BIOSIS Previews is an English-language, bibliographic database service, with abstracts and citation indexing. It is part of ''

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'' suite. BIOSIS Previews indexes data from 1926 to the present. BIOSIS Previews is part of the ''Life Sciences'' in

. Its coverage encompasses the

life sciences This list of life sciences comprises the branches of science that involve the scientific study of life – such as microorganisms, plants, and animals including human beings. This science is one of the two major branches of natural science, ...

and

biomedical sciences Biomedical sciences are a set of sciences applying portions of natural science or formal science, or both, to develop knowledge, interventions, or technology that are of use in healthcare or public health. Such disciplines as medical microbio ...

literature, with deep global coverage on a wide range of related 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'' (''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. The database is also provided by

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through a partnership with Clarivate Analytics. ''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''.

Overview

Acceptable content for ''Web of Science'' and ''BIOSIS previews'' is determined by an evaluation and selection process based on the following criteria: impact, influence, timeliness, peer review, and geographic representation. ''BIOSIS Previews'' covers 5,000 peer-reviewed journals. Non-journal coverage includes coverage of meetings, meeting abstracts, conferences, literature reviews, U.S. patents, books, software, book chapters, notes, letters, and selected reports in relevant disciplines including

botany Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

microbiology Microbiology () is the branches of science, scientific study of microorganisms, those being of unicellular organism, unicellular (single-celled), multicellular organism, multicellular (consisting of complex cells), or non-cellular life, acellula ...

, and

pharmacology Pharmacology is the science of drugs and medications, including a substance's origin, composition, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, therapeutic use, and toxicology. More specifically, it is the study of the interactions that occur betwee ...

. ''BIOSIS Previews'' contains more than 18 million records; more than 500,000 records are added each year, and backfiles are available from 1926 to present. Specialized indexing has also been developed, which has increased the accuracy of retrieval. Taxonomic data and terms, enhanced disease terms, sequenced databank numbers, and a conceptually controlled vocabulary go back to 1969. Products A - Z BIOSIS Previews
What's Included
. Thomson Reuters.2010. Some U.S. patents are also part of the ''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.

Print counterparts

The print counterparts for this bibliographic index were: *Biological Abstracts *Biological Abstracts/RRM *BioResearch Index

Topic coverage

The subject areas covered in ''BIOSIS Previews'' are broad and

interdisciplinary Interdisciplinarity or interdisciplinary studies involves the combination of multiple academic disciplines into one activity (e.g., a research project). It draws knowledge from several fields such as sociology, anthropology, psychology, economi ...

. Content is available from all

disciplines. This includes traditional

biology Biology is the scientific study of life and living organisms. It is a broad natural science that encompasses a wide range of fields and unifying principles that explain the structure, function, growth, History of life, origin, evolution, and ...

(e.g.

ecology Ecology () is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms and their Natural environment, environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community (ecology), community, ecosystem, and biosphere lev ...

zoology Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the anatomy, structure, embryology, Biological classification, classification, Ethology, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinction, extinct, and ...

) and interdisciplinary subjects (e.g.

biochemistry Biochemistry, or biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms. A sub-discipline of both chemistry and biology, biochemistry may be divided into three fields: structural biology, enzymology, a ...

, biomedicine,

biotechnology Biotechnology is a multidisciplinary field that involves the integration of natural sciences and Engineering Science, engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms and parts thereof for products and services. Specialists ...

). Select literature from the Earth & Geological Sciences is also indexed.

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'' and ''Botanical Abstracts'', 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)''.Kennedy, H. E. (1988) "BIOSIS to the Rescue" ''BioScience'' 38(5): pp. 309–310Steere, 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'', 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'' Staff (12 January 2004) "Thomson Acquires BIOSIS Publishing Assets" ''Business Wire'' and it is now part of

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Science & Healthcare division. 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: ''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. In 2007, Wolters Kluwer announced the digital availability of the BIOSIS Archive and Zoological Record Archive databases, via their Ovid Technologies online services."Ovid Expands Portfolio of Archive Content with BIOSIS Archive and Zoological Record Archive"
''Wolters Kluwer Health'' 6 March 2007 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 Zoological Record'' from 1864 to 1977. 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.

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