Zoological Record
Navigate renowned coverage of all aspects of animal biology
Advance your topic faster with expertly indexed coverage
Zoological Record™ is the world’s oldest continuing database of animal biology. With coverage back to 1864, it is considered the world’s leading taxonomic reference and unofficial register of animal names.
View research through an expert lens
Simplify prior name searches
Connect research across fields
Pinpoint relevant information and investigate our changing world
Contextual indexing
Save time searching with indexing that provides context around how a concept or key term is discussed in the full paper.
Broad coverage
Increase the depth of your discovery and capture all aspects of animal biology, paleobiology, and zoology in one resource.
Trend identification
Uncover key evidence of animal population changes over time with indexing that has been consistently applied to the literature for decades.
Bringing historical data into a modern format
In 1864, a group of scientists affiliated with the Zoological Society of London and the British Museum founded Zoological Record as a way to communicate amongst themselves. As others in the scientific community started to use the resource, content expanded. In 1886, the Zoological Society of London assumed complete responsibility for its publication.
In 1980, the Zoological Society and BioSciences Information Service of Biological Abstracts™ (BIOSIS™) joined forces to produce and publish Zoological Record, and today, BIOSIS (part of the Web of Science) is the sole publisher.
Over the years, Zoological Record has expanded and adapted to the needs of its users, and today is recognized as the leading and most comprehensive source for biodiversity, systematics, and zoological information. The full collection provides all this valuable information in one place, digitized and re-indexed with modern terms and thoroughly searchable and linkable.
