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BIOSIS Previews®

BIOSIS Previews® provides comprehensive worldwide coverage of life sciences and biomedical research from journals, meetings, books and some patents. BIOSIS Previews® takes an interdisciplinary and in-depth approach that carefully monitors every area of the life sciences including pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies and environmental issues.

Subjects are indexed by a wide range of terms, including major concepts, biological organisms and taxa, diseases, methods and equipment, gene names, geologic time, geographic location and chemical substances, allowing easy review of article content and precise searchability.

Sample Searches

Since Biosis doesn't have a thesaurus, you'll need to use as many synonyms as possible for complete coverage.

ti,su,subst("azilsartan medoxomil" or Edarbi or tak491 or "tak491" or ipreziv)

In this example we use multiple names for the same drug, and search in limited fields-title, subject and substance.

ti,ab("acetylsalicylic acid" OR aspirin OR cardioflow OR catalgix or ostoprin) near/5 ti,ab(abuse$2 or untoward or *toxic* or poison* or adverse or ill)

In this example we use the proximity operator NEAR to ensure the adverse terms are close to the drug terms. In this case we want the adverse terms within 5 words, in either order, of the drug terms.

Limiters and Look Ups In Biosis

Limiters and Look Up Feature on Biosis

Sample Document with Hit Highlighting

Biosis Document sample with hit highlighting