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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


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


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


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


BIDS Pascal Service

AgricultureBiologyChemistry and Chemicals Engineering Sciences Environment - Sciences of the

UniverseFood IndustriesForestryMedicinePharmacologyPhysicsPsychology

Subject Coverage


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


ingentaJournals - Subject Coverage

Physical SciencesEngineeringEnvironmental

ScienceLife SciencesMaths & StatisticsMedicineNursingPsychology

BusinessEconomicsEducationHistoryHumanitiesLinguisticsManagementPhilosophyPoliticsSociology

Subject Coverage includes

Full Text


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


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


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


IBSS ONLINE - Subject Coverage

Anthropology

Economics

Politics

Sociology

International Bibliography ofthe Social Sciences

Subject Coverage


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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

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