bibliographic research at unicam 22° june 2010 cristina soave [email protected]
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UNICAM Library services and e-resources
• Overview of UNICAM Library System web site
• The Library Catalogue (search strategies and techniques), customised services, links to online resources and services
• UNICAM Electronic Journals Collection (how to get to full-text articles, how to get articles and other documents through a citation linker
• Online bibliographic databases and search engines freely accessible via the Internet: Google Scholar, PubMed
• The electronic resources to which UNICAM currently subscribes: WebOfKnowledge, Scopus, SciFinder Scholar. Search examples and strategy
To perform a bibliographic search, go the UNICAM Library portal
Or go to the URL http://biblioteche.unicam.it
The OPAC
UNICAM OPAC
• Means unified access to the catalogues of all the University Libraries
• gives the opportunity to search for the description and call number of about 180.000 documents catalogued at UNICAM, available on different supports
Perform a search in the OPAC when:
You would like to know if • a book, or a journal is in the Library holdings• you the book you need is lendable• the book you need is on shelf• besides the printed version, an electronic
version is also available at URL …..• and more ….
IMPORTANT ADVICE
• Not all of the bibliographic descriptions of the books have already been digitized. Sometimes, if you are looking for older books (especially before 1994), you may also need to go in a Library and consult the printed catalogue
Example: book search
You find the list of all items, whose title contains “medicinal plants”
Clicking on Titolo, a bibliographic description is provided
Clicking on the Library, you are informed about
• The Library where the book is
• If the book is on shelf
• If the book is lendable
• When someone has borrowed the book, when should it return?
Book on shelf in the Science Library
Books to be returned (and due date) in the Chemical Library
In the field Cover sometimes is provided the cover of the book
A connection with Google Books is available
Search for a journal: international journal of cosmetic science
The record in the search result list indicates that
• The print version of the journal is available from 1979 to 2000 from the Chemistry Library
• The full text is available online from 2002 to current issue: to access, click on the link provided, and then on the icon Object views and get the full-text of the article you need
One of the full-text options available
Another way to search for a journal is to use the A to Z list
• In the OPAC you find a journal only if there is also a printed version in the Library holdings
• There are thousands of journals, published by Elsevier, American chemical society, Wiley, Royal society of chemistry, Institute of physics, Springer etc, whose electronic edition is available. Libraries are increasingly seeking access to electronic journals by means of consortium agreements with publishers.
• There are journals freely accessible on-line (OA journals)
E-journals collection: select the menu Risorse elettroniche
The A to Z journal list.
Under the Titolo menu
• Type the exact title of the journal, or enter one or more words in the Search Term field and then click VAI (search)
• Search example: I have found in the references of an article the citation: Electrophoresis, 27(3) pp. 572-583 and would like to read it.
Enter Electrophoresis in the title box
Then click on the journal title, to get full text through the publisher
Another search option is the citation linker
Enter the citation in the box, and get the article
When you cannot find neither the printed nor the electronic version …• … Ask librarians for document delivery service,
i.e the supply of journal articles and other copies on a personalized basis, whether these come from other libraries or direct from publishers.
• Libraries have established voluntary associations, often on a regional basis, to provide an online union catalog of all the items held by all member libraries (ACNP).
• Some libraries establish reciprocal arrangements with each other in order to supply loans and copies for free (NILDE).
ACNP: http://acnp.cib.unibo.it/cgi-ser/start/it/cnr/fp.html
NILDEUtenti: https://nildeutenti.bo.cnr.it/
On-line bibliographic databases
Or, from the University web site, select Servizi on-line > Risorse bibliografiche
Data-bases
• Here you find the link to the electronic resources that are freely accessible by the Internet (Google scholar, PubMED)
• Or to which UNICAM currently subscribes:
WebOfKnowledge, Scopus, SciFinder Scholar
To access, click on the circle
Access rights
• “Libero” means that the resource is freely accessible from everywhere
• “Rete di Ateneo” means that the resource is accessible within every University building
• “LAN Dipartimento di scienze chimiche” means that the resource is accessible only in this Department
Search examples and strategies
• It is a good strategy to perform searches using different data-bases, and to compare the search results
• Data-bases are different because of the range of journals and materials covered, search facilities and restrictions, and update frequency
Google scholar: search for “herbal remedies”
Google scholar
• As you can see, provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles
• You can get the full-text: the link “at Univ. Camerino” means that the full-text is available through the University LAN
Scopus• 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.
• 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.
Scopus: search example
• Search for high-pressure AND high-temperature study of phase transitions in solid germanium
You will find only 3 articles
You can get full-text of the article
• Clicking on the icon View at publisher
• Or on the SFX botton
But 88 patents, and 1979 web pages (theses and repositories)
ISI Web of Knowledge: search example
You can get the full-text
• Clicking on the SFX botton
Documents typeARTICLE (73)REVIEW (11)PROCEEDINGS PAPER (7)MEETING ABSTRACT (1)In WOK there are neither patents, nor other
sources
Search tricks: use Boolean operators
• OR is used to join synonymous or related terms, and instructs the search tool to retrieve any record that contains either (or both) of the terms, thus broadening your search results.
• AND is used to join words or phrases when both (or all) the terms must appear in the items you retrieve.
• NOT is used to exclude a particular word or combination of words from your search results.
• It is also possible to perform complex Boolean searches in which more than one Boolean Operator is used. To do this, enclose the terms connected with OR within parentheses. For example: (marijuana OR cannabis) AND (therapeutic use OR medicinal use)
Truncation (WOS)
• asterisk (*) is used at the end of a word to retrieve variant endings of that word (gene* gene, genetics, generation)
• question mark (?) within a word to replace a character (en?oblast entoblast, endoblast)
• $ within a word to replace one or more characters (col$r color colour)
Only in WOS use the operator SAME
• Use SAME to find records where the terms separated by the operator appear in the same sentence. A sentence is defined as:
• the title of an article; • a sentence in the abstract; or • a single address. • Using the SAME operator instead of AND
is a good way to narrow your search.
The search
• Topic=(Thermosensitive biodegradable AND polymers) retrieves 92 records
• Topic=(Thermosensitive biodegradable SAME polymers) retrieves 51 records
How to get Sci-Finder scholar
• Since SciFinder is available only in the Department of chemical sciences, you have to go to the web site of this Department at http://web.unicam.it/discichi/bibmain.htm
You can use the client version, not the web version
• You have to download and install on your PC the client and the file site of SciFinder
• Therefore you have to follow these instructions
On the web site choose SciFinder setup
And then click and download, as requested