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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Journal

Where we find current research

Publisher

SeveralPublishers

Research Index

Applied Energy

Catalysis Today

IEEE

ACM Digital Library

Berkeley Electronic

Press

Scholars Portal Compendex

PsycINFO

Web of Science

Email Alerts3

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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Journal

Where we find current research

Publisher

SeveralPublishers

Research Index

Applied Energy

Catalysis Today

IEEE

ACM Digital Library

Berkeley Electronic

Press

Scholars Portal Compendex

PsycINFO

Web of Science

Email Alerts12

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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Journal

Where we find current research

Publisher

SeveralPublishers

Research Index

Applied Energy

Catalysis Today

IEEE

ACM Digital Library

Berkeley Electronic

Press

Scholars Portal Compendex

PsycINFO

Web of Science

Email Alerts20

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)

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Follow the instructions

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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Journal

Where we find current research

Publisher

SeveralPublishers

Research Index

Applied Energy

Catalysis Today

IEEE

ACM Digital Library

Berkeley Electronic

Press

Scholars Portal Compendex

PsycINFO

Web of Science

Email Alerts33

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– 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

• 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?

Cited Reference Searching

1999 1965(Earlier Work)

line of research

backwards 199

92006(Recent Work)

line of research

forwards

End Note Chasing

Look up the references listed at the end of an article.

Find articles that cite a previously published article.

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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-N-Cite 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 Librarianhttp://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/asklib/

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Thank You!

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