Encycopaedia of Life Sciences
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Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0333726219
Format: hardback or online
Price: £3,100.00, $4,860.00
Review Date: 12 June 2002
Review: This large new reference in the biological and biomedical sciences contains over 3000 entries from leading international scientists. The encyclopaedia is available online from www.els.net and will be regularly updated with additional topics added online from Nature and Nature Review journals. The aim is to update 20 percent of the content every year. The articles are organised in a structured, subject-based hierarchy at different levels of complexity and full search facilities are available. There are articles to suit all levels: from introductory level articles for undergraduates and non-specialist readers needing basic concepts in a given subject to secondary level articles which are useful for advanced undergraduates and graduates with material equivalent to graduate level texts. This large new reference in the biological and biomedical sciences contains over 3000 entries from leading international scientists. The encyclopaedia is available online from www.els.net and will be regularly updated with additional topics added online from Nature and Nature Review journals. The aim is to update 20 percent of the content every year. The articles are organised in a structured, subject-based hierarchy at different levels of complexity and full search facilities are available. There are articles to suit all levels: from introductory level articles for undergraduates and non-specialist readers needing basic concepts in a given subject to secondary level articles which are useful for advanced undergraduates and graduates with material equivalent to graduate level texts. This large new reference in the biological and biomedical sciences contains over 3000 entries from leading international scientists. The encyclopaedia is available online from www.els.net and will be regularly updated with additional topics added online from Nature and Nature Review journals. The aim is to update 20 percent of the content every year. The articles are organised in a structured, subject-based hierarchy at different levels of complexity and full search facilities are available. There are articles to suit all levels: from introductory level articles for undergraduates and non-specialist readers needing basic concepts in a given subject to secondary level articles which are useful for advanced undergraduates and graduates with material equivalent to graduate level texts.