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BIOSIS Previews - Fact Sheet


DESCRIPTION:
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.


ACCESS: On and Off campus


FULL-TEXT: Links to full-text


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


YEARS: 1926 - present; Updated weekly


VENDOR: Thompson


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

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.


Last Update: November 28, 2007
Conditions of Use:

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UNCW is not responsible for the content, format, accuracy or availability of electronic resources.