Enhanced BIOSIS Previews on Dialog

According to a press release Thursday from Dialog, BIOSIS Previews has some new features (press release available). Highlights include:

  • the addition of CAS Registry Numbers to more than nine million BIOSIS Previews records
  • the addition of more than 6,300 sequence data accession numbers
  • the addition of BIOSIS Major Concepts, an indexing field that enables researchers to identify and retrieve targeted information by conceptual terms, now added to every citation back to 1969

The update is on both Dialog and Dialog DataStar services. The CAS Registry Numbers should prove extremely valuable for adverse event pharmaceutical alerts that search MEDLINE, EMBASE and BIOSIS.