how to find journals and journal articles eva-maria kopp, christiane holtz, jutta heller ws 2010/11
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How to find journals and journal articles
Eva-Maria Kopp, Christiane Holtz, Jutta Heller
WS 2010/11
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Course Content
Basics of literature searching
Retrieving journal articles
Locating journals
Obtaining articles from external libraries
Basics of literature searching
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Define your search terms
Break down your topic to its facets and find appropriate search terms
Emission of methane from liquid manure
facet 1:
emission
facet 2:
methane
facet 3:
liquid manure
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Refining your search request
To optimize your search request also consider
synonyms, technical terms
foreign languages if applicable
different spellings (British/American)
broader, narrower and related terms
– encyclopedias and dictionaries can help!
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Refining your search terms
emission of methane from liquid manure
facet 1:
emission
air contamination
air pollution
production
microbial degradation
• and analogous verbs
facet 2:
methane
CH4
biogas
greenhouse gas
facet 3:
slurry
liquid manure
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Phrase searching
Phrase = search terms in exact order / exact sequence of characters/search terms
helpful if looking for composite terms
Most databases use quotation marks to indicate a phrase
‘‘liquid manure‘‘
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Using truncation
Truncation = substituting any amount of characters by a wild-card character
the most common wild-card character is the * (but the $ is also used by science databases)
right truncation:methan* finds methan, methane, methanol etc.
middle truncation:m*ller finds mueller, muller, miller, müller etc.
left truncation:*bird finds bluebird, blackbird, jaybird etc.
some databases imply right truncation automatically
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Boolean operators / terms
“AND”results (shaded area) contain all search terms
(A) methane AND (B) slurry
“OR”results contain at least one search term
(A) slurry OR (B) liquid manure
“(AND) NOT“results exclude search term
(A) biogas NOT (B) carbonmonoxyde
Locating journals
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Electronic journals
journal titles, not articles
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Print journals (+ electronic version)
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Searching ZDB the world’s largest specialized database for serial titles, offering 8.7 million holdings information from more than 4300 German academic libraries)
keyword general: science => 17872 hits
title (keyword) : science => 14275 hits
title (string): science => 1040 hits
exact title: ‘‘science‘‘ => 16 hits = phrase search
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ZDB – holdings information
library
call number (location on shelf)
subscription information (here: current since 1901)
here: for 4 years only
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Relevant institution codes
Standard identifier for libraries, organizing criterion of ZDB
5 = ULB Bonn Main Library
5N = ULB Bonn Branch Library MNL
5/ ... = University Bonn, Institute…
98 = local Branch Library „Nutrition, Environment, Agriculture“ of the National Library of Medicine / Cologne
Bo ... = other academic libraries in Bonn (e.g. German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences Bo 404)
38 = University and Public Library Cologne
38M = National Library of Medicine, Cologne
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Access to full text electronic article via ZDB
EZB = electronic journals database
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External libraries´ licenses of electronic journals accessible from MNL
Important for students of medicine and related fields:
Journals licensed by the National Library of Medicine / Cologne (ZBMed) may be accessed from two special computers here in MNL (requiered password obtainable at the information desk)
Identification of those journals in ZDB database only (38M). Not possible via eJournals search in DigiBib or Main Catalogue!
use ZDB-gateway
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Checking out access via ZBMed licences (ZDB eJournals)
Retrieving journal articles
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Looking for articles?
never in catalogues!
but in bibliographies (respectively literature databases)
as those don´t give any location information, you will have to do a subsequent catalogue search (ZDB or DigiBib) for the journal (title) that contains the required article
most databases available at ULB/MNL automatically search our catalogs using SFX (Find it@ULB Bonn, Check@ULB Bonn, Fulltext@ULB Bonn ...)
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Using Google to search for scientific journal articles?
yes, BUT
Google doesn´t know everything („Invisible Web“)
Google searches seldom come up with the agency used by University of Bonn conditional access, fees
there is no quality control
for better results use instead
GoogleScholar (http://scholar.google.de/ with linking service SFX)
journal article databases, scientific literature databases
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Databases and electronic journals
For those subject to license conditions there is free access for members of University of Bonn only
on campus from any computer, identification by IP-Address
from home computer or laptop anywhere via special user identification attainable from IT-center (Rechenzentrum) + VPN-Client
more information: www.hrz.uni-bonn.deService >> Netzzugang und -betrieb
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Access to databases www.ulb.uni-bonn.de
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Access to databases
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Subject list and types of access
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Databases containing journal articles
Journal article databases
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For example: Web of Science
meta database for the sciences, medicine, geology and technology
licensed for University of Bonn
about 9.200 academic journals indexed (from 1945 on)
Updated weekly
marked lists can be printed, e-mailed, copied or exported to reference management programs
integrated reference management program (Endnote Web)
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Database search in Web of Science
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Search in Web of Science - results
manage
automatic holdings search SFX
refine
analyze
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Search in Web of Science – full record
SFX
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Accessing electronic full text via SFX
holdings information from ULB Main Catalog (if no electronic access)
Title
Source
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To view full text follow document link
pdf-document for valid reference
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Articles in printed journals (no electronic access available)
Main Catalog holdings of ULB / MNL and of some of the university´s institutes. Holdings of the German National Library of Medicine / Cologne (ZBMed) are not included see ZDB
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Print journals located in institutes
SFX offers links to electronic journals of ULB as well as to those of the institutes
SFX locates only those print journals located in ULB and MNL
print journals located in institutes are not included, see Journals Database (ZDB) or holding informations within Interlibrary Loan Service (Fernleihe)
ZDB lists information on journals (electronic and print) of more than 4.300 German academic libraries, including departmental libraries (Institutsbibliotheken)
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Google Scholar
use Google Scholar (scholar.google.de/) instead of Google
fewer irrelevant hits
prescreening of input for academic content (quality control)
linking-system SFX available
Obtaining journal articles from external libraries
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Interlibrary Loan / Document delivery (ILL)
1,50 Euro fee per request Warning: before submitting an ILL-request always check „Besitznachweise“ (holdings information) first!Fees become due even if the requested journal is located in the very library next door (e.g. an institute).
Delivery time for article copies depending on chosen format 1-7 days, sometimes longer
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Interlibrary Loan service (ILL)
... SFX-service will take you here, too
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Interlibrary Loan – searching for journal articles
first look up title of journal which contains wanted article
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Interlibrary Loan - holdings information
located in MNL-buildingif there are no local holdingsclick button „Auswählen“ (choose)
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Tracking your ILL-request
your ILL-acount
ordered articles
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Overview: what do I find where?
journals of ULB (including MNL)
journal holdings of ULB, Bonn institutes and non university academic libraries
journal article databases, via SFX linked to Main Catalog, EZB und ILL
electronic journals from ULB und Bonn University institutes
journal articles from external libraries
(Interlibrary Loan service)
presentation of this course “ULB-NatWiss”
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From literature reference to written text
Reference management programs
EndNote EndNoteWeb Citavi special or campus licenses for Bonn University www.ulb.uni-bonn.de/literatursuche/literaturverwaltung
license free programs (free of charge, web-based, other functions): Zotero: www.zotero.org Mendeley: www.mendeley.com ...