definition and search of scientific articles
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Definition and search of scientific articles. Tord Heljeberg [email protected] 021-101641 www.mdh.se/bib/. The historical perspective. Oral presentations, letters, books Learned societies Priority disputes between scientists very common First journals in 1665, England & France - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The historical perspective
Oral presentations, letters, books Learned societies Priority disputes between scientists
very common First journals in 1665, England & France 18th century – 1000 journals published
Modern times 20 th century – expanding research at
growing numbers of universities – more specialised research:
growing economic interest of commercial publishers
Increased library subscription prices
Important aspects of scientific journals:
Establishing of priority (who is first) High quality through the peer
review process Archiving
Alternative publishing
Open Access – ArXiv, Doaj et.c Economic models Peer review? Why publish in Open access journals?
MdU Library journal collection
About 9000 electronic journals <50% scientific journals Millions of scientific fulltext articles Access from within university network –
also externally
Articles published/spread outside scientific journals:
Articles in conference proceedings. Not always peer reviewed. Research
described is sometimes in progress.
Professional magazines
Technical reports, working papers
Scientific articles should be cited:
Because of high quality - they seldom contain faults
To give your own text higher credibility
To assure that the readers of your document will be able to access the documents you cite
Library databases:
Reference databases – gives short descriptions of articles
OR
Full text databases – complete articles
A database search begins by choosing search terms
Free terms – search terms defined by you.
Controlled terms –terms defined by the database producer. Controlled terms are chosen from a term list – a thesaurus
Use search operators to combine search terms
AND
OR
NOT
cats OR dogs
cats AND dogs
”guinea pigs” NOT (mouse OR mice)
Proximity operators – WITHIN (w/?), NEAR, SAME
Cats w/50 Dogs
Truncation
Use only a part of a term to retrieve terms with different term endingsTruncation symbols: * or (sometimes) !
retrieves: Network, Networks ,Networking etc..
Be careful ! Color*Retrieves: Color, Colored etc. but also: Colorado
Network*
INSPEC /Compendex Covers
publications in engineering research
Contain 15+ million references
Index: journals and conference proceeedings, reports
ISI Web of science Reference journal
databases Covers science
and technology, social sciences and humanities
Can be used for citation searches
Science Direct Full text database 1800 journals 60 scientific computer science
journals Full text from 1995- Truncation with !-mark
IEEE Xplore / ACM Dig. Libr. Full text databases About 170 journals +conference
proceedings and IEEE standards IEEE Xplore, 1988- ACM Digital Library, 1985-
Elin@Malardalen
In Elin you search several full text databases from one search interface
Google scholar
Article search
Interlibrary loans Library card needed 40 SEK /article Online web order form Article delivery within a a week
Using web search engines you
Find literature that complements the literature found in commercial databases
Find information about innovative research not yet published in scientific articles
Find full text articles from freely available journals
Internet document check up: Who is the author? Has the author
published other articles/books? Where do you find the information?
On a university web site? On a private site? At a company internet site?
Can the author be contacted?
E-books in Ebrary 25.000, english, book titles High quality – recent publications Unlimited nr. of simultaneous users Save books in bookshelf Limited printouts & copying Titles added & removed monthly