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BIOSIS Previews current data for new subscribers

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Full Description

BIOSIS Previews offers:

  • coverage of nearly six thousand journal titles, containing eighteen million records with coverage from 1926 to the current day
  • over one hundred and sixty five thousand documents from more than one thousand five hundred meetings
  • specialised indexing, with tags to vital data such as CAS Registry numbers, Enzyme Commission numbers, and cross references throughout to gene, disease, and organism names

BIOSIS Citation Index offers:

  • information on emerging research trends
  • integrated searching, writing, and bibliographic management
  • cited reference searching with a citation score card to keep track of citation counts from various resources
  • author identification, analysis and visualisation tools
  • searching capabilities such as spell check, left hand truncation, and auto detect for search terms

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Publishers selection policy

Selection for BIOSIS databases occurs at two levels: first at the journal, or source, level where journals are evaluated and accepted for coverage and then, as issues of a journal are received, at the journal issue level, where items within an issue are chosen for inclusion.

At the journal level, the BIOSIS editorial group evaluates a title for coverage on three aspects of the publication's attributes: Subject; Editorial Content and Publication Attributes; and Geographic Origin and Scope.

Once a source journal is accepted for coverage, guidelines are established for item selection based on the content of that source. Many sources are 'cover-to-cover' meaning that nearly every item from the journal will be included in BIOSIS coverage. Other sources are ‘non-cover-to-cover' where certain sections or types of items are not selected. At the issue, or item, level certain items are excluded.

More information on Biosis Previews's selection policy can be found at http://jisc-collections.ac.uk/Catalogue/biosis-policy/