Transcript Bibliographic research at UNICAM 22° June 2010

Bibliographic research at
UNICAM
22° June 2010
Cristina Soave
[email protected]
UNICAM Library services and eresources
• Overview of UNICAM Library System web site
• The Library Catalogue (search strategies and techniques),
customised services, links to online resources and services
• UNICAM Electronic Journals Collection (how to get to full-text
articles, how to get articles and other documents through a citation
linker
• Online bibliographic databases and search engines freely
accessible via the Internet: Google Scholar, PubMed
• The electronic resources to which UNICAM currently subscribes:
WebOfKnowledge, Scopus, SciFinder Scholar. Search examples
and strategy
To perform a bibliographic search,
go the UNICAM Library portal
At the web site http://web.unicam.it,
select Ateneo, then Biblioteche
Or go to the URL
http://biblioteche.unicam.it
The OPAC
UNICAM OPAC
• Means unified access to the catalogues of
all the University Libraries
• gives the opportunity to search for the
description and call number of about
180.000 documents catalogued at
UNICAM, available on different supports
Perform a search in the OPAC
when:
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You would like to know if
a book, or a journal is in the Library holdings
you the book you need is lendable
the book you need is on shelf
besides the printed version, an electronic
version is also available at URL …..
and more ….
IMPORTANT ADVICE
• Not all of the bibliographic descriptions of
the books have already been digitized.
Sometimes, if you are looking for older
books (especially before 1994), you may
also need to go in a Library and consult
the printed catalogue
Example: book search
You find the list of all items, whose
title contains “medicinal plants”
Clicking on Titolo, a bibliographic
description is provided
Clicking on the Library, you are
informed about
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The Library where the book is
If the book is on shelf
If the book is lendable
When someone has borrowed the book,
when should it return?
Book on shelf in the Science
Library
Books to be returned (and due
date) in the Chemical Library
In the field Cover sometimes is
provided the cover of the book
A connection with Google Books is
available
Search for a journal: international
journal of cosmetic science
The record in the search result list
indicates that
• The print version of the journal is available
from 1979 to 2000 from the Chemistry
Library
• The full text is available online from 2002
to current issue: to access, click on the link
provided, and then on the icon Object
views and get the full-text of the article you
need
One of the full-text options
available
Another way to search for a journal
is to use the A to Z list
• In the OPAC you find a journal only if there is
also a printed version in the Library holdings
• There are thousands of journals, published by
Elsevier, American chemical society, Wiley,
Royal society of chemistry, Institute of physics,
Springer etc, whose electronic edition is
available. Libraries are increasingly seeking
access to electronic journals by means of
consortium agreements with publishers.
• There are journals freely accessible on-line (OA
journals)
E-journals collection: select the
menu Risorse elettroniche
The A to Z journal list.
Under the Titolo menu
• Type the exact title of the journal, or enter
one or more words in the Search Term
field and then click VAI (search)
• Search example: I have found in the
references of an article the citation:
Electrophoresis, 27(3) pp. 572-583 and
would like to read it.
Enter Electrophoresis in the title
box
Then click on the journal title, to get
full text through the publisher
Another search option is the
citation linker
Enter the citation in the box, and
get the article
When you cannot find neither the
printed nor the electronic version …
• … Ask librarians for document delivery service,
i.e the supply of journal articles and other copies
on a personalized basis, whether these come
from other libraries or direct from publishers.
• Libraries have established voluntary
associations, often on a regional basis, to
provide an online union catalog of all the items
held by all member libraries (ACNP).
• Some libraries establish reciprocal
arrangements with each other in order to supply
loans and copies for free (NILDE).
ACNP: http://acnp.cib.unibo.it/cgiser/start/it/cnr/fp.html
NILDEUtenti:
https://nildeutenti.bo.cnr.it/
On-line bibliographic databases
Or, from the University web site, select
Servizi on-line > Risorse bibliografiche
Data-bases
• Here you find the link to the electronic
resources that are freely accessible by the
Internet (Google scholar, PubMED)
• Or to which UNICAM currently subscribes:
WebOfKnowledge, Scopus, SciFinder
Scholar
To access, click on the circle
Access rights
• “Libero” means that the resource is freely
accessible from everywhere
• “Rete di Ateneo” means that the resource
is accessible within every University
building
• “LAN Dipartimento di scienze chimiche”
means that the resource is accessible only
in this Department
Search examples and strategies
• It is a good strategy to perform searches
using different data-bases, and to
compare the search results
• Data-bases are different because of the
range of journals and materials covered,
search facilities and restrictions, and
update frequency
Google scholar: search for “herbal
remedies”
Google scholar
• As you can see, provides a search of
scholarly literature across many disciplines
and sources, including theses, books,
abstracts and articles
• You can get the full-text: the link “at Univ.
Camerino” means that the full-text is
available through the University LAN
Scopus
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Updated daily, Scopus offers:
Nearly 18,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, including
coverage of
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40 million records, of which:
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16,500 peer-reviewed journals (inc > 1,200 Open Access journals)
600 trade publications
350 book series
Extensive conference coverage (3.6 million conference papers)
20 million records going back to 1996 seeking to capture complete metadata (78% include
references)
20 million pre-1996 records captured without references go back as far as 1823.
Scopus also offers full integration of the scientific web in its search results,
with:
435 million scientific web pages
23 million patents from 5 patent offices (US Patent and Trademark Office, European
Patent Office, Japan Patent Office, World Intellectual Property Organization and UK
Intellectual Property Office)
"Articles-in-Press" from over 3,000 journals
Over 80 selected sources e.g. institutional repositories, digital archives and special
subject collections made individually searchable via Selected Sources tab.
Scopus: search example
• Search for high-pressure AND hightemperature study of phase transitions in
solid germanium
You will find only 3 articles
You can get full-text of the article
• Clicking on the icon View at publisher
• Or on the SFX botton
But 88 patents, and 1979 web
pages (theses and repositories)
ISI Web of Knowledge: search
example
You can get the full-text
• Clicking on the SFX botton
Documents type
ARTICLE (73)
REVIEW (11)
PROCEEDINGS PAPER (7)
MEETING ABSTRACT (1)
In WOK there are neither patents, nor other
sources
Search tricks: use Boolean
operators
• OR is used to join synonymous or related terms, and
instructs the search tool to retrieve any record that
contains either (or both) of the terms, thus broadening
your search results.
• AND is used to join words or phrases when both (or all)
the terms must appear in the items you retrieve.
• NOT is used to exclude a particular word or combination
of words from your search results.
• It is also possible to perform complex Boolean searches
in which more than one Boolean Operator is used. To do
this, enclose the terms connected with OR within
parentheses. For example: (marijuana OR cannabis)
AND (therapeutic use OR medicinal use)
Truncation (WOS)
• asterisk (*) is used at the end of a word to
retrieve variant endings of that word
(gene* gene, genetics, generation)
• question mark (?) within a word to replace
a character (en?oblast entoblast,
endoblast)
• $ within a word to replace one or more
characters (col$r color colour)
Only in WOS use the operator
SAME
• Use SAME to find records where the terms
separated by the operator appear in the
same sentence. A sentence is defined as:
• the title of an article;
• a sentence in the abstract; or
• a single address.
• Using the SAME operator instead of AND
is a good way to narrow your search.
The search
• Topic=(Thermosensitive biodegradable
AND polymers) retrieves 92 records
• Topic=(Thermosensitive biodegradable
SAME polymers) retrieves 51 records
How to get Sci-Finder scholar
• Since SciFinder is available only in the
Department of chemical sciences, you
have to go to the web site of this
Department at
http://web.unicam.it/discichi/bibmain.htm
You can use the client version, not
the web version
• You have to download and install on your
PC the client and the file site of SciFinder
• Therefore you have to follow these
instructions
On the web site choose SciFinder
setup
And then click and download, as
requested