Definition and search of scientific articles

1. Definition and search ofscientific articles Tord Heljeberg tord.heljeberg@mdh.se 021-101641 www.mdh.se/bib/

2. The historical perspective • Oral presentations, letters, books • Learned societies • Priority disputes between scientists very common • First journals in 1665, England & France • 18th century – 1000 journals published

3. Modern times • 20 th century – expanding research at growing numbers of universities – more specialised research: growing economic interest of commercial publishers • Increased library subscription prices

6. Important aspects of scientific journals: • Establishing of priority (who is first) • High quality through the peer review process • Archiving

7. Alternative publishing • Open Access – ArXiv, Doaj et.c • Economic models • Peer review? • Why publish in Open access journals?

8. MdU Library journal collection • About 9000 electronic journals • <50% scientific journals • Millions of scientific fulltext articles • Access from within university network – also externally

9. Articles published/spread outside scientific journals: • Articles in conference proceedings. Not always peer reviewed.Research described is sometimes in progress. • Professional magazines • Technical reports, working papers

10. Scientific articles should be cited: • Because of high quality - they seldom contain faults • To give your own text higher credibility • To assure that the readers of your document will be able to access the documents you cite

11. Library databases: • Reference databases – gives short descriptions of articles OR • Full text databases – complete articles

12. A database search begins by choosing search terms • Free terms – search terms defined by you. • Controlled terms –terms defined by the database producer. Controlled terms are chosen from a term list – a thesaurus

13. Use search operators to combine search terms • AND • OR • NOT

14. cats OR dogscats AND dogs”guinea pigs” NOT (mouse OR mice)

15. Proximity operators – WITHIN (w/?), NEAR, SAME Cats w/50 Dogs

16. Truncation Use only a part of a term to retrieve terms with different term endings Truncation symbols: * or (sometimes) !

17. Network* retrieves: Network, Networks ,Networking etc.. Be careful ! Color* Retrieves: Color, Colored etc. but also: Colorado

18. Covers publications in engineering research Contain 15+ million references Index: journals and conference proceeedings, reports INSPEC /Compendex

19. Reference journal databases Covers science and technology, social sciences and humanities Can be used for citation searches ISI Web of science

20. Science Direct • Full text database • 1800 journals • 60 scientific computer science journals • Full text from 1995- • Truncation with !-mark

21. IEEE Xplore / ACM Dig. Libr. • Full text databases • About 170 journals +conference proceedings and IEEE standards • IEEE Xplore, 1988- • ACM Digital Library, 1985-

22. Elin@Malardalen • In Elin you search several full text databases from one search interface

23. Google scholar • Article search

24. Interlibrary loans • Library card needed • 40 SEK /article • Online web order form • Article delivery within a a week

25. Find literature that complements the literature found in commercial databases Find information about innovative research not yet published in scientific articles Find full text articles from freely available journals Using web search engines you

26. Internet document check up: • Who is the author? Has the author published other articles/books? • Where do you find the information? On a university web site? On a private site? At a company internet site? • Can the author be contacted?

27. E-books in Ebrary • 25.000, english, book titles • High quality – recent publications • Unlimited nr. of simultaneous users • Save books in bookshelf • Limited printouts & copying • Titles added & removed monthly