The document discusses tips for accessing and utilizing academic databases, outlining types of databases and subscription details. It emphasizes open access and the risks associated with platforms like Sci-Hub, while providing practical strategies for effective literature searches. Additionally, it touches on the importance of citing sources and the role of databases in academic research education.

1. Tips and tricks to access and use academic
databases
Diana Alejandra Estrada Mendoza
Paola Edith Chairez Perea
Melanie Patricia Viguería Perez
Victoria Fierro Rodriguez
Claudia Elena Ávila Fierro
Moderator: Juan D. Machin-Mastromatteo, PhD
October 23rd, 2017, Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua

2. 1.1 What are academic and scientific
databases?

4. ● Web of Science
● Scopus

5. 1.2 Which ones are we subscribed
to? ● Alliance of Crop, Soil and Environmental Science Societies
(ACSESS)
● American Association for the Advance of Science (AAAs)
● American Chemical Society (ACS)
● American Institute of Physics (AIP)
● American Mathematical Society (AMS)
● American Medical Association (JAMA)
● American Physical Society (APS)
● Annual Reviews
● BioOne
● Cambridge University Press
● Chemical Abstract Service (CAS)
● Clarivate Analytics (Web Of Science)
● EBSCO
● Elsevier
● Emerald
● Gale Cengage Learning
● IEEE
● Institute of Physics (IOP)
● Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
● National Academy of Sciences
● Nature
● ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
● Royal Society Publishing(RSP)
● Springer
● Wiley

6. 1.3 Open Access
OA refers to research outputs distributed online and free of cost or other
limitations. Can be applied to all forms of published outputs (peer-reviewed,
academic journal articles, conference paper, theses, book chapters).
DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTION MECHANISMS:
1.Self archiving.
2.Open access journal (funded by article processing charges, academic
institution, deleyed open access).
3.Hybrid open access journals.

8. 1.4 How to access databases

9. Remote Access

13. Learning OR “teaching
strategies”
Learning AND “teaching
strategies”
Learning NOT “teaching
strategies”
▪ Use Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT)
▪ Use quotation marks to search for
phrases comprised of two words or more
▪ Use truncation to search for several
words with the same root
Example: using ‘educa*’ will retrieve education,
educational, educative

27. 1.5 Black Open Access
Open Access at all
costs?
What’s sci-hub?● Sci-Hub is a threat for both academic
publishers and open access. It does not
advocate for an openness of origin but
for a complete disruption of legally
protected elements.
● Publishers might use Sci-Hub as an
instrument to discredit open access

28. 1.6 Advice for using
scientific literature. ▪ Use citations to support any
statement not commonly
accepted.
▪ All cited sources must also be in
the references.
▪ All references must be cited at
least once in the text.

30. Panel Discussion
2.1. Did you know about these databases before the course
(Editing for Publication)?

31. Panel Discussion
2.2. What are your overall experiences using such resources?

32. Panel Discussion
2.3. What would you recommend to teachers and other
students for incorporating and harnessing databases and
research within academic courses?

33. Panel Discussion
2.4. How access to a limited range of publications affects the
realm of research?

34. Panel Discussion
2.5. What is the importance of teaching all these topics we
have been discussing?

35. Thanks for your attention!