ProQuest Aquatic Science Collection

ProQuest Aquatic Science Collection

April 2014

Agenda

ProQuest’s Aquatic Science Collection Traditional Indexing Strengths – ASFA and our other traditional

A&I databases Deep Indexing and IllustrataTM

Full Text Content

ProQuest Platform Benefits

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ProQuest Aquatic Science Collection

Search precision: innovative deep indexing of tables and figures to uncover

hidden data

Trusted, comprehensive discipline-oriented

databases

Facilitating new research paths within the discipline

Cost effective, subject specific full text

ProQuest Aquatic Science CollectionASFA (Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts)

§ ASFA 1: Biological Sciences & Living Resources§ ASFA 2: Ocean Technology, Policy & Non-Living Resources§ ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution & Environmental Quality§ ASFA Aquaculture Abstracts§ ASFA Marine Biotechnology Abstracts

AqualineOceanic Abstracts Water Resources AbstractsProQuest Deep Indexing – Aquatic ScienceProQuest Aquatic Science Journals

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Aquatic Science Collection

Aquatic Science Collection• ASFA & Oceanic Abstracts (3.2 M records)

• Deep Indexing: Aquatic Science Collection (2.3 million tables & figures from 850+ journals)• PQ Aquatic Science Journals (400+ full text titles)

FULL TEXT WITHIN AQUATIC SCIENCE COLLECTION: 460+ TITLES

Beyond A&I

Aquatic Science Collection: Full Text Sources467 Titles at March 2014

Number of documents in Aquatic Science Collection by Source Type (at March 2014)

Scholarly Journals (956285)

Trade Journals (270956)

Magazines (164162)

Cost Effective Full Text Content1. Enhancing your full text

resources we’re bringing the widest possible collections of full text possible while retaining affordable prices

2. From leading scholarly peer reviewed journals to trade and industry publications

3. Provides additional full text coverage to fill gaps left after primary publisher resources reach their limits

4. Access beyond scholarly journals to discipline specific trade and industry titles

Cost Effective Full Text Content

FT Pdf Document

INDEXING & ABSTRACTINGProQuest CSA Traditional Strength: Discipline Orientated Databases

Very comprehensive literature reviews across the entire discipline – A&I has greater breadth, depth and scope

International in scope and multilingual (with abstracts in English)

Content in A&I databases is not under embargo Indexing standards applied to specialist content sets

(such as controlled vocabulary) assist in retrieval of relevant resources

Suitability for researchers’ workflow ….

Value of A&I

The Value in Abstracts: Limited Time to Scan a Discipline Exponential growth of articles to read per year

“Faculty report nearly twice as many readings as they did thirty years ago” A1 Tenopir,CarolA1 King,Donald W.T1 Electronic Journals and Changes in Scholarly Article Seeking and Reading Patterns JF D-Lib Magazine

Often the scientist’s goal “is not to find an article to read, but rather to find, assess, and exploit a range of information by scanning portions of many articles”.

T1 Strategic Reading, Ontologies, and the Future of Scientific Publishing -- Renear and Palmer 325 (5942): 828 -- Science VO 2009IS 12/8/2009NO id: 1 ED http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/325/5942/828

ASFA & OCEANIC ABSTRACTSTraditional Abstract & Indexing Components

ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts Database

Overwhelmingly cited by a majority of aquatic science librarians as their primary database, the ASFA series is the premier reference in the field of aquatic resources. Input to ASFA is provided by a growing international network of information centers monitoring over 7,000 serial publications, books, reports, conference proceedings, translations and limited distribution literature. ASFA is a component of the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Information System (ASFIS), formed by four United Nations agency sponsors of ASFA and a network of international and national partners.

Sources covered include over 3,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases. Subject Coverage

Dates of Coverage1971 - current.Update FrequencyMonthly, with approximately 3,700 new records added.SizeOver 1,730,106 records as of April 2014

• aquaculture • aquatic organisms • aquatic pollution • brackish water

environments • conservation • environmental quality • fisheries • freshwater

environments

• limnology • marine biotechnology • marine environments • meteorology • oceanography • policy and legislation • wildlife management

ASFA: A&I Subsets Detail

ProQuest Technology

Research Database

ProQuest Aquatic Research Database

with METADEX

ProQuest High Technology

Research Database with Aerospace

CSA Engineering Research Database

ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts

ASFA 1: Biological Sciences and Living Resources

ASFA 2: Ocean Technology, Policy and Non-Living Resources

ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution and Environmental Quality

ASFA Aquaculture Abstracts

ASFA Marine Biotechnology Abstracts

Dates of Coverage1981 - currentUpdate FrequencyMonthly, with approximately 1,209 new records added SizeOver 438,589 records as of February 2011Print EquivalentOceanic Abstracts

Oceanic Abstracts

Starting its 33rd year, Oceanic Abstracts is focused exclusively on worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment. The database has long been recognized as a leading source of information on topics relating to oceans. The database focuses on marine biology and physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics. This database is totally comprehensive in its coverage of living and non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics.

Subject Coverage

• * Biological Oceanography• * Ecology• * Physical and chemical oceanography• * Marine geology• * Geophysics• * Geochemistry• * Marine pollution• * Nonliving marine resources• * Navigation and communications

• * Maritime law• * Desalination• * Ships• * Shipping• * Marine biology

(Note Oceanic Abstracts is not included in ASFA but is part of ProQuest Aquatic Science Collection)

Dates of Coverage1960 - currentUpdate FrequencyMonthly, with approximately 700 new records added SizeOver 410,000 records as of February 2014Source:App. 300 journals

Dates of Coverage1967 - currentUpdate FrequencyMonthly, with approximately 1,000 new records added SizeOver 660,000 records as of February 2014

ILLUSTRATA & DEEP INDEXING

Recent Abstract & Indexing Innovation

Recent Innovations: Deep Indexing

2007 CODiE Award Winner: Best Online Science & Technology Service

Why Index Tables & Figures?

1. Images are included in Scientific and Technical articles only because they illustrate something fundamental about the research field work, experiment findings or conclusions

2. Distilled essence of the research – the closest thing to the raw datasets

3. Articles with the right kinds of objects quickly establish the relevance of the related data and findings

4. These objects are most often invisible using traditional article-level and full-text searching

Deep Indexing: Indexing Process

1. Identification of tables and figures (images, charts, maps, etc.) found within a scholarly article

2. Extraction of critical data and information within and surrounding each table or figure (including full caption) to provide the indexing

3. Assignment of a category

Search Results

5995 hits… From a regular keyword search

Options to narrow results by:

• Date• Scholarly Journals• Full text• Source Type• And more ...• Indexed Images

Deep Indexing Results

173 hits … more targeted hits

when we filter by indexed figures &

tables results

Deep Indexing Result – showing indexing

Options to email, cite, save in My Research, Save to PPT or Tag

Object descriptors, Authors, and

Publication are hyperlinked for

lateral searching

PROQUEST NEW PLATFORMSpecial WorkFlow Features on The New ProQuest Platform

CROSS SEARCH ON PROQUEST PLATFORM

ProQuest Platform

Cross Searching!

Cross Search SciTech Collections databases

with the PQDT and other ProQuest platform

databases on the All New ProQuest Platform

Science & Technology: Cross Search With PQDT Scientific Dissertations

Combined Aquatic Science

Collection + Dissertations

Results

Dissertations Results

Dissertations Pdf Result

SEARCH TOOLSProQuest New Platform Features

My Research

Autocomplete

Keyword Autocomplete

Smart Search

Smart Search

Results list - Preview document

Narrow by classification or location

Results List Icons Show Source Type

Use this menu to move to Advanced Search Form

Advanced Search Menu Options

Command line search for the pros

Search for a particular citation

Thesaurus

Figures & Tables Search Menu

Browse author names

Browse the publications list

ORGANISE YOUR RESEARCHProQuest New Platform Features

My Research

Organise, Store and Share

My Research – Store, Organise and Share Search Results

My Research – Create Folders to Store Research

Store Figures

My Research – Store Deep Indexed Illustrata Figures & Tables

My Research Lists (Create and Share Lists)

Create and

share lists

Annotate Figures

My Research Annotate Saved Results

Create RSS Feeds

My Research Cite & Manage Citation Formats

Share via

Social Media

My Research Facebook etc

My Research – Export Citations to RefWorks or other Citation Manager

Aquatic Science Collection Strengths

Full Text Content Deep Indexing Specialised topic focus Additional content other than journal and conference

Conference papers, books, standards, reports Intl. coverage Editorial control and QA Controlled vocabulary – (ASFA thesaurus, Life Sciences thesaurus, Latin Names) Cited References (when available) Currency Value Cross Searching with other PQ Content (especially Dissertations)

Practices

You want to write a paper on the protection of the endangered species

Type protection AND “endangered species” into the Basic Search box.

Thousands of results retrieved, refine your results using the Narrow results by feature.

From the “Narrow results by” and the Source Type limit, select to view Scholarly Journals.

Then “Subject” limit and select to include Endangered species and conservation

Then “Classification” limit and select to include Marine Pollution.

Go to the Date limit and Drag the handle over to search on items published from 2000 – 2012.

Go to the top of the results page and resort your items by Date (most recent first) and click Sort.

Click the PDF full text link of second result and download the PDF

or click the OPAC link of NTOU from the first result

Or you can email / print / or export/Save etc.

Thank you!