literature searching for final year chemistry undergraduates isobel stark 12 th october 2011
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Literature searchingFor final year chemistry undergraduates
Isobel Stark12th October 2011
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Today’s session• Introduction to text-based literature searching
• Finding the full-text
• Managing your references
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Literature searching
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3 important questions• What information do you need?
• Where do you look for it?
• How can you get hold of it?
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Research information needs to be..
• High quality – peer reviewed
• Up to date
• Relevant
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Types of research information• Journal papers
• Conference papers
• Books
• Theses
• Standards & patents
• Reports
• Grey literature
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Where to find it• Gateways & search engines
• Pre-print & e-print servers
• Publishers websites e.g. Science Direct
• Learned Societies
• Journal databases and indexes
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Gateways & search engines
There are some good search engines –useful for finding free information
• Google Scholar (general academic)
• Scirus (scientific information)
• ArXiv
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Gateways & search engines
• Gateways such as Intute (Chemistry) select and evaluate websites for you.
• There are many high quality websites but you still need to evaluate what you find.
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Pre-prints & e-prints• the information is free and usually full text
• they contain the very latest research and ideas
• there is no delay in publication
• institutional repositories may contain data and other information too
• Varying quality: ‘pre-prints’, departmental publications
• Search many at once through OAIster or Google
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• High quality information
• Link to full text if we have a subscription
• Alerting services often available
BUT
• Limited range of source material
• Less sophisticated search facilities than major databases
Publishers websites
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Learned societies• Like commercial publishers, learned societies
websites restrict you to a single publisher
• targeted; limited but likely to be very high quality
• Can have other useful information elsewhere on the website
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Journal databases• These list research published in academic journals,
conferences, etc.
• The university pays for a number of subscription-only databases which allow you to search for this material
• For the key ones relevant to you see your subject pagehttp://www.soton.ac.uk/library/subjects/chemistry/databases.html
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Why journal databases?
Because they
• link to up to date information from peer reviewed publications
• are usually well indexed enabling you to search in detail
• contain abstracts summarising the articles retrieved
• often link directly to the full text if it is available electronically
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Which database?
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Journal databases
For the key ones relevant to you see your subject pagehttp://www.soton.ac.uk/library/subjects/chemistry/databases.html
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Rexays• https://www.reaxys.com/
• Reaxys is a web-based system for searching Crossfire Beilstein, Crossfire Gmelin and the Patents databases.
• It covers an extensive collection of organic, organo-metallic, and inorganic chemistry data
• Search by structure, substructure, reaction, text, and property data.
• Online training and support available:http://www.reaxys.com/info/training-center
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WoS - Citation searching• Looks to see who has cited (referenced) whom
• Only available on certain databases (e.g. Web of Knowledge)
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Access• Institutional login
– Southampton Username and password
• VPN
– check iSolutions site for details– as if ‘on campus’
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Search techniques
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Anatomy of a literature search
Create a search strategy
Identify resources that cover your study topic
Conduct a search using search operators (i.e. AND, OR and NOT)
Check results for relevance
Changes to search strategy needed?From library resources, obtain the items to read
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Searching techniques• Boolean And, Or, Not
• Truncation
• Wildcards
• Phrase searching
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Boolean Logic
a AND b
a OR b
a NOT ba a a
b b b
Can be used to join different search terms
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Boolean Or• Use to combine synonyms/alternative terms,
e.g.
Greenhouse effect OR global warming
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Boolean And• Use to combine different concepts, e.g.
Greenhouse effect AND methane
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Boolean searching• Force order of search using brackets e.g.
(Greenhouse effect OR global warming) AND methane
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Truncation
• Finds words with a common stem (normally * symbol, $ in webcat / medline)
• environ* will find
– environs– environment– environments– environmental – environmentalist etc etc
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Wildcards
• Replace one or two characters (normally ? symbol)
– Ethan?l will find both Ethanol and Ethanal– Chemist? will find both Chemist and Chemists
but not chemistry– Alumin?um will find both aluminium and
aluminum
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Phrase searching• Search in quotes to force a phrase search
• Some databases default to phrase searching, some to Boolean AND.
• Truncation usually doesn’t work
• “greenhouse effect” will only find records with that phrase and not records with ‘the effects of greenhouse gases’
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Controlled vocabulary (thesaurus)• Only available in certain databases (Medline,
Inspec, Beilstein, Scifinder)
• Terms added to records from a centrally maintained list – subject index
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Controlled vocabulary (thesaurus)• Terms added to a record by Indexers
– Taken from a fixed list (thesaurus)
• Searching these makes results more relevant by
– Avoiding concepts mentioned in passing– Retrieving material containing alternative terms
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Chemical Searching in Inspec• How do you differentiate between Co and CO when
the database is case insensitive?
• Element where there is a single component
• Binary where there are to components
• System where there are more than two components
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Chemical Searching in Inspec• In additional there are four roles indicating the
function of the chemical component. These roles are:
– Dopant– Interface system– Surface or substrate– Adsorbate or sorbate
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Chemical Searching in Inspec• Inspec Classification
Split into 5 sections. Section A: physics and section B: electrical and Electronics probably of most use to Chemists
– e.g. A7155G Impurity and defect levels in II-VI and III-V semiconductors
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Finding the full text
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Finding the documents
• Direct links from databases
• TDNet – electronic (and some print) journal holdings – links from Library web page and from most databases
• WebCat – print and electronic holdings of books, journals, conferences and reports
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Finding the full-text• Rexays – DOI links
• WoS/Inspec – TDNet button
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Managing your results
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Search results – what next?• Mark, Export, Record
– Mark relevant references– Export: email/reference software to manage
your results– Record: how you found it
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Recording• Academic integrity
• Referencing styles
– ACS– Harvard
• Plagiarism
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Endnote Web• Register for it on the Web of Knowledge website
• Endnote Web Quick Reference Guidehttp://www.endnote.com/support/helpdocs/EndNoteWebQRC.pdf
• Endnote Web Training and supporthttp://www.soton.ac.uk/library/infoskills/bibliographic/endnoteweb/endnotewebtraining.html
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Organising your documents• Decide on a filing system and stick to it!
• For example:
– First Author/year– Add numbers or letters at end if more than one
paper per year
• Note the filename and or physical folder in Endnote/bibliographic software
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Further help
• Contact your Academic Liaison Librarian
• www.southampton.ac.uk/library/subjects/chemistry