WISER Science An Overview of E-resources Juliet Ralph and C ésar Pimenta October 2006

Today’s Session Selected resources for research, highlighting some new or underused ones, including –E-journals: current & archives –E-books: reference works & textbooks –Databases: full-text & bibliographic

OxLIP Oxford Library Information Platform - our gateway to electronic resources our gateway to electronic resources Library catalogues including OLISLibrary catalogues including OLIS – Bibliographic databases – Full-text electronic journals – TDnet – Internet sites (subject gateways) – Reference works & statistics

OxLIP

Accessing OxLIP Direct access from Oxford University network Remote access –Register for a personal Athens account – –If database does not use Athens, install the Virtual Private Network on your pc for access to the University network –

E-journals – Current Issues Huge increase in Oxford’s e-journal subscriptions in Current subscription for all titles from Elsevier, Blackwells, OUP, Wiley, Springer, Liebert, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, IoP, RSC, AIP, AMA, APA, Nature Publishing Group, etc. 40,000 e-journal titles listed on TDNet

E-journals – Archives Growing numbers of complete backfiles, including WileySpringer American Chemical Society Royal Society of Chemistry some Elsevier backfiles Nature JSTOR (inc. Science present, Philosophical Transactions 1665-present).

E-books – Reference Works Encyclopedia of Life Sciences – Spans the entire spectrum of life sciences (including clinical medicine) Images.MD - medical images from more than 90 collections Oxford Reference Online - quick reference collection, including English and bilingual dictionaries, English grammar & thesaurus, plus subject dictionaries

E-books - Textbooks NCBI Bookshelf (hosted by PubMed) Growing collection of biomedical books Free access to full-text of many core textbooks on Oxford reading lists

Bibliographic Databases For literature searching (journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings etc) General and Subject specific coverage Different interfaces but similar functionality Many links to full text articles Not tied to library holdings

Key subject databases Biomedical – Medline (medicine), Embase (drugs), PsycInfo (psychology) Life Sciences – Biological Abstracts, Zoological Record Earth & Environmental Sciences – GeoBase, GeoRef

Physical Sciences Chemistry – Chemical Abstracts Engineering – Compendex Materials – METADEX Physics - INSPEC

New Databases Full text –British Standards Online Technical specifications Current, historic and draft standards Requires an Athens account even within the Oxford domain Bibliographic –SPORTDiscus – Sports medicine –Scopus – all science and medicine

RefWorks New reference management software (similar to Endnote) for storing and managing bibliographic references collected during research –Free to Oxford students and staff –Web based

We are here to help Queries about electronic journals and databases, including access problems Radcliffe Science Library

We welcome feedback You will get an with the online evaluation form in due course. Next WISER Science session: Key search skills, Monday 6 November, to This session will give you an overview of useful search techniques and suggest some criteria for evaluating search results. This session will give you an overview of useful search techniques and suggest some criteria for evaluating search results.