BIOSIS Previews
BIOSIS Previews directs users to information on life science topics from botany to microbiology to pharmacology, serving to connect researchers with critical international journal coverage, meeting and conference reports, books and patents.
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
Guides to Using BIOSIS Previews - from Thomson
The truncation symbol (*) substitutes for a string of zero or more characters. For example, cat* retrieves cat, catatonic, catatonia, category, etc.
