BIOSIS Previews is an English-language,

bibliographic Bibliography (from and ), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from ). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes ''bibliography ...

database service, with abstracts and citation indexing. It is part of ''

Clarivate Analytics Clarivate Plc is a British-American publicly traded analytics company that operates a collection of subscription-based services, in the areas of bibliometrics and scientometrics; business / market intelligence, and competitive profiling for p ...

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

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 Biological Abstracts is a database produced by Clarivate Analytics. It includes abstracts from peer-reviewed academic journal articles in the fields of biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, pre-clinical and experimental medicine, pharmaco ...

'', 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

EBSCO Information Services EBSCO Information Services, headquartered in Ipswich, Massachusetts, is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., a private company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. EBSCO provides products and services to libraries of very many types around the ...

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 biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek w ...

microbiology Microbiology () is the scientific study of microorganisms, those being unicellular (single cell), multicellular (cell colony), or acellular (lacking cells). Microbiology encompasses numerous sub-disciplines including virology, bacteriology, prot ...

, and

pharmacology Pharmacology is a branch of medicine, biology and pharmaceutical sciences concerned with drug or medication action, where a drug may be defined as any artificial, natural, or endogenous (from within the body) molecule which exerts a biochemica ...

. ''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 ''

'' 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 other fields like sociology, anthropology, psychology, ec ...

. Content is available from all

disciplines. This includes traditional

biology Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary i ...

(e.g.

ecology Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere level. Ecology overlaps wi ...

zoology Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the Animal, animal kingdom, including the anatomy, structure, embryology, evolution, Biological clas ...

) 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 and ...

biomedicine Biomedicine (also referred to as Western medicine, mainstream medicine or conventional medicine)

biotechnology Biotechnology is the integration of natural sciences and engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms, cells, parts thereof and molecular analogues for products and services. The term ''biotechnology'' was first used b ...

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

History

In 1926, the

Society of American Bacteriologists The American Society for Microbiology (ASM), originally the Society of American Bacteriologists, is a professional organization for scientists who study viruses, bacteria, fungi, algae, and protozoa as well as other aspects of microbiology. It wa ...

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 ''The Zoological Record'' (''ZR'') is an electronic index of zoological literature that also serves as the unofficial register of scientific names in zoology. It was started as a print publication in 1864 by the Zoological Society of London, a ...

'' from 1980 to 2004. In 2004 the company was purchased by ''

Thomson Scientific Thomson Scientific was one of the six (later five) strategic business units of The Thomson Corporation, beginning in 2007, after being separated from Thomson Scientific & Healthcare. Following the merger of Thomson with Reuters Group to form Thom ...

'' Staff (12 January 2004) "Thomson Acquires BIOSIS Publishing Assets" ''Business Wire'' and it is now part of

Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters Corporation ( ) is a Canadian multinational media conglomerate. The company was founded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where it is headquartered at the Bay Adelaide Centre. Thomson Reuters was created by the Thomson Corpora ...

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 Wolters Kluwer N.V. () is a Dutch information services company. The company is headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands (Global) and Philadelphia, United States (corporate). Wolters Kluwer in its current form was founded in 1987 with a ...

announced the digital availability of the BIOSIS Archive and Zoological Record Archive databases, via their

Ovid Technologies Ovid Technologies, Inc. (or just Ovid for short), part of the Wolters Kluwer group of companies, provides access to online bibliographic databases, academic journals, and other products, chiefly in the area of health sciences. The National Librar ...

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 ''

'' 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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