Library Literature and Research in Materials Science

MSE 590February 20, 2008

Elizabeth Brown

ebrown@binghamton.edu

(607)777-4882

Science Library 102A

Topics

1. Web of Science

2. INSPEC / Compendex

3. Google Scholar

4. Scifinder Scholar

Chemical and Scientific Literature Primary Literature: original research results and data.

Journal articles, dissertations, patents, research reports, journal article supplementary materialCurrent Research @ BU

Secondary Literature: analyzed, summarized, synthesized data Indexes and abstracts of scientific literature – Scifinder Scholar, INSPEC,

Web of Science

Tertiary Literature: collections of previously published material, data, and ideas Examples: textbooks, review articles, handbooks, encyclopedias.

Locating Library Materials

infoLINK Library catalog - journal title holdings metaLINK - journal indexes, electronic journal coverage Physics and Astronomy Subject Resources Materials Science Subject Resources Publisher web sites

American Institute of Physics (AIP)American Physical Society (APS)Institute of Physics (IOP)ScienceDirect (Elsevier)Wiley InterscienceSpringerLINK

Library Annex – receive pre-1990 print journal articles electronically ILLiad Interlibrary Loan - request items not at BU

1. Web of Science

1983-2008 8,600+ journals total

• Physical and Life Sciences – 6,100• Social sciences – 1,790 • Arts & humanities – 1,125

Contains• journal articles• conference proceedings• book and product reviews

2004

Cited References

20001998

2001

1993

2003Times Cited

Related Records

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2004

1999

2002

1994

2004

Citing

From just a single record within the Web of Science,

expand your search by simply following the links designed

to drive discovery.

… moving Backward in time via Cited References, Forward in time via Times Cited,

and through Related Records.

Web of Knowledge 3.0 Home Page

Web of Knowledge 3.0 Home Page

Web of Science 7.0

“Quick Search”

Easy To Search!Easy To Search!

General, Cited Reference, Chemical Structure, and Advanced Search options

Databases and Depth-of-File

Web of Science 7.0

.

Easy To Search!Easy To Search!

Topic

Author

Group Author

Source Title (Journal Title)

Address

The General Search is designed to be simplistic

enough for virtually anyone to begin to use with little-to-no training.

Go to Current Contents

Connect

Go to BIOSIS Previews

Current Contents Connect

CC Connect Table-of-

Contents

BIOSIS Previews

Journal Citation Reports

Link to the full-text within e-journals to

which your institution subscribes.

Current Contents Connect

CC Connect Table-of-

Contents

BIOSIS Previews

Journal Citation Reports

Cited Reference Search

To be truly comprehensive in your search efforts, the Cited Reference Search is

essential in that it can retrieve information often missed through use of Key-words alone.

Identify an Author or Paper that is very relevant to your search topic.

Identify an Author or Paper that is very relevant to your search topic.

As little information as an author name is sufficient to initiate a

Cited Reference Search.

Works for Cited Authors are identified.

The “Finish Search” option will retrieve papers that have referenced the work or

works we have selected.

The Cited Reference Search –

Easy to Perform, and Extremely Valuable for Comprehensive Searching.

2. Inspec/Compendex

INSPEC database includes Over 8 million records Over 400,000 records are added every year 1969 to date Over 3,740 journals 3,000 other publications

Searching Inspec on Engineering Village – Step 1

A list of all available Inspec fields

Key words to be searched

Type in key words and select the fields that you would like them to be searched in.

Searching Inspec on Engineering Village – Step 2

Limitations include document type, treatment type and

discipline*

* Document type includes journal articles, conference proceedings etc. Treatment type includes application, historical, literature review etc. Discipline includes physics, electrics etc.

Searching for Chemical and Numerical indexing on

Engineering Village2 Inspec fields are supported via Expert Search only: Chemical indexing (CI)

Applied to records from 1987Controlled indexing for inorganic compounds &

materials systems. Numerical indexing (NI)

Applied to records from 1987Controlled indexing for numerical data such as

variations in quantities, units (C, Celsius, Kelvin etc.) and values (i.e. 27,500kW, 27.5 MW etc.)

To view a full guide of IEE CI and NI thesaurus go towww.iee.org.publish/support/inspec

Indexes available

Click on an index to begin a search.

Change indexes from within the window.

Search resultsGo back to refine

your search or begin a new search

Use the results manager to view,

email, print, download or save selected

records.

The search string shows the number of records in the set, key words and fields

limitations.

Save search, create an email alerts or RSS

feed

Refine your search using facets

This facet corresponds to Inspec classification.

Controlled vocabulary corresponds to terms

found in Inspec thesaurus

Search History Use search history to combine, re-run or save searches as well as set up email alerts.

*** Remember that search history is available as long as you are in an active session. If you leave your computer for 20 minutes or more, your search history will not be saved.

RE-run a search Save search or

Create an email alert

Combine searches

3. Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature search across many disciplines and sources

Peer-reviewed papers Theses Books Abstracts Journal articles from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities, scholarly

organizations

Google Scholar can Search diverse sources from one convenient place Find papers, abstracts and citations Locate the complete paper through your library or on the web Learn about key papers in any area of research

Articles are ranked and sorted by Weighing the article’s full text Author Publication where the article appears How often the piece has been cited in other scholarly literature

Most relevant results will always appear on the first page.

http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/help.html

Google Scholar – Search Tips

Search by author - Enter the author's name in quotations: "d knuth". To increase the number of results, use initials rather than the full first name use the "author:" operator to search for specific authors, i.e [author:knuth], [author:"d

knuth"], or [author:"donald e knuth"] Search by title - Put the paper's title in quotations: "A History of the China Sea." Find recent research on a topic - click on "Recent articles" on the right side of

the results page Result re-ordering considers several factors: author prominence and previous journal

papers, full text of article, frequency of citations Find Related Articles – click on the "Related Articles" link next to many results.

ranked by similarity to the original result and relevance of each paper Finding sets of related papers and books - a great way to get acquainted with a topic

Search by publication - specify keywords which must appear in both the article and the publication name (Advanced Search page)

Search by category - seven broad areas of research available (Advanced Search page)

Author names on the left hand side of my results page - authors related to your query

Search Results

1.Title – Links to the article abstract or when available the complete article.2.Cited By – Identifies other papers that have cited articles in the group. 3. Related Articles – Finds similar papers.4. Library Links (online) – Locates an electronic version of the work

through your affiliated library's resources. These links appear automatically if you're on campus.

5.Library Links (offline) – Locates libraries which have a physical copy of the work.

6.Group of – Finds other articles included in this group of scholarly works, possibly preliminary, which you may be able to access. Examples include preprints, abstracts, conference papers or other adaptations.

7.Web Search – Searches for information about this work on Google. 8.BL Direct – Purchase the full text of the article through the British

Library. Google receives no compensation from this service.

4. Scifinder Scholar Indexes chemical research

Universities National labs Chemical industry

Contains Journal articles Conference proceedings papers Patents 27 million documents from 10,000 chemistry and chemistry-related

journals Covers 1907 to the present

Chemistry and Chemical Technology Biochemistry Materials Science

Published by Chemical Abstracts Services (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society (ACS)

Scifinder Scholar

Chemical Abstracts – chemistry literature Medline – medical literature CAS Registry:

33 million organic and inorganic substances 59 million genetic sequences

Casreact: 14 million single and multi-step reactions Chemcats: catalog info for commercially available chemicals Chemlist: chemical regulations

In response to customer demand, new features added in 2007 Easily locate preferred suppliers for a substance by

exporting contact information directly to Microsoft® Excel®

Categorize uses indexing to sort and evaluate a reference answer set by creating a histogram for easy analysis

Save answer sets Combine answer sets of the same type

for substances, reactions, or references Explore from substructure displays Print substances in a 1-4 column grid format for easy review

or as a quick reference

SciFinder Scholar entry point

It is very important to read and review the SciFinder ScholarLicense Agreement to understand the terms and conditionsfor each user before clicking the Accept button.

Search decision starting point

Scholar offers 3starting points. We will start with Explore.

Start Scholarsearching by clickingNew Task.

Options to Explore the scientific literature

Explore is broken into 3 sections:1. Explore Literature2. Explore Substances3. Explore Reactions

We will start with Research Topic.

Explore by Research Topic

To search:1. Type your broad concept using phrases. 2. Click OK.3. Select the option(s) that most closely fit your topic.4. Get References

Research topic references

References that fit your topic searchcriteria with relevant terms highlighted are shown.

Examine answers in more detail

Click on Microscopeicon to obtain more information on thisselected reference.

Note that search termsare highlighted,including abbreviationsand synonyms that arerecognized by Scholarto enhance retrieval.

Obtain full text of selected document via ChemPort® Click the

full-text icon.

This document can be obtained by clicking on theHTML link and retrieved on the internet.

Explore by Company Name

It is recommended that the broadest company name variation possiblebe used.

Company name reference result

Note the hit term highlighting.

Explore by Author Name

Recommend that you leave this box checked in order to account for name variations and typographical differences.

Enter as much of the author’s name as you know.

Author Candidates to select from

Select all possible name variations, then click Get References.

Misspelling or another author?

Author name references

Here we see hit term highlighting of the various author name variations.

To narrow an answer set, use Analyze, Refine, or Categorize

To reduce your answer set, click RemoveDuplicates to remove any duplicate MEDLINE records.

Options to Analyze the answer set by

Select the option to analyze by and click OK.

By selecting ‘Sort results alphabetically’ one is able to review publication trends over time in the analysis shown above.

References can be refined by using the Analyze by feature

Review all candidates for name variation,check desired ones then click Get References.

To Refine an answer set by Document Type

Refine results by Document Type

Refining thissearch resultsin 17 patents. The newest reference appears first.

Categorize helps you to analyze your answer set into categories

Select a categoryof interest fromthe left column,and then selectthe CA index termfrom the rightcolumn. ClickGet References.

Use Get Related Information options

Get Related Information results for EJ Corey

For example: 2257 cited references 9368 citing references 6766 substances 15,708 reactions See next slide for

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