1 do more searching in less time winter term 2013 helen b. josephine [email protected]
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Search more than one Discipline
ISI Web of Knowledge 7 databases
xSearch 171 databases
Scopus 4 subject areas
Google Scholar ?
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Productivity Tools
Custom features with personal log on Create Alerts Create RSS feeds Create custom database combinations Save preferences
Link direct to fulltext Download results to citation management
tools
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ISI Web of Knowledge
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ISI Web of KnowledgeMulti-file Searching
No option to create custom combinations Use All Databases tab Then limit to General Categories or
Subject Areas Search Alert not available in ISI Web of
Knowledge multi-file option
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xSearch
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Database details
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xSearchMulti-file Searching
Use check boxes to select/de-select databases
Use combinations created by Librarians Selections by Subject Area Selections by Course
Create your own Custom Search Returns the top 100 results from each file,
results vary Results are de-duplicated
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xSearchCustom Search Subjects
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SCOPUS
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SCOPUS—What does it cover? Updated daily, Scopus offers: Nearly 18,000 titles from more than 5,000 international
publishers, including coverage of 16,500 peer-reviewed journals (inc > 1,200 Open Access
journals) 600 trade publications 350 book series Extensive conference coverage (3.6 million conference papers)
40 million records, of which: 20 million records going back to 1996 seeking to capture
complete metadata (78% include references) 20 million pre-1996 records captured without references go back
as far as 1823.
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SCOPUS—What does it cover? Scopus also offers full integration of the scientific
web in its search results, with: 435 million scientific web pages 23 million patents from 5 patent offices (US Patent and
Trademark Office, European Patent Office, Japan Patent Office, World Intellectual Property Organization and UK Intellectual Property Office)
"Articles-in-Press" from over 3,000 journals Over 80 selected sources e.g. institutional repositories,
digital archives and special subject collections made individually searchable via Selected Sources tab.
http://info.scopus.com/scopus-in-detail/facts/
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SCOPUSMulti-file Searching
No option to create custom combinations of specific databases
Select one or more of the Subject Categories: Life Sciences Health Sciences Physical Sciences Social Sciences & Humanities
Then limit to Subject Areas
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Scopus Aps
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Google Scholar
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Google ScholarMulti-file Searching
Can not choose which sources to search or combine No option to select individual databases or create
custom combinations Use advanced search option to limit to Subject Areas
How frequently do you update Google Scholar? We normally add new papers several times a week. However,
updates to existing records take 3-6 months to a year or longer, because in order to update our records, we need to first recrawl them from the source website. For many larger websites, the speed at which we can update their records is limited by the crawl rate that they allow.
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Google Scholar--Advanced
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Google Scholar--Preferences
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