BIOSIS Previews for the Biological Sciences

John H. Evans Library & Learning Commons

BIOSIS PREVIEWS FOR THE

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Research Guides collect the most useful databases, reference materials, Internet sites, and other tools for your field of study in one convenient resource.

http://lib.fit.edu

Each discipline contains both general and course-specific guides

These are the Library’s best resources for biological sciences students, organized by type.

Use the Articles & Databases tab to find journal articles about your topic.

BIOSIS Previews, from Web of Knowledge, provides bibliographic records in the life sciences from journals, meetings, patents, and books from 1979 to the present.

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Read about scope and search strategies in the Help menu.

Advanced Search

Major Concepts are controlled vocabulary.

Basic Search

Current Limits

Many results – refine by concept, document type, date, etc.

360 LINK Check for full text.

Click title to view information about the article.

Abstract, concepts, and taxonomic data are displayed here.

Click Times Cited to view papers that have cited this one.

Here is the source article with citation map link.

Here are the articles that include the article above in their reference lists.

Create an account and alerts in Search History.

Save History and Create Alert to be notified of any new results of the search.

Don’t forget to click Save.

Log in, then name your saved search.

You can also subscribe to updates by RSS.

Choose your RSS application.

Mark the records that you are interested in and click RefWorks to import to your account.

You may need to allow popups in your browser, and then click Return to export again.

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Remember to check your references!

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For more information, please contact me:

petraliar@fit.eduEvans Library 309