Chem 581 Junior Seminar  

Chem 581 Junior Seminar

Professors: Ann Sheffield & Mark Ams

Librarian: Cynthia Burton

ACS (American Chemical Society Publications)

Contains:  Full text articles from all ACS journals
Coverage: 1889 to present

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

Introduction

Web of Science
contains multidisciplinary coverage of over 10,000 scholarly  journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. You may limit your search to science coverage.

This database is also a citation index. 

A citation index is a bibliographic tool in print or electronic format that lists all referenced or cited source items published in a given time span. The tool  tracks the historical development -- backwards and forwards in time -- of an idea or given topic within the literature.

       Cited reference searching: Through a cited reference search, you can discover how a known idea or innovation has been confirmed, applied, improved, extended, or corrected. (Go forward in time from a known relevant article)

Related Records:  Find similar records based on shared references and keywords from other articles indexes by Web of Science.

       Citation Maps:  A Citation Map is a graphical representation that shows the citation relationships (cited references and citing articles) between a paper and other papers using various visualization tools and techniques.

       Analyze Tool:  Extract data values from a field that you select from the list. After you click Analyze, the system produces a report showing the values in ranked order.

Searching the Web of Science

    limit your search to Science Citation Index (if desired).  You may also limit by language and by publication date.

       Enter your terms into the search box--->

•   Change the field searched on the right if needed.   
• Enter words or phrases connected by Boolean search operators (AND, OR, NOT, SAME).
  Use truncation/wildcard operators  ( * $ ? ) to search for plurals and variant spellings. 
• Use quotation marks to retrieve a phrase such as "signal exchange"
• For author searches follow the tips given on the search screen.
  

 

Topic Search:    wood smoke OR woodsmoke---> 1537 results (February 2013)

                 Refine options are on the left. Here are some to try:

                        Refine by broad category:  include or exclude.

 
                        Refine by article type= review article--->78 articles.

                              Search within the results-->require that the phrase "RECEPTOR MODELING"   

  When you are viewing a single record:
                                       Author names are hot linked, click to see all papers in Web of Science by this author.
                                       View the cited references for this paper.
                                       Right of page:  See all papers in Web of Science citing this article.
                                       Analyse results                 
                                       Citation Map:  view a graphical relation between two papers.

Results Display

• Click on the article title to view the full record.  Read the abstract, author keywords, keywords plus and more.
• Click "search for article" box to see if this article is available at Allegheny.  If not, click on the link to Illiad to order a copy via interlibrary loan.
• click on the mark record box to save for exporting to Refworks.