Geotomez1 (talk) 04:22, 2 June 2010 (UTC)To the editors of Wikipedia: Like I mentioned in my last post, I am a former employee of BIOSIS, having worked there 23 years. With that in mind, I can state the Wikipedia entry for BIOSIS is still incomplete, and should read as follows:
BIOSIS in the 1980s was the world’s largest life science abstracting, indexing and access service.[1] It retained this distinction until the early 2000s. It published Biological Abstracts and The Zoological Record, along with more than a hundred other science publications.[2] It was originally founded in December of 1926.[3][4] It was officially incorporated as a not-for-profit entity in Washington, DC on 19 March 1927. The name was changed to BioSciences Information Service of Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS) in 1964.
In early January of 2004 the assets of the company, including its entire product line and the trade name “BIOSIS,” were purchased by Thomson Scientific[5] and that product line is now part of the Thomson Reuters Science & Healthcare division.[5] The purchase price was not disclosed.
In that same month, the BIOSIS Board of Trustees filed papers in Washington, DC to legally change the name of the company to “The J.R.S. Foundation”[5][6] (the initials stand for Jacob Richard Schramm, the first editor in chief of Biological Abstracts). The proceeds from the sale of the company assets were entrusted to this new Foundation, the purpose of which is to enhance knowledge and promote the understanding of biological diversity for the benefit and sustainability of life on earth. To accomplish this the Foundation seeks to make grants to developing countries and economies in transition. The Foundation Board of Trustees has expressed a particular interest in focusing its grant-making in Africa. The organization subsequently renamed itself “The J.R.S. Biodiversity Foundation” and awarded its first grants in early 2007.[7]
That same year, Wolters Kluwer announced the digital availability of the BIOSIS Archive and Zoological Record Archive databases, via their Ovid Technologies online services.[8] The BIOSIS Archive consists of the data from the print volumes of Biological Abstracts from 1926 to 1968, and the Zoological Record Archive contains the data published in print in the Zoological Record from 1864 to 1977.[8] In 2010 Biosis Citation Index was released on the Web of Knowledge Platform by the Thomson Science & Healthcare Division, combining extensive indexing and database coverage of Biosis Previews with the Web of Science’s citation tracking features.[9]
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7. Tomezsko, George. (2006, 2010) Fully Occupied Years -- The Rise and Fall of a Company called BIOSIS, Xlibris Corporation, USA, ISBN 978-1-4257-0380-6
My question to you, the editors of Wikipedia, is can the present BIOSIS entry be changed to this one?
Respectfully,
George TomezskoGeotomez1 (talk) 04:22, 2 June 2010 (UTC)