Medical Information Retrieval and Management
BIOSIS Previews
“If it’s in the life sciences,
BIOSIS products are the place
to start”
About me
Xu Siyang 许 四洋
Master, Major in Information Management
Graduated from Hunan Medical University,
2001
Contact details:
Xu Siyang
Office: Room 629, SMU Lib Building
Tel: 61648053
Email: xsy2004@fimmu.com
QQ:852832875
What is Information Retrieval?
 Querying against a database (a set of
documents) to find a subset of
"relevant" documents .
When you need IR?
DESIAGN?
METHOD?
ANALYSIS?
COMPARE?
When you need IR?
TOPIC?
ANALYSIS?
WRITE?
PUBLICATION?
When you need IR?
DIAGNOSIS?
TREATMENT?
BEST
SURGERY?
CONTRADICTION
?
When you need IR?
TOPIC?
HISTORY?
TREND?
OPION?
I need Information, where is it?
 Papers: journal paper, meeting paper
 Dissertation
 Monograph /textbook
 Patent document
 Database
 … ….
v.148
n.6
March 16,
2012
Content
Journal of Indian Medical Association
 JAMA
So many!
How to find what you need quickly?
 Fulltext database: for journal paper,
meeting paper, dissertations, books, etc.
 Bibliographic database : for journal
papers, meeting papers, dissertations, etc.
 Catalogue: for books
Searching tools
 Bibliographic database
surrogate
Record/item/citation/
source document
Journal paper
Meeting report/presentation
Book/book chapter
Monograph
Dissertation
Technical report
Principle of IR with computer
 Mapping or match
Keywords or text words search
query term= terms in designated fields
extract
Searching subject
Source document
Main Bibliographic Database for Life
Science and Related Area
 Chemical Abstract (CA)
online:SciFinder
 Science Citation Index SCI
 Biological Abstract
Online: BIOSIS Preview
 Index Medicus
Online: PubMed
 Excerpta Medica
Online: EMbase.com
BP and PubMed and EMBASE
 The three are complementary databases covering
medicine documents:
BIOSIS Preview's focus: pre-clinical research information
in biology and biomedicine;
PubMed's focus: biomedicine, including clinical medicine;
nursing, dentistry, EBM
EMBASE’s focus: drug research and pharmacology,
oncology.
Biosis Previews and EMBASE
BP and MEDLINE (PubMed)
Objective
 Know about BIOSIS Previews
 Able to make good use of BIOSIS Previews
search features
 Able to process BIOSIS Previews search
results efficiently and effectively
BP: history
 About BIOSIS®
Founded in 1926
BIOSciences Information Service
World’s largest abstracting and indexing service
focused on the life sciences
Headquartered in Philadelphia (USA)
Web of Knowledge:Search interface provided by ISI
BP: source document coverage
– Broadest coverage of life sciences journals:
>5,000 international journals
– The most comprehensive source for meetings,
conferences and symposia in the life sciences
– Patent coverage gives critical information
– Book chapter, software review
BP: subject coverage
 Traditional topics
biology, plant science, animal science,
zoology
 Interdisciplinary areas
biotechnology, bioengineering,
bioprocessing, biochemistry
molecular biology
 Related areas
Biomedical Agriculture Pharmacology Ecology
BP: geographical coverage
North America (31%)
Asia, Australasia
(14%)
Europe &
Middle East (52%)
Central & S. America (2%)
Africa (1%)
Outline
 Overview of BIOSIS Previews
 How to use BP ?
Access to general search
Processing your results
Refine or analyze your results
 Make better use of BP
Advanced search--construct complicated query
 Personalize BP
Our library homepage:
http://Lib.smu.edu.cn
Search option
Search area
Timespan limits
Search fields in BP
 For explanation of these fields, please
refer to the following web page:
http://images.isiknowledge.com/help/B
IOSIS/h_fullrec.html
Try it !
 We know a paper written by N.
PRADEEP KUMAR in 2012 was
published on <Molecular Ecology
Resources>. Please find it using BP and
try to download the full text.
TRY IT!
 Now we need a set of papers about
DNA barcoding research in India.
How to search using BP?
TRY IT!
 Now we found 19 papers about DNA
barcoding research in India.
 Are there meeting papers ?
 If I want to filter out papers about DNA
barcoding on mammalian , how to do
with BP’s “ANALYZE RESULTS
“feature
e.g. gene targeting used in studies concerning
nerve system or neurology
Recall rate versus Accuracy
#1 Title=("gene targeting" and (nerv* or neur*))
#2 Title=(gene targeting and (nerv* or neur*))
#3 Title=("gene targeting") AND Major Concepts=(nerv* or
neur*)
#4 Topic=("gene targeting" and (nerv* or neur*))
Search fields: Topic:
 Search in the following fields:
title, abstract, major concept etc.
 Almost a full record search
 A broad search
Search field: major concept
 When to use it?
for broad search, a not so specific subject.
 How to use it?
① find proper concept which can cover your
subject in major concept table
②do document search with your concept term
Broad topic
Dental Medicine
cardiology
Specific topic
Periodontitis
Myocardial
infarction
Anti-inflammatory aspirin
drugs
Refine with text words
=
Search within results
=
Do second search
BP search exercises:
Search documents on the following topics:
1 Methods or technique used for Hydrastis
(or coptisine ) study
2 RNA interference ( or RNAi) used in
breast neoplasm study
Please try to refine your results by
document type to see how many journal
papers you get.
Outline
 Overview of BIOSIS Previews
 How to use BP ?
Access to general search
Processing your results
Refine or analyze your results
 Make better use of BP
Advanced search--construct complicated query
 Personalize BP
e.g. gene targeting used in studies concerning
nerve system neoplasms
Ts=gene targeting and MC=(nerv* or neur*)
and DS=neoplasm
Filed tag for
Disease Data
Search exercise:
 Search for journal or meeting papers on
influenza A(H1N1) outbreak in U.S.A
 Our qurey:
Filed tag for
Geographic Data
#1 (TI=( influenza A and H1N1) or DS=
=( influenza A and H1N1)) and GE=usa
#2 refine or analyze our results by Document
Type
Questions?
 For explanation of these fields, please
refer to the following web page:
http://images.isiknowledge.com/help/B
IOSIS/h_fullrec.html
Summary
 Know about BIOSIS Previews
It is very important when you want to do a
thorough documents search in life science.
 Able to make good use of BIOSIS Previews
 Able to process BIOSIS Previews search
results .
Thank You !
Biosystematics
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
Organisms
Microorganisms
Kingdom
Plantae
Animalia
Example:
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Vertebrata
Order
Family
Genus
Species
Mammalia
Primates
Hominidae
http://scientific.thomson.com/support/
recorded-training/wok/
http://isiwebofknowledge.com/current
user_wokhome/cu_trainingsupport/