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Unleash the Power of ScienceDirect for Comprehensive STM Resources

Explore ScienceDirect with over 9 million articles, 23 subject collections, eBooks, references, and browse or search options for efficient research needs. Learn how to maximize your access today!

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Unleash the Power of ScienceDirect for Comprehensive STM Resources

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  1. Who are we?

  2. Science Direct • ScienceDirect covers about 24.4% of the world’s full-text scientific, technical and medical (STM) information across 24 fields of science

  3. ScienceDirect – did you know that … • ScienceDirect contains over 9 Million peer reviewed article • 11 million researchers worldwide have access to ScienceDirect. • 36 full text downloads every second during an average working day. • Since Launch science direst has put an average of two articles every minute

  4. Content • 9 million full-text articles from 2,500+ Elsevier journals • 23 Subject Collections • Backfiles dating back to 1823 • Early access to preprints via Articles in Press • 70+ Reference Works • 141 Book Series in 6 packages (63 titles) • 6 series Handbooks (164 volumes) • 5,000 eBooks • Free linking to other STM publishers via CrossRef™

  5. All journals are available on ScienceDirect from volume 1, issue 1 The Lancet – vol 1, no. 1 - 1823.

  6. Making ScienceDirect your Own • How do I register? • Select ‘Not Registered?’ at top of SD homepage • Free Registration • Create your own login • Quick and Simple

  7. Lets Log in

  8. Useful tabs

  9. Where to begin? • I’m new, where do I begin? • Browsing • Searching

  10. Browsing • What if I want to look in a particular publication? • Browsing • Searching

  11. Browsing Favorites Title Access Type RSS AIP Link Subject Alerts

  12. Browsing • Limit your search by: • Holdings, or • Publication types

  13. Browsing-Journal Home Page

  14. Browsing-Articles in Press • Accepted Manuscript • Uncorrected Proof • Corrected Proof

  15. Browsing-Articles in Press Peer-reviewed article as it was originally accepted Not copyedited Not formatted • Accepted Manuscript Copy edited and formatted peer-reviewed article Not finalized Not corrected by the authors • Uncorrected Proof Copy edited and formatted peer-reviewed article Corrected and approved by author Not yet printed in a finalized issue • Corrected Proof

  16. Browsing-Books

  17. Browsing-Books

  18. Searching • Searching • I don’t know what title to look in, what can I do? • All content in SD is fully searchable • Searching is easy and intuitive • Use ‘Quick Search’ or • Detailed Search

  19. Searching Tip-Syntax Searching *finds a root word plus all the words made by adding letters to the end of it • Behav*findsbehave,behavioral,behaviour,etc. ?replaces a character anywhere in a word, except the first character • Wom?n findswoman andwomen Proximity Connectors • W/nn • PRE/nn Boolean “OR” automatically added to query Finds more records

  20. Searching Tips-Phrase Searching • There are two options for searching a phrase: • Loose phrase search – double quotes “ “ • Exact phrase search – single quotes ‘ ‘ • Loose phrase search – enclose in double quotes • Will search for documents where the words are adjacent to each other • Does not insert the AND operator • Will ignore punctuation, e.g, hyphens or apostrophes, • e.g., “heart-attack” will find docs with and without the hyphen • “C++” or “C” will find the same results • Exact phrase search – enclose in single quotes • Stop words, punctuation, special characters and wildcards are searched • ‘C++’ will only return docs with this exact character combination • ‘C’ will return different results • Searching for quotation marks requires a \ before the actual quotation mark • \’best practice\’

  21. Advanced Search Limit your search by your criteria • Subscribed content only • Favorite journals • Subject area • Date of publication • Within keywords, abstracts, etc • morphine • Pain management

  22. Advanced Search • hospice •  • 

  23. Advanced Search • Hint: To capture and access all of your search queries, login and turn on the Search History. • Also appears on personal homepage.

  24. Quick Review • Use quick search for quick and easy searches • Use search form to specify fields and search parameters • Turn on search history to capture and automatically save searches

  25. Use quick search for easy fast search • Use search form to specify fields and search parameters • Turn on search history to capture and automatically save searches

  26. Spell Checker on Results Pages • Just like Google • If no results or less than 20 results are found, the system offers alternative spellings • FAST has it’s own dictionaries that offers alternatives to possible typos • Proven helpful tool that users appreciate

  27. Synonyms and Alternative Spellings • English and American spellings • behaviour and behavior, flavour and flavor, colour and color, psychoanalyse and psychoanalyze • Plurals • horse and horses, woman and women, case and cases • Root words • Transplant and transplants and transplanting, hear and hearing • Synonyms • Aspirin will also search acetylsalicylic acid

  28. Search result page In refine results move the categories to your preferred order • Supplementary content

  29. Export citations • BibTex Format Added

  30. Advanced features -Related articles

  31. Further advanced features • Word Wheel • Refine Results option • Mouse over references

  32. Further advanced features Graphical Abstracts

  33. Just added to ScienceDirect!  PDF Downloader

  34. Downloading a PDF from Search Results – How it used to look like . … one, by one, by one…

  35. PDF Downloader

  36. PDF downloader

  37. 2Collab  2Collab integration on ScienceDirect

  38. 2Collab Launched in 2007- a collaboration platform designed specifically for researchers in the science, technical and medical communities. 2collab provides three types of features:1.Online bookmarking and reference management2.Groups - for sharing with existing networks, or building new ones3.Networking - find, evaluate and initiate contact with new people

  39. 2collab Integration on the Article Page

  40. Adding book marks (Books) top

  41. Books contd. top25.sciencedirect.com info.sciencedirect.com trainingdesk.elsevier.com topics.scirus.com

  42. Add to 2collab top

  43. Add to 2collab contd. top

  44. Add to 2collab contd. top

  45. Add to 2collab contd. top

  46. Add to 2collab contd. top

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  48. Add to 2collab contd. top

  49. Using SD Articles Authorized SD users can print or download subscribed articles Authorized institutes may incorporate links to licensed content, including full-text into electronic coursepacks or e-reserve lists Library may provide links on homepages, library website or online catalog to licensed content Authors may post final version of manuscripts on their own website or institutional repository • Must include full citation information and link to journal on SD

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