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Comparison of key databases indexing literature
in Biology and Genetics
| Database |
Years |
Materials indexed |
Full-text ? |
Special features |
BIOSIS•
|
1969- |
journals, books, conferences |
Yes for some |
Primary database in biological sciences and related subjects |
DOE Energy at LANL •
|
1974-2001 |
journals, books, conferences, reports |
Yes for some |
Covers government-sponsored science and technology research ;
offers alerts. (For earlier years, 1948-76, see Nuclear
science abstracts at LANL•) |
| FlashPoint• |
|
all types |
Yes for some |
Searches across 14 databases including the library catalog, covering
all subjects |
MedMiner
|
|
datafiles, journals |
|
Extracts and organizes relevant sentences in the literature based
on a gene, gene-gene or gene-drug query |
PubMed
|
1966- |
journals, datafiles |
Yes for some |
Provides access to MEDLINE index to medical journal literature;
also access to protein, nucleotide, structure and genome data |
SearchPlus•
|
1969- |
journals, conferences, some books and reports |
Yes for some
|
Searches 6 databases simultaneously. BIOSIS, ISI Proceedings and
SciSearch in particular cover biology and genetics.
Offers cited reference searching and alerts |
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