1. Keep Current- Digitally! Multidisciplinary Sandra Keys, Librarian for Accountancy and Business & Entrepreneurship Laura Briggs, Librarian for Chemistry & LT3 University of Waterloo Library January 20, 2006

2. Today’s Agenda  Where we find current research – overview  Electronic Journals  Email alerts  Subject Searching – major databases  How to obtain the articles  Managing your citations - RefWorks

3. Journal Where we find current research Publisher Several Publishers Research Index Applied Energy Catalysis Today IEEE ACM Digital Library Berkeley Electronic Press Scholars Portal Compendex PsycINFO Web of Science Email Alerts

4. Journals At a journal’s web site you can often: –View the table of contents of each issue –Search previous issues by topic –Set up Alerts table of contents or topic search results emailed to you at a specified interval (e.g. weekly, as available)

5. Where can you find journals?  In the Library’s e-journal collection –Contains over 13,000 full-text electronic journals –Search by journal title/keyword or subject OR browse an alphabetical list –Free access from the Library’s website –Login or free registration may be required for some journals

6. Library’s Homepage

7. Resources for Research Page

8. E-Journal Titles Page

9. Where can you find journals? (cont’d)  Many journals have their own website (use your favourite search engine to locate) –Useful for journals UW does not have –Table of contents and alerting services are often available for free

10. Table of Contents e-mail alerts  Automatically receive the table of contents at the time of online publication  Free service, in most cases  Useful for any online journal, not only the ones to which UW subscribes

11. Journal TOC Alert

12. Where we find current research Journal Publisher Several Publishers Research Index Applied Energy Catalysis Today IEEE ACM Digital Library Berkeley Electronic Press Scholars Portal Compendex PsycINFO Web of Science Email Alerts

13. Publisher web site  Publishers’ web sites may offer many searching options including: –Subject searching over all journals –E-mail alerting  Large packages include IEEE, ACM Digital Library, Berkeley Electronic Press

14. Publisher Alert

15. Publisher Alert (cont’d)

16. Publisher Alert (con’t)

17. Publisher Alert (cont’d)

19. YOUR TURN!  Select a journal of your choice  Does it have an alerting service? –If yes, set up an alert –If no, try another journal…

20. Where we find current research Journal Publisher Several Publishers Research Index Applied Energy Catalysis Today IEEE ACM Digital Library Berkeley Electronic Press Scholars Portal Compendex PsycINFO Web of Science Email Alerts

21. Several Publishers – Journal Collection  Scholars Portal –access from Journal Articles, etc.  An OCUL initiative  Database of journals from 11 publishers covering over 7,000 individual scholarly journals  Articles are full text  Uses the CSA interface  You will receive a notice every 6 months asking if you wish to renew your alert

22. Library’s Homepage

23. Scholars Portal

24. Scholars Portal (cont’d)

31. YOUR TURN!  Create a Personal Profile on Scholars Portal –Note that this Personal Profile will work for all CSA databases to which UW subscribes  Set up an alert for a search topic of your choice

32. Where we find current research Journal Publisher Several Publishers Research Index Applied Energy Catalysis Today IEEE ACM Digital Library Berkeley Electronic Press Scholars Portal Compendex PsycINFO Web of Science Email Alerts

33. Library’s Homepage

34. Journal Articles Page (aka Research Databases)

35. CSA  Consists of approximately 30 different databases covering a wide variety of topics –Art Abstracts –Biological Sciences –Communication Abstracts –EconLit –Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management –Materials Research Database with METADEX –MLA International Bibliography –PsycINFO  Date coverage varies with the database  Uses the same interface as Scholars Portal (i.e., set up alerts in exactly the same way!)

36. Compendex2 (Engineering Village 2)  Covers all engineering topics  Indexes over 5,000 journals, conferences, and reports  Date coverage: 1884 to present  Alerts are updated/e-mailed on a weekly basis

37. Compendex (cont’d)

42. Web of Science  Multidisciplinary (Not just science!)  Science Citation Index (1900 - )  Social Sciences Citation Index (1956 - )  Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975 - )  Links to e-journals and TRELLIS through  Cited Reference searching  Updated weekly  Email Alerts

43. Web of Science

44. Web of Science- Registering

45. Web of Science- Logged In

46. What is Cited Reference Searching? Cited Reference Searching 19991965 (Earlier Work) line of research backwards 19992005 (Recent Work) line of research forwards End Note Chasing Look up the references listed at the end of an article. Find articles that cite a previously published article.

47. Web of Science- Cited Ref Searching  Based on a true story ….. Important paper my advisor gave me: Dixon C.E., Netherton M.R., Baines K.M. Addition of Methyl Grignard Reagents to Germasilenes and Digermenes: Unusual Ligand Exchange Reaction of the Resulting Germyl Grignard Reagents. Journal of the American Chemical Society 1998, 120, 10365-10371. Important paper my advisor gave me: Dixon C.E., Netherton M.R., Baines K.M. Addition of Methyl Grignard Reagents to Germasilenes and Digermenes: Unusual Ligand Exchange Reaction of the Resulting Germyl Grignard Reagents. Journal of the American Chemical Society 1998, 120, 10365-10371.

48. Web of Science- Cited Ref Searching

56. Web of Science- Analyze Results

58. Databases with Alerting Features Subject AreaDatabase BiologyBiological Sciences, Web of Science ChemistryWeb of Science, INSPEC, Beilstein EngineeringCompendex2, INSPEC, Web of Science, METADEX, Mechanical Engineering Abstracts Environment & Resource Studies Geography Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management, Environment Abstracts, Web of Science Health StudiesPubMed, CINAHL, Web of Science Management Sciences ABI/Inform, Compendex2, Web of Science MathematicsMathSciNet, Web of Science PsychologyPsycINFO, Sociological Abstracts, Web of Science

59. RSS in One Minute  RSS = Really Simple Syndication, etc.  Software that pushes updates from your favourite website to you.  Need a RSS reader (or news aggregator). –Web based (eg. Bloglines) –Install on your computer (eg. RssReader)  See a formatted list of new items added to the website.  Each item includes a title, brief summary, and a link to the full content.

60. RSS in One Minute  To subscribe, look for these symbols in your website of interest:

61. Feed or Channel Group or Folder

62. Summary Identify Journals Search Large Databases Identify Publishers Identify Journals Results Sent to Your Desktop ALERTS

63. How to Obtain Copies of Articles 1.TRELLIS – search and print or request –Print electronic copy –Request item in TRELLIS – TUGdoc (1-3 days) Journal is not online Journal is at UG, WLU, Annex –Go to the Library and photocopy your article 2.CISTI Source – search and order (~ 3 days) 3.RACER – search and order (~ 7-10 days)

64. Journal Article isn’t at UW but it’s at WLU, UG, or the Annex

65. Login to TRELLIS WatCard Barcode Last Name (lower case)

66. Choose TUGdoc request

67. Agree to Canadian Copyright Laws

68. TUGdoc Form: Select the Volume

69. Complete the TUGdoc Form

70. CISTI Source  CISTI- Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information  17,000 journals in a variety of subject areas  ~65% of the journals are in the fields of science, technology, and the health sciences  1993 to the present  Updated weekly  Alerts

71. Access CISTI Source

74. Login to CISTI Source Check the back of your Librarian’s business card for your ID and password.

75. Find Your Article

76. Tamburrino, M. B. & McGinnis, R. A. Anorexia nervosa: A review. Panminerva Medica. 2002, 44 (4), 301-313.

77. Find Your Article Tamburrino, M. B. & McGinnis, R. A. Anorexia nervosa: A review. Panminerva Medica. 2002, 44 (4), 301-313.

78. Find Your Article Tamburrino, M. B. & McGinnis, R. A. Anorexia nervosa: A review. Panminerva Medica. 2002, 44 (4), 301-313.

79. Order Your Article

80. Check Your Article’s Status

82. Links to UW EJournals

84. RACER  Interlibrary loan service – all Ontario universities  Search for the journal title or book title  Fill in article information  7-10 days delivery  Track requests  No cost to you

85. Access RACER

87. Login to RACER WatCard Barcode Last Name (lower case)

88. Search RACER

89. RACER: Advanced Search

90. Results – Details / Get It!

91. Complete Request Form Book, Conference etc Journal Article, Book chapter Conference paper

92. Complete Request Form

93. What is RefWorks?  A personal bibliographic software manager –Manages citations –Creates bibliogaphies –Helps you write your term papers  Accessible from anywhere!

94. Why use RefWorks?  Keep track of articles on your topic – or several topics  Create bibliographies easily and quickly in over 200 citation styles  Submitting your article to more than one journal expecting different citation styles? –A click of the mouse will change the style to fit the requirements of the journal  Insert references into a Word document and have in-text citations and the bibliography automatically generated using the Write-N-Cite module

95. How do I access RefWorks?  Click on the RefWorks link on the Library’s homepage  http://refworks.scholarsportal.info/ http://refworks.scholarsportal.info/ (log in using the Group Code given to you in the RefWorks welcome message)

96. Library’s Homepage

97. RefWorks Login Page

98. Further Assistance with RefWorks  Online tutorial  Attend a workshop –RefWorks Basics: January 23, 2006 –RefWorks Advanced: February 13, 2006  Contact your Liaison Librarian

99. (Bliss, Harry. Cartoon. New Yorker 14 March 2005. 26 Oct. 2005.)www.cartoonbank.com Questions?  Contact YOUR librarian!