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ProQuest Science JournalsKey resources for researchers and students in
scientific and technological fields
ProQuest Science Journals: Agenda
• Database overview• Subject selection• Research, teaching and consumer applications• Quality coverage, key titles• Key customers• Example search• Other sci-tech resources from ProQuest
Database Overview
• Full-text aggregated journal collection• Over 1,500 Titles• 350+ Publishers represented• 1,250+ Full-text titles included• 100+ Science subjects covered• Available on the ProQuest platform
Subject Selection
• ACCOUSTICS• AERONAUTICS• ANTHROPOLOGY• ARCHITECTURE• ASTRONOMY• BIOLOGY • BUILDING AND
CONSTRUCTION• CHEMISTRY• COMMUNICATION• COMPUTERS• CONSERVATION• CRIMINOLOGY • DRUG ABUSE
Subject Selection• EARTH SCIENCES • ELECTRONICS• ENERGY• ENGINEERING
-- CHEMICAL --CIVIL --COMPUTER APPLICATIONS --ELECTRICAL --MATERIALS--MECHANICS --HYDRAULIC --INDUSTRIAL --MECHANICAL
• ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Subject Selection
• FOOD AND FOOD INDUSTRIES
• FORESTS AND FORESTRY• GARDENING AND
HORTICULTURE • GEOGRAPHY • GERONTOLOGY AND
GERIATRICS• HEATING, PLUMBING AND
REFRIGERATION • HOUSING AND URBAN
PLANNING• INDUSTRIAL HEALTH AND
SAFETY
Subject Selection
• INSTRUMENTS • LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES • MACHINERY • MATHEMATICS • MEDICAL SCIENCES • METALLURGY • METEOROLOGY • METROLOGY• MILITARY • MINES AND MINING • INDUSTRY • INDUSTRY • NUTRITION AND DIETETICS • PACKAGING PAINTS AND PROTECTIVE COATINGS
Subject Selection
• PAPER AND PULP • PARAPSYCHOLOGY AND
OCCULTISM• PETROLEUM AND GAS • PHYSICAL FITNESS AND
HYGIENE• PHYSICS• PLASTICS • PSYCHOLOGY• SOUND RECORDING AND
REPRODUCTION • STATISTICS • TEXTILE INDUSTRIES AND
FABRICS • TRANSPORTATION • VETERINARY SCIENCE • WATER RESOURCES
For Researchers: Hard Sciences
• Chemistry - 19 full-text titles– Adhesives Age, American Journal of Science, Canadian
Journal of Chemistry, Chemical Reviews, Chemicals & Chemistry, Chemicals & Chemistry Business, Chemistry in Australia, Clinical Chemistry, Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications, Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry, Current Medicinal Chemistry, Hydrocarbon Processing, International News on Fats, Oils and Related Materials: INFORM, JAOCS, Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society, Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Journal of Surfactants and Detergents, LC GC North America, Nature Chemical Biology and Rubber Chemistry and Technology
For Researchers: Hard Sciences
• Computers/Computing – 59 full-text titles– Key titles include ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Transactions
on Computer Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, Communications of the ACM, Association for Computing Machinery: Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, Computer Graphics World (Pennwell Publishing), and Discrete & Computational Geometry (Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.).
For Researchers: Hard Sciences
• Engineering - 95 current full-text titles (including Chemical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering)– Important Engineering content includes titles from Penwell
Publishing Company (Electric Light and Power; SMT; Solid State Techology), BNP Media (Assembly), Illuminating Engineering Society (Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society, Lighting Design + Application), Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. (Acta Mechanica, Granular Matter, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment) and Manchester University Press (International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education).
For Researchers: Hard Sciences
• Mathematics - 57 current full-text titles– Titles include Springer-Verlag New York, Inc: Aequationes
Mathematicae, Applied Mathematics and Optimization, Archive for Mathematical Logic, Calcolo, Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations, Graphs and Combinatorics, Mathematical Programming, Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems; MCSS, Probability Theory and Related Fields, Foundations of Computational Mathematics and Hodder Arnold: Statistical Modelling.
• Physics - 15 current full-text titles– Content includes Few - Body Systems, Magma, Theoretical and
Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Pennwell Publishing Company: Laser Focus World.
Trade & Professional Publications
• ProQuest Science Journals also includes trade and professional publications. – Highlights include Dr Dobbs Journal, the popular computing
magazine from CMP and Computer Graphics World. – IEEE Software and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
from the IEEE.
Vocational Colleges & Undergraduate Teaching
• ProQuest Science Journals includes a collection of popular science and consumer magazines– Astronomy, E : the Environmental Magazine, The Ecologist, Natural
History, Popular Science, Science News, Skeptic, Sky and Telescope, Technology Review, Weatherwise and World Watch.
Key Publishers
Only available on the ProQuest Platform
• Available on the award winning ProQuest platform• Cross-search with other ProQuest databases• Intuitive interface• Quality indexing by ProQuest
Interface Overview
Enter a key word search•Two words will automatically search as a phrase
•Three or more words need to be included within quotation marks i.e. “genetically modified food”
•The ProQuest interface is not case sensitive
•Use # for truncation
•Use ? as a wild card
Interface Overview
•Click on Browse Topic to browse or search a subject directory
•Click on Thesaurus to search a completesubject Thesaurus
Interface Overview
•Click on Add to Search to construct a Subject search
More Search Options
•Click on Date Range to limit a search to a specific date
•Click on More Search Options to provide additional search fields
Natural Language Search
Advanced Search Mode
•Click on the drop down menu to limit your search to a specific search field
I.e. limit your search to articles about New Zealand
Topic Guide
Smart Search & Results Filtering
Results List
•ProQuest Smart Search, award winning search technology, provides suggested subject searches and relevant publication
Search Alerts
Click to set up a search alert
Article View
Text plus Graphics
PDF images articles
More Like this Feature
Marking items
•Marked articles appear in yellow on the results list and are added to the My Research page
Publication Search Method
Publication Issues List
Publication display
•Use ProQuest Smart Search to identify core subjects covered within a particular issue
Publication Alerts
Click to set up an alert
My Research
My Research provides a list of; •Marked Articles •Research Searches •Visited Publications
My Research
Using My Research you can: •Create a bibliography•Email articles •Export Citations•Create a web page or durable search & publication links
•Click on the drop down menu to limit your search to a specific search field
I.e. limit your search to articles about New Zealand
Create a Bibliography
Email articles
Create a Web Page
durable search & publication links
ProQuest Science Journals: Summary
• Comprehensive subject coverage
• Many research applications;
• Many key titles, high impact factors
• Embargoes kept to a minimum
• Easy to search, easy to browse, easy to use results
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