BIOSIS Previews

BIOSIS Previews
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BIOSIS Previews is an English-language, bibliographic database service, with abstracts and citation indexing. It is part of Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge suite. Content that was originally integrated from the BIOSIS company before the merger in 2004 is now part of the Web of Knowledge. BIOSIS Previews indexes data from 1926 to the present.[1][2]

BIOSIS Previews is part of the Life Sciences in the Web of Knowledge. Its coverage encompasses the life sciences literature and biomedical sciences literature, with deep, global, coverage on a wide range of subject areas. This is accomplished with access to indexed journal content from Biological Abstracts, and supplemental, indexed, non-journal content from Biological Abstracts/Reports, Reviews, Meetings or (BA/RRM) or (Biological Abstracts/RRM) and the major publications of BIOSIS. This coverage includes literature in pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, environmental and consumer issues, and other areas.[1][2][3]

Biological Abstracts consists of 350,000 references for almost 5,000 primary journal and monograph titles. Biological Abstracts/RRM additionally includes more than 200,000 non-journal citations.

Biological Abstracts/RRM is the former BioResearch Index.[2]

Overview

Acceptable content for the Web of Knowledge, and BIOSIS previews is determined by an evaluation and selection process based on the following criteria: impact, influence, timeliness, peer review, and geographic representation.[3][4]

BIOSIS Previews covers 5,000 peer reviewed journals. Moreover, non-journal coverage includes coverage of meetings, meeting abstracts, conferences, literature reviews, U.S. patents, books, software, book chapters, notes, letters, and selected reports and. Furthermore, the non-journal coverage is in relevant disciplines from botany to microbiology to pharmacology. Moreover, this database contains more than 18 million records, more than 500,000 records are added each year, and backfiles are available from 1926 to the present day. Specialized indexing has been developed. This has increased the accuraccy of retrieval. Taxonomic data and terms, enhanced disease terms, sequenced databank numbers, and a conceptually controlled vocabulary go back to 1969.[2][3][4][5]

Some U.S. patents are also part of BIOSIS Previews archives from 1926 to 1968, from 1986 to 1989, and from 1994 to present. Archived data is the electronic formatted content of the print Biological Abstracts volumes 1-49.[2]

Print counterparts

The print counterparts for this bibliographic index are:[2]

Topic coverage

The subject areas covered is broad and interdisciplinary. Content is available from all life sciences discipline. This includes traditional biology (botany, ecology, zoology), and interdisciplinary subjects (biochemistry, biomedicine, and biotechnology). Related literature from the Earth & Geological Sciences, i. e. agriculture, botany, ecology, genetics and genomics are also indexed. Literature is also available for topics related to the life sciences coverage such as instrumentation and methods.[5]

History

In 1926, the Society of American Bacteriologists and the Botanical Society of America acknowledging the need for greater integration of life science information agreed to merge their two publications, Abstracts of Bacteriology[6] and Botanical Abstracts,[7] thus creating Biological Abstracts. A not-for-profit company was formed to administer the publication on a financially sound basis. In 1964, the company's name was changed to BioSciences Information Service of Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS).[8][9][10] In addition to its indexing and abstracting service, it published The Zoological Record from 1980 to 2004.

In 2004 the company was purchased by Thomson Scientific [11] and it is now part of Thomson Reuters Science & Healthcare division.[11] The proceeds from that sale were applied to fund an endowment and create a new grant-making foundation. The Board of Directors of that foundation selected as the organization’s new name the: J.R.S. Biodiversity Foundation. This reflected both the historic legacy of the Foundation and its future grant-making domain. The initials J.R.S. stand for the name of one of the founders of BIOSIS.[12] In 2007, Wolters Kluwer announced the digital availability of the BIOSIS Archive and Zoological Record Archive databases, via their Ovid Technologies online services.[13] The BIOSIS Archive consists of the data from the print volumes of Biological Abstracts from 1926 to 1968, and the Zoological Record Archive contains the data published in print in the The Zoological Record from 1864 to 1977.[13] In 2010 Biosis Citation Index was released on the Web of Knowledge Platform, combining extensive indexing and database coverage of Biosis Previews with the Web of Science's citation tracking features.[14]

References

  1. 1 2 Biosis Previews (2010). "Life Sciences in the Web of Knowledge". Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "BIOSIS Previews". Dialog bluesheets. October 15, 2007. Retrieved 2010-07-16.
  3. 1 2 3 "Biosis Life Sciences database" (PDF). Thomson Reuters. 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
  4. 1 2 Products A - Z BIOSIS Previews. What's Included. Thomson Reuters.2010.
  5. 1 2 "BIOSIS Previews - Source: Thomson Scientific, Inc." (BIOSIS is now BIOSIS Previews). Ovid Technologies. 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
  6. ↑ Abstracts of Bacteriology began publication in 1917 under the editorship of A. Parker Hitchens, as an outgrowth of the Journal of Bacteriology. OCLC 1460582
  7. ↑ Botanical Abstracts was published under the direction of the Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts, Inc. During its publication it had two editors: September 1918–March 1921, B.E. Livingston and April 1921–November 1926, J.R. Schramm; at which point it was merged into Biological Abstracts. OCLC 1536892
  8. ↑ Kennedy, H. E. (1988) "BIOSIS to the Rescue" BioScience 38(5): pp. 309–310
  9. ↑ Steere, William Campbell; Parkins, Phyllis V. and Philson, Hazel A. (1976) Biological Abstracts/BIOSIS, The First Fifty Years, The Evolution of a Major Science Information Service New York Botanical Garden, Plenum Press, New York, page v, ISBN 0-306-30915-7
  10. ↑ Trumbull, Richard (1976) "BIOSIS: 50 Years of Biological Abstracts" BioScience 26(5): p. 307
  11. 1 2 Staff (12 January 2004) "Thomson Acquires BIOSIS Publishing Assets" Business Wire
  12. ↑ "About JRS". JRS Biodiversity Foundation. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
  13. 1 2 "Ovid Expands Portfolio of Archive Content with BIOSIS Archive and Zoological Record Archive" Wolters Kluwer Health 6 March 2007
  14. ↑ "Biosis Citation Index". Products and tools. Web of Knowledge. Retrieved 23 March 2013.

Further reading

  • Freedman, B. (1995) "Growth and Change in the World’s Biological Literature as Reflected in BIOSIS Publications" Publishing Research Quarterly 11(3): pp. 61&ndash79, DOI: 10.1007/BF02680447
  • Kaser, Richard T. and Kaser, Victoria Cox (2001) BIOSIS: Championing the cause, the first 75 years National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ISBN 978-0-942308-52-5
  • Steere, William Campbell; Parkins, Phyllis V. and Philson, Hazel A. (1976) Biological Abstracts/BIOSIS, The First Fifty Years, The Evolution of a Major Science Information Service New York Botanical Garden, Plenum Press, New York, ISBN 0-306-30915-7
  • Trumbull, Richard (1976) "BIOSIS: 50 Years of Biological Abstracts" BioScience 26(5): p. 307

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