BIOSIS Previews Exercise

Login: http://isiknowledge.com/ and select BP.

Eg. Use BIOSIS Previews to find records containing the search terms “sulfur (or sulphur) ”and

“denitrification (or denitrify, denitrifying, etc.)” in the title of an article.

Basic search

Title=(sul*ur AND denitri*) Results: 50

Use search history

# 1 Title=(sul*ur) 5,899

# 2 Title=(denitri*) 2,298

# 3 #2 AND #1 50

Advanced Search

TI=(sul*ur AND denitri*) Results: 50

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Exercise 1: Use BIOSIS Previews to Find records of articles that appear in the “Journal of Cell

Science” that contain the words “cancer, cancerous, cancinogen, etc” in the titles.

Exercise 2: Use BIOSIS Previews to Find records which have Biogeography listed as a Major

Concept and the term Parrot listed in the Taxonomic Data table. And Use the Analyze Results

feature to see the authors information and copy the picture.