It is February, time for heart shape candy and love notes for your Valentine sweetie. Well not on this blog, February means that BIOSIS and Analytical Abstracts are Ovid's resources of the month. You must register to use the databases each time but you can "test drive" these databases for free for the entire month.

"BIOSIS Previews is the comprehensive index to life sciences and biomedical research worldwide including: journals, meetings, patents, and books. BIOSIS Previews serves your every need for finding life sciences references. No matter where life sciences information is published, BIOSIS Previews gives you the most efficient and reliable way to find it. Researchers, librarians, and students worldwide use BIOSIS Previews to stay current on topics from botany to genetic engineering. BIOSIS Previews contains a vast collection of records from thousands of life science literature sources across the globe including journals, books, and meetings. The database is multidisciplinary - and the best single source for references to the international life science research literature. BIOSIS indexing presents key terms in the same context used by the original author. This allows you to search the database for items, such as organisms or biochemicals, taking into account the relationship between them in the source literature."

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"Analytical Abstracts, from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), is the premier specialist database for the analytical scientist. Coverage focuses exclusively on the most leading edge methods of analysis with detailed records to keep you up to date with current applications. With Analytical Abstracts, you have access to new analytical methods, abstracted from all major analytical journals, at your fingertips. Over 100 international journals, standard methods and application notes are scanned for inclusion in Analytical Abstracts. "

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