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Key Facts
Format: Abstract and index
Media: Electronic/Online
Coverage: 1982-Current
Total Sources Covered: Over 4,621,405 records

This interdisciplinary database offers abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Supporting over two dozen areas of expertise, this ProQuest database provides access to literature from over 6000 serials, as well as conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs and selected books and patents.

Note: subscribers to this database also have complimentary access to Conference Papers Index, rolling 10-year file of MEDLINE, Plant Science, and a rolling 5-year file of TOXLINE.

Subject Coverage
Major areas of coverage include:

  • AIDS
  • Algology
  • Amino acids
  • Animal behavior
  • Aquaculture
  • Aquatic organisms
  • Bacteriology
  • Bioengineering
  • Biological membranes
  • Biotechnology (agricultural, medical, environmental, marine & pharmaceutical)
  • Calcified tissue
  • Calcium
  • Chemoreception
  • Conference Papers Index
  • Ecology
  • Entomology
  • Genetics (plant, animal and human)
  • Human genome research
  • Immunology
  • Marine biology
  • Microbiology
  • Molecular biology
  • Mycology
  • Neurosciences
  • Nucleic acids
  • Oncogenes & growth factors
  • Peptides
  • Proteins
  • Protozoology
  • Safety science
  • Toxicology
  • Virology
  • Zoology

Update Frequency
Monthly, with approximately 13,670 new records added

 

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Size
Over 2,994,160 tables and figures