Life Sciences Collection

The Life Sciences Collection provides access to 32 Annual Review journals. The 2024 collection represents a valuable reference assortment of highly cited review articles. Each review contains an average of 150 citations to the key primary research contributions in a field, increasing usage of primary journals and guiding subject librarians with collection development.

“I might have once thought I could keep in the same place by assiduous reading of the primary literature in a few key journals and by attending a couple of key meetings each year and selected seminars throughout the year, but now I think I would need to run many times faster just to keep up. And worse yet if I want to learn something new. Luckily, one of my jobs as Editor of this journal is an early read of some of the submitted articles, and then, hopefully, a chance to read the rest as they appear online and in print. I venture to suggest that if every microbiologist randomly chose (no fair to pick the topics you already know the most about!) a half-dozen reviews to read from the Annual Review of Microbiology, they would all learn something new and pertinent to their own work that they may never encounter in a PubMed search.”
Susan Gottesman, Editor, Annual Review of Microbiology, Vol. 65, 2011