Comparison of key databases indexing literature
in Biology and Genetics
Database |
Years |
Materials indexed |
Full-text ? |
Special features |
BIOSIS•
|
1969- |
journals, books, conferences |
Yes for some |
Primary database in biological sciences and related subjects |
DOE Energy at LANL
|
replaced by Energy Citations Database in OPPIE - see below |
FlashPoint |
|
all types |
Yes for some |
Searches across 12 databases including the library catalog, covering
all subjects |
MedMiner
|
|
datafiles, journals |
|
Extracts and organizes relevant sentences in the literature based
on a gene, gene-gene or gene-drug query |
OPPIE |
1884- (varies) |
journals, conferences, some books and reports |
Yes for some |
Searches 7 databases simultaneously, including ISI Proceedings
and SciSearch; offers cited reference searching |
PubMed
|
1966- |
journals, datafiles |
Yes for some |
Provides access to MEDLINE index to medical journal literature;
also access to protein, nucleotide, structure and genome data |
SearchPlus
|
1969- |
journals, conferences, some books and reports |
Yes for some |
Searches 6 databases simultaneously. BIOSIS, ISI Proceedings and
SciSearch in particular cover biology and genetics.
Offers cited reference searching and alerts |
|