)

Grey literature from various subject areas in the holdings of the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) as well as general information from the TIB on grey literature:

• What is grey literature?
• Making grey literature a little less grey
• German research reports
• Foreign research reports - Reports
• Conference reports

Preprint-Server

• bioRxiv
• medRxiv

Teaching materials

• VBIO overview page with links to many different biology teaching resources
• HHMI BioInteractive
  Interactive examples from research for the classroom
• The Animal Diversity Web
  Online animal encyclopedia
• TIB AV-Portal
  Videos from various disciplines, more suitable for university teaching and studies

News

• IDW-Pressearchiv: Biologie und Biotechnologie
  Current press releases of the "Informationsdienst Wissenschaft"
• Neuigkeiten aus der Biologie via Spektrum der Wissenschaften
• ScienceDaily Magazine

Jobs

• Bundesagentur für Arbeit
• jobvector
  Job exchange for natural sciences, medicine, IT and engineering
• New Scientist Magazine: Jobs
  Job search engine
• Pharma Jobs
  Job advertisements from the pharmaceutical and chemical industry. Also interesting for biologists.