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From: ganymede!tmb@WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU
Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.bio-matrix
Subject: on line abstract services...
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Date: 3 Nov 88 00:41:15 GMT
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I would like to search bibliographic data bases covering biology,
biochemistry, molecular biology, developmental biology, and neurobiology.
A printed equivalent of the kind of data base that I am looking
for is "Biological Abstracts".

If you know of on-line services or data bases offering bibliographic
(or even full-text) data bases of biological references, I'd like
to hear from you. Low cost (I'm a student) is very important.

Dialog and BRS offer the BIOSIS data base, which seems to be pretty close
to what I want. Unfortunately, BIOSIS is not available on Knowledge
Index (Dialog's after hour service) because the data base vendor insists
on per-record display charges, and BRS' after hour service has a montly
minimum usage requirement. Assuming that BIOSIS' vendor doesn't change
their minds about per-record display charges (a really annoying and
dumb restriction), this means I may have to look for other data bases
that cover roughly the same material.

					Thanks, Thomas.

Please send replies to: tmb@wheaties.ai.mit.edu (even if you send
them to the list).