| Producer | Clarivate Analytics (United States) |
|---|---|
| History | 1926–present |
| Coverage | |
| Disciplines | Science |
| Record depth | Index & abstract |
| Print edition | |
| ISSN | 0006-3169 |
| Links | |
| Website | clarivate |
| Title list(s) | mjl |
Biological Abstracts is a database produced byClarivate Analytics. It includesabstracts frompeer-reviewedacademic journal articles in the fields ofbiology,biochemistry,biotechnology,botany, pre-clinical and experimentalmedicine,pharmacology,zoology,agriculture, andveterinary medicine, and has been published since 1926.[1][2]
It can be accessed through a number of services, includingEBSCO,Ovid[3] andWeb of Science.[1]
The service began as a print publication in 1926, when it was formed by the union ofAbstracts of Bacteriology (1917–1925), andBotanical Abstracts (1919–1926), both published in Baltimore byWilliams and Wilkins.[4] It was published in paperback subject sections, with abstracts usually written by scientists in the US, as a great many articles from that period were in other languages. At the time of founding, it was in competition with the classified indexing service of theConcilium Bibliographicum in Zurich.[5][6][7][8]
The first online version was published onmagnetic tape; it contained only the bibliographic information, not the text of the abstracts, and was intended as a rapid alerting service.[definition needed]