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• The
• BIOSIS Previews
• family
• Robert Kimberley
• Director, International Sales Development,
  BIOSIS

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BIOSIS - an overview

• Founded in 1926
• Independent, not-for-profit company governed by
  Board of Trustees
• Worlds largest abstracting and indexing service
  focused on the life sciences
• Headquartered in Philadelphia (USA), with office
  in York (UK) and worldwide sales representation

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BIOSIS Previews family

• The worlds most comprehensive reference source
  of life sciences research

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BIOSIS Previews family

• BIOSIS Previews
• Biological Abstracts
• BA/Reports, Reviews, Meetings
• BIOSIS Previews
• Biological Abstracts BA/Reports, Reviews,
  Meetings

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BIOSIS Previews family

• BIOSIS Previews
• Biological Abstracts BA/Reports, Reviews,
  Meetings
• Biological Abstracts (BA)
  journals
• BA/Reports, Reviews, Meetings (RRM)
  non-journal
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  material
• BIOSIS Previews (BP)
  both

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Target markets

• Life Sciences research and teaching
• biology, botany, zoology,
• biotechnology (genetics and proteiomics),
• biochemistry, molecular biology, pharmacology,
• ecology, environmental studies,
• agriculture, veterinary science,
• experimental medicine

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Target markets

• Life Sciences research corporations
• Pharmaceutical
• Biotechnology
• Food industry
• Agricultural (seeds, chemicals)
• Biomedical
• Bioprocessing fermentation

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Multi-disciplinary subject coverage

• Traditional
• Biology, Botany, Zoology, Ecology, Microbiology
• Interdisciplinary Areas
• Molecular Biology Biotechnology and Genetics
  Pharmacology Plant Sciences, Agriculture and
  Nutrition Experimental and Veterinary Medicine,
  Biomedicine
• Related Areas
• Methods, Instrumentation

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Sources

• Journals (gt5,000 titles) (BA)
• Meetings (1,500/year) (RRM)
• Patents (21,000/year) (RRM)
• Books (500/year) (RRM)
• Review articles (RRM)
• Book and software reviews (RRM)
• International gt90 countries

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Statistics

• 560,000 records / year
• 60 journal literature
• 30 meetings
• 10 review articles, patents, books, book
  chapters, and software reviews
• gt13 million records, 1969 to date

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Competitive differentiators coverage indexing

• Comprehensive coverage
• researchers get the breadth and depth of coverage
  that they need
• Specialist indexing
• unified structure for diverse information
• great depth
• key benefit search and retrieval are more
  effective

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Competitive differentiators coverage

• The only life sciences database to integrate
  coverage of
• conferences and meetings
• patents
• journals
• Integrated coverage also means integrated and
  consistent indexing for all document types

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Competitive differentiators coverage

• Coverage of meetings in experimental medicine
  clinical research is largely absent from Medline
  and Embase.
• Patent coverage gives critical information
• e.g. drug delivery systems, genetic engineering,
  food technology, crop/livestock production
• does not try to compete with Derwent, but gives
  the researcher valuable information from patents
  alongside journals, meetings etc.

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Competitive differentiators coverage

• 34 of serials covered by BP are covered in
  MedLine
• 46 of serials covered by MedLine are covered in
  BP
• 34 of serials covered by BP are covered in
  EMBASE
• 53 of serials covered by EMBASE are covered in BP

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Competitive differentiators specialist indexing

• Examples
• Organisms
• Taxonomic hierarchy user can search for
  individual species, or at more generic level
• Roles, developmental stages, and other modifiers
• Parts, structures, systems
• Chemicals biochemicals
• by name(s), or by CAS Registry Number
• Drug affiliations
• Gene names and sequence numbers
• Biological activities
• MeSH disease terms

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Competitive differentiators specialist indexing

• MC Molecular Genetics (Biochemistry and
  Molecular Biophysics)
• OR human (Hominidae) patient PC3 cell line
  (Hominidae) human prostate cancer cells
  Gynostemma-pentaphylla (Cucurbitaceae) medicinal
  plant
• PS plasma blood and lymphatics urinary tract
  excretory system
• CB trastuzumab Herceptin antineoplastic-drug,
  immunologic-drug
• RN 180288-69-1 TRASTUZUMAB 180288-69-1
  HERCEPTIN
• DS prostate cancer immunochemotherapy,
  neoplastic disease, reproductive system
  disease/male, urologic disease
• MI traditional Chinese herbal medicine

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Competitive differentiators specialist indexing

• Example searching on drug affiliation
• Use of ibuprofen for fever and headache
• (IBUPROFEN OR MOTRIN)(L)
• (ANTIPYRETIC AND ANALGESIC)
• Include as many affiliations as appropriate
• Use Authority File for list of affiliations

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Competitive differentiators specialist indexing

• Example Sequence Data (1998-)
• Sequence Data includes databank accession numbers
  or other macromolecular sequence information
• Display Example
• Sequence Data AF001177 Genbank, amino acid
  sequence U89896 Genbank, amino acid sequence,
  nucleotide sequence

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Competitive differentiators specialist indexing

• Example Chemicals, biochemicals
• Chemical names are as they appear in the paper
• Use link commands for affiliations, e.g.
• CARBOPLATIN(L)ANTINEOPLASTIC
• Display example
• Chemicals Biochemicals
• gamma-amino-butyric acid GABA
• carboplatinantineoplastic drug, phase I/II
  study, drug-drug combination, toxicity
• Search in Descriptors prior to 1993

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Competitive differentiators specialist indexing

• Example CAS Registry Numbers (1993-)
• CAS Registry Numbers assigned to chemicals,
  followed by chemical name
• Registry Numbers 56-12-2 Gamma-Amino-Butyric
  Acid 41575-94-4 Carboplatin
• Search Example
• RN56-12-2

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BIOSIS Previews pricing

• Purchase, not lease
• Components
• Data fee
• Networking fee
• (platform providers service or technology fee)

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BIOSIS Previews pricing

• Data fee
• Purchase, not lease
• Published price lists
• Current-year subscription
• Back-years

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BIOSIS Previews pricing

• Networking fee
• Right to network during the current year
• Price depends on level of access, not the amount
  of data
• i.e. same fee regardless of number of back-years
• Per simultaneous user

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BIOSIS administrative procedures

• Trials
• bjvarra_at_mail.biosis.org
• Contract
• normally covered by the platform providers
  agreement
• exceptions consortia, etc.
• Invoice
• Print BIOSIS invoices Agent
• Electronic normally via platform provider

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BIOSIS

• Web site
• http//www.biosis.org
• For information
• info_at_mail.biosis.org
• Newsletter
• Evolutions
• Sales/pricing information
• Robert Kimberley rokimbe_at_attglobal.net
• Tom Lawler tlawler_at_mail.biosis.org