1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. BIDS Pascal Service Subject Coverage Agriculture Biology
Chemistry and Chemicals
Engineering Sciences
Environment - Sciences of the Universe
Food Industries
Forestry
Medicine
Pharmacology
Physics
Psychology

6. 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

7. ingentaJournals - Subject Coverage
Subject Coverage includes
Physical Sciences
Engineering
Environmental Science
Life Sciences
Maths & Statistics
Medicine
Nursing
Psychology
Business
Economics
Education
History
Humanities
Linguistics
Management
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
Full Text

8. 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 most requested titles
Data back to 1992
Updated twice-weekly
Telnet access
B I D S
Inside
Information

9. BL Inside Information - Subject Coverage
Data based on every major article in of BLDSC's most requested titles
Covers wide range of subject areas

10. 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 & books per annum
Access to some full text articles
Now dates back to updated weekly
Abstracts included from 1997
Web and telnet services
IBSS ONLINE

11. IBSS ONLINE - Subject Coverage
International Bibliography of
the Social Sciences
Subject Coverage
Anthropology
Economics
Politics
Sociology

12. 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

13. EMBASE - Subject Coverage
Drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics & toxicology
Human medicine (clinical & experimental)
Basic biological research relevant to human medicine
Health policy & management
Public, occupational & environmental health
Substance dependence & abuse
Psychiatry
Forensic medicine
Biomedical engineering & instrumentation
Selective coverage of: Nursing, dentistry, veterinary science, psychology, alternative medicine
Strengths: Drugs/toxicology, international coverage (especially European, Japanese)
Medline overlap about 37%

14. 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

15. RSC Databases - Subject Coverage
Analytical chemistry
Chromatography
Spectroscopy
Mass spectrometry
Hazardous chemicals
Safety at work
laboratories
offices
chemical industry
Environmental issues
Biotechnology
Food and nutrition
Chemical engineering
theory
pilot scale studies
processes
control methods
Chemical industry news
products
markets
legislation
company results

16. 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 updated monthly
British Education Index (BEI)
British and European sources for education and training
350 journals plus national reports and conferences
data back to updated quarterly
Web, Windows client and telnet services through Ovid interface

17. Education Databases - Subject Coverage
Pre-school Education
Primary Education
Secondary Education
Reading Skills
Curricula
Tests & Evaluation
Science & Maths Education
Gifted Children
Further Education
Higher Education
Graduate Studies
Adult Education
Adult Basic Education
Vocational Training
Professional Training
Teaching Management
Teacher Education
Counselling
Health Education
Policy

18. 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

19. Conducting Searches Search for: Limit searches by: Special features:
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

20. 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

21. 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
the BIDS Helpdesk at
See the BIDS web site at for downloadable user guides and other information