Biology:Biological Abstracts

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Short description: Online database of scientific articles
Biological Abstracts
ProducerClarivate Analytics (United States)
History1926–present
Coverage
DisciplinesScience
Record depthIndex & abstract
Print edition
ISSN0006-3169
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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, pharmacology, zoology, agriculture, and veterinary medicine, and has been published since 1926.[1][2]

It can be accessed through a number of services, including EBSCO, Ovid[3] and Web of Science.[1]

History

The service began as a print publication in 1926, when it was formed by the union of Abstracts of Bacteriology (1917–1925), and Botanical Abstracts (1919–1926), both published in Baltimore by Williams and Wilkins.[4] It was published in paperback subject sections, with abstracts usually written by scientists in the US, as a great many articles from that period were in other languages. At the time of founding, it was in competition with the classified indexing service of the Concilium Bibliographicum in Zurich.[5][6][7][8]

The first online version was published on magnetic tape; it contained only the bibliographic information, not the text of the abstracts, and was intended as a rapid alerting service.[definition needed]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Biological Abstracts on the Web of Science". https://clarivate.com/webofsciencegroup/solutions/webofscience-biological-abstracts/. 
  2. "Biological Abstracts". Ovid Technologies. http://www.ovid.com/site/catalog/DataBase/24.jsp. 
  3. "Wolters Kluwer | Ovid - Home". http://www.ovid.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=13051&catalogId=13151&langId=-1&partNumber=Prod-24. 
  4. Sheehy, Eugene Paul (1986). Guide to Reference Books (10th ed.). American Library Association. ISBN 0838903908. 
  5. Burke, Colin B. (2014). Information and Intrigue: From Index Cards to Dewey Decimals to Alger Hiss. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pp. 166–168, 235–237. ISBN 978-0-262-02702-1. 
  6. Curtis, W. C. (May 15, 1931). "The Washington Conference of March 7, 1931". Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 73 (189): 509–512. doi:10.1126/science.73.1898.509. PMID 17778395. Bibcode1931Sci....73..509C. 
  7. Schramm, J. R. (May 15, 1931). "Biological Abstracts". Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 73 (1898): 512–516. doi:10.1126/science.73.1898.512. PMID 17778396. Bibcode1931Sci....73..512S. 
  8. Mcclung, C. E. (May 15, 1931). "The Union and Biological Abstracts". Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 73 (1898): 517–518. doi:10.1126/science.73.1898.517. PMID 17778397. Bibcode1931Sci....73..517M. 

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