Abstracts and Indexes

Most of the key literature pertaining to the pharmaceutical sciences is indexed in one or more of the following databases. With few exceptions, these electronic resources correspond to printed publications however, these days they are almost exclusively accessed online. 

Biological Abstracts . 1969-. Philadelphia, PA BIOSIS . Quarterly. Covers 4000 life science journals with over 370,000 

BIOSIS Previews . 1969-. Philadelphia, PA BIOSIS. Weekly. This database is a combination of Biological Abstracts and Biological Ahstracts/Reports, Reviews, Meetings, with information from more than 5500 sources worldwide. Over 560,000 new citations are added each year. Available online. 

Current Contents /Clinical Medicine. Philadelphia, PA Thomson ISI. Provides tables of contents and bibliographic information from recently published editions of over 1120 medical journals. Current awareness is the main focus of this resource, so it is an especially good source for finding recent publications. The database is updated weekly and is available in a variety of different formats and platforms. Other relevant subject editions include Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology and Environmental Sciences, and Current Contents/Life Sciences. Available online. 

EMBASE . [database online] 1974-. Amsterdam Elsevier. Weekly. The online version of Excerpta Medica, providing worldwide coverage in the area of human medicine. EMBASE includes citations from approximately 4000 journals, 350 of 

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The Chemical Abstracts (CA) File is the main abstracting and indexing service for biochemistry, chemistry, and chemical engineering. 

The Office of Saline Water (now the Off. of Water Res. Tech.) of the U.S. Dept, of Interior pubHshed almost 1000 reports and was responsible for numerous articles on desalination. The Nuclear Desalination Information Center of Oak Ridge National Laboratory maintains a bibHography of these sources of information, which are abstracted and indexed in ORNL-NDlC-11 and -13. 

According to Chemical Abstracts, the publication that abstracts and indexes the chemical literature, there arc more than 30 million known organic compounds. Each of these compounds has its own physical properties, such as melting point and boiling point, and each has its own chemical reactivity. 

Bibliography Abstracted and Indexed , PLASTEC Rept R45 (1973) 43) Anon, Plastics... 

An obituary of Zentralblatt by Weiske, which gives its history and statistical data about its abstracts and indexes, was published in the April 1973 issue of Chem. Ber. (pp. I-XVI). 

Abstracts and indexes of English-language periodicals giving information on new plants, chemical producers, and chemical consumers. 

NFSAIS National Federation of Science Abstracting and Indexing Services... 

GC and LC Literature Abstracts and Index, Preston Publications, Niles, 111. 

Publications such as book series that are periodical in nature but are not journals may be styled as either books or journals. CASSI lists every document abstracted and indexed by the Chemical Abstracts Service hence, book titles are included and abbreviated. Key words to look for with these types of publications include Advances , Methods , Progress , and Series . 

Chemists preparing for abstracting and indexing, particularly for the former, should learn both to read well and to write well. 

Other abstract and index journals. Subject indexes in British Abstracts and Chemi-sches Zentralblatt subject indexes in physical science and engineering subject indexes in biology, agriculture, and medicine. 

National Academy of Science National Aeronautics and Space Council Nuclear Development Cior-poration of America nose ejection National Fire Prevention Association National Federation of Science Abstracting and Indexing Services... 

Applications The most extensive sources of information on applications of gas chromatography are Gas Chromatography Literature— Abstracts and Index and Gas Chromatography Abstracts. Compilations of retention data are available from several sources two are Gas Chromatographic Retention Data, by Mc-Reynolds and The Handbook of Chromatography. ... 

A. V. signeur Guide to Gas Chromatography Literature, Plenum, New York, 1964. Gas Chromatography Literature— Abstracts and Index, Preston Technical Abstracts, Evanston, Elinois, monthly. 

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