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Electronic Resources
for Research in Science
Juliet Ralph and Kate Williams,
Radcliffe Science Library
Aims of today’s session
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Overview of scientific databases available
via Oxlip, our information gateway
• Search tips
• Focus on locating full-text articles
• Featuring new, award-winning science
database SCOPUS (developed by
Elsevier)
Bibliographic databases
 Subject
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WebSpirs/Electronic Reference Library
 Web
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specific, eg Medline, Inspec
of Knowledge
Web of Science covers all subject areas
Key feature - Citation searching
 SCOPUS
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NEW, on trial at Oxford until September 2006
Science & Social Science
SCOPUS
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14,200 journals
27 million records
Conferences included
Also searches the web via
SCIRUS science search engine
Patents searched separately
Cited references since 1996
Many links to full text via TOUR
button
Content: Scopus
 Publisher-submitted
records 1996 PubMed records 1966 Content from other Elsevier databases*:
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Embase 1970Compendex 19701980World Textile Index 1970Biobase 1994-
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*Source: Deis and Goodman, 2005
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- Fluidex 1974- Geobase
Scopus: “the broadest source of STM and
Social Sciences information”
4,000 publishers
5,900
Life & Health
(100% Medline)
4,500
Chemistry
Physics
Engineering
2,500
Biological
Agricultural
Environmental
2,700
Social Sciences
Psychology
Economics
14,200
STM &
Social Sciences
Today’s search topic
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The threat of bird flu spreading across
Europe.
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What are the 3 keywords to use in your
search?
Search terms
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The main concepts to search for:
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bird
flu
Europe
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Searching techniques
 To
combine search terms:
 AND, OR (Boolean connectors)
 AND to narrow the search
 OR to broaden the search
(British/American spellings, synonyms)
OR, AND
bird
flu
Europe
Search tips
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Wildcards
 Use a question mark (?) to replace a single
character
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Use an asterisk (*) to truncate terms
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E.g. Wom?n finds woman or women
E.g. enzym* for enzyme, enzymes, enzymology etc
Search for an exact phrase using double quotes
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E.g. "oyster toadfish“ will retrieve different results
from oyster toadfish
Search string
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Search terms:
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Bird OR avian
AND
 flu OR influenza
AND
 Europe*
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You will probably find more search terms from
retrieved records while searching.