Library Literature and Research in Materials Science
MSE 590February 20, 2008
Elizabeth Brown
(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
2003
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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