Shortcuts for literature searching

Dan Sich

Research & Instructional Librarian

Oct 23, 2009

About you

• Department?

• Mac or PC?

• Browser of choice?

• How do you find papers?

• GeoRef, GeoBase, SciFinder, BIOSIS, arXiv, ADS, Inspec, other databases?

• Other tools? (e.g., Papers, RSS feeds?)

Topics

• Alerts:– Citation alerts in Web of Science, Scopus– Journal volume/issue alerts

• Access:– Google Scholar preferences– Get it @ Western, Interlibrary Loan– EZ Proxy bookmarklet, LibX

• eBooks, book order requests

Web of Science, citation alerts

• Who is citing you?

• Find article(s)

• Create Citation Alert

• Email or RSS feed

• Note: must do once for each paper

Scopus, citation alerts

• Who is citing you?

• Author/Affiliation search

• Click Details next to author name

• Cited By: E-mail alert

• Note: must do once for each spelling of author name

Journal table of contents alerts

• Elsevier journals (e.g., Icarus)

• Go to publisher’s website

• Register for account

• Volume/issue alert (or RSS feed)

• Alerts sent as volumes/issues published

Google Scholar preferences

• add Library Links for University of Western Ontario

• Get it @ Western links appear

• Google Scholar also gives some, but not all, citation information

Get it @ Western

1. Is Full Text available?

2. Check Holdings (ISSN search)

3. Search catalogue (by Journal Title or by Keyword for conference proceedings)

4. Is full text free on the web?

5. Interlibrary Loan

Interlibrary Loan (RACER)

• journal issue not in library catalogue?

• free photocopies of articles, yours to keep

• averages 4-10 business days

• Need to create a RACER account

• Three ways to create request:– Link from Get it @ Western (quickest)– Search RACER by “journal title”– Use Blank Request Form (slowest)

Off-Campus Access

• for databases, online journals, eBooks

• EZ Proxy bookmarklet

• LibX

LibX

• browser add-on

• for Firefox or Internet Explorer

• right-click proxy re-load

• search box, right-click search functionality

• drag-and-drop to ‘Scholar’

• embedded Get it @ Western cues

• doesn’t play nice with mail.uwo.ca

Books

• in library catalogue: eBooks search• Interlibrary Loan• in library catalogue: Recommend a Purchase

Review

• Citation Alerts: Web of Science & Scopus

• Volume/issue alerts for journals

• Get it @ Western, Interlibrary Loan

• Off-Campus Access, LibX

• eBooks, book order requests

• library page for Planetary Science

Questions?

Dan Sich

email: dsich2@uwo.ca

phone: x80962