Online research library unveiled
the main research library for pharmaceutical and biotechnology
companies, reports Ahmed ElAmin.
"Our analysis indicated a strong market for affordable biosciences information, covering both laboratory and field sciences," said Ovid Technologies, which created the database in partnership with scientific publisher Elsevier.
Scott MacFarland, Ovid's vice president of content product management said the companies' goal is to provide customers with a selection of complementary bibliographic and full text bioscience sources.
The database contains updated biological research covering biochemistry, microbiology, molecular biology, genetics, biotechnology, cell and developmental biology, as well as plant and animal science, agriculture and food science, ecology and environmental science and toxicology.
The EMBiology database currently has about four million bibliographic records dating back to 1980. The companies plan to add 250,000 new records a year.
EMBiology also offers researchers cover to cover indexing of more than 2,800 active titles including peer-reviewed journals, trade publications and electronic-only journals, the companies stated in a press release.
The database also features two thesauri merged into a single file called Emtree. The file is based on Elsevier's life science thesaurus and a new organism taxonomy of 500,000 terms. The organism vocabulary thesaurus is based on the taxonomies of the National Center for Biotechnology Information and Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Emtree can be searched for species names, genera and taxonomic terms.
Ovid provides research tools and systems to colleges and universities, medical schools, research libraries, hospitals and pharmaceutical, engineering and biotechnology companies. Ovid is an operating subsidiary of Wolters Kluwer Health, a division of Wolters Kluwer. Elsevier publishes scientific, technical and medical information. The publisher also offers electronic products such as ScienceDirect, MD Consult and Scopus.
