science and nature and cited reference searching

OCN 1010 Special Assignments:Library Resources

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Assignment #1:Find peer-reviewed articles from Science or Nature.

Since you already know the journal title, use A-Z Journals.

Science!

Check dates and choose a source. Our Science

Magazine database access is from 1997 – present.

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You can browse the current issue, or

perform an Advanced search to fine-tune

results easily.

Limit to the Science journal, enter your

keyword/s, and scroll down…

Searching Articles Only and choosing Original

Research limits results to peer-reviewed research

articles.

One result – you might need to revise

keywords to expand your search.

This article is just fine…

Citation information –

check formatting requirements.

Save the PDF! References are

usually on the last page.

Nature!

Check dates and choose a source. The Nature

Journal Archive database covers 2006 to the

present.

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Browse issues or enter a keyword for a more specific search.

Remember Evans Library holdings are from 2006 to the present. Select Research and limit by Publication Date for

full-text access.Click the title to

view the PDF and citation

information.

Receipt and acceptance dates are a clue to peer-

review.

Download the PDF.

This database offers a couple of PDF viewing options.

readcube gives extra information at a glance.

Citation information –

check formatting requirements.

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Assignment #1:Make sure your article is peer-reviewed.

Title - very detailed, usually a summary of the article's contents, most likely contains technical termsAuthors - include credentials (university affiliation) and email addressesAbstract - brief summary of the article and its problems, findings, and conclusions that lets you know quickly if the article is useful to your researchIntroduction - presents the thesis and goals of the research, and sometimes a literature reviewPublication information - sometimes a citation to the published article is included, sometimes just the journal title, and sometimes no publication information at allData - charts, graphs, and equations are included to help explain scientific researchArticle text - often highly technical, and may be broken into subheadings such as Argument, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, and Further StudyConclusion - a summary of the results of the researchReferences - citations for the articles referenced within the paper, excellent for additional research on the article's topic

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Assignment #2:List number of citations

for article 4 in 2007, in total and by month.

This assignment requires you to do two things:1. Find full-text articles referenced within the bibliographies of your

Assignment #1 article and two others.• Journal titles are typically italicized in citations. • If the journal title is abbreviated, use CAS Source Index to find

the full title. • If you know the journal title, begin at A-Z Journals.• Repeat the process that you used to find Article #1.

2. Analyze citation information for article #4 using Science Citation Index.

Science Citation Index!

Science Citation Index is a Web of

Knowledge database.

We are doing a Cited Reference

Search.

Enter the information that you have – article title, author, date, etc.

and choose the search field.

Pay attention to instructions.

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Select article/s, and finish search.

42 articles have cited this source

article.Create Citation

Report.

Citations by year

Limit dates to see times cited in a particular year.

42 overall

2 citations in 2007.

Citations by month.

Questions?

Rob SippelEvans Library – 123rsippel@fit.edu321-674-7585