1. Introduction to SpringerLink springerlink.com
[Instructor: Welcome to the SpringerLink Training Kit. We hope you find that this manual will help you give a successful training seminar to your constituents.
Using this presentation:
With a Live Internet Connection (Live Demo)
Use the presentation as a guide and script while projecting SpringerLink on the screen. Be sure to pass out the “Student/Researcher Manual” for participants to follow along. If you conduct the seminar in a computer lab, have each participant log into the site and interact with it while you demonstrate.
Without a Live Internet Connection (Offline Demo)
Use the presentation by projecting it on the screen. Be sure to pass out the “Student/Researcher Manual” for participants to follow along.
Load the CD-ROM.
Select the PowerPoint.
Run Slideshow.
Click to Advance.]

2. Training Outline Introduction Getting Started with SpringerLink
Browsing SpringerLink
Searching
My SpringerLink
Questions, practice, concerns and evaluation
[Instructor: Review agenda/course outline in detail.]
My name is _________ and I am _______________
I appreciate you attending today’s workshop, and hope you’ll find the
information useful. If you have any questions during the presentation please feel
free to ask these.
Let’s have a look at the agenda:
Introduction
Getting Started with SpringerLink
Browsing SpringerLink
Searching
My SpringerLink
Questions, practice, concerns and evaluation

3. 1.0 Introduction

4. 1.1 Introduction In the next hour, we’ll discuss how to:
Capitalize on the vast array of research that SpringerLink offers
Utilize the easy to navigate portal, and
Navigate through the tools that have been constructed on the site to help you with your searches
There’s a good chance that most of you have heard of Springer. But, what you may not know is the full range of books, book series, references works and journals that Springer offers on their online site, SpringerLink.
In the next hour, we’ll discuss how to:
Capitalize on the vast array of research that SpringerLink offers,
Utilize the easy to navigate portal, and
Navigate through the tools that have been constructed on the site to help you with your searches.
[Instructor: Have participants introduce themselves and why they are interested in SpringerLink.]

5. ~ Available on Springerlink.com
1.2 What is SpringerLink?
SpringerLink is a powerful central access point for researchers in Science, Technology and Medicine, containing high quality:
Online Journals
eBooks
eBook Series
eReference Works
~ Available on Springerlink.com
Before we start with the demonstration let’s first provide you with some background information on SpringerLink.
SpringerLink is a powerful central access point for researchers in Science, Technology and Medicine, containing high quality:
- Online Journals – more than 1,250
- eBooks – 3,000 new titles are added every year
- eBook Series and
- eReference Works

6. 1.2 What is SpringerLink?
SpringerLink is organized in 12 Subject Collections:
Architecture, Design & Arts (New for 2006, eBooks only)
Behavioral Sciences
Biomedical & Life Sciences
Business & Economics
Chemistry & Materials Science
Computer Science
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Engineering
Humanities, Social Sciences & Law
Mathematics & Statistics
Medicine
Physics & Astronomy
And 2 International Collections:
Russian Library of Science (New for 2006, journals only)
Chinese Library of Science (New for 2006, journals only)
SpringerLink is organized in 12 Subject Collections:
Architecture, Design & Arts (New for 2006, eBooks only)
Behavioral Sciences
Biomedical & Life Sciences
Business & Economics
Chemistry & Materials Science
Computer Science
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Engineering
Humanities, Social Sciences & Law
Mathematics & Statistics
Medicine
Physics & Astronomy
And 2 International Collections:
Russian Library of Science (New for 2006, journals only)
Chinese Library of Science (New for 2006, journals only)

7. 1.2 What is SpringerLink? SpringerLink offers:
An unequaled collection of Online Journals, eBooks, eReference Works and eBook Series, with more than 3 million contributions
A retro-digitized archive of journals and a selection of book series
Powerful, easy-to-master search engine with „Guided Navigation“
Multiple browsing pathways - product and subject categories, A-Z lists
Access right markers
Local or remote access
Enhanced personalization features
SpringerAlerts for users and librarians and RSS feeds
Worldwide Help Desk
SpringerLink offers:
An unequaled collection of Online Journals, eBooks, eReference Works and eBook Series, with 3 million contributions
A retro-digitized archive of journals and a selection of book series
Powerful, easy-to-master search engine with „Guided Navigation“
Multiple browsing pathways - product and subject categories, A-Z lists
Access right markers
Local or remote access
Enhanced personalization features
SpringerAlerts for users and librarians and RSS feeds
Worldwide Help Desk

8. 2.0 Getting Started with SpringerLink
Now we will show you how you can get started with SpringerLink quick and easy

9. 2.1 SpringerLink Homepage
This is the SpringerLink homepage.
You can log on directly to springerlink.com or you can enter through your library intranet/information portal (this is different for every institution)
Springerlink.com

10. 2.2 How to log on Login through Automatic IP Authentication
There are two ways to log onto SpringerLink. Start by simply going to: SpringerLink.com, where you have two options.
Login through Automatic IP Authentication: You will see a message at the top left hand side of the screen saying: Recognized as <<Institution Name>> << Your institution’s MetaPress ID>>. This message indicates that your computer is recognized by its IP Address, to access the subscribed to content on the site only.
Login through Username and Password: You can also register for a username and password. Using the username and password allows you to customize the SpringerLink experience. By registering (in advance) you can also use this username and password if you access SpringerLink from another computer or from outside of the campus. We will discuss how to register next.
Login through Automatic IP Authentication
Login through Username and Password

11. 2.3 How to register Why would you need to register?
Receive or create new Alerts
Create a personalized home page by setting-up favorites
Save your search results for future reference
Go back in your search history
Better organize the data, especially as you make return visits to the site.
Take your access on the road
Registering is simple and allows users to access the advanced features of this site such as Table of Contents, Keyword Alerts, Favorites, Marked and Saved Items and History. Also, users that register from an IP Authenticated computer can take their user name and password to any computer in the world and get access to the same content that they could on campus. This is great for traveling professors and researchers, or those who are doing research at home through their personal computers.

12. 2.3 How to register Click on register
As said registering is very simple. Start by clicking on the Register button below the Login field.
Click on register

13. 2.3 How to register Click on Register Individual
Then click on individual registration in the middle.
Click on Register Individual

14. 2.3 How to register Simply complete the registration form
Simply enter some contact information such as:
First Name
Last Name
More details are desirable to complete your profile, but you have to fill in the items marked with green stars.
Then, select a Username and Password and click OK.
Your password must be at least six (6) characters in length. Password may not contain username and must contain at least one (1) alphabetic character and one (1) numeric character.
Simply complete the registration form
and select a username and password

15. 2.3 How to register
You will then see and “Individual Registration Complete” page with your MetaPress ID number.
You will also receive an confirmation
You’ll receive an “Individual Registration Complete” page indicating your Username and MetaPress ID number.
You will also receive your individual registration and login information via .
On the left hand side it becomes immediately visible that you are logged in with your username and personal Metapress ID number
[Instructor: Allow users time to register and create a profile on their PC’s if the workshop is being given in a computer lab.]

16. Once Logged in you’ll see your Personal Homepage

17. 2.4 Personal Homepage
Depending on your role (user, author, administrator etc.) you will see your options. For users these are:
Edit details
Manage Memberships
View Contracts
View Subscriptions
View Trials
View Marked Items
Manage Alerts
View History
View Saved Items
Manage Labels

18. You also have the option of remote access via the Athens Login
Once you are registered and logged in you also have the option to Login via Athens. The Athens Authentication Service provides remote access for individuals to many online database and journal services. So if you’re traveling or working from another location you can use this safe remote access service to enter SpringerLink.
The Athens Authentication Service provides remote access
for individuals to many online database and journal services.

19. 3.0 Browsing SpringerLink
With help of Guided Navigation

20. 3.1 Start browsing You can start browsing by: Subject Content type
Featured Library
Now that we’ve seen just how easy it is to access SpringerLink and log on to the site, let’s take a look at navigating through it.
You can start browsing Springerlink’s content by:
Subject (any of the 12 subject collections)
Content type, if you’re just looking for journals, books or reference works
Featured Library – the Chinese and Russian Libraries of Science

21. 3.2 Browse and explore
Click on Journals to start browsing all Springer Journals
Let’s start by clicking on Journals.

22. 3.2 Browse and explore You are now in the A-Z list of all journals
You are now in the A-Z list of all Springer Journals. You’ll see 10 journals listed per page.
You are now in the A-Z list of all journals

23. 3.2 Browse and explore There are 2 ways to show the results:
Type of publication, journal, book or reference work
Title of publication
Publisher
Print and Online ISSN
There are 2 ways to show the results:
The Expanded View – which you see now
And the Condensed View
In the Expanded View you see the following information per result:
Type of publication: this can be a journal, book or reference work.
Title of the publication – this is clickable and by clicking on it you will enter the main journal page
Publisher: for instance Springer Heidelberg or Springer New York
Print and Online ISSN
And the Subject area the title belongs to. As you can see this title is a Business & Economics publication.
Subject Collection the publication belongs to
There are 2 ways to show the results:
Expanded View
Condensed View

24. 3.2 Browse and explore The Condensed View only shows the type of
publication and the
title of the publication
- Download this List
- RSS Feed
- this List
- Save this List
The access indicators show the access level per title:
Green: full access
Half green: access to parts of the publication
White: no access
Looking at the Condensed View you will only see the type and the title of the publication
The access indicators on the top and next to each title show the access level you have per title:
- Green: full access to all content
- Half green: access to parts of the publication
White: no access
If a title is available through Open Choice, you will also see the Springer Open Choice logo.
On the top right hand of the page you see 3 little symbols, from left to right you see:
RSS – Really Simple Syndication – Does everybody know what this is?
You can the result list to a colleague
Or you can save the result list (for this you have to be a registered user
* RSS or Really Simple Syndication is a useful tool for keeping updated on your favorite websites. RSS makes use of an XML code that constantly scans the content of a website for updates and then broadcasts those updates to all subscribers through a feed.
When an update is sent out, it includes a headline and a small amount of text, either a summary or the lead-in to the larger story. You will need to click a link to read more.
In order to receive RSS feeds, you must have an aggregator, a feed reader. There are a number of aggregators online, many of them free
Click on the RSS button and it will instantly add that feed to your aggregator. Depending on your aggregator, you may instead need to copy and paste the URL of the feed into the program.
Perhaps you already receive information on website updates through some sort of newsletter. RSS feeds are preferable to newsletter updates because they are instantaneous; you don't have to wait until a designated day of the week to receive your summary. They will also never be held up by a spam filter.

25. Jump to Journals starting with:
3.3 Guided Navigation
Jump to the next pages
Jump to Journals starting with:
With help of the guided navigation you can now start browsing further.
Just above the listing you can jump to the next pages.
On the top right hand side you can jump to journals starting with other letters.
With help of the Guided navigation you can start browsing further

26. 3.3 Guided Navigation Go directly to just the new publications
Select the publication’s language
Just below that you have the option to view just new publications or publications that have been online longer.
And at the right hand bottom you can choose to browse further by subject area.
Or browse further by subject

27. 3.4 Explore a publication
When you’ve found what you’re looking for, just click on the title of the publication and you will end up at the publication page
When you’ve found the publication that you are looking for you can simply click on the publication’s title and you will arrive on the publication page.
For instance let’s click on the journal Abdominal Imaging and we end up on the Journal’s homepage.

28. Basic journal information Guided Navigation to search deeper
3.4 Explore a publication
Basic journal information
Guided Navigation to search deeper
The content
At the top of the page you will find all basic information on the journal, like the publisher, the ISSN and you can click through to the Journal’s homepage on springer.com where you can find more information about the scope of the journal, the editorial board etc.
You can also click through to the manuscript submission site, to submit your paper online.
Then in the middle you reach the content section of the journal. Again you have different views to view the content:
Editorial View – which is shown here – were you can link to the issue numbers
Expanded List View
Condensed List View
The Guided Navigation – always available on the right hand side – gives you the option to navigate further – and narrowing your results.

29. 3.4 Explore a publication Expanded List View
Now I will just show you the Expanded List View which shows you all articles with quite some detail.

30. 3.4 Explore a publication Condensed List View
And the Condensed List View – with again the listing of articles, but now only with the title, the author and a direct link to the article.

31. 3.4 Explore a publication Search Within this publication
Or start searching all content
Browse by Content Status
Browse by Online Date
The Guided Navigation on the right will help you navigate further – and narrowing your results.
For the Journal page it will offer you the following categories:
Content Status: Published or Online First
Online Date – you can jump to the most recent articles
The Author
And the Article category
Browse by Author

32. Basic Issue information Refine or broaden your search
3.5 Issue display
Basic Issue information
Refine or broaden your search
Article information. Click on the article title to go to the Abstract or on the HTML or PDF link to go directly to the article
Let’s go back to the Editorial View and click on an issue.
You will then see the main issue page with at the top the basic information on this issue.
And in the middle you can see the content – the articles.
You have 2 options to proceed from here:
Click on the article title and you will see the abstract
Or click directly on PDF or HTML to go to the article.

33. Basic Issue information Opt to open the article in PDF or HTML format
3.6 Article display
Basic Issue information
Author information
Abstract
When you click on the title – you will go to the abstract page with information on the author(s), the abstract, the keywords and links to either the PDF or the HTML version of the article.
Opt to open the article in PDF or HTML format
Keywords

34. 3.6 Article display
You can open the article as a PDF.
In PDF

35. 3.6 Article display
Or as a full text HTML document.
In HTML

36. 3.7 Browse by Subject
Let’s go back to the home page. You can always return there by clicking on the SpringerLink logo. Now we choose to browse by subject, let’s click on Biomedical and Life Sciences.
We will now start browsing the Biomedical and Life Sciences Subject area

37. We choose the content type books
3.7 Browse by Subject
We get an A-Z list of all publications in this Subject
We choose the content type books
We land on an A-Z list off all publications, articles, entries and chapters in this subject area. We will navigate to the books overview.

38. 3.7 Browse by Subject
The guided navigation enables you to browse by:
Starting letter
Online Date
Content Type
Language
Subject
Series
Author / Editor
Book Type
Breadcrum trail
You will now see an A-Z overview of all eBooks in Biomedical & Life Sciences. The guided navigation enables you to browse by:
Starting letter
Online Date
Content Type
Subject
Series
Author / Editor
Book Type
A-Z List of Books in Biomedical and Life Sciences

39. 3.8 Book display Basic information on the book
Click on a book title and you will see the main book page.
On the top we will see the basic information of the book including the book DOI.
Below that you have the option to download the entire book in once as a PDF.
And at the bottom you can see the chapter information. Click on a chapter to view more on the chapter.
DOI: The Digital Object Identifier (DOI ) is an identification system for intellectual property in the digital environment. Developed by the International DOI Foundation on behalf of the publishing industry, its goals are to provide a framework for managing intellectual content, link customers with publishers, facilitate electronic commerce, and enable automated copyright management.
Basic information per chapter

40. 3.9 Chapter display Basic chapter information Export the chapter
At the top you’ll again see the basic information on the chapter including the chapter DOI.
Then the author/editor information, the abstract and the references.
On the right you can access the chapter in PDF.
As you can see the books are set up in a similar way as the journals and books and journals are fully integrated on the SpringerLink platform.
Access the PDF
References

41. 3.10 eReference Works
SpringerLink now also includes Major Reference Works
Then we will return to the home page again to access another content type: the eReference Works.

42. 3.10 eReference Works The Reference Works are fully integrated on
SpringerLink
Basic Reference Work information
The eReference Works are also fully integrated on SpringerLink and we see a similar lay-out for the main eReference Work page with the basic info at the top and the content below that. Let’s click on an entry.
Entries from A-Z

43. 3.10 eReference Works Basic Entry information
Now we are on the entry page. The difference between an eBook and an eReference Work is the format in which you can access the content. We just saw we could access an eBook chapter in PDF format, an eReference Work entry is only available in HTML. This has the advantage that it is linked to other entries.
All entries available in HTML
Entry

44. 4.0 Search Features

45. 4.1 Basic Search Start searching right on the SpringerLink Homepage
Enter the keyword or publication you are looking for
Searching is easy on SpringerLink. To utilize the Basic Search you can find the “Search” field box located on the SpringerLink homepage. In this field box, simply type in the phrase or word that you are interested in searching for.
Just press “enter” or click “GO”.
Let’s try a Search so that you can see how easy and fast the results are returned to you by SpringerLink.
We enter “plant ecology” and as soon as we hit “enter” or click on “GO” we are brought to a page that lists the results.
Start searching right on the SpringerLink Homepage

46. 4.1 Basic Search Your search term is highlighted
Refine your search with help of the guided navigation
Results are returned on the basis of relevancy. At the top you’ll find the journal Plant Ecology followed by the book and then by journal articles. Your search term is highlighted in yellow.
Refine your search again with help of the guided navigation.
The search box on the right hand side will search within the current search.
The search box at the top is the general search of the entire platform.

47. 4.2 Query Builder Use the Query Builder to improve your search results
We return to the homepage to view more option on the search box.
Click on the box next to the search field to open the Query Builder to help you build more difficult and longer queries.
Say for instance you now the last name of the author and part of the title, use both facts to narrow the result list.

48. 4.3 Advanced Search Choose more options for advanced search options
Choose more options to access the advanced search.

49. 4.3 Advanced Search Another option to refine your search is
to use the advanced
search.
Enter a range of publication dates if you’re looking for research from a certain time period
Another option to refine your search is to use the advanced search.
You can enter a search term, a range of publication dates and indicate how you would like to have the results shown.
Choose how you would like to have the results shown

50. 5.0 My SpringerLink

51. 5.1 My SpringerLink
These easy to use features make SpringerLink your true research assistant. My SpringerLink offers you:
An overview of your marked items (for all users – marked items are saved during the session)
For registered users only:
Alerts
Order history
Your saved items
And your Favorites
This easy to use feature for registered users makes SpringerLink your true research assistant. My SpringerLink offers you:
An overview of your marked items
Alerts
The history of your searches
Your saved items
And your Favorites
Let’s explore these different features.

52. 5.2 Marked Items You will find the My SpringerLink section on the
left hand side
From the search results you can add results to the marked items – these will only be saved during your session
You will find the My SpringerLink section on the left hand side underneath your login information.
If you for instance have just done a search, it’s easy to mark certain results, you can simply click on “Add to marked items”

53. 5.2 Marked Items
Check of the items you do not need anymore and remove them
and you can return to this result later by clicking on “Marked Items”.
You can manage the marked items section easily. Check of the items you do not need anymore and remove them.
In Marked Items you can then return to part of the results later

54. 5.5 Saved Items
Add any entry to your Saved Items – only accessible if you use your personal login
You can also add any entry to the Saved Items section.

55. 5.5 Saved Items Manage your saved items: Rename Apply a label
Add to your favorites
a colleague
Subscribe to an RSS feed
Register for a TOC Alert

56. 5.5 Saved Items
the entry
Edit the entry
Delete the entry
You can access your Saved Items at any time when you are logged in. This makes it easy to access your favorite publications, articles you need for a paper you are writing etc.
For every Saved Item you have the option to:
the entry to a colleague
Edit the entry – I will show you this on the next slide
Delete the entry
Access your Saved Items at any time when you are logged in

57. Thank you! Thank you for attending today’s session on SpringerLink.
Any questions?
You can always the SpringerLink helpdesk:
Or me: