Action Bioscience.org -- Non-commercial, educational web site created to promote bioscience literacy
Google Scholar-- A search engine that can find scholarly material such as peer-reviewed journal articles, books, these, and dissertations on the Internet.
Biological Journals and Abbreviations
List of biology journal abbreviations and complete titles. Many journal article citations in biology use abbreviated journal titles. This is one of a number of sites that can help you decipher the abbreviations and track down the journal you need!
Genamics JournalSeek-- "The largest completely categorized database of freely available journal information available on the internet."
Science Daily -- "One of the Internet’s most popular science news web sites... Updated several times a day with breaking news and feature articles, seven days a week, the site covers discoveries in all fields of the physical, biological, earth and applied sciences."
Tree of Life -- Collaborative Internet project containing in formation about phylogeny and biodiversity.
Websites like Wikipedia and Google Scholar are not all bad.
Wikipedia articles are written by volunteers, and many are written by authorities in their fields. But there is no vetting required to edit Wikipedia articles. You can use the references at the bottom of a Wikipedia article to find good sources.
Google Scholar is an open-access database of scholarly literature.
Advantage: It's free. Disadvantage: You do not have the same search refinements and links to paid content as the library databases. Use it if you wish, then check to see if the library has paid for the full text of the articles you find.