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database recommendations, important reference tools: www.library.utoronto.ca/engineering-computer-science ‘how to find’ refworks: refworks.scholarsportal.info faculty/grad students workshop schedule http://www.library.utoronto.ca/services/ilu/researchatutl.html

Databases: tips for improved searching: 

Databases: tips for improved searching start with our recommendations don’t limit yourself to a single database construct test searches move beyond keywords: use thesauri, field searching examine results and degree of overlap between databases (using RefWorks or EndNote helps) use alerting systems (email, rss) to keep up to date

www.library.utoronto.ca/engineering-computer-science‘how to find’ listing of recommended indexes, by discipline: 

www.library.utoronto.ca/engineering-computer-science ‘how to find’ listing of recommended indexes, by discipline

Use fact sheets to find out more about a database : 

Use fact sheets to find out more about a database Subject coverage Serials source lists Field codes database size

 strongest databases in materials science: Scholars Portal Search (CSA Illumina) : 

strongest databases in materials science: Scholars Portal Search (CSA Illumina) ...has many important engineering dbs: Biotechnology & Bioengineering Abstracts (8 databases) Engineering Research Database (5 databases) High Technology Research Database with Aerospace (4 databases) Materials Research Database with METADEX (8 databases) Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (13 databases) GeoRef

How to get to Scholars Portal Search: 

How to get to Scholars Portal Search

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Scholars Portal Search

Keywords – Just one of many search options!: 

Keywords – Just one of many search options! searches titles, abstracts, subjects NOT full text problems typos false drops you pick the wrong keywords you pick program evaluation, they use benchmarking, TQM, outcome assessment…

Thesaurus Searching: 

Thesaurus Searching uses a built-in list of subject terms terms are assigned no matter what keywords the author uses enables consistency example CSA Materials Research Database with Metadex Copper Thesaurus Engineered Materials Thesaurus Metallurgical Thesaurus

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Search tools tab, then thesaurus tab

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Choose ‘hierarchy’ to see relationship between terms

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Check the thesaurus term and the explode button Exploded thesaurus term will catch these narrower terms

Scholars Portal Search (CSA): advanced search interface: 

Scholars Portal Search (CSA): advanced search interface Possible advantages: Search multiple thesauri (or available thesauri) simultaneously Possible disadvantages: No explosion, no hierarchy DE=descriptor field

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Search History link is at the top, right corner.

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Combine searches with and, or, use the number sign.

Current Awareness / E-mail Alerts: 

Current Awareness / E-mail Alerts E-mail alerts are messages sent after every database update Sent if the update contains any new records that match your saved query Usually weekly or monthly Two types: subject alert and citation alert Some databases (e.g., Compendex) now do same thing via RSS

E-mail Alerts: 

E-mail Alerts Instructions for setting up alerts at: http://www.library.utoronto.ca/myalerts Instructions included for ISI Web of Knowledge, SCOPUS, Scholars Portal, OVID, PubMed Cubby Others will be added as they are written

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TOC: Table of Contents alerts can be created in all databases by creating a subject search where the field (e.g. for Compendex use serial title, Web of Science and Scopus use source title, CSA use journal name) contains the name of the publication or its ISSN.

identifying significant journals: 

identifying significant journals ISI Journal Citation Reports www.library.utoronto.ca choose e-reference type isi journal citation reports

journal impact factor: 

journal impact factor frequency with which ‘average article’ in a journal has been cited in particular year Indication of journal’s relative importance Use with caution e.g., review articles cited much more

cited half-life: 

cited half-life Number of publication years from current which account for 50% of current articles Helps evaluate age of majority of cited articles

Keeping up to date: alerting systems: 

Keeping up to date: alerting systems www.library.utoronto.ca/ myalerts/ Construct and save searches which are run automatically at regular future intervals and emailed to you Web of science Scopus Ovid (health sciences) Pubmed Scholarsportal (Scholarsportal includes Academic Press, APA, ACS, Berkeley Electronic Press, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier Science Kluwer, Oxford University Press, Project MUSE, Springer-Verlag, Wiley)

SciFinder Scholar: 

SciFinder Scholar Comprehensive coverage of journal articles, conferences, tech reports, patents and other formats in all areas of chemistry, chemical engineering, and allied disciplines Includes: Chemical abstracts 1907 to the present over 21 million documents from over 9000 journals CASREACT over 6 million single and multi-step reactions CHEMCATS Over 5 million commerciallly available chemicals CHEMLIST over 227,000 regulated chemicals Registry Over 20 million substances and biosequences Medline 1958 to the present 11 million biomedical citations

major patent databases: 

major patent databases USPTO US CIPO: Canadian Patents Database Canadian esp@cnet european patent office European, worldwide, Japanese Derwent worldwide http://www.library.utoronto.ca/engineering-computer-science/time_saving02/patents02.html

Patents as research sources: 

Patents as research sources Rich content 70% of information contained in patents not available elsewhere when a catalogue or an article describes a product in a few lines, the corresponding patent often consists of 20 pages Source: Introduction to esp@cenet. Retrieved February 21, 2005 from http://ep.espacenet.com

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Easily accessible online Up-to-Date companies generally file patent applications at the earliest possible stage normally published 18 months after their first filing date very often represent the first published information available Source: Introduction to esp@cenet. Retrieved February 21, 2005 from http://ep.espacenet.com

USPTO: 

USPTO United States Patent & Trademark Office http://www.uspto.gov most US patents from 1790-present image (tiff) files Pre-1976: classification & patent number searching ONLY Therefore: for keyword or author searches of older patents, better to go to esp@cenet

USPTO: patents vs applications: 

USPTO: patents vs applications patent number: given after patent is accepted and granted by the USPTO application number: file number the USPTO gives to a submitted application

Searching USPTO: 

Searching USPTO Suggested steps: -keyword search -locate good patent - look at class/subclass listing to find more patents on same subject

uspto: sample kwd search: 

uspto: sample kwd search topic: cathode materials for lithium ion batteries,  electrochemistry in advanced search screen TTL/cathode AND SPEC/lithium AND SPEC/(battery OR batteries)) AND electrochemistry

Searching USPTO: 

Searching USPTO Or, find class/subclass in Index to the U.S. Patent Classification System at USPTO by searching common terms

Searching USPTO: 

Searching USPTO use class numbers to look up the classification of subjects related to your search terms in the Manual of US Patent Classification Manual contains technical description and exact definition of terms and indicates the subject hierarchy of terms

Canadian Patent Database: 

Canadian Patent Database contains patent documents from 1920 to the present information consists of patent document images, bibliographic data and patent document text Patent documents filed on or after October 1, 1989, are classified according to the International Patent Classification (IPC) system, and can be searched that way Source: Strategis Canada. Canadian Patent Database. Retrieved February 21, 2005 from http://patents1.ic.gc.ca/content-e.html

esp@cnet european patent officehttp://ep.espacenet.com: 

esp@cnet european patent office http://ep.espacenet.com patent information worldwide; divided into 4 different databases: European Patent Office (EP) most recent 24 months of applications from the European Patent Office older materials: search the Worldwide Patents database World Intellectual Property Organization most recent 24 months of Patent Cooperation Treat (PCT or WO) patents. older materials: search the Worldwide Patents database Worldwide Patents full collection of the EPO plus patent information from approximately 50 countries including Japan Japanese Patents from 1976 to the current year. Patent "front page" images are available from 1980 on. Many national patent offices have individual web patent dbs. See www.european-patent-office.org/online/index.htm

Derwent Database: 

Derwent Database www.library.utoronto.ca , choose e-indexes, type derwent patent literature from 40 different countries Earliest is 1966 Can limit search to specific sections of the database: Chemical Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Derwent : 

Derwent Besides standard patent information, derwent also includes citing patents articles cited by examiner equivalent patent numbers from other jurisdictions

subject-focused access to patents: Scifinder Scholar: 

subject-focused access to patents: Scifinder Scholar 25 countries & organizations patent concordance lists patent number by issuing country and corresponding patent number in other countries search by: patent number, or subject search, limit to patents computer icon next to reference gives fulltext patent (via ChemPort) Source: UCSD Science & Engineering Library. Finding Patents. Retrieved February 21, 2005 from http://www.scilib.ucsd.edu/howto/guides/findpatents.html

Searching “Packages” of Full Text Journals: 

Searching “Packages” of Full Text Journals Examples: ScienceDirect (from Elsevier) IEEE Xplore ACM Digital Library SpringerLink JSTOR (Journal STORage) SAGE collections from CSA ScholarsPortal (future)

ScienceDirect: 

ScienceDirect Listed as a Provider under e-Journals Over 1800 titles online Science, technology & medicine Full text and bibliographic information

Springer Link: 

Springer Link Access from e-Indexes More than 1,200 peer-reviewed journals Over 600,000 individual documents Most titles include complete back issues to 1996

New Developments in Citation Searching: 

New Developments in Citation Searching Web of Science Scopus Google Scholar (free) SciFinder Scholar Scholars Portal Search (CSA) ACM IEEE

Web of Science: 

Web of Science CITED REFERENCE SEARCH Back to 1945!

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Web of Science - Tips: 

Web of Science - Tips TIP: Narrow with author initials only if necessary E.g. try Heitzer first Then try Heitzer A* Journal titles MUST be entered exactly as indicated in examples TIP: this index covers many topics, few journals in each topic area TIP: best citation index for back coverage – many decades

About Scopus Citations : 

About Scopus Citations 12,900 titles, 25 million abstracts back to 1966, but… ONLY 5 YEARS of “reference-back” years 10 years by 2005 only journals indexed in Scopus’ main db are cited!

Google Scholar : 

Google Scholar citations are only to items in Google Scholar cited article must be contained in the bibliography/reference list of the subsequent article that article must be indexed by Google Scholar Scope of content, currency is unknown: Google does not tell us TIP: higher citing numbers are sometimes due to duplications – check your results