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Keeping up with Current Research:October 2011
Judith PinfoldSubject Librarian for Biology and Forestry
Oxford Research Archive• Students registered on
the D.Phil. programme from 1st October 2007 are required to deposit both a print copy (in the Bodleian Library) and a digital copy (in ORA) of their thesis.
http://ora.ox.ac.uk/
http://ora.ox.ac.uk/
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ora/oxford_etheses/
WISER session
• WISER: Your thesis, copyright and ORA
• Monday 21 November 9.30 - 10.30am
• Digital theses are becoming increasingly common worldwide. Oxford DPhil students are required to deposit a copy of their thesis in ORA (Oxford University Research Archive). Find out how to deposit the digital copy of your thesis and what you need to know about rights and other issues.Presenter: Sally Rumsey
Current Awareness Services
• The information explosion during 1950s and 60s gave rise to fears of not being able to keep up to date with the literature and so current awareness services came into being.
• Originally hardcopy and postal services.
• Advent of the internet has vastly improved such services.
ELECTRONIC ALERTING SERVICES (EAS)
EAS make use of e-mail and e-databases.
In the academic community these are usually provided by the Institution and so are free to the end-users.
WARNING : No database is comprehensive and no matter how well you frame your enquiry, an EAS will never be as clever as your brain is at picking out material of interest.
RSS = Really Simple Syndication
• RSS is a family of web feed formats
• A web feed is a data format used for serving users frequently updated content.
• Content distributors syndicate a web feed
thereby allowing users to subscribe to it.
SfX: Oxford University e-Journals – full text
ZETOC : Electronic table of contents: Covers the British Library’s Document Supply Centre’s intake of journals
SCOPUS Science Direct. Updating service for journals mainly from Elsevier
Web of Knowledge: Covers all the ISI Citation databases, Arts & Humanities, Social Science & Science
Databases vs. Search engines• Contents are
indexed by subject specialists
• Subject headings• Limiting functions
e.g. publication types, language
Allow you to • View Search history• Combine searches• Mark and sort
results• Print/save/email/
export• Save searches• Set up alerts
• Searches done by automated “web crawlers”
• No thesaurus / subject headings – just free text searching
• No limiting functions
• Usually none of
these!
E-Journals
“I didn't check for the hard copy
- so used to getting online access!”
ZETOCBritish Library: Electronic Table of Contents
+++ Broad coverage.Easy to set up.Easy to modify & extend
--- Not so timely as some (it depends on BL receipt of hard copy)
SCOPUSResearch Service from Elsevier
+++Does include MedLine Searches abstracts
Full text links to
Keeping up to date with SCOPUS
Covers journals loaded onto ScienceDirect(but not exclusively)
Includes Abstracts in the searches as well as journal titles, keywords and citations
Can look at the results over the net
Journal and Citation alerts are emailed
Reference Management Systems
• ProCite, Reference Manager and EndNote (works without web access – but software needs to be installed on own machine – charge of c£90 from OUCS)
• RefWorks (web based – access your records anywhere - free to members of university)
• EndNote on the Web (free to members of university, but has limited feature set – designed to be used alongside desktop version)
• Zotero is a free plug-in for Firefox browser (only) – limited but growing capability
So what can reference management software do?
• Store references to items in many different formats and material types• Search, select and output references in a variety of pre-determined
styles, or one of your own making• Import references direct from databases like Scopus or Web of
Knowledge, or library catalogues like SOLO• Search external databases from within the reference management
software, and save references retrieved• Insert references into a word-processed document and format them in a
particular style at the touch of a button• Store links to documents – pdf’s, images – or copies of them within
database
EndNote, EndNote Web & RefWorks compared
Compare features: EndNote
Web EndNoteDesktop RefWorks
Save references + + +
Organize & edit references + + +
Storage capacity (number of references) 10,000 unlimited unlimited
Import from many databases and OPACs + + +
Cite & format papers with bibliographies + + +
Create & save advanced searches + create (not save)
Customize views & displays + +
Edit reference import filters & output styles +RW can add or edit import filters
Users can edit output styles
Use term lists for auto-entry + +
Cite tables, figures, & equations + +
Work Offline (anytime/anywhere) + Write papers offline only
Local Personal Files and Documents + +
High Performance Desktop Environment +
Reference Management Systems
• For more information on compatibility of different reference management packages, email
Ollie Bridle, Biochemistry Subject Librarian at the RSL
EndNote system:-
Software package that you purchase from OUCS but you then have it permanently
There is also now a Web version
Courses laid on for both main systems (http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk)
Web of Knowledge
WEB of Science: ISI citation indexes
Broad Coverage – all subject areas
Run when convenient
Automatic export to EndNotebut now with export to RefWorks
(Journal Citation Reports – help choose the most effective title in your area)
Web of Knowledge
Three ways to keep up to date:
E-mail alert – you can specify a search to be repeated and the results emailed to you at chosen intervals
Saving and rerunning searches – you save a search and run it again in the future
Citation Alert – you will receive an email every time a particular article is cited in another WoK-indexed article
Bibliographic Databases
OVIDSP
• CAB Abstracts – biogeography• Forest Science – biogeography• Zoological Abstracts Archive only
(1864-2009)
Bibliographic Databases
ProQuest• Very broad based• ‘Biological science’ component concentrates on:
Biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology - journal articles
• Coverage 1971-current• 29 databases including: Ecology abstracts, Entomology
abstracts, Animal behaviour abstracts, Plant Science,etc.• Can search individually or by specific databases• Updated monthly
For PubMed, contact Juliet Ralph: [email protected]
RefWorks for Sciences and Social Sciences
Friday 2 December 9.15 - 12.15pm
Book via OUCS websitehttp://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/summary
WISER session
Bibliographic Databases
Search :- Conservation of Cheetahs 2006-2011 Scopus = 44 articles
W.o.K. = 43 articles
Ovid = 63 after de-duplication of 75 articles, etc.
ProQuest = 36 articles
Total = 227
After RefWorks de-duplication = 77
Further assistance:
This presentation available on-line
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/science/training/biosciences
More courses available:
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/
Other presentations
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/training/wiser
[email protected] (environmental sciences)
[email protected] (bioinformatics)
[email protected] (biological sciences)
[email protected] (medical sciences)
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