BIOSIS Previews is an English-language, bibliographic database service, with abstracts and citation indexing.
This coverage includes literature in pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, environmental and consumer issues, and other areas.
[2][failed verification] Acceptable content for Web of Science and BIOSIS previews is determined by an evaluation and selection process based on the following criteria: impact, influence, timeliness, peer review, and geographic representation.
Non-journal coverage includes coverage of meetings, meeting abstracts, conferences, literature reviews, U.S. patents, books, software, book chapters, notes, letters, and selected reports in relevant disciplines including botany, microbiology, and pharmacology.
Archived data is the electronic formatted content of the print Biological Abstracts volumes 1-49.
[2] The print counterparts for this bibliographic index were:[2] The subject areas covered in BIOSIS Previews are broad and interdisciplinary.
This includes traditional biology (e.g. botany, ecology, zoology) and interdisciplinary subjects (e.g. biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology).