Biological Abstracts
{{short description|Online database of scientific articles}}
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| producer = Clarivate Analytics
| country = United States
| history = 1926–present
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| disciplines = Science
| depth = Index & abstract
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| ISSN = 0006-3169
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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.{{cite web|url=https://clarivate.com/webofsciencegroup/solutions/webofscience-biological-abstracts/|title=Biological Abstracts on the Web of Science|website=Web of Science|access-date=22 September 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922082159/https://clarivate.com/webofsciencegroup/solutions/webofscience-biological-abstracts/|archive-date=2020-09-22}}{{Cite web|title=Biological Abstracts|publisher=Ovid Technologies|url=http://www.ovid.com/site/catalog/DataBase/24.jsp|access-date=2011-07-26|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929145946/http://www.ovid.com/site/catalog/DataBase/24.jsp|archive-date=2011-09-29}}
It can be accessed through a number of services, including EBSCO, Ovid{{Cite web|url=http://www.ovid.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=13051&catalogId=13151&langId=-1&partNumber=Prod-24|title=Wolters Kluwer | Ovid - Home|access-date=2013-02-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219142010/http://www.ovid.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=13051&catalogId=13151&langId=-1&partNumber=Prod-24|archive-date=2013-12-19|url-status=dead}} and Web of Science.
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.{{cite book|last=Sheehy|first=Eugene Paul|publisher=American Library Association|title=Guide to Reference Books|year=1986|edition=10th|isbn=0838903908}} 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.{{cite book|last1=Burke|first1=Colin B.|title=Information and Intrigue: From Index Cards to Dewey Decimals to Alger Hiss|date=2014|publisher=MIT Press|location=Cambridge, MA|isbn=978-0-262-02702-1|pages=166–168, 235–237}}{{cite journal|last=Curtis|first=W. C.|title=The Washington Conference of March 7, 1931|journal=Science|volume=73|issue=189|pages=509–512|publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science|date=May 15, 1931|jstor=1655530|doi=10.1126/science.73.1898.509|pmid=17778395|bibcode=1931Sci....73..509C}}{{cite journal|last=Schramm|first=J. R.|title=Biological Abstracts|journal=Science|volume=73|issue=1898|pages=512–516|publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science|date=May 15, 1931|jstor=1655531|doi=10.1126/science.73.1898.512|pmid=17778396|bibcode=1931Sci....73..512S}}{{cite journal|last=Mcclung|first=C. E.|title=The Union and Biological Abstracts|journal=Science|volume=73|issue=1898|pages=517–518|publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science|date=May 15, 1931|jstor=1655532|doi=10.1126/science.73.1898.517|pmid=17778397|bibcode=1931Sci....73..517M}}
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.{{Definition needed|date=September 2020}}
See also
References
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Other references
- {{cite journal|last=Schramm|first=J. R.|title=Biological Abstracts|journal=Science|volume=62|issue=1615|pages=533–536|publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science|date=December 11, 1925|jstor=1650169|doi=10.1126/science.62.1615.533|pmid=17801564|bibcode=1925Sci....62..533S|s2cid=5386580 }}
- {{cite journal|author=Scientific committee|title=Biological Abstracts|journal=Science|volume=86|issue=2242|pages=561–563|publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science|date=December 17, 1937|jstor=1663788|doi=10.1126/science.86.2242.561-b|pmid=17733423|bibcode=1937Sci....86..561.}}
- {{cite journal|last=Brooks|first=Stanley Truman|title=Biological Abstracts|journal=The Scientific Monthly|volume=63|issue=1|pages=37–41|publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science|date=July 1946|jstor=18935|bibcode=1946SciMo..63...37T|issn=0096-3771|oclc=1765233}}
External links
- {{Official website|https://clarivate.com/webofsciencegroup/solutions/webofscience-biological-abstracts/}}