''eLS'' (previously known as the ''Encyclopedia of Life Sciences'') is a reference work that covers the
life sciences; it is published by
Wiley-Blackwell
Wiley-Blackwell is an international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons. It was formed by the merger of John Wiley & Sons Global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business with Blackwell Publish ...
.
As of June 2012, there were more than 4,800 article topics published in ''eLS'' online. ''eLS'' is updated monthly and over 400 articles are added to eLS each year.
''eLS'' is available online and in a print edition. The online edition was launched in April 2001, with the print edition published in January 2002. Full access to eLS requires a
subscription. Article abstracts, key concepts, figures and references are freely accessible.
At the end of 2004, ''eLS'' was acquired by Wiley-Blackwell from the
Nature Publishing Group
Nature Portfolio (formerly known as Nature Publishing Group and Nature Research) is a division of the international scientific publishing company Springer Nature that publishes academic journals, magazines, online databases, and services in scie ...
.
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External links
''eLS'' website
Biological literature
Encyclopedias of science
American online encyclopedias
Internet properties established in 2001
Biology websites
21st-century encyclopedias