Life sciences information sources

It is worth noting that the past few years have witnessed tremendous development of web-based information resources. Notably, the PubMed search tool [4] has made the investigation of any life sciences topic much easier. It offers keyword and author (as well as structure and sequence) searches and covers a wide range of medicinal chemistry-related journals. This resource, coupled with e-journals, affords the medicinal chemist the tools to keep up with any research topics of interest. Because of the public nature of the Web, now a chemist can sometimes find critical journal articles on the Web that do not show up until much later in traditional literature sources. It is not uncommon that scientific meeting presentations can be found on the Web. Indeed, the Internet tools we have all become familiar with also have made the professional life of the medicinal chemist much easier. 

PC-Based Information Products Floppy Disk Based. We currently have ready access to a rapidly growing variety of relevant information resources. From a current awareness perspective, an excellent source of weekly information is the floppy disk-based product called Current Contents on Diskette (CCOD). Several versions are available however, the Life Sciences version is most appropriate for this review because of its coverage, on a weekly basis, of over 1200 journals describing work in the biological sciences. One will note that the product has several useful features, including very quick retrieval of article citations as well as several output options (including either hard copy or electronic storage of references as well as reprint requests). 

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AJHP is abstracted and indexed by all the major secondary sources (e.g., International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, Biological Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Current Contents Clinical Medicine, Current Contents Life Sciences, Excerpta Medica, Index Medicus, and the Iowa Drug Information Service. 

In terms of electronic publishing, the NLM launched PubMed Central this year in an effort to reduce the time from article submission to publication and to increase the dissemination of new information in the life sciences. PubMed Central eventually will contain two types of data depositories The first will be peer-reviewed content from journals that will partner with NLM to make their content available free to the public and the second depository will contain articles submitted directly by authors. Ideally, PubMed Central would increase the options for researchers and academicians to publish their research. This is a very new concept in medical publishing and it will be exciting to watch how it takes shape in terms of the quality of research articles submitted and the way in which the healthcare community embraces this new source of information. 

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. 

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