webskills for researchers

Web Skills:Web of Knowledge

and ScopusDateRosemary Rodd

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General Information

General Information

Objectives: Learn how to get started using online reference sources Pre-requisites: None, but familiarity with web browsing will help Duration & Break: 1 hour Course Material: handout for practical exercises Delivery Style: Demonstration followed by a practical

Follow-on courses: EndNote Web

Courses run by University Library Referencing Without Tears,

How To Do A Literature Search, How To Find Things on Your Reading ListNewspaper Research

Scopus and Science Direct Some humanities/social sciences journals included, but

strongest in the sciences. Includes some recent academic books. Direct export of PDFs (provided you have access rights) Science Direct allows you to export PDFs by drag and drop. SCOPUS allows you to select multiple PDFs and download to

a folder Personalise using your Raven ID and password; no need to

set up another account. Records go back to 1960.

Web of Knowledge/Web of Science Not just for scientists: search over Arts and Humanities,

Social Sciences or Science databases for relevant items. Selected: journals go into the indexes after a degree of

quality control so only genuine academic work will be included.

Direct link to EndNote Web and methods to export to other reference management software.

Requires registration to use all the features: can't simply use your Raven authentication to personalise.

Records go back to 1899.

Alerts

Set up saved search routines to send an email to notify you when a relevant article becomes available.

Available on all three services

Login with your Raven account to personalise Scopus settings

This doesn't currently give access to the Sciverse hub, which still requires you to register with your personal details.

Do a search

Adjust the settings and click the create button to save your alert

Set up an RSS feed...

Analyse

Click an author's name

Analyse co-publication trends

Explore references with the hub

Use apps to probe further

Go to the Science Direct platform to browse or access materials direct

Browse relevant book titles

Most not free access, but you can purchase individual chapters

Web of Knowledge / Web of Science

Owned by Thomson Reuters who also own the reference management programs EndNote and EndNote Web.

Web of Science: create a topic alert

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Get alerts when a paper is cited

Analyse by creating a citation map

2-generation citation map showing how a paper is cited in papers which are then themselves referenced.