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ORIGINAL RESEARCH INFORMATION IN SCIENCE is published (stored) in PRIMARY LITERATURE it refers to the first place a scientist will communicate to the general audience in a publicly accessible document the results of scientific researches (scientific communication process)
PRIMARY LITERATURE IN SCIENCE is published/stored in academic publications (research papers) but also in patents theses, dissertations preprints technical reports unstructured data, preliminary findings
SECONDARY LITERATURE IN SCIENCE primary published information may be summarized and reviewed in review articles review series books
DEVELOPING A SEARCH STRATEGY focus the search by defining the kind of information needed: background information or new information type of information: articles, numeric data, spectra, subject area: biochemistry, analytical chemistry, organic chemistry,
DEVELOPING A SEARCH STRATEGY according to the kind of information needed decide what resources you have to use journal articles handbooks data collection other sources
ORIGINAL RESEARCH INFORMATION IN CHEMISTRY 80% of world new information in chemistry is published in research articles or patents Source: Chemical Abstracts Service
ORIGINAL RESEARCH INFORMATION IN CHEMISTRY there are tools to use to retrieve and select scientific information for each kind of document type to retrieve articles we have to use bibliographic databases
BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASES electronic archives of bibliographic records that refer to published academic literature the records are structured and organized and the databases are enriched with tools so users may search and retrieve what is published in a specific field of the knowledge
BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASES they index papers published in academic journals mostly, but not only conference proceedings book chapters patents documents from open archives
BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASES an ideal bibliographic database doesn t exist a bibliographic database is never exhaustive so.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASES it is always advisable to search more than one bibliographic database when an exhaustive search is needed.
HOW CAN WE ACCESS BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASES? http://www.cab.unipd.it Cerca Articoli e banche dati AIRE Portale Trova risorse
BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASES we are going to deal with Web of Science Reaxys Pubmed
WEB OF SCIENCE AND SCOPUS are bibliographic multidisciplinary citation databases
CITATION DATABASES contain bibliographic records of the scientific papers citations to the scientific papers references of the scientific papers
CITATION DATABASES references paper cited papers past present future
CITATION DATABASES are tools for scientific information retrieval (they index the scientific literature) for the evaluation of the scientific research (they measure the number of times a publication has been cited they measure the number of times an author has been cited they measure the number of times a journal has been cited)
CITATION DATABASES allow to look backward in time (references cited in the work) look forward in time (works that cite the work) so you can discover the roots of a research topic as well as you can analyse its development
CITATION DATABASES Web of Science Scifinder Google Scholar (it s not properly a database)
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COMPARISON OF JOURNALS INDEXED BY WEB OF SCIENCE AND SCOPUS (May 2012) from: JISC Academic Database Assessment Tool <http://www.jisc-adat.com/adat/home.pl>
SCOPUS: A FEW NUMBERS CONTENTS (November 2012) 28 million records back to 1996 21 million records pre-1996 daily updates 2 million new records added each year
WEB OF SCIENCE SCOPUS coverage multidisciplinary multidisciplinary time range 1985- since 1996 with abstracts and citations bibliometrics 1990-1996
SCOPUS: PRE-1996 COVERAGE It indexes articles before 1996 from major publishers as well American Chemical Society 1879- Royal Society of Chemistry 1841- Elsevier 1823- Institute of Physics 1874- American Physical Society 1893- American Institute of Physics 1939- Nature 1950- Science 1880- It contains all records from Medline
SCOPUS: PROS it retrieves information from academic journals as well as from patents it indexes articles in press it can be searched by chemical name or CAS Registry Number it s fully integrated with Refworks it has an easier author indentification
SCOPUS: CONS full bibliographic records since 1996 (Web of Science since 1985) metrics since 1996 (Web of Science since 1990)
DOCUMENTS INDEXED BY SCOPUS it focuses on peer review articles (academic publications) but indexes also conference proceedings book series (Advances in ) patents documents from open archives scientific web sources
SCOPUS: REGISTERING AND LOGGING you can create your personal account in : the account is useful for: - search alerts - document citation alerts - author citation alerts - saving searches - integration with Refworks
SCOPUS: SEARCH personal features bibliographic search author profile search tools for the evaluation of journals
SCOPUS: DOCUMENT SEARCH you can choose a time range you can choose a field to search (drop down menu)
SCOPUS: DOCUMENT SEARCH you can choose a specific document type from the dropdown list
SCOPUS: DOCUMENT SEARCH click here if you want to add one or more additional search field
SCOPUS: DOCUMENT SEARCH connect search terms with boolean operators
SCOPUS: DOCUMENT SEARCH you can use boolean operators in one single search box as well
SCOPUS: SEARCH SYNTAX if you type two or more words in one single search box, retrieves records that contain all the words entered (the operator AND is implied) if you search for an exact phrase, type it between curly brackets {invasion of exotic species} if you search for adjacent words, type it between double quotes exotic species if you type a singular form of a word, retrieves the plural form too
SCOPUS: SEARCH SYNTAX WILD CARDS question mark? = replace a single character in a word asterisk * = replace 0-multiple characters in a word (everywhere in the word)
SCOPUS: RESULTS results are sorted by date. You can also sort them by: relevance, number of citations, first author, source (journal title)
SCOPUS: RESULTS click on the title to open the full record click on Cerca con AIRE to open SFX services (full text article etc.)
SCOPUS: FULL RECORD list of works that cite the article list of papers that share references with the article references of the article
SCOPUS: FULL RECORD keywords author keywords: chosen by the authors index keywords: assigned by indexers, according to controlled vocabularies chemicals and CAS RN: substances cited in the article
SCOPUS: FULL RECORD Altmetrics for shows when the works has cited in the social networks
SCOPUS: (IN)COMPLETE RECORD records of Articles in Press could miss some data: abstract references keyword
SCOPUS: MANAGING RESULTS you can refine your search using the options limit to or "exclude"
SCOPUS: MANAGING RESULTS you can reduce your search using one or more additional keywords
SCOPUS: OTHER RESULTS secondary documents are references from records that are not indexed by you can view patents that match search criteria
SCOPUS: OUTPUTS you can export the selected records to a reference management software (e.g. Refworks) you can download up to 50 articles (if available) at the same time
SCOPUS: OUTPUTS clicking on "More " you can - create a quick bibliography from the selected documents - view all the references cited in the selected documents
SCOPUS: ANALYZE RESULTS you can analyze results by country, year, author affiliation, document type and so on
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SCOPUS: CITED BY with "View Cited by" you can view all the works that cite the selected documents
SCOPUS: CITATION OVERVIEW citation overview lets you understand and compare the citational trend of one or more works over the years, i.e. the success or the unsuccess of a research work
SCOPUS: CITATION OVERVIEW you can change the date range. Remember to click on Update overview
SCOPUS: AUTHOR PROFILE to open an author profile you have to select Author search tab
SCOPUS: AUTHOR PROFILE or you can click on the hyperlinked name
SCOPUS: AUTHOR PROFILE h index documents: all the works by the author citations: all the works that cite author s works data are complete since 1996 only
SCOPUS: AUTHOR PROFILE author output: charts and graphs of documents by the author, h index of the author, citations to the author citation overview: trends of citations to author's works over the years
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SCOPUS: AUTHOR SEARCH you can search the works by an author (not the profile) even through Document search
SCOPUS: RESULTS you can save your query in your account for future sessions (you must be logged in)
SCOPUS: RESULTS you can set alerts and feeds in your account for future sessions (you must be logged in)
SCOPUS: RESULTS you can save the selected records to a temporary list (My list)
SCOPUS: REFERENCES SEARCH you can focus your search on the references of the documents only
SCOPUS: JOURNALS METRICS Compare journals: tool for the evalution and comparation of journals
SCOPUS: JOURNALS METRICS you can analyze and compare up to 10 journals
SCOPUS: JOURNALS METRICS Parameters analyzed are IPP SNIP SJR number of citations document published % not cited % reviews