Life Science Databases

BIOSIS Previews (Biological Abstracts) (1990 - present) combines the journal reference content from Biological Abstracts with the references to meetings, reviews, books, and monographs from Biological Abstracts/RRM (Reports, Reviews, Meetings). Updated weekly, BIOSIS Previews is the ultimate compendium for current life science information.  In 2000, BIOSIS Previews will cover nearly 540,000 records from 5,200 sources including:

• Nearly 350,000 records from journals that focus on vital biological and medical research 
• Nearly 160,000 references to items from over 1,500 meetings, symposia, and workshops 
• Approximately 20,000 references to review articles 
• Over 13000 references to books, book chapters, software 
• Approximately 16,000 references to U.S. patents related to the life sciences
• By the end of 2000, the BIOSIS Previews database will include nearly 12.5 million records dating from 1969 to the present.

Entrez: the Life Sciences Search Engine is a powerful federated search engine, or web portal that allows users to search a multiple of discrete health sciences databases, maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information with a single query string and user interface.

Pub Med Central  is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that provides patent protection to inventors and businesses for their inventions, and trademark registration for product and intellectual property identification.