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Bibliographic Databases
Scientific literature databases have been available since the 1960's
Services that produced abstracts of scientific literature began
to make their data available in machine-readable form in the
early 1960's. The tools that enable scientificaly coherent and
efficient use of the resources described below are an important
activity in the field of bioinformatics called Text Mining,
which is described in a 2can
contribution by Dr. Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, from
the EBI.
You should be aware that none of the abstracting services has a complete coverage.
The best known is "MEDLINE", and now "PUBMED", abstracting mainly medical literature.
MEDLINE is accessible through EBI's SRS. PUBMED is accessible through NCBI's ENTREZ.
EMBASE is a commercial product for the medical literature.
BIOSIS, the inheritor of the old Biological
Abstracts, covers a broad biological
field; the Zoological Record indexes the zoological literature.
CAB International maintains abstract databases
in the fields of agriculture and
parasitic diseases. AGRICOLA is for
the agricultural field what MEDLINE is for the medical field
. The bibliographical databases are with the
exception of MEDLINE/PUBMED only available through commercial database vendors.
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