Current Contents Scientific Information

SCISEARCH contains bibliographic citations (links) to publications in science and technology. The database represents the electronic online version of the expanded Science Citation Index (SCI) and parts from the Current Contents of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). More than 5900 science and technical journals are included in the database with more than 20 million records (October, 2002). Searches can be performed on the bibliographic data, along with where, and how often, an author or publication is dted. 

The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), besides publishing Current Contents (p. 1611) and the Science Citation Index (p. 1637), also publishes Index Chemicus (formerly called Current Abstracts of Chemistry and Index Chemicus). This publication, begun in 1960 and appearing weekly, is devoted to printing structural formulas of all new compounds appearing in more than 100 journals, along with equations to show how they were synthesized and an author s summary of the work. Each issue contains five indexes author. 

Institute for Scientific Information. Current Contents, [Internet]. URL http //www.isinet.com/isi/products/ cc, accessed 11-15-2000. 

Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). (1986). Current Contents—Life Sciences. ISI, Philadelphia. 

Research articles of interest to biochemists may appear in many types of research journals. Research libraries do not have the funds necessary to subscribe to every journal, nor do scientists have the time to survey every current journal copy for articles of interest. Two publications that help scientists to keep up with published articles are Chemical Titles (published every 2 weeks by the American Chemical Society) and the weekly Current Contents available in hard copy and computer disks (published by the Institute of Science Information). The Life Science edition of Current Contents is the most useful for biochemists. The computer revolution has reached into the chemical and biochemical literature, and most college and university libraries now subscribe to computer bibliographic search services. One such service is STN International, the scientific and technical information network. This on-line system allows direct access to some of the world s largest scientific databases. The STN databases of most value to life scientists include BIOSIS Pre-views/RN (produced by Bio Sciences Information Service covers original research reports, reviews, and U.S. patents in biology and biomedicine), CA (produced by Chemical Abstracts service covers research reports in all areas of chemistry), MEDLINE, and MEDLARS (produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and Index Medicus, respectively cover all areas of biomedicine). These networks provide on-line service and their databases can be accessed from personal computers in the office, laboratory, or library. Some... 

G4. Current Abstracts of Chemistry and Index Chemicus, published by Institute for Scientific Information, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Other publications of ISI include the ASCA system the Science Citation Index and Current Contents. 

Current Contents Life Sciences. Philadelphia, PA Institute for Scientific Information. Weekly. Current awareness service providing tables of contents from over 1370 life sciences journals. Current Contents is divided into seven broad disciplinary sections, with Medicinal Chemistry coverage included in the Life Sciences section. Available online. 

The primary sources for acquiring the FIA references have been the CHEMABS base of the ESA-IRS (European Space Agency-Information Retrieval Service) Current Awareness Service, and the Physical Chemical, and Earth Sciences section of Current Contents published by the Institute for Scientific Information, Inc. These sources have been supplemented by our own scrutiny of available periodicals of the analytical chemical literature, by the FIA bibliography listed in the recently launched Japanese Journal of Flow Injection Analysis, and by reprints supplied kindly to us by authors themselves. 

The chapter on the formulation of proteins has been expanded but the contents will reflect my own personal scientific interests, and the current literature will, inevitably, contain additional information on different approaches to the subject. Two additional chapters are included since some proteins, such as albumin or gelatin, can serve as drug delivery systems in their own right. In addition, proteins and phospholipids undergo characteristic interactions and deserve closer and separate attention. 

Scientific journals are the most important medium for communicating new findings, and they are therefore the most fruitful source of information about current research. There are so many journals with biochemical content that it is not practicable to list them all here it is also the case that most university libraries can subscribe to only a fraction of them. The more common biochemical journals that one would expect to find in the libraries of most universities or biochemical institutes are listed below ... 

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