BIOSIS Citation Index and Zoological Record Training for University of Galway

Description: Join this webinar to find out how to perform powerful searching using superior indexing to deliver confident life sciences and animal biology research literature

Duration: 60 minutes

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Part 1: BIOSIS Citation Index​ is the most comprehensive reference database for life sciences research. Search BIOSIS to discover a rich and comprehensive view of life sciences research, including the most important discoveries, significant influences and relevant connections. Precision searching is delivered through custom terms, and specialized, article-level indexing, with tags to vital data such as Enzyme Commission numbers, and cross-references throughout to gene, disease, and organism names. Coverage includes traditional areas of biology like botany, zoology, and microbiology; alongside related and interdisciplinary fields such as agriculture, biochemistry, bioengineering, biomedical, biophysics, biotechnology, ecology, medicine, and pharmacology.

BIOSIS coverage offers:

• Over 5,300 high quality journals
• Coverage back to 1926
• More than 27.9 million records
• Non-journal coverage, including abstract meetings, as well as books (serials and monographs), and U.S. patents

Learning Objectives

• Become familiar with the content, coverage, and depth of BIOSIS
• Learn more about the bibliographic searching using keywords
• Become familiar with the BIOSIS specialist indexing thesaurus/indexes and perform searches using controlled terms
• How to interrogate the literature with Refine and Analyse
• Understand the fields indexed in a BIOSIS record including major concepts, concept codes, taxonomic data and chemical data
• How to conduct new literature searches from indexed terms in a BIOSIS record
• How to identify high impact literature by citations
• How to use the BIOSIS citation network to accelerate discovery and find past and future related literature by citation connections
• How to identify publication and citation trends with the Citation Report
• Learn how to perform the most comprehensive search in Web of Science using All Databases
• Learn how to refine results by database and BIOSIS major concepts
• Learn more about the panoramic record and view Biosis specialist indexing alongside bibliographic data from the Core Collection

Part 2: Zoological Record™ is the world’s oldest continuing database of animal biology. It is considered the world’s leading taxonomic reference, and with coverage back to 1864, has long acted as the world’s unofficial register of animal names. The broad scope of coverage ranges from biodiversity and the environment to taxonomy and veterinary sciences.

• Total number of serials included: 4,666
• Total number of records included: 4,475,508
• Year coverage starts: 1864

Learning Objectives

• Become familiar with the content, coverage, and depth of Zoological Record
• Learn more about the bibliographic searching using keywords
• Become familiar with the Zoological Record specialist indexing thesaurus/indexes and perform searches using controlled terms
• How to interrogate the literature with Refine and Analyse
• Understand the fields indexed in a ZR record including Broad Terms, Descriptors Data, Super Taxa and Systematics.
• How to conduct new literature searches from indexed terms in a ZR record
• How to identify high impact literature by citations
• How to use the Core Collection network to accelerate discovery and find past and future related literature by citation connections
• Learn how to perform the most comprehensive search in Web of Science using All Databases
• Learn how to refine results by database
• Learn more about the panoramic record and view ZR specialist indexing alongside bibliographic data from the Core Collection