Biological Abstracts changing

We have switched the online platform through which we gain access to Biological Abstracts from SilverPlatter to ISI Web of Knowledge (the same interface as we use to gain access to Science Citation Index/Web of Science). We now have access to the full range of Biological Abstracts from 1926 to current.

If you had saved searches (SDI) in the old SilverPlatter platform, you can still, (for a short while, at least), get to the old interface by going through the E-Resource List (A-Z), choosing another database that still uses SilverPlatter, (e.g. Mental Measurements Yearbook), and clicking on the SDI button. You cannot directly transfer the saved search, but you can copy it and use it to create a "Saved Search History" in the new interface.

You can register to save your searches on the ISI server, or you can save searches on your local hard drive.

The ISI platform offers results analysis to rank results by source, author or other criteria, easy export to citation managers such as EndNote, creation of citation alerts to email you when a particular article is cited (so you can track when your own articles or your favorite articles by other researchers are cited), and various other features. It allows you to cross-search Web of Science to find unique (i.e. not in Biological Abstracts) citations with a simple click on the "Cross Search: view additional results from other databases" link.

We hope you find this new platform easy to use and powerful.

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