Keep Current- Digitally! Multidisciplinary Sandra Keys, Librarian for Accountancy and Business & Entrepreneurship Laura Briggs, Librarian for Chemistry.

Keep Current- Digitally!Multidisciplinary

Sandra Keys, Librarian for Accountancy and Business & Entrepreneurship

Laura Briggs, Librarian for Chemistry & LT3

University of Waterloo Library

January 20, 2006

Today’s Agenda Where we find current research – overview

Electronic Journals

Email alerts

Subject Searching – major databases

How to obtain the articles

Managing your citations - RefWorks

Journal

Where we find current research

PublisherSeveral

Publishers

Research Index

Applied Energy

Catalysis Today

IEEE

ACM Digital Library

Berkeley Electronic Press

Scholars Portal Compendex

PsycINFO

Web of Science

Email Alerts

Journals

At a journal’s web site you can often:

– View the table of contents of each issue– Search previous issues by topic – Set up Alerts

• table of contents or topic search results emailed to you at a specified interval (e.g. weekly, as available)

Where can you find journals?

In the Library’s e-journal collection– Contains over 13,000 full-text electronic

journals– Search by journal title/keyword or subject

OR browse an alphabetical list– Free access from the Library’s website– Login or free registration may be required

for some journals

Library’s Homepage

Resources for Research Page

E-Journal Titles Page

Where can you find journals? (cont’d)

Many journals have their own website (use your favourite search engine to locate)– Useful for journals UW does not have– Table of contents and alerting services are

often available for free

Table of Contents e-mail alerts

Automatically receive the table of contents at the time of online publication

Free service, in most cases Useful for any online journal, not only

the ones to which UW subscribes

Journal TOC Alert


JournalPublisher

SeveralPublishers

Research Index

Applied Energy

Catalysis Today

IEEE

ACM Digital Library



PsycINFO

Web of Science

Email Alerts

Publisher web site

Publishers’ web sites may offer many searching options including:– Subject searching over all journals – E-mail alerting

Large packages include IEEE, ACM Digital Library, Berkeley Electronic Press

Publisher Alert

Publisher Alert (cont’d)

Publisher Alert (con’t)



YOUR TURN!

Select a journal of your choice Does it have an alerting service?

– If yes, set up an alert– If no, try another journal…


JournalPublisher

SeveralPublishers

Research Index

Applied Energy

Catalysis Today

IEEE

ACM Digital Library



PsycINFO

Web of Science

Email Alerts

Several Publishers – Journal Collection

Scholars Portal – access from Journal Articles, etc.

An OCUL initiative Database of journals from 11 publishers

covering over 7,000 individual scholarly journals

Articles are full text Uses the CSA interface You will receive a notice every 6 months

asking if you wish to renew your alert


Scholars Portal

Scholars Portal (cont’d)







YOUR TURN!

Create a Personal Profile on Scholars Portal – Note that this Personal Profile will work for

all CSA databases to which UW subscribes

Set up an alert for a search topic of your choice


JournalPublisher

SeveralPublishers

Research Index

Applied Energy

Catalysis Today

IEEE

ACM Digital Library



PsycINFO

Web of Science

Email Alerts


Journal Articles Page (aka Research Databases)

CSA

Consists of approximately 30 different databases covering a wide variety of topics– Art Abstracts– Biological Sciences– Communication Abstracts– EconLit– Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management– Materials Research Database with METADEX– MLA International Bibliography– PsycINFO

Date coverage varies with the database Uses the same interface as Scholars Portal

(i.e., set up alerts in exactly the same way!)

Compendex2 (Engineering Village 2)

Covers all engineering topics Indexes over 5,000 journals,

conferences, and reports Date coverage: 1884 to present Alerts are updated/e-mailed on a weekly

basis

Compendex (cont’d)





Web of Science

Multidisciplinary (Not just science!)

Science Citation Index (1900 - ) Social Sciences Citation Index (1956 - ) Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975 - )

Links to e-journals and TRELLISthrough

Cited Reference searching

Updated weekly

Email Alerts

Web of Science

Web of Science- Registering

Web of Science- Logged In

What is Cited Reference Searching?

Cited Reference Searching

1999 1965(Earlier Work)

line of research

backwards 1999 2005

(Recent Work)

line of research

forwards

End Note Chasing

• Look up the references listed at the end of an article.

• Find articles that cite a previously published article.

Web of Science- Cited Ref Searching

Based on a true story …..

Important paper my advisor gave me:

Dixon C.E., Netherton M.R., Baines K.M.

Addition of Methyl Grignard Reagents to Germasilenes and Digermenes: Unusual Ligand Exchange Reaction of the Resulting Germyl Grignard Reagents.

Journal of the American Chemical Society 1998, 120, 10365-10371.

Important paper my advisor gave me:

Dixon C.E., Netherton M.R., Baines K.M.

Addition of Methyl Grignard Reagents to Germasilenes and Digermenes: Unusual Ligand Exchange Reaction of the Resulting Germyl Grignard Reagents.

Journal of the American Chemical Society 1998, 120, 10365-10371.









Web of Science- Analyze Results

Web of Science- Analyze Results

Databases with Alerting FeaturesSubject Area Database

Biology Biological Sciences, Web of Science

Chemistry Web of Science, INSPEC, Beilstein

Engineering Compendex2, INSPEC, Web of Science, METADEX, Mechanical Engineering Abstracts

Environment & Resource Studies Geography

Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management, Environment Abstracts, Web of Science

Health Studies PubMed, CINAHL, Web of Science

Management Sciences

ABI/Inform, Compendex2, Web of Science

Mathematics MathSciNet, Web of Science

Psychology PsycINFO, Sociological Abstracts, Web of Science

RSS in One Minute

RSS = Really Simple Syndication, etc.

Software that pushes updates from your favourite website to you.

Need a RSS reader (or news aggregator).– Web based (eg. Bloglines)– Install on your computer (eg. RssReader)

See a formatted list of new items added to the website.

Each item includes a title, brief summary, and a link to the full content.

RSS in One Minute

To subscribe, look for these symbols in your website of interest:

Feed or Channel

Group or Folder

Summary

Identify Journals

Search Large Databases

Identify Publishers

Identify Journals

Results Sent to Your Desktop

ALERTS

How to Obtain Copies of Articles

1. TRELLIS – search and print or request

– Print electronic copy – Request item in TRELLIS – TUGdoc (1-3

days)• Journal is not online• Journal is at UG, WLU, Annex

– Go to the Library and photocopy your article

2. CISTI Source – search and order (~ 3 days)

3. RACER – search and order (~ 7-10 days)

Journal Article isn’t at UW but it’s at WLU, UG, or the Annex

Login to TRELLIS

WatCard Barcode

Last Name(lower case)

Choose TUGdoc request

Agree to Canadian Copyright Laws

TUGdoc Form: Select the Volume

Complete the TUGdoc Form

CISTI Source

CISTI- Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information

17,000 journals in a variety of subject areas

~65% of the journals are in the fields of science, technology, and the health sciences

1993 to the present

Updated weekly

Alerts

Access CISTI Source

Access CISTI Source

Access CISTI Source

Login to CISTI Source

Check the back of your Librarian’s business card for your ID and password.

Find Your Article

Find Your Article

Tamburrino, M. B. & McGinnis, R. A. Anorexia nervosa: A review. Panminerva Medica. 2002, 44 (4), 301-313.

Find Your Article


Find Your Article


Order Your Article

Check Your Article’s Status

Check Your Article’s Status

Links to UW EJournals

Links to UW EJournals

RACER

Interlibrary loan service – all Ontario universities

Search for the journal title or book title

Fill in article information

7-10 days delivery

Track requests

No cost to you

Access RACER

Access RACER

Login to RACER

WatCard BarcodeLast Name(lower case)

Search RACER

RACER: Advanced Search

Results – Details / Get It!

Complete Request Form

Book, Conference etc

Journal Article, Book chapterConference paper

Complete Request Form

What is RefWorks?

A personal bibliographic software manager– Manages citations– Creates bibliogaphies– Helps you write your term papers

Accessible from anywhere!

Why use RefWorks?

Keep track of articles on your topic – or several topics

Create bibliographies easily and quickly in over 200 citation styles

Submitting your article to more than one journal expecting different citation styles?– A click of the mouse will change the style

to fit the requirements of the journal Insert references into a Word document

and have in-text citations and the bibliography automatically generated using the Write-N-Cite module

How do I access RefWorks?

Click on the RefWorks link on the Library’s homepage

http://refworks.scholarsportal.info/

(log in using the Group Code given to you in the RefWorks welcome message)




RefWorks Login Page

Further Assistance with RefWorks

Online tutorial Attend a workshop

– RefWorks Basics: January 23, 2006– RefWorks Advanced: February 13, 2006

Contact your Liaison Librarian

(Bliss, Harry. Cartoon. New Yorker 14 March 2005. 26 Oct. 2005 <www.cartoonbank.com>.)

Questions?

Contact YOUR librarian!

http://www.cartoonbank.com/

Keep Current- Digitally! Multidisciplinary Sandra Keys, Librarian for Accountancy and Business & Entrepreneurship Laura Briggs, Librarian for Chemistry.

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