Stephanie Hofmann, Christine Matter, Bobby Neuhold contact: info@lib4ri.ch Basic Searching Effective literature search tips and tricks Where to find what search instruments From citation to full text Unless stated otherwise this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Switzerland License, i.e. it can freely be copied, redistributed and adapted as long as an appropriate attribution is given.
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Get the information via Lib4RI: Online content (e-journals, e-books, databases, ref. works, )» Look out for the Button, the fast way to the fulltext (PDF)» Licensed content is available within the IP range of Eawag, Empa, PSI & WSL (get a VPN account to work from elsewhere)» Open access content is available without restrictions Printed material (journals, books, maps, )» Register with the NEBIS lending network www.lib4ri.ch/nebis-user-account.html and visit our library» Existing NEBIS users just need to get their details updated» We provide document deliveries from other libraries 4
The shortcut to the information you need Lib4RI Website www.lib4ri.ch Searchbox - Central Access 5
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Searching Articles Lib4RI Searchbox: www.lib4ri.ch Articles, conference papers, Scopus Web of Science Primo Central Index OAIster Base Mendeley Google Scholar Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) 7
Searching Articles Search Box Database 8
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Basic Searching Exercise 1 (Articles) Starting from Lib4RI s Searchbox, search & find the following articles incl. fulltext PDF (if available online). State the NEBIS library for which you would lodge a copy request (if not available online). PLEASE DON T ACTUALLY LODGE A NEBIS COPY REQUEST! a. Haasch,R.T.; Patscheider,J.; Hellgren,N.; Petrov, I.; Greene,J.E.: The Si3N4/TiN Interface: 5. TiN/Si3N4 Grown and Analyzed In situ using Angleresolved X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Surf. Sci. Spectra, 2012, 19, 1, 72-81, AVS b. Kohri, K., Yamada, S.: Polarization tensors in strong magnetic fields (2002) Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 65 (4), art. no. 043006, pp. 430061-4300610 c. Loria, L., Hajj, E.Y., Sebaaly, P.E., Barton, M., Kass, S., Liske, T. 2011. Performance evaluation of asphalt mixtures with high recycled asphalt pavement content. Transportation Research Record (2208), pp. 72-81 12
DOI Digital Object Identifier The DOI is a unique & permanent identifier for digital objects, particularly scientific articles. All DOIs are of the form 10.xxxxxxxxx/yy and lead to directly to the article / publisher. either by completing the URL manually http://dx.doi.org/doi http://doi.org/doi or conveniently via www.doi.org search.crossref.org (Lib4RI Quick Links) 13
Basic Search Exercise 2 (DOI) What is the bibliographic description (author, title etc.) for this paper? a. DOI:10.1039/C3TA15326F 14
Searching Journals E-journals at Lib4RI 15
Searching Journals E-journals at Lib4RI Journal Citation Report via Link Resolver 16
Searching Journals E-journals at Lib4RI Thomson Reuters Master Journal List SHERPA/RoMEO Search Publisher copyright policies and self-archiving 17
Searching Journals Journals in NEBIS 18
Basic Search Exercise 3 (Journals) Starting from Lib4RI s Searchbox, search & find the following journals. Find the time period(s) for their online availability (in our library) Find NEBIS libraries with printed holdings and their corresponding available time periods. a. Journal of Materials Research b. Australian Journal of Chemistry 19
Searching Books NEBIS Books, PhD Theses, Volume in a series, etc. Library catalogues Lib4RI E-Books NEBIS SwissBib WorldCat Google Books 20
Searching the Lib4RI E-Book Catalogue 21
Searching Books via NEBIS 22
Loan from print holdings via NEBIS For books from Zentralbibliothek Zürich (ZB) select «Kurier» as the pickup location. If you can't select your usual pickup location (eg with books from UZH), please contact us 23
Searching Book Chapters Copy request from NEBIS print holdings: Preferred: ETH, EPFL, Lib4RI Don t use: UZH 24
Searching E-Books E-Books Lib4RI s E-Book Catalogue (default book search via our Searchbox) NEBIS (Tab «Online resource») Website http://www.lib4ri.ch/resourc es/books.html#ebooks 25
Basic Search Exercise 4 (Books and Book Chapters) a. Which library holds this book and how would you order it? Statistics / David Freedman, Robert Pisani, Roger Purves. - 3rd ed. - New York : Norton, 1997 b. Find this book chapter (online full text)? Eugeniusz B. et al.: Construction Machinery In: Springer Handbook of Mechanical Engineering, 2009, pp 1149-1266 26
Searching Dissertations - Swissbib Swissbib is the meta catalogue of the Swiss university libraries and the Swiss national library. 27
Searching Dissertations DART Europe E-theses Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) E-theses 28
Basic Search Exercise 5 (Dissertations) a. Chowdhury, Indranil: Fate, Transport, and Removal of Engineered Nanomaterials in the Aquatic Environment University of California, Riverside, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2012 In which catalogue(s) can you find this thesis? 29
Basic Search Exercise 6 (Standards) DIN EN ISO 18265 What would be the steps? What if you need the standard in English? 30
Searching Standards and Guidelines or Lib4RI Standards Portal lib4ri.eresearchcenter.eu 31
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Searching Patents Info on our website www.lib4ri.ch > Resources > More > Patents A specialist is required for a more comprehensive patent search. 33
Searching Publications of your home institute Institutional bibliographies or repositories list all the publications written by researchers of an institute. Usually, these databases are searched by a query in Google and offer access to the full text. Examples: Eawag www.lib4ri.ch/institutional-bibliography/eawag.html Empa www.lib4ri.ch/institutional-bibliography/empa.html WSL www.lib4ri.ch/institutional-bibliography/wsl.html ETH E-Collection e-collection.library.ethz.ch University of Zürich ZORA www.zora.uzh.ch 34
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Introduction to Lib4RI Resources and Services... in your documentation and on the web: www.lib4ri.ch > Services > Lib4RI-Info 36
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