BIOSIS Previews® added to CIS
Thomson Scientific has added the BIOSIS Previews collection of journals to
the extensive collection of information sources searched by Custom Information
Services (CIS). This addition of 2,100 unique journals brings the coverage for CIS searching up to more than 10,800 journals.
CIS is proud to incorporate this unique collection of journals into its service. BIOSIS Previews contains high quality research information for the life sciences
industry, covering disciplines such as ecology, botany, veterinary science,
genetics, agriculture, and related areas such as instrumentation and methods.
The BIOSIS Previews collection is the most comprehensive source of references
to national and international meetings, conferences, and symposia available
to the life sciences industry. Over 160,000 citations, from approximately 1,250
reviewed meetings, are added annually.
BIOSIS Previews also offers comprehensive indexing of major medical and life
science conferences each year, and covers the pre-clinical information found
in basic biological symposia and workshops.
For more information on how the addition of BIOSIS Previews can enhance
your profiles or coverage, please speak to your CIS Client Manager
or email TS.CISEnquiries@thomson.com
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Get more from your data with Derwent AnalyticsSM
CIS clients can benefit from a wide range of value-added options to the regular
CIS service, including use of Derwent Analytics. This key
data visualization tool helps you get more out of CIS data by conducting
further analysis. For example, you can easily identify clusters of information
related to adverse events for a particular drug.
Raw data from CIS can be inputted into Derwent Analytics,
which can show each field separately. This information can then be furthered
organized into ranked lists. These can merge all entries for a single topic,
such as a company or product name, while keeping the original data intact. Any
two fields can be compared as a co-occurrence matrix, such as adverse effects
versus a drug.
Data mapping or auto-correlation can produce a map showing terms that commonly
appear together, for instance a network of authors publishing together. A further
correlation—cross-correlation—can show which authors are working
in the same field, but not collaborating together.
Derwent Analytics can be used by departments throughout an organization, via
CIS , to help ensure a total return on your investment. To find out
how you can access this valuable software, please contact your CIS
representative or email TS.CISEnquiries@thomson.com
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CIS announces a new way to output data (E2B)
Because of national and international agreements and regulations, individual
case safety reports of adverse drug reactions and adverse events need to be
transmitted to the relevant regulatory authorities around the world. Now CIS offers an additional output in E2B format, which will enable easy upload into
a drug safety database and ensure that regulatory departments are ready for
the next step of active query follow-up.
The transmission of such individual case safety reports historically relied
on paper-based formats (e.g., yellow cards, Council for the International Organizations
of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) forms, MedWatch) or electronic media (e.g. within
pharmaceutical companies, or with WHO), usually by online access, tape, or file
transfer. Considering the large number of potential participants in a world-wide
exchange of information, there was a need for an electronic format capable of
accommodating direct database to database transmission using message transfers.
Successful electronic transmission of information relies on the definition of
common data elements and standard transmission procedures to be specified by
the ICH Electronic Standards for the Transfer of Regulatory Information (ESTRI)
Expert Working Group (M2).
CIS has answered this need by designing a program to output a client’s
current data into the electronic submission form required by regulatory authories
worldwide. In this way the need for manually inputting any relevant data is
eliminated and saves you time in the reporting process.
To find out how CIS can help your organization with their electronic
submissions to federal regulatory agencies, please contact your CIS
client manager or email TS.CISEnquiries@thomson.com
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Discover Thomson PharmaSM—a
dynamic, integrated solution
Thomson Scientific is committed to providing customer-focused solutions and
enabling our customers to reap the maximum benefit from our solutions. As a
result, CIS data and your proprietary databases can be added to the
Thomson Pharma platform to create a custom solution that fulfils your
organization’s information needs at every stage of the drug development
process.
Making informed decisions at every step of the drug development process is
a major challenge facing the scientific community. It’s critical that
organizations know how and where to find focused, valuable information, so they
can enhance their productivity and determine where to best focus their projects.
Thomson Scientific took on the challenge of resolving this problem by creating
an integrated pharmaceutical solution—Thomson Pharma.
Thomson Pharma is a powerful, dynamic, and wide-ranging solution that
features the best scientific, patent, and financial content offered by Thomson
businesses.
To find out more about Thomson Pharma and the customization of our
CIS services onto the platform, please contact your CIS client
manager or email TS.CISEnquiries@thomson.com
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Benefit from multiple database searching
Did you know that in addition to searching the entire Thomson Scientific collection
of journal and conference information sources, CIS can also search additional
databases such as EMBASE and Medline, ensuring total coverage? Only the unique
journals that Thomson Scientific does not cover, will be searched ensuring that
full coverage is achieved without any duplication of effort. Any subscription
fees incurred for accessing these databases are considered pass-through costs.
To find out more about our how you can incorporate multiple database searching
into your current profiles, please contact your CIS client manager or email
TS.CISEnquiries@thomson.com
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