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Who are we?
Science Direct
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ScienceDirect covers about 24.4% of the world’s full-text scientific, technical and medical (STM) information across 24 fields of science
ScienceDirect – did you know that …
– ScienceDirect contains over
9 Million
reviewed article peer – –
11 million researchers
to ScienceDirect. worldwide have access
36
full text downloads every second during an average working day.
– Since Launch science direst has put an average of
two articles every minute
•Content
9 million journals
full-text articles from
2,500+ Elsevier 23
Subject Collections
Backfiles
dating back to
1823
Early access to preprints via
Articles in Press 70+
Reference Works
141
Book Series in
6 packages (63 titles)
6 series
Handbooks
(164 volumes) 5,000
eBooks Free linking
CrossRef™ to other STM publishers via
All journals are available on ScienceDirect from volume 1, issue 1
The Lancet – vol 1, no. 1 - 1823.
Making ScienceDirect your Own
•How do I register? • Select ‘Not Registered?’ at top of SD homepage • Free Registration • Create your own login • Quick and Simple
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Useful tabs
Where to begin?
• I’m new,
where do I begin?
• Browsing • Searching
Browsing
• What if I want to
look in a particular publication?
• Browsing • Searching
Browsing
Subject Alerts
Browsing
• Limit your search by: • Holdings, or • Publication types
Browsing-Journal Home Page
Browsing-Articles in Press
• Accepted Manuscript • Uncorrected Proof • Corrected Proof
Browsing-Articles in Press
• Accepted Manuscript • • • Peer-reviewed article as it was originally accepted Not copyedited Not formatted • Uncorrected Proof • • • Copy edited and formatted peer-reviewed article Not finalized Not corrected by the authors • Corrected Proof • • • Copy edited and formatted peer-reviewed article Corrected and approved by author Not yet printed in a finalized issue
Browsing-Books
Browsing-Books
•Searching • I don’t know
what title to look in, what can I do?
• Searching All content in SD is fully searchable Searching is easy and intuitive Use ‘Quick Search’ or Detailed Search
Searching Tip-Syntax Searching
* finds a root word plus all the words made by adding letters to the end of it – Behav* finds behave , behavioral , behaviour , etc.
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replaces a character anywhere in a word, except the first character – Wom?n finds woman and women Proximity Connectors – W/nn – PRE/nn Boolean “OR” automatically added to query Finds more records
Searching Tips-Phrase Searching
• There are two options for searching a phrase: – – Loose phrase search – double quotes “ “ Exact phrase search – single quotes ‘ ‘ • Loose phrase search – enclose in double quotes – – – Will search for documents where the words are adjacent to each other Does not insert the AND operator Will ignore punctuation, e.g, hyphens or apostrophes, • • e.g., “heart-attack” will find docs with and without the hyphen “C++” or “C” will find the same results • Exact phrase search – enclose in single quotes – – – – Stop words, punctuation, special characters and wildcards are searched ‘C++’ will only return docs with this exact character combination ‘C’ will return different results Searching for quotation marks requires a \ before the actual quotation mark • \ ’best practice\’
•Advanced Search Limit
your
search by
your
criteria Subscribed content only Favorite journals Subject area Date of publication Within keywords, abstracts, etc • • morphine Pain management
Advanced Search
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Advanced Search
•Hint: To capture and access all of your search queries, login and turn on the Search History.
•Also appears on personal homepage.
• Quick Review •Use quick search for quick and easy searches •Use search form to specify fields and search parameters •Turn on search history to capture and automatically save searches
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Use quick search for easy fast search
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Use search form to specify fields and search parameters
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Turn on search history to capture and automatically save searches
Spell Checker on Results Pages
• • Just like Google – – If no results or less than 20 results are found, the system offers alternative spellings FAST has it’s own dictionaries that offers alternatives to possible typos Proven helpful tool that users appr eciate
Synonyms and Alternative Spellings
• • • • English and American spellings – behaviour and behavior, flavour and flavor, colour and color, psychoanalyse and psychoanalyze Plurals – horse and horses, woman and women, case and cases Root words – Transplant and transplants and transplanting, hear and hearing Synonyms – Aspirin will also search acetylsalicylic acid
Search result page In refine results move the categories to your preferred order
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Supplementary content
Export citations
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BibTex Format Added
Advanced features -Related articles
Further advanced features
• • • Word Wheel Refine Results option Mouse over references
Further advanced features Graphical Abstracts
Just added to ScienceDirect!
PDF Downloader
Downloading a PDF from Search Results – How it used to look like .
… one, by one, by one…
PDF Downloader
PDF downloader
2Collab 2Collab integration on ScienceDirect
2Collab
Launched in 2007- a collaboration platform designed specifically for researchers in the science, technical and medical communities.
2collab provides three types of features:
1.Online bookmarking and reference management 2.Groups
- for sharing with existing networks, or building new ones
3.Networking
- find, evaluate and initiate contact with new people
2collab Integration on the Article Page
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Using SD Articles
• • • Authorized SD users can print or download subscribed articles Authorized institutes may incorporate links to licensed content, including full-text into electronic coursepacks or e-reserve lists Library may provide links on homepages, library website or online catalog to licensed content • Authors may post final version of manuscripts on their own website or institutional repository – Must include full citation information and link to journal on SD
ILL & Document Delivery
• • • Document delivery is permitted – If user is affiliated with institution, library can take users electronically to article or email them subscribed articles Interlibrary loan is permitted – – ILL request must come from an academic or other noncommercial, noncorporate research library located in the same country as the subscriber Article must be printed then mailed, faxed or scanned and transmitted (via Ariel or similar system) Use by library guests – – General public may access institute’s journals to view and print articles of licensed content Libraries may impose their own usage restrictions on guest users
…some websites to note down
top25.sciencedirect.com
info.sciencedirect.com
trainingdesk.elsevier.com
topics.scirus.com
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