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Comparison of key databases indexing literature
in Biology and Genetics
| Database |
Years |
Materials indexed |
Full-text ? |
Special features |
BIOSIS•
|
1926- |
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 6 databases including the library catalog and PubMed, 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 and alerts |
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 |
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