1 University of Wolverhampton ScienceDirect Goes beyond search to research Michaela Kurschildgen, Customer Consultant, Elsevier, m.kurschildgen@elsevier.com 24 November 2014
AGENDA 2 Background Who are we? What content types are available Getting started on ScienceDirect Personalisation features Recent actions Favourites
3 Facts Peer-reviewed full-text content: scientific, technical and medical ScienceDirect contains over 12 Million peer reviewed articles in almost over 2,500 peer reviewed journals and more than 26,000 books across 24 subject areas Physical Sciences and Engineering Life Sciences Health Sciences Social Sciences and Humanities
Elsevier Share and Coverage 4 Share of Journal Articles Published 26% 26% Elsevier Social Sciences Our Scientific Disciplines Environmental Sciences Maths & computer science Earth Sciences Life sciences Others Others Physics APS IOP IEEE Taylor & Francis AIP ACS Wolters Kluwer Wiley-Blackwell Springer Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Materials Science & Engineering Health sciences
In context 6 15 million researchers worldwide have access to ScienceDirect. At peak hours almost 5,000 researchers are online simultaneously. 36 full text downloads every second during an average working day. In 2013 over 485 Million full text articles were downloaded in total.
ScienceDirect Content 9 Open Access journals: Over 1600 high-quality, peer-reviewed open access journals (growing) including Cell Reports and The Lancet Global Health More publications in development For a full list, visit elsevier.com/openaccess There are no subscription charges for these journals, and all articles are available to anyone with an Internet connection
Open Access journals 10 10 Open access published articles: Are fully peer reviewed Are immediately free to access and download from ScienceDirect Permitted re-use defined by the author's choice of Creative Commons user license Published with CrossMark to maintain the publication record For details on the open access options available in your journal, please refer to the guide for authors on the journal's homepage. Alternatively, click here if you would like help selecting a journal or see a list of journals which contain open access articles on ScienceDirect.
How to publish an Open Access article 11 11 http://youtu.be/8m8-qyrcewu
15 15 New upgrade ScienceDirect release 1 February 2014 Making it easier to find relevant ScienceDirect content from search engines and other discovery services Several internal modifications have been made to improve search engine indexing and help you find relevant ScienceDirect content more easily from Google and other search engines. In response to feedback from you, we have also boosted the algorithm used for the ScienceDirect search so that more recent content is ranked higher.
16 16 Previously on Google Scholar it was not possible for the customer to see whether they had access to (authentic) ScienceDirect articles or not Hmmm final or alternate version? Do I have access to the full-text?
17 17 Now, if customers share their holdings information with Google, Scholar will show full text search results from ScienceDirect It s the final published version! I do have access to the full-text! Google Scholar currently contributes 15% of FTAs
18 18 PubMed now displays full text on article page Visits and FTA s up 4% from PubMed
19 19 New upgrade ScienceDirect release 1 February 2014 Seamless export to Mendeley You can now, easily and seamlessly, export citations and/or full text PDF articles directly from ScienceDirect into Mendeley. From the article page, choose the export menu and directly save the citation to Mendeley
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Let s start with the personal registration 22 22 Save searches and search history View a list of your recent actions Quick linking to your favourite pages and sites Specify your user preferences My settings: Modify preferences Registering for a personal account is freely available to those who have access to ScienceDirect. It allows you to bookmark favorite publications, save searches, set up search alerts, topic alerts, and journal and/or book series alerts
Online demo 23 23
Browse publications 24 24
Advanced search 25 25
Refine search 26 26
Using the Online Article Format 27 27
28 28 Using the Online Article Format
Outward linking to Scopus 29 29 Click on citing articles to have a closer look on citations http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/s014067361261719x
Outward linking to Scopus 30 30 and get a full overview of these citations in Scopus
Quick-and-easy searches For problems with few concepts that can be expressed with few words or phrases that are not too common Select the ScienceDirect database Compose a simple query using a few important terms linked by AND or OR operators Display article preview Modify with simple changes as needed Print complete records retrieved 31 31 Source: Harter, 1986 and Wagners, 1989
Quick-and-easy searches 32 32 Asterisk (*) Replace zero or more characters in a search word. For example, use * to find a root word plus all the words made by adding letters to the end of it. 32
Quick-and-easy searches 33 33 The Results-list shows the 229 articles located in ScienceDirect 33
Quick-and-easy searches 34 34 Now examine the results From search results lists and on publication home pages, you can click Preview to view the abstract, article outline, figures, images, tables, and references for a document. You can open all the abstracts on a page by clicking Open All Previews. 34
Quick-and-easy searches 35 35 Print the full text document You can view or print a copy of a document by downloading it in PDF format. In this format, the document exactly as it appears in the publication. Images, tables, and figures appear in the body of the document. 35
The building blocks approach 36 36 Combine terms for each element with Boolean OR operators 36
The building blocks approach 37 37 Limit/refine your search when the combined set is obtained, inferences can be made about precision and recall by adjustments of individual concepts or how these concepts are combined use Refine Results, to customize the results by limiting to certain categories of documents. For example, limit to documents from a certain source, by a certain author, or published in a certain year. for most categories, SccienceDirect displays the number of results associated with such refinements 37
The building blocks approach 38 38 Limit/refine your search if the results seem to be not sufficiently focused yet, despite having combined all required concepts already check whether AND-combination of terms result in "false coordination" replace AND-relation by "exact phrase" or proximity search modern AND "town planning" >> "modern town planning" modern AND "town planning" >> modern w/5 "town planning" check whether some term is too common in almost any general research description limit that term to Title- or Keyword-field to ensure that it is the real subject check whether your terms occur in other (unwanted) context refine with additional term(s), characteristic for your context (AND-relation) refine by excluding characteristic term(s) for unwanted context (NOTrelation) 38
Alerts 39 39
Favourite journals and book lists 40 40 Get a comprehensive view of literature in your field by managing your favourite journals and books list: To add to this list, go to the journal of your choice and click "Add to Favorites":
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Image search 42 42
Table search 43 43 Select a table to go directly to that table in the article center pane, view in workspace
Table search 44 44 You are now able to scroll through the article having the table fixed on the right-hand side.
Table search 45 45 Select the next or previous table link to get to the next item in the article. Select the View in article link at the bottom of the workspace window to focus the center pane on that item
46 46 Stay up-to-date of which articles/topics are Hot in your research area top25.sciencedirect.com 46
Graphical abstract 47 47 http://www.elsevier.com/journal-authors/graphical-abstract A Graphical Abstract is a single, concise, pictorial and visual summary of the main findings of the article. The Graphical Abstract will be displayed in online search result lists, the online contents list and the online article, but will not (yet) appear in the article PDF file or
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50 50 Questions? m.kurschildgen@elsevier.com k.trevor@elsevier.com Thank you Elsevier.com/Scopus