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1Bath Information & Data Services © 2000 Overview
BIDS - Bath Information & Data Services
What is BIDS?
How can BIDS help you?
BIDS services
Accessing BIDS
Conducting searches
Some limitations of BIDS databases
Help and information about BIDS
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What is BIDS?
A service providing network access to leading bibliographic databases and full text journals
Details of journal articles, reviews, conference proceedings, etc
Searchable abstract texts
Current and frequently updated information
Simple, easy-to-use interfaces with extensive online help
Free and unlimited access for students and staff
BIDS
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How can BIDS help you?
Reviewing what has been published on a specific topic who is publishing work in particular subject areas active areas of research recent findings based on earlier research (citation searching)
Following the work of specific authors
Tracking the research activity of particular organisations
Verifying references
Reviewing the contents of journal issues
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BIDS Pascal Service
An international database covering the major literature in science, technology and medicine:
Coverage of over 4000 international journals More than 8 million records
Abstracts available in 75% of articles since 1995
Updated weekly - data from 1984
Special features - AutoJournals, and access to some full text articles
Highly successful BIDS web interface
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BIDS Pascal Service
AgricultureBiologyChemistry and Chemicals Engineering Sciences Environment - Sciences of the
UniverseFood IndustriesForestryMedicinePharmacologyPhysicsPsychology
Subject Coverage
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ingentaJournals Service
Full text electronic journals service
Thousands of journal articles from a range of publishers
Free for anyone to search and browse
Free access to full text articles for journal subscribers
Supports UK Pilot Site Licence Scheme
Web access
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ingentaJournals - Subject Coverage
Physical SciencesEngineeringEnvironmental
ScienceLife SciencesMaths & StatisticsMedicineNursingPsychology
BusinessEconomicsEducationHistoryHumanitiesLinguisticsManagementPhilosophyPoliticsSociology
Subject Coverage includes
Full Text
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BIDS Inside Information Service
Table of contents database
Data supplied by the British Library, based on their Document Supply Centre holdings
Coverage of the BL’s 20 000 most requested titles
Data back to 1992
Updated twice-weekly
Telnet access
B I D S
InsideInformation
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BL Inside Information - Subject Coverage
Data based on every major article in 20 000 of BLDSC's most requested titles
Covers wide range of subject areas
Subject Coverage
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BIDS IBSS ONLINE Service
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences - one of the largest and most comprehensive social sciences databases in the world
Data supplied by the British Library of Political and Economic Science
Includes over 2600 journals & 6000 books per annum
Access to some full text articles
Now dates back to 1951 - updated weekly
Abstracts included from 1997
Web and telnet services
IBSS ONLINE
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IBSS ONLINE - Subject Coverage
Anthropology
Economics
Politics
Sociology
International Bibliography ofthe Social Sciences
Subject Coverage
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BIDS EMBASE Service
Well-known medical database from Elsevier Science
Particularly good coverage of drugs and toxicology
Covers ~3500 journals from 110 countries
Updated weekly - data back to 1980
Special feature - EMTREE thesaurus searching
Web, Windows client and telnet services through Ovid interface
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EMBASE - Subject Coverage
Drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics & toxicology
Human medicine (clinical & experimental)Basic biological research relevant to human medicineHealth policy & managementPublic, occupational & environmental healthSubstance dependence & abusePsychiatryForensic medicineBiomedical engineering & instrumentation
Selective coverage of: Nursing, dentistry, veterinary science, psychology, alternative medicine
Strengths: Drugs/toxicology, international coverage (especially European, Japanese)
Medline overlap about 37%
Subject Coverage
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BIDS RSC Service
Seven specialist databases supplied by The Royal Society of Chemistry:
Analytical Abstracts Chemical Business NewsBase Chemical Engineering &
Biotechnology Abstracts Chemical Safety Data Sheets Chemical Safety NewsBase Mass Spectrometry Bulletin UK Nutrient Databank
Wide coverage of international journals, books, standards and ‘grey literature’
Most updated monthly
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RSC Databases - Subject Coverage
Analytical chemistryChromatographySpectroscopyMass spectrometryHazardous chemicalsSafety at work
laboratoriesofficeschemical industry
Environmental issuesBiotechnologyFood and nutrition
Subject Coverage
Chemical engineeringtheorypilot scale studiesprocessescontrol methods
Chemical industry newsproductsmarketslegislationcompany results
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BIDS Education Service
Two important education databases
ERIC the world’s largest education database abstracts included journal articles, research documents,
technical reports, curricular materials data back to 1966 - updated monthly
British Education Index (BEI) British and European sources for
education and training 350 journals plus national reports and
conferences data back to 1986 - updated quarterly
Web, Windows client and telnet services through Ovid interface
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Education Databases - Subject Coverage
1 1 3 Pre-school EducationPrimary Education Secondary EducationReading SkillsCurriculaTests & EvaluationScience & Maths
EducationGifted ChildrenFurther EducationHigher EducationGraduate Studies
Subject Coverage
Adult EducationAdult Basic EducationVocational TrainingProfessional TrainingTeaching
ManagementTeacher EducationCounsellingHealth EducationPolicy
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Accessing BIDS
BIDS services operate from the University of Bath
Access via JANET
Connection by World Wide Web or telnet
Availability 24 hours/day, 7 days/week (some exceptions)
Registration required
Free and unlimited use at licensed sites BIDS
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Conducting Searches
Search for: words or phrases in article titles, abstracts or keywords author names and/or addresses journal titles keywords or index terms
Limit searches by: year of publication (or a range of years) language of original article document type(s)
Special features: Web services - availability of some full text articles EMBASE - thesaurus tree
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Some limitations of BIDS databases
BIDS databases do not cover all published material
There is no guaranteed way of finding all relevant articles
Only a small proportion of full text articles are available but most databases do include abstracts
Some databases can be biased to English language and US titles
Relatively recent time coverage in some databases
No suppliers guarantee 100% accuracy minor errors do occur
Journals indexed by BIDS may not be available locally check your library for details of local holdings
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Help and Information about BIDS
Printed documentation available
Extensive context-sensitive online help screens
Local support information also given online
Local contacts for registration and help
E-mail the BIDS Helpdesk at [email protected]
See the BIDS web site at http://www.bids.ac.uk for downloadable user guides and other information