This document provides an overview of a library skills training session that teaches students how to find and use journal articles. It covers what a journal is, searching techniques for known and unknown items, databases like Google Scholar, Scopus, and SciFinder, and how to use the citation management tool RefWorks. The session encourages building personal databases of references and expanding searches by reviewing article bibliographies. Students are directed to subject guides and librarian support for any additional research assistance needs.
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Secondly, the spectrum of information needs to be satisfied is growing larger. The increase in available (open) data demands innovative services to be developed, whether they target researchers, librarians, or end users, and whether the context is an academic, cultural or commercial setting. The associated information retrieval challenge is no longer just about finding a book by its author’s last name. Full-text search combined with a few facets may address more complex needs, but does not help to exploit the linked nature of today’s open data to the maximum opportunity. The key problem is how to use effectively the full amount of linked data that are being made available online, increasing day by day; and turn this rich source of information into novel search scenarios: what are the most prestigious academic publishers, based on scientific citations, online consumer reviews and ratings? How can a search system tailor the quest for a book to the age of the expected
reader?
We discuss how Spinque addresses these challenges of rich interlinked book data, using its core Search by Strategy concept to separate concerns about modelling the various types of data and their interrelations, and customizing the ranking of information objects accordingly. Here, search processes are modelled on top of structured and unstructured data, with an integrated support for probabilistic reasoning in order to deal transparently with both exact and missing / vague information. We discuss this case of book records in the specific context of EU-funded project COMSODE (Components Supporting the Open Data Exploitation). The envisioned Open Data Node platform aims at effective reuse of integrated data sources, with a strong emphasis on data quality.
Chemistry III Practical. How to find articles for the literature review project. How to use SciFinder, Web of Science and Scopus to track down articles. How to export articles to RefWorks and create a list of references
Scopus : the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literatureSumit Kumar Gupta
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyse and visualise research.
As research becomes increasingly global, interdisciplinary and collaborative, you can make sure that critical research from around the world is not missed when you choose Scopus.
Search challenges for collections of book recordsArjen de Vries
Roberto Corniacchia's presentation to the ECIR 2014 Industry Day: http://ecir2014.org/industry-day/
Bibliographic data have always represented an interesting case for Information Retrieval. Books have authors, title, editions, publishers, identification codes and so on; they can cite other publications and be held by a number of libraries. Digital humanities and the cultural heritage domain invest an increasing effort in the preservation, valorisation and exploitation of bibliographic data, with an emphasis on open data. This not only means that larger volumes of data are available, but also that such data sets are more and more linked together, with consequent challenges about their integration. So, even though “books” and their archival records have not changed for decades, the scale of the problem is changing rapidly.
Secondly, the spectrum of information needs to be satisfied is growing larger. The increase in available (open) data demands innovative services to be developed, whether they target researchers, librarians, or end users, and whether the context is an academic, cultural or commercial setting. The associated information retrieval challenge is no longer just about finding a book by its author’s last name. Full-text search combined with a few facets may address more complex needs, but does not help to exploit the linked nature of today’s open data to the maximum opportunity. The key problem is how to use effectively the full amount of linked data that are being made available online, increasing day by day; and turn this rich source of information into novel search scenarios: what are the most prestigious academic publishers, based on scientific citations, online consumer reviews and ratings? How can a search system tailor the quest for a book to the age of the expected
reader?
We discuss how Spinque addresses these challenges of rich interlinked book data, using its core Search by Strategy concept to separate concerns about modelling the various types of data and their interrelations, and customizing the ranking of information objects accordingly. Here, search processes are modelled on top of structured and unstructured data, with an integrated support for probabilistic reasoning in order to deal transparently with both exact and missing / vague information. We discuss this case of book records in the specific context of EU-funded project COMSODE (Components Supporting the Open Data Exploitation). The envisioned Open Data Node platform aims at effective reuse of integrated data sources, with a strong emphasis on data quality.
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2. In this session you will learn:
• What a journal is
• How to find a journal article (known & unknown item
searching)
• Making the most of your databases (Google Scholar,
Science direct, Scopus & SciFinder)
• How to use RefWorks
3. Where to get library help?
Subject guides: Your subject Librarian
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/lib/subject-guides
4.
5. What is a journal?
A journal is a scholarly publication that contains articles on a specific topic
or discipline, usually written by industry experts
such as researchers and academics.
What makes it different from other academic
publications?
• Peer reviewed
• Original research
• Focusses on current development (often most
up-to-date research)
• Published periodically (weekly, monthly,
annually)
6. Finding journal articles:
Known searching:
Looking for a specific title,
knowing exactly in which
journal was published along
with the volume, issue and
pages numbers.
Example:
Mullholland, AJ. 2005.
Modelling enzyme reaction
mechanisms, specificity
and catalysis. Drug
Discovery Today. 10(20):
1393 – 1402.
Unknown searching:
Looking for articles on a
specific topic or subject
across various journals.
Usually done by searching
databases.
Example:
Molecular Modelling of
Enzymatic Reaction
7. Finding known items:
When looking for known
items, you can use UCT
libraries’ e-journal portal
which can be found under
search and find from the UCT
libraries home page.
Simply search for the Journal
you are looking for.
8. Always look for the
availability of the full text
item, in this case, it is
available Elsevier
Science Direct from 1999
onwards
9. Google Scholar
• You can also search for
known items using
Google Scholar,
• Always remember to
sign in using the off-
campus login to
enhance your results
and access.
10. • If you cannot access the article from Google Scholar, use
the SFX@UCT link to gain access to journal articles
through UCT libraries’ e-journal portal
11. UCT Libraries Catalogue (ALEPH) • For results that we do
not have access to
through the e-journal
portal, have a look at
the library catalogue to
check for a hardcopy of
the journal
• You can also request a
journal from the Inter
Library Loans
department from the
UCT libraries home
page. Simply hover over
services and click on
Inter Library Loans
Inter Library Loans:
12. Unknown item searching:
When searching for articles in a specific discipline and on a specific
topic, using database to find the information you are looking for
Google Scholar:
Stand on the shoulders of giants.
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly
literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines
and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions,
from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories,
universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find
relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
Science Direct:
ScienceDirect delivers over 13 million publications from nearly 2,500
journals and more than 33,000 books from Elsevier, their imprints and
their society partners.
Scopus:
More than 60 million records in Scopus, which includes:
Over 21,500 peer-reviewed journals, of which more than 4,200 are full
open access. Over 360 trade publications
Articles-in-press (i.e., articles that have been accepted for publication)
from more than 5,000 international publishers, including Cambridge
University Press, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE), Nature Publishing Group, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell and, of
course, Elsevier
SciFinder:
• from 1907– Most important database – Chemical Abstracts – all
branches of chemistry
• more than 38 million records for articles, conference papers,
reports, patents
• 79 million chemical substances
• 57 million reactions
• Includes Medline (from NLM) with over 19 million references from
1946
Web of Science:
• Indexes more than 12,000 academic journals
• Indexes articles AND citations
• Most highly-cited journals
• DHET accredited list
13. Write down your topic.
Then break it up into CONCEPTS.
Boolean Searching
Analysis of heavy metals in wastewater
14. Think of KEY WORDS that describe each of your
concepts :
CONCEPT 1
•ANALYSIS
•DETERMINATION
•MEASUREMENT
CONCEPT 2
•HEAVY METALS
•COPPER
•NICKEL
•LEAD
CONCEPT 3
•WASTEWATER
•EFFLUENT
Analysis of heavy metals in wastewater
15. Use Boolean operators to structure your
search query:
THERE ARE 3 BOOLEAN OPERATORS:
AND OR NOT
16. Use AND to combine different concepts :
heavy metals AND wastewater
Using AND will make your
results smaller
Google Scholar Results
“heavy metals” 1,720,000
“waste water” 1,300,000
“heavy metals” AND “waste water” 102,000
17. Use OR to enter keywords for the SAME concept (can
usually be regarded as synonyms)
heavy metals OR nickel OR copper
Using OR will increase
the number of results
Google Scholar Results
“heavy metals” 1,720,000
nickel 2,960,000
copper 3,100,000
“heavy metals” OR nickel OR copper 3,520,000
18. The NOT operator
reduces the number of
results
metals NOT lead
Use NOT to get rid of unwanted results
Google Scholar Results
metals 3,400,000
lead 5,700,000
Metals NOT lead 2,300,000
19. Searching Continued…
“” Quotation marks keep search phrases together
Eg, “heavy metals”
() Brackets keep concepts together
Eg, (“waste water” OR effluent)
Search statement will look something like this:
“heavy metals” AND (“waste water” OR effluent)
21. Google Scholar example searches:
Find articles on the following topic using search terms and Boolean
Operators :
• The role of fluid ingestion in kidney stone disease
Find the full text (PDF) of the following article:
Noori, N., Honarkar, E., Goldfarb, D.S., Kalantar-Zadeh, K., Taheri, M.,
Shakhssalim, N., Parvin, M. & Basiri, A. 2014. Urinary Lithogenic Risk
Profile in Recurrent Stone Formers With Hyperoxaluria: A Randomized
Controlled Trial Comparing DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop
Hypertension)-Style and Low-Oxalate Diets. American Journal of Kidney
Diseases. 63(3):456-463.
29. Web of Science example search:
Search for articles on the following topic:
Metal-containing polymers
30. Expanding your references:
Research is a continuous cycle
built on earlier research, an
ongoing network of references
that relate and refer to other
research.
Important to look at reference lists
of articles read and used to
expand your literature search.
31. • Build up your OWN PERSONAL DATABASE of references
• FREE at UCT
• Store references SAFELY on the RefWorks server
• BACK UP your references on your PC
• ORGANISE your references in folders
• IMPORT REFERENCES from databases and the Web
• SEARCH your references with the RefWorks search engine
• SAVE the abstracts of articles
• Link to FULL TEXT
• CREATE BIBLIOGRAPHIES automatically
RefWorks:
32. RefWorks:
To access RefWorks, go to
the library home page:
www.lib.uct.ac.za
Under Research Help, you
will see the RefWorks tab.
33.
34.
35. Further Assistance:
Please feel free to email me:
Pepler Head - pv.head@uct.ac.za
Remember the Chemistry Library Guide:
http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/chemistry
Also have a look at UCT Libraries’ YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/UCTLibraries
There are two ways of going about searching for journal articles. Known and unknown journal article searching
From there you will go to science direct and look for the volume, issue and title of your journal article
Google Scholar is very convenient for finding known items and accessing it via the SFX@UCT link
Search phrase: “thermal analysis” AND pharmaceuticals
Science direct has over 13 million articles from more than 2500 journal titles from Elsevier. You can start with a basic search, and there you can refine your search by discipline. Your advance search allows you to incorporate your Boolean operators as well as refine by material type and discipline. Once you have done your search, you can refine your result even further.
Scopus’ basic search already allows you to refine your search quit a lot. Selecting the appropriate field can refine your search quite drastically. You can also chose to add another search field to the existing search. You can select range as well as the type of material you would like to retrieve. You can also do a document search, author search affiliation search and advanced search
Web of science also allows quite a few refinements to your searches from the home screen already. You can add extra fields and select a period from the time span. And the best part, it does suggestions for spelling mistakes. A:ways remember to select the Web of Science core collection when searching as All databases does not offer all the functionality.
Search tip, Web of Science allows you to search within your results.
