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WISER Science
An Overview of E-resources
Juliet Ralph, Radcliffe Science Library
October 2007
OxLIP
Oxford Libraries Information Platform
…let’s take a guided tour for Science &
Medicine
– Key headings
– Key resources
Especially those we have bought or subscribed to!
– There’s a complete A-Z list of all resources on
the Title List tab
– They are also listed under relevant headings
on the main Subject List screen
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip
Library Catalogues and Library
Information
OLIS - Union Catalogue of Oxford
Libraries to find books & journals
World-Wide Library Catalogues
Latest Database Acquisitions and
Trials e.g. “Henry Stewart” Talks
Online lectures in biomedical science
http://hstalks.com/access
All Subjects
Dictionaries, Encyclopædias and Reference
Works
Electronic Journals and E-books
General Bibliographic Tools and Publishing
Aids
Newspapers
Official Papers (inc. sources of statistics)
OXAM - Oxford Examination Papers Online
World Wide Web and the Internet
Dictionaries, Encyclopædias and
Reference Works
Major reference sources such as
Oxford English Dictionary
Encylopaedia Britannica Online
Oxford Reference Online
– quick reference collection, including
English and bilingual dictionaries,
English grammar & thesaurus, plus
subject dictionaries
Plus some specialised ones
Encyclopedia of Biodiversity
Encyclopedia of Cancer
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
Encyclopedia of Materials: Science
and Technology
Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics
Images.MD (medical images)
Knovel Critical Tables (chemistry)
General Bibliographic Tools and
Publishing Aids
British Standards Online
– Technical specifications
– Current, historic and draft standards
– Requires an Athens account even within the
Oxford domain
Index to Theses
– List of theses (with abstracts) accepted for
higher degrees by universities in Great Britain
and Ireland since 1716
Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest)
– doctoral dissertations and master's theses,
worldwide, from 1861
Sciences
Biological Sciences
Earth & Environmental Sciences
History of Science
Medical Sciences
Physical & Mathematical Sciences
Under these headings are listed
relevant databases, reference works
and e-books, and internet sites
Bibliographic Databases
Key tool for literature searching
– find journal articles, book chapters,
conference proceedings, etc in your
subject.
Different interfaces but all do a
similar job:
To list Citations + Abstracts
+ links to full text if Oxford has
access, using
Key subject databases
Biological Sciences
– BIOSIS (biology & biochemistry)
– CAB Abstracts (agriculture & forestry)
– Zoological Record
Earth & Environmental Sciences
– GeoBase (geography)
– GeoRef (geology)
History of Science
– Historical Abstracts
Medical Sciences
– Medline (medicine)
Freely available via PubMed
Also via Ovid Web Gateway
– AMED (complementary medicine)
– Embase (pharmacology)
– Global Health
– PsycINFO (psychology)
– SPORTDiscus (sports medicine)
Physical & Mathematical Sciences
Chemistry
– Chemical Abstracts (via SciFinder Scholar)
Engineering
– Compendex
Materials
– METADEX - Materials Research Database (via
CSA)
Maths
– MathSciNet
Physical & Mathematical Sciences
INSPEC
For Physics, Engineering, Computing , Applied Maths,
Astronomy …
Coverage includes pure and applied
physics, electronics, electrical
engineering, communications, computer
science, control engineering,
information technology and
manufacturing, mechanical and
production engineering
 Indexes approx 4200 journals, 1000
conferences, books, reports, dissertations
 Coverage from 1969 onwards
Multidisciplinary databases
Web of Knowledge
Web of Science
Arts & Humanities Citation Index, 1975Science Citation Index Expanded, 1945Social Science Citation Index, 1956-
Science & Medicine
SCOPUS
Contains 4 of those specialist databases:
Compendex 1970Embase 1970Geobase 1980Medline 1966Plus these datasets: Fluidex 1974- ; World
Textile Index 1970- ; Biobase 1994 15000 journals in total
 Also websites and patents
 Produced by Elsevier
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Databases v Search engines
Contents indexed by
specialists
Subject headings
Limits
Allow you to:
View search history
Combine searches
Mark & sort results
Print/save/email
& Export results
Save searches
Set up alerts
Free text searching
only
No limiting functions
None of these!
Getting your hands on the Full
Text
If there’s no link from the database…
Check the Oxford e-journals list
http://sfx7.exlibrisgroup.com/oxford/
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Check the Library Catalogue (for
books and printed journals)
http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis/
What if it’s not available in
Oxford?
Some authors allow unlimited access to
their work and if you type the title of the
paper into Google you may be able to
access a downloadable copy of the paper.
Contact the author(s) and ask them to
send you a reprint of their paper.
Alternatively, use our Inter-Library
Loan/Document Supply service!
Managing your references
Several packages available:
1. EndNote
Either buy a licence from OUCS at
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/shop/
Or register for a free (to you) web-based account
www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/eresources/endnote
2. RefWorks
Also free (to you) and web-based
Create an account at
www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/eresources/refworks
Accessing OxLIP resources
Direct access from Oxford University
network
Remote access
– Register for a personal Athens account
– www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/athens/
– If database does not use Athens, install
the Virtual Private Network on your pc
for access to the University network
– www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/network/remote/
Here to help
Queries about e-journals and
databases, including access problems
[email protected]
Radcliffe Science Library
[email protected]
http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/rsl/
Or contact your Subject Librarian
Bio- & environmental sciences:
[email protected]
Life sciences & medicine:
[email protected]
Physical sciences:
[email protected]
Health Care Libraries:
[email protected]
Complete list at
www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/collections/librarians
Over to you
Try the
databases:
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tutorial for one of these
INSPEC (physical sciences)
Medline (medicine)
SCOPUS (all science & medicine)
PsycINFO (psychology)
Go to
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip/
Select database from the Title List
And look for