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Simple and exact interview: Science-direct. Agenda. What is ScienceDirect? Why ScienceDirect? Content Where to begin? Making ScienceDirect your own More Training Options. Agenda. What is ScienceDirect? Why ScienceDirect? Content Where to begin? Making ScienceDirect your own
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Agenda • What is ScienceDirect? • Why ScienceDirect? • Content • Where to begin? • Making ScienceDirect your own • More Training Options
Agenda • What is ScienceDirect? • Why ScienceDirect? • Content • Where to begin? • Making ScienceDirect your own • More Training Options
What is ScienceDirect? • The world's most advanced web delivery systems for scientific, technical and medical information. • The essential information resource available to over11 million researchers and scientists around the world. E-books 24% Book Series Reference Works Handbooks 2,500+ Journal Titles
Why ScienceDirect? • Write quality papers with access to peer-reviewedcontent • Use innovative tools to stay up-to-date • Example: Top 25 article e-mail alerts • Find articles listed on a course syllabus • Email articlesto a project team • Collect referencesfor a term paper • Offer a broader perspective on new subject areas with an unparralleled breadth and depth of content • Trackresearch of thought-leaders in a particular subject • Link to the full text of references • Build and maintain a personalized library of articles • Use user-friendly search functionalities to refine research
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™
Agenda • What is ScienceDirect? • Why ScienceDirect? • Content • Where to begin? • Making ScienceDirect your own • More Training Options
Agenda • Where to begin? • Browsing • Searching • Reviewing Search Results and Material
Browsing Browsing Searching
Browsing Favorites Title Access Type RSS AIP Link Subject Alerts
Browsing • Limit your search by: • Holdings, or • Publication types
Browsing-Articles in Press Accepted Manuscript Uncorrected Proof Corrected Proof
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
Searching I don’t know what title to look in, what can I do? Searching • All content in SD is fully searchable • Searching is easy and intuitive • Use ‘Quick Search’ or • Detailed Search
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
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Advanced Search • Hint: To capture and access all of your search queries, login and turn on the Search History. • Also appears on personal homepage.
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
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” finds more records
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\’
Agenda • Where to begin? • Browsing • Searching • Reviewing Search Results and Material
Reviewing Search Results How do I know which titles we have access to? Entitlement icons indicate full-text access level • = Full-text available • = Abstract only Journal Level
Reviewing Search Results How do I know which titles we have access to? Entitlement icons indicate full-text access level • = Full-text available • = Abstract only Volume/Issue Level
Reviewing Search Results How do I know which titles we have access to? Entitlement icons indicate full-text access level • = Full-text available • = Abstract only Abstract only Links appear
Reviewing Search Results How do I know which titles we have access to? • Click Entitlement • Identify subscribed content per journal Full-text available to you All available issues on SD
Reviewing Search Results • I need this article, but it’s not part of our collection. What do I do? Document Delivery ArticleChoice Transactional Access Pay Per View
Transactional Access Transactional Access Full-text links are visible to the user for non-subscribed articles
Transactional Access • This screen appears for users to select continue or cancel • If user clicks continue, full-text appears and library is charged for the article http://info.admintool.elsevier.com/contactus/index.html
Pay Per View • I need this article, but it’s not part of our collection. What do I do? Pay Per View • Individual purchase by credit card • Instant access • PDF and HTML available for 24 hours • Can be downloaded and stored
Reviewing Material • Now that I have the article I need, what’s next?
Reviewing Material Preview article
Reviewing Material Click on the article title
Reviewing Material • Choose View: • Thumbnails • Full-Sized Images
Reviewing Material Available only if subscribed material
Reviewing Material View as final printed publication would appear
Reviewing Material Article Toolbox
Reviewing Material Know and Use the Article Toolbox • Export to your citation management program Stay Alerted • Bookmark in 2collab
Reviewing Material Quick access to supplementary material
Document Download Manager • Can I download several documents at once? Document Download Manager Up to 20
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Agenda • What is ScienceDirect? • Why ScienceDirect? • Content • Where to begin? • Browsing • Searching • Reviewing Search Results and Material • Making ScienceDirect your own • More Training Options
Making ScienceDirect your Own • Time saving benefits • Captures all recent actions on homepage • Create a personal list of favorite journal titles • Save and re-execute personal search queries • Obtain search updates via email • Schedule alerts for document citations • Receive table of contents via email for new journal issues • Enable search history to automatically save searches • Create quick links on your homepage • Maintain all preferences • Access your account from anywhere
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