Shasta Natural Science Association asks:
 
"Is there a way to tap into Biological Abstracts? "
 
Not for free, unfortunately (that I know of).
Otherwise, in the US you can get to it through several commercial databases of d
atabases including
Dialog, STN, Questel, OCLC, and MEDLARS. They
also sell a CD.
 
BIOSIS, the folks that put the abstracts together give
more details on  their  home page at:
http://www.biosis.org
 
FYI there's also a pretty incredible "WWW Virtual Library"
organized by subject (including biosciences) at:
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/
Overview.html
 
Have fun!
 
Jackie Zak
Documentation Program
Getty Conservation Inst.
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