Transcript KeepCurrentFall07

Keep Current Digitally!
Fall 2007
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Today’s Agenda
• Where we find current research – overview
• Table of Contents alerts
– Electronic journals
• Topic Alerts
– Publisher, Several publishers, Research databases
• Cited Reference Alerts
– Web of Science, Scopus
• How to Obtain the Articles
– TUG, CISTI Source, RACER
• Managing your Citations
– RefWorks
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Where we find current research
Journal
Applied
Energy
Catalysis
Today
Publisher
IEEE
ACM Digital
Library
Berkeley
Electronic
Press
Several
Publishers
Scholars Portal
Research Index
Compendex
PsycINFO
Web of Science
Email Alerts
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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)
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Where can you find journals?
• In the Library’s e-journal collection
– Contains over 14,000 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
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Library’s Homepage
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Resources for Research Page
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E-Journal Titles Page
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Where can you find journals?
• 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
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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
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Journal TOC Alert
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Where we find current research
Journal
Applied
Energy
Catalysis
Today
Publisher
IEEE
ACM Digital
Library
Berkeley
Electronic
Press
Several
Publishers
Scholars Portal
Research Index
Compendex
PsycINFO
Web of Science
Email Alerts
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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
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Publisher Alert
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Publisher Alert (cont’d)
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Publisher Alert (cont’d)
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Publisher Alert (cont’d)
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Publisher Alert (cont’d)
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YOUR TURN!
• Select a journal of
your choice and set
up an alert to receive
Tables of Contents
– If your journal is
available through
Scholars Portal,
then click on the
Publisher’s
Homepage link to
get to the actual
journal page
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Where we find current research
Journal
Applied
Energy
Catalysis
Today
Publisher
IEEE
ACM Digital
Library
Berkeley
Electronic
Press
Several
Publishers
Scholars Portal
Research Index
Compendex
PsycINFO
Web of Science
Email Alerts
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Several Publishers –
Journal Collection
• Scholars Portal
– access from Research Databases
– An OCUL initiative
– Database of journals from several 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
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Library’s Homepage
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Research Databases Page
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Research Databases Page
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Scholars Portal
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Scholars Portal (cont’d)
Follow the instructions
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Scholars Portal (cont’d)
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Scholars Portal (cont’d)
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Scholars Portal (cont’d)
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Scholars Portal (cont’d)
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Scholars Portal (cont’d)
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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
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Where we find current research
Journal
Applied
Energy
Catalysis
Today
Publisher
IEEE
ACM Digital
Library
Berkeley
Electronic
Press
Several
Publishers
Scholars Portal
Research Index
Compendex
PsycINFO
Web of Science
Email Alerts
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Library’s Homepage
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Research Databases Page
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CSA
• Consists of over 30 different databases
covering a wide variety of topics
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Art Abstracts
Biological Sciences
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!)
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Compendex
(Engineering Village)
• 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
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Compendex (cont’d)
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Compendex (cont’d)
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Compendex (cont’d)
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Compendex (cont’d)
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Compendex (cont’d)
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Web of Science
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Multidisciplinary (Not just science!)
Science Citation Index (1900 - )
Social Sciences Citation Index (1956 - )
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975 - )
Updated weekly
Cited Reference searching
Email Alerts and RSS
Analysis and sorting features
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What is Cited Reference Searching?
End Note Chasing
Look up the references
listed at the end of an
article.
1999
backwards
1965
line of
(Earlier Work)
research
Cited Reference Searching
Find articles that cite a
previously published article.
1999
forwards
line of
research
2006
(Recent Work)
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Cited Reference Searching
• Based on a true story...
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.
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Cited Reference Searching –
Web of Science
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Cited Reference Searching –
Web of Science
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Cited Reference Searching –
Web of Science
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Cited Reference Searching –
Web of Science
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Cited Reference Searching
– Web of Science
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Cited Reference Searching
– Web of Science
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Cited Reference Searching
– Web of Science
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Scopus
• Scientific, technical, medical, and social
sciences disciplines
– 100% coverage of Medline
• Journal articles, conference proceedings,
patents, etc.
• Good international coverage
• Abstracts: 1966 →
• Cited Reference Searching: 1996 →
• Updated daily
• Email Alerts and RSS
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Cited Reference Searching Scopus
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Cited Reference Searching Scopus
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Cited Reference Searching Scopus
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Cited Reference Searching Scopus
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Cited Reference Searching Scopus
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Cited Reference Searching Scopus
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Cited Reference Searching Scopus
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Cited Reference Searching Scopus
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How to Obtain Copies of
Articles
• Full-text link within database or Get It!
Waterloo logo
• TRELLIS
– If electronic available, print
– If print at WLU, UG, or in Annex, request (use
“request item from TRELLIS”)
• CISTI Source (approx. 3 days)
• RACER (approx. 7-10 days)
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Journal Article isn’t at UW but it’s
at WLU, UG, or the Annex
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CISTI Source
• CISTI - Canada Institute for Scientific and
Technical Information
• 17,000 journals in a variety of subject areas
• Approximately 65% of the journals are in the
fields of science, technology, and the health
sciences
• 1993 to the present
• Updated weekly
• Use “request item NOT in TRELLIS” link
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Access CISTI Source
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Access CISTI Source
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Access CISTI Source
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Log in to CISTI Source
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RACER
• Interlibrary loan service
– Library catalogues from all Ontario universities
• Search for the journal title or book title (NOT
the article/chapter title)
• Fill in article information
• 7-10 days delivery
• Use “request item NOT in TRELLIS” button
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Access RACER
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Access RACER
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Log in to RACER
WatCard Barcode
Last Name (lower case)
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Keeping Track of Citations
• Now that you have all these references,
how can you keep track of them for later
use?
• Little pieces of paper? Index cards?
• RefWorks!
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What is RefWorks?
• A personal bibliographic software
manager
– Manages citations
– Creates bibliogaphies
– Helps you write your term papers
• Accessible from anywhere!
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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 citations and the bibliography
automatically generated using the Write-NCite module
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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 or
click on the forgot your log-in? link to
receive a message containing it)
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Library’s Homepage
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RefWorks Login Page
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Further Assistance with
RefWorks
• Online tutorial
• Attend a workshop
(http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/usered/index.html)
• Contact your Liaison Librarian
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Questions?
• Contact YOUR librarian!
http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/tour/librarians.html
• Ask a Librarian
http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/asklib/
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Thank You!
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