eLS

What's New

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eLS is updated on a monthly basis, and was most recently updated on 16th April 2012 when 36 new articles were published. Click here for details of the latest additions.

In total, there are now 4861 articles published in eLS online, of which 1535 have at least one update.

eLS (originally known as the Encyclopedia of Life Sciences) was launched online in April 2001 by Nature Publishing Group (NPG). This was followed in 2002 by the 20-volume print edition. At the end of 2004, eLS was acquired from NPG by John Wiley & Sons.

Since Wiley acquired eLS, some 3719 new and updated articles have been added, further expanding the scope of the premier online reference in the life sciences. Readers can now purchase supplementary volume sets (volumes 21-26 and volumes 27-32) which contain articles on topics not included in the original 20-volume set, or purchase the full 32 volume set. By updating the original print set with these new articles, we ensure that students, researchers and teachers are kept informed of the latest advances across the life sciences in a single body of peer-reviewed, citable, work.