| Producer | Clarivate Analytics (United States) |
|---|---|
| History | 1926–present |
| Coverage | |
| Disciplines | Science |
| Record depth | Index & abstract |
| Print edition | |
| ISSN | 0006-3169 |
| Links | |
| Website | clarivate |
| Title list(s) | mjl |
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.
See also
References
- 1 2 "Biological Abstracts on the Web of Science". Web of Science. Archived from the original on 2020-09-22. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
- ↑ "Biological Abstracts". Ovid Technologies. Archived from the original on 2011-09-29. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
- ↑ "Wolters Kluwer | Ovid - Home". Archived from the original on 2013-12-19. Retrieved 2013-02-28.
- ↑ Sheehy, Eugene Paul (1986). Guide to Reference Books (10th ed.). American Library Association. ISBN 0838903908.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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. Bibcode:1931Sci....73..509C. doi:10.1126/science.73.1898.509. JSTOR 1655530. PMID 17778395.
- ↑ Schramm, J. R. (May 15, 1931). "Biological Abstracts". Science. American Association for the Advancement of Science. 73 (1898): 512–516. Bibcode:1931Sci....73..512S. doi:10.1126/science.73.1898.512. JSTOR 1655531. PMID 17778396.
- ↑ Mcclung, C. E. (May 15, 1931). "The Union and Biological Abstracts". Science. American Association for the Advancement of Science. 73 (1898): 517–518. Bibcode:1931Sci....73..517M. doi:10.1126/science.73.1898.517. JSTOR 1655532. PMID 17778397.
Other references
- Schramm, J. R. (December 11, 1925). "Biological Abstracts". Science. American Association for the Advancement of Science. 62 (1615): 533–536. Bibcode:1925Sci....62..533S. doi:10.1126/science.62.1615.533. JSTOR 1650169. PMID 17801564. S2CID 5386580.
- Scientific committee (December 17, 1937). "Biological Abstracts". Science. American Association for the Advancement of Science. 86 (2242): 561–563. Bibcode:1937Sci....86..561.. doi:10.1126/science.86.2242.561-b. JSTOR 1663788. PMID 17733423.
- Brooks, Stanley Truman (July 1946). "Biological Abstracts". The Scientific Monthly. American Association for the Advancement of Science. 63 (1): 37–41. Bibcode:1946SciMo..63...37T. ISSN 0096-3771. JSTOR 18935. OCLC 1765233.