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BIOSIS Previews is the world's most comprehensive reference database for life science research. It covers original research reports and reviews in traditional biological and biomedical areas. It also covers references to primary journal literature on vital biological research, medical research findings, and discoveries of new organisms.

Indexing nearly 5,500 international journals, meetings and conference proceedings, books and patents. BIOSIS Previews is the most comprehensive index for worldwide literature in the life sciences. Included are all aspects of biology, plant and animal science, ecology, and paleontology, and is the best source for biological topics that are not well covered by Medline, such as field, experimental, evolutionary, and descriptive biology. Interdisciplinary fields such as pharmacology, biochemistry, biophysics and bioengineering are included as well.

SUBJECT COVERAGE: 
agriculture; anatomy; bacteriology; behavioral sciences; biology; biochemistry; bioengineering; biotechnology; botany; cell biology; ecology; environmental sciences; genetics; immunology; microbiology; morphology; neuroscience; nutrition; parasitology; pathology; pharmacology; physiology; public health; systematics; taxonomy; toxicology; veterinary medicine; virology; zoology

 

Coverage Dates: 
1926 - present
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