Journal Discovery

UCD Library Support for the 4th Level 2008CTL Library Staff Day 2008

Finding journals – exploiting the discovery andnavigation tools

SummaryThis workshop will include the various library tools available to discover andaccess print and particularly electronic journals, what each one does and whento use them. It also reviews the importance of formulating search strategy andoff-campus access situation

Topics covered

Searching for known print journal titles in the catalogue

Searching for known electronic journal titles using the A-Z portal

Using the manual Citation Linker tool to check if we have an articleavailable in full text where you have the full citation already

Browsing for print and online journals

Introduction to formulating search strategy

Searching for references witho our range of abstract and index productso using Google Scholaro using our large journal collections as search engineso Our library tailored Cross search @ UCD tool

Using the Find it @ UCD tool for the quickest access to any online full textversion available from a result set of references

Using the best approaches for off-campus access and understanding the

When the journal is not available at UCD – interlibrary loans and otherlibraries

Accompanying materialso Finding Journals guide, Cross Search guide

For further help contact your LiaisonLibrarian or [email protected]

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Introductory

The Library is working towards a single search interface for our resources and wehope to have a more coherent resource discovery - but at present we have arange of different discovery and access tools for our resources including journalsand it may be helpful to summarize these:

TO DO THIS USE THIS TOOL

KNOWN ITEMS

Check our print collections Use the Catalogue

Check if we have an e-journal title in stock A-Z of e-journals

Key in a full article reference (citation) and seeif we have full text

Citation Linker [or GoogleScholar]

Obtain material where UCD does not have it inprint or online

Inter-Library loan service

Visiting other printcollections

SEARCH FOR JOURNAL LITERATURE

Citation databases

Navigate from database results to full text Find it @ UCD

Search engines

Journal collectionssearching as a subjectdatabase

Cross Search @ UCD –our federated search tool


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A good starting point to access all the search and discovery tools provided by the Libraryis to view our E-resources index launch page:


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Searching for known print journals in the catalogue

Key points

1. The catalogue can be used on workstations round the libraries, by linking from the libraryweb pages or going direct to http://udprism01.ucd.ie/TalisPrism/

2. The catalogue can be used to search for whole journal titles – very few individual articlesare catalogued in it

Use the title search if you know the exact title, otherwise if not sure then use the keywordsearch option

You can get quicker results by altering the Collection value to indicate journal catalogueso that only journal records are returned

Journals are returned in result screens with a large redJ to the left of the summary record.

Click on Show library holdings to see a full summaryof the year coverage, the library branch holding thematerial and the collection sequence where the journalis held – older materials could well be in store and noton open access shelving.

Note that current journals are kept in separate displayareas in the library from the older volumes and you

will need to locate both of these areas in the library.

http://udprism01.ucd.ie/TalisPrism/


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This journal below is currently taken in print (note open ended holdings statement) and isfound in the JJL on the standard Journals shelving area:

This journal below we only have some back issues for having ceased to receive it in print in1992 – these back volumes are available on the standard open shelves:

This journal we again only have back volumes for but in this case they are in two locationsand the Architecture volumes are on microfiche – sometimes the shelf mark will indicate aStore location for which you will need to fill out a store request form

The latest issue of a journal received is shown in the display for current journals and byclicking on show all issues you can see a complete summary – in the example below the morerecent issue is late to arrive as it was expected in July

Please ask Library staff to clarify holdings statements for you if not clear and to assist youwith finding journals on the shelves


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3. Because of the increasing popularity of online journals, you will find that where we haveonline availability, the printed copy may now be in one of our Stores and if for anyreason you do not want to use the online version, you will need to ask at a desk for arequest form and we will need to fetch the print journal for you – this may take severaldays to be retrieved

4. Borrowing journals?Selected titles in the James Joyce Library and Veterinary Medicine Library can beborrowed but otherwise printed journal volumes and current issues are for use in thelibraries ONLY. Photocopy facilities are available.

5. There are some electronic journals catalogued in the catalogue BUT less than 10% of the50,000+ titles available at UCD are currently found there so the catalogue is NOT to beused as the main access point for electronic journal discovery at present

You can follow these links if they are found by clicking on the Connect button butremember if no electronic record is found in the catalogue this means nothing – the nextsection covers the master e-journal discovery tool

When you click on a Connect button for a journal in the catalogue a window will pop upwarning you that you are leaving the UCD catalogue – click on OK.

You will then either be taken straight through to the title page in one of the providers ORyou will be shown a summary of where the full text is available and can follow the linksthrough to the external provider. Here is a typical screen – you click on Journal toconnect to the e-journal site if this display appears

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Searching for known electronic journal titlesusing the A-Z portal

Key points

1. The A-Z e-journal portal is the master listing for our e-journal holdings and is used to searchfor e-journal titles. We have a dual access system currently – check for print journals in thecatalogue, check for e-journals in the A-Z listing. Which you do first depends on your formatpreference and the subject you are researching

The portal can be accessed from the library website home page – you can key in searchesdirectly into the box provided there OR for fuller functionality follow the link marked FULLOPTIONS FOR E-JOURNAL SEARCH

A quick search from the web home page– this looks for all titles containing the word Blood – other exact title options areavailable if you use the full options


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Moving to the full e-journal search options screen for more choice

2. There are 3 main options – keying in your title, finding your title by browsing the A-Z orexploring availability of e-journal titles by subject. All are quite heavily used at UCD.

3. You can key in the title or ISSN of the title you want – that would be our recommendation if youknow the title you want, although in fact almost as many users browse the A-Z as key in a search.

When keying in the title you can alter the search. If you are not entirely sure on the title thenchoose the title contains all words option and only key in the words you are sure about.

You will be returned with a single or several matching titles and all the providers who can supplythat title online are shown.

It is most important to review the holdings details carefully – does any provider have the yearthat you want? If there is a choice and you want current issues look for the words TOPRESENT in the holdings

In the example below the user wants current issues and therefore needs to choose theInformaworld (Taylor & Francis) option – Academic Search Premier does not offer the currentyear.

Key in the title you arelooking for – alter thesearch type for precisione.g. title equals

Find title using A-Zbrowse

Subject browse option


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Users seeking historic material need to take the same care. In the example below only JSTOR(which specializes in digitizing journals from their start date but does not have current issues) hascoverage back to the 1950s. For those wanting current issues the bottom 4 providers all offer thatchoice though you may find from experience that you prefer one interface to another

Click on the provider name to access the title.

You will be taken through to the provider website and shown the title page for the journal – youthen have to navigate to the year, volume, issue and article of interest by searching or using thehierarchy provided. Every provider interface looks different and it is a matter of mastering thepublisher services most often used in your subject area.

4. If you prefer to find your journal by using the A-Z browse, choose the letter with which your titlestarts and then use the further sub-section options provided to home in on your title. This is amuch slower way of proceeding – try browsing for the journal Blood to see this is so.

5. The system is not very clever so you may need to search a couple of times to take account ofvariant spellings e g a title search using the term Archaeology does NOT pull up the titles whichactually contain Archeology so always bear this in mind. Colour and color provides anotherexample in the system that illustrates this point

The A-Z e-journal portal is used to locateelectronic journals

You can key in your title which is best or browsethe A-Z

You can view a list of e-journals by subject Always read the holdings statements before

clicking on provider name to access the onlinejournal title page

Off campus access will be reviewed in a latersection

The next section looks at how to locate anarticle for which you have a full citation already


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Using the manual Citation Linker tool– known article searching

Key points

1. You may have a list of references or a single detailed citation for an article that you wantto look up. You can operate at the journal title level and look up the journal title in thecatalogue or A-Z portal as covered in the first two sections

If you find an online version you will need to navigate down to the article that you wantwhich takes a little bit of time, or use the function to search within the journal title.

We have another tool that you can try out – the Citation Linker.

2. The access point to this is at the bottom right of the Library home page

3. This takes you to the input form for this service:


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4. Don’t bother about the article title or article authors – these are NOT the important fieldsto get this tool to work. Some tips are given below on how to fill out the information thatyou have

Results vary – in the best case you will be taken straight through to the article full text. Ifthe system cannot achieve that it usually reverts to the journal level access already seenearlier and takes you to the journal title home page, so you do not lose anything by tryingthis service out.

Here are some tips from our Help page on the website:

This tool only works for journal titles and journal articlesWhere possible search in this order:Put in the DOI or PMID on their own - best choice

OrUse Journal ISSN or Journal title plus Volume, Issue and start page informationOrUse Journal ISSN or Journal title plus Year (if Volume, Issue and start page not available)

OrUse Journal ISSN or full Journal title – but you will then have to navigate to the article yourself

Hint:Key in the whole title of the journal. Partial titles do NOT workExample: “Proceedings of the” will give no results; “History” will just pull back that one exact journaltitleFor date just put in year

5. Here is an example working from this citation:

Petzke, F. Harris, RE, Williams, D A et al. (2005) Differences in unpleasantness induced byexperimental pressure pain between patients with fibromyalgia and healthy controls EuropeanJournal of Pain 9, 325-335

From this I input just the journal title, year, volume and start page:


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Click on the Search button and that will take you directly through to the article summary and fulltext option.

6. Here is a less successful attempt working from this citation:

Powell, B, Bentall, R P, Nye F J, & Edwards, R H (2004) Patient education to encouragegraded exercise in chronic fatigue syndrome. 2 year follow up of randomized controltrial. British Journal of Psychiatry 184, 142-146

Here I key in much the same data a in the previous example – journal title, year, volumeand start page but this time I do not get taken right through to the article alas but amoffered a journal level link which I would follow and then navigate myself (functioningjust like the A-Z journal portal in this example)

7. Some citations to try out: - these ones all work well

Title: Actin limits enhancement of nanoparticle diffusion through cystic fibrosis sputum by mucolyticsAuthor(s): Broughton-Head VJ (Broughton-Head, Victoria J.), Smith JR (Smith, James R.), Shur J(Shur, Jagdeep), Shute JK (Shute, Janis K.)Source: PULMONARY PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS 20 (6): 708-717 2007

Kakar M, Cadwallader AB, Davis JR, et al.Signal sequences for targeting of gene therapy products to subcellular compartments: The role of CRM1 innucleocytoplasmic shuttling of the protein switchPHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH 24 (11): 2146-2155 NOV 2007

Coman A, Ronen BManaging strategic and tactical constraints in the hi-tech industryINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH 45 (4): 779-788 FEB 152007

http://apps.isiknowledge.com/WoS/CIW.cgi?SID=S2hiM17CEmnmDj5Mh4P&Func=OneClickSearch&field=AU&val=Broughton-Head+VJ&ut=000250483600013&auloc=1&fullauth=%20(Broughton-Head,%20Victoria%20J.)&curr_doc=2/2&Form=FullRecordPage&doc=2/2

http://apps.isiknowledge.com/WoS/CIW.cgi?SID=S2hiM17CEmnmDj5Mh4P&Func=OneClickSearch&field=AU&val=Smith+JR&ut=000250483600013&auloc=2&fullauth=%20(Smith,%20James%20R.)&curr_doc=2/2&Form=FullRecordPage&doc=2/2

http://apps.isiknowledge.com/WoS/CIW.cgi?SID=S2hiM17CEmnmDj5Mh4P&Func=OneClickSearch&field=AU&val=Shur+J&ut=000250483600013&auloc=3&fullauth=%20(Shur,%20Jagdeep)&curr_doc=2/2&Form=FullRecordPage&doc=2/2

http://apps.isiknowledge.com/WoS/CIW.cgi?SID=S2hiM17CEmnmDj5Mh4P&Func=OneClickSearch&field=AU&val=Shute+JK&ut=000250483600013&auloc=4&fullauth=%20(Shute,%20Janis%20K.)&curr_doc=2/2&Form=FullRecordPage&doc=2/2

http://apps.isiknowledge.com/WoS/CIW.cgi?SID=S2hiM17CEmnmDj5Mh4P&Func=Abstract&doc=2/5




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8. You may want to consider how successful this approach is compared to Google. There is morethan one way to skin a cat! The above examples generally work perfectly well in google. Theymay appear in the Scholarly Articles listing at the top of your search results. In some cases it maybe hard to work out which is the authoritative peer reviewed version of the text if using google

If you key the last example above to google as a phrase search of the article title you get thisresult set

The first item is not full text, the 2nd-4th

entries are full text but will not workoff campus for you, the last will workanywhere and is fine – the professorhas put a pdf of the final publisherversion of this article onto his personalwebsite which is lucky in this case,providing access on or off campus toanybody.

The Citation Linker is used to check if we have online versionof known articles

These could be from references in articles, reading lists orresult sets from abstract and indexing databases

It is important to read up on the best fields of data to include inyour search

In the best cases you will be taken straight through to the fulltext article record

If the system cannot achieve that you will be offered journallevel links and will then need to navigate down to the year,volume and article yourself

The next section looks at how Citation Linker can be used as a“one stop shop” for journal searching

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Browsing our Journal Collections

1. Browsing the print journal collection.

There are a couple of ways that you can browse through the catalogue of print journals

a. Title browse. Alter the collection to journal collection and then key in the title field thefirst few letters you want (minimum 3 e.g. aaa, haa). If prompted next pick the option tobrowse similar titles

You should then get a full list of titles and can use the Next button to browse throughthem screen by screen

b. Subject browse. This is less comprehensive but you have a couple of options:

Again on the front search screen limit to journals and put in a Keyword search term andcheck the results

r further help contact your Liaisonrarian or [email protected]

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For subjects housed at theJames Joyce Library ONLYyou can also use classmarksearch Go to Advancedsearch using the tab at thetop of the screen

Scroll down to the Browsea List section of thedisplay.

Choose the Class number index to browse

Input the class number of the subject you want – you have to know what this is

Alter the collection to journals collection and click on search – in the example you getsome 440 journal titles in the broad area of education which you can then browse.

If you don’t know the classmark for your subject of interest you can get some guidancefrom the Classmark location guide which is found on the library website – use the A-Z oflibrary pages option on the home page to find this page or go direct tohttp://www.ucd.ie/library/about/classmark_guide/index.htmlClass Number search is a better option than keyword for subject browsing of our journals– you will generally get more results – but remember that it does not work at thebranches as the journals are not classified there and are stored in a single A-Z titlesequence

http://www.ucd.ie/library/about/classmark_guide/index.html


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2. Browsing for our electronic journals

The subject browse in the A-Z of journals portal is not a great classification system but isthe only system that we currently have to provide users with a list of available e-journalsby subject and is quite heavily used

Choose a broad subject area of interest from those offered

Then click on one of the more specific subject headings provided to see a list of e-journals in that area to which UCD has access, the number under each heading is shownin brackets in the display.


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Searching by Subject – the importance of search strategy

Key points1. When searching by subject keying in a

search word or two without much thoughtwill probably retrieve journal articles, it istempting to just key a couple of searchwords into the easy search box offered onthe journal provider home page such as thisone from Wiley

This is fine for a known author, journal orarticle – but with subject searching you mayhave missed some key references or have fartoo many results come back and for seriousresearch it is important to think fully aboutyour search strategy including the range ofareas below. And MOVE TO THEADVANCED SEARCH OPTION is alwaysa good idea for subject searching journalcollections.

2. Consider the main concepts (topics, ideas) and the FULL RANGE of key terms thatexpress the concepts and could retrieve records -consider synonyms, broader and narrower terms, related terms, alternative spellingse.g. Organisation, organization, company, corporation, federation, firm, institution

Example: In General Business File journal collection, keying a search for company wikiproduces 8 citations.But moving to advanced search and searching for (Organisation or company orcorporation or federation or firm or institution) and wiki produces a few more articles -20 results

In Google you can precede any word with ~ and the system will automatically look forsynonyms like ~immigration

Searches can become quite complex if all the possible terms are thought about:painter OR artist AND

woman OR women OR female ANDcareer OR job OR recognition OR promotion

3. Using individual words or phrases?If you want words to be retrieved only together and in a fixed order, you need to find outif the system you are searching in allows you to retrieve the words only as a phrase,which is often done by using quote marks round it or is offered as a tick box or button tochoose in the search screens, typical cases would be:“information technology” “global warming” “climate change””house prices”“travelling people” “teaching methods” “gene therapy”


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Example: In Cambridge Journals – a search for global warming returns 44300+recordsand this particular system returns records with EITHER word in it if you just type themplain. But searching for the phrase “global warming” by adding quote marks round itreturns a more manageable 1673 results

4. Indicating that words must be in the same sentence or paragraph, or within x number ofwords of each other – proximity conditions. This is available in some systems and is lessrestrictive than demanding words appear as a phrase but still limits the result set and thecloseness of the terms is likely to produce more relevant records.

e.g slang in the same sentence as French slang /s Frenchbridge within 6 words of span bridge /6 span

You need to find out IF your search tool offers this and if it does HOW to express it.Wiley Interscience provides this function and a search top on how to do it using theirsyntax NEAR/x so you could use it as part of a search thus:Example: rat AND cancer NEAR/5 prostate AND androgen NEXT receptor matches ratand cancer within 5 words of prostate and androgen adjacent to receptor.

If you key that into the advanced search box in Wiley searching on all fields you get 582results.Looking at one result shown below we find

Both the terms rat and cancer within 5 words of prostate in the abstract method

androgen receptor as adjacent terms in the abstract conclusion

Abstract

BackgroundProstatic secretory protein of 94 amino acids (PSP94), probasin, and seminal vesicle secretion II (SVSII) are the threemajor proteins secreted by the lateral lobe of the rat prostate gland. Among these proteins, rodent PSP94 but notprobasin and SVSII has a human homologue and it is also a major secretory protein of the human prostate, in additionto prostatic acid phosphatase and prostate-specific antigen.

MethodsIn this study, we examined and compared the mRNA expression of these three secretory markers in three rat models ofprostate cancer including the sex steroid-induced dysplasia (prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia or PIN) in Noble (Nb)rat model, an androgen-independent Nb rat prostatic tumor (AIT) and Dunning rat prostatic adenocarcinomas (bothandrogen-dependent and -independent) by in situ hybridization (ISH), reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction(RT-PCR), and immunohistochemistry.

ConclusionsThe mRNA expression of the three prostatic secretory markers were decreased in the hormone-induced PINs and in tworat prostatic tumors, indicating that the androgen-regulated secretory differentiation was impaired during thedevelopment of the premalignant lesion and further reduced in advanced tumors. The abnormal expression pattern ofthese secretory markers and androgen receptor (AR) in the basal compartment of the PIN lesions suggests that there isa population of cell types with secretory phenotype appearing in the basal cell layer during the early malignanttransformation of the prostatic epithelium. Prostate 56: 81-97, 2003. © 2003 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

If you repeat exactly the same search string but change it so that you want to find your terms notin any field but just in the title – you get just one record back rather than nearly 600 where allthese conditions are met:


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DNA methylation in the androgen receptor gene promoter region in rat prostate cancersThe ProstateVolume 52, Issue 1, Date: 15 June 2002, Pages: 82-88Satoru Takahashi, Shingo Inaguma, Michihisa Sakakibara, Young-Man Cho, Shugo Suzuki,Yoshihisa Ikeda, Lin Cui, Tomoyuki ShiraiAbstract | References | Full Text: PDF (191K)

5. The relationship between the terms- Boolean logic and connectors

Boolean logic involved combining terms such that:

Both terms you enter are found in the record university AND fundingMost systems build this in as the default – if you enter 2 words the system returns recordswith BOTH of them in, but not all do this – Cambridge Journals for example does not soif you want both terms you need there to move to advanced search and make that explicit

One or other term is foundbabies OR infants

women OR femalenosebleed OR epistaxis

Terms you don’t want are not included china NOT tea, ash NOT tree

In General BusinessFile a search for workers OR employees and migrant gives 2808results.

If not interested in Chinese immigrant workers the Boolean term NOT can be used asabove to exclude records with this term in the results reducing the returned results to2332, nearly 500 less articles returned.

Many systems provide in their advanced search screens boxes as in the example to buildup the Boolean AND/OR/NOT search. If you need to enter the whole string yourself in aline then it is a good idea to put BRACKETS (parentheses) around each logical part ofthe search to make sure that things are done in the right order

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com.eproxy.ucd.ie/journal/93518117/abstract

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com.eproxy.ucd.ie/journal/93518117/references

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com.eproxy.ucd.ie/cgi-bin/fulltext/93518117/PDFSTART


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Example:(brain AND serotonin) OR (brain AND dopamine),( wom?n OR female) AND (“equal opportunit*”OR discrimination)

6. Truncation or stemming and wild cardsTruncation can be used usually at the end of words and sometimes at the start too. Thesymbol * is often used. More records are retrieved because the system returns all recordswhich have a term in them that start with your stem.

teach* will retrieve records containing teach, teacher, teachers, teaching ( you would haveto add in taught though as another term teach* OR taught)

carcino* will retrieve carcinoma, carcinogen etc

Wild cards can be used to replace letters in the middle of wordsWild cards are useful to cover US spellings such as colour and color, behavior andbehavior and also cover singular and plurals such as with wom?n

Example: Taylor and Francis. With most services you key in a symbol to activatetruncation, very often * so you input teach* for example But in Informaworld you tick abox if you want the system to apply stemming for you.

7. Limiting search terms to being in certain key fields.Lots of systems default to searching for your terms in any part of the record of the article.It can be a good idea to change this and indicate that your terms must appear in the title orthe subject keywords or abstracts – these items will be more relevant to your topic mostlikely. This is very important when searching full text journal collections or you maywell get back records containing your terms anywhere in the full text of the article –which could be very low relevance

A simple search for university funding in the Oxford Journals search interface retrievedthis record below – but university is being picked up from the affiliation details of theauthors in the record and the copyright statement so this is not a relevant record


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It would be better to do an advanced search and specify which fields the terms mustappear in. Many of these search interfaces provide easy ways to implement this plusother features. In the advanced search box at Oxford shown below you can limit thesearch to 3 different field groups at the left, plus indicate if you want all words (AND)some words (OR) or want to do a phrase search.

Other systems give a more detailed ability tospecify which fields to search in – here forexample is the drop down field choice in theWiley advanced search screen

8. Limits to apply – language, format, date are common ones to use before the search isdone or more commonly applied afterwards to the results to filter or refine them. Agrowing trend is to offer these refining “facets” in a side panel next to your search resultsso that you can target your result set and narrow it down. Here is the side panel in Webof Knowledge, offering all sorts of ways to narrow down the rather broad initial searchresult set


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afThis is refining results after a search – it is also well worth using the advanced searchoptions so that you can limit as much as possible before you do your search – if you don’talter this in Oxford Journals search system , for example, you will get items all the wayfrom 1849 in your result set as that is the default search range – the entire collection

9. Using tools to help you formulate your searcha. Thesauri

b. Browsing indexes of terms used

These are not commonly found in full text journal collection search platforms but arefound in abstracting and indexing databases and are very helpful to getting the full rangeof search terms for your concept and the terms that have been used in the system.

Example: ABI Inform has extensive assistance if you choose either their “BrowseTopics” option or the Topics tab


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If you use the Topics tab you can get ready-to-go search term combinations suggested foryou which you can then narrow with further suggested terms. You can use their searchoptions and view results directly if you pick one of the choices offered you.

If you choose the Browse Topics optionyou can then access a proper Thesauruswhich will provide you with synonymsand broader and narrower terms for yourtopic to help you build up your searchconcepts fully

Here if keying into the Thesaurus“migrant” a whole range of useful ideasfor terms comes up – plus viewing theoptions shown is a useful reminder to usethe NOT connector to exclude animal orfish migration if you want articles abouthuman migration.


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Ebsco does not provide a searchable thesaurus initially but having got a first result set thisis offered as a way to refine the search in the light of first results. As shown below, aninitial search on double pulsars in the title field produces 29 results. Then in the left panelthere are options to explore related subject terms and add these in to the search whichthough intended to narrow the current set can also just be used to get ideas for searchterms in the future


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PubMed offers a Preview/Index tab to assist you in putting your search together:

If you pick this you can choose a field, key in your proposed term and see how manyitems there are in the index using that term and you can use this as an active tool to buildup your search. You can also use preview to see how many records you will get withvarious combinations of terms before running it for real.

The above are just examples - look for topic or index look up or a Thesaurus featurewhen using journal searching tools.


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10. Moving from one good record result to others once you get a good result

a. If you find a really good article right on your topic you can use that record to getto others of relevance to you in ways other than just creating your own searchall words from the abstract of this record and find others that use the same foryou which could return a huge set but it uses a relevancy ranking so this is worthexploring.

b. Citation searchingCitations can also be used to navigate throughthe literature from a relevant starting record.You can navigate back in time through theresearch literature to look at the citations thisauthor read when doing his research. And youcan navigate forward in time to see all themore recent papers where the authors havecited this article as relevant

To the side of each article are any more recentpapers in Web of Knowledge that cite this oneand you can view this and also set up an alertto be notified if any new articles cite this one

And you can look up the articles that yourcurrent authors cited to see what researcharticles they found relevant.

So citations can be used not just for rankingresearch but also for navigation as analternative to keying in terms. Web ofKnowledge is the major database that offersthis ability to use citation searching.


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Formulating search strategy and citation searching are coveredin more detail in a future workshop

Give some thought to search terms, connectors, truncation and other search strategies and toolsUse the Advanced Search optionCheck out how to enter your search terms – use Help or look for a Guide

Recommended reading:How to find information, Sally Rumsey, 2nd editionOpen University Press Study skills seriesavailable in the Campus bookshopChapter 6 “The Online Searching Process”

Many of the above examples are based on the examples used in this book


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Searching for References 1 – Abstract and Index toolsKey points

1. Expert use of these tools will be covered in another workshop

2. The first of our searching tools is our range of abstract and indexing databases whichreturn citations only. These range from multi-disciplinary titles like Web of Knowledgeto subject-specific titles like Historical Abstracts and GeoRef.

Click from our E-resources index page onto the List of Library Databases to access andbrowse our full list of these products. Alternatively as the list is now very long, choosefrom the drop down subject list in the Library databases by subject box on the page for aselect list of resources for your subject.

3. These databases all have different search interfaces which are beyond the remit of thisworkshop to go into in any detail.

They will return lists of citations to literature in your subject area, in various formats butprimarily journal articles.

4. How do you get from the reference to the article?

If the database you are using displays a find it @ UCD button click on that – this is a timesaving tool and is covered in a further section below. You are looking for this button (oroccasionally just text) in the citations which could be anywhere in the record display.

5. Some databases are a mix of full text and references so in these cases as in the examplebelow some of the references will have links direct to the full text and for others you needto click on the find it @ UCD button or look up the reference to see if we have full textavailable:


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6. We are NOT able to switch the find it @ UCD discovery tool on in all of our abstract andindex databases.

So if nothing like this is shown, then you need to manually look up the references usingthe print catalogue, A-Z portal of journal titles or most particularly the Citation Linkertool that have already been covered in earlier sections on KNOWN ITEM searching.Opening a second browser window to cut and paste the references into the citation linkertool is recommended.

7. These A&I databases are indexed by humans who allocate controlled vocabulary terms tothem to aid searching

They index only a selection of quality peer-reviewed scholarly materials

They provide very advanced tools to aid you in putting together your search and thenrefining and processing the results

These are the main ways in which they differ from the search engine approach to findingjournal literature. Surveys show that researchers are using BOTH indexing databases andgoogle or other search engines to locate journal materials.


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Searching for References 2 –Google/Google Scholarand search engines

Key points

1. Abstract and Index databases provide a quality index of academic search results in yoursubject area and we would recommend using these.

2. Search engines however have become very popular starting points and in particularGoogle Scholar and other specialist and scholarly search engines that are available.

You can find a list of some of these search engines and federated search products on thelibrary website, again with a link from the e-resource launch page – there are manyoptions other than Google itself.

3. We would recommend use of GoogleScholar when searching for academicpublications.

On the input box of the Googleservices (e.g. Web, Images, Scholar),use “” to denote a phrase

Throughout Google searches you canuse ~ to denote synonyms


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4. We recommend use of the Advanced search option which gives opportunity to input moreprecise search terms, to limit to certain subject areas to cut down on result numbers, andto limit the date range as well.

5. To move from the citations in google scholar to check for full text or local print copies:

There is no guarantee at all that UCD will be able to provide access to the full text of thereferences in googlr or google scholar, there will be material indexed in google scholar towhich we do not have subscription access.

Click on the title to see if you get through to full text.

If that does not work you can use the various other tools covered in the workshop so farto manually key in the citation or journal title and check availability.

You can alter your preferences in Google Scholar so that you see the find it @ UCDdiscovery tool on your scholar result sets. You have to do this personally in your ownbrowser windows and this is covered for Google Scholar and other search engines in theFinding Journals leaflet.

When on campus clicking on the title below will get you to the full text fine – the Findit@UCD option works when away from campus for you.


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Searching for References 3 – Using journal collections forsearch

Key points

1. An alternative to using abstract and index databases or the very broad Google Scholarand similar search engines is to search the very large journal collections that we have.The advantage over abstract databases is that everything is automatically in full text foryou. Many researchers do this and it can be effective if:

You choose a very large journal collection to search in this way

Much of the research in your area is published in a restricted range of journals from a fewpublishers.

You do not need to discover ALL the key research in your area, just a good selection.

2. The main LIMITATION of this approach to bear in mind is that you will only besearching the output of one publisher or journal collection at a time - results are notcomprehensive.

3. The main ADVANTAGE of this approach is that it is quick and all the results will beavailable to UCD members and will be in full text.

4. There is a web page listing many of these journal collections on the e-resource launchpage


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5. We have a large number of journal collections and each service will have a differentinterface. So far we have only used these e-journal sites to home in on a specific title orarticle but here you would be using them to search by subject and need to explore thefacilities for doing this in each case.

Below are extracts from the search screens from Elsevier Sciencedirect and Taylor &Francis Informaworld – checking out the Advanced search screens is recommended forgreater flexibility in searching, limiting to subscribed titles, journal only and date rangeselection.


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Searching for References 4 – using theCross Search@UCD tool

Key points

1. Citation databases, search engines and searching directly in journal collections have allbeen covered as possibilities for discovering the journal literature.

2. UCD Library has introduced a pilot search service of its own called Cross Search@UCDwhich you may also want to try.

3. The main advantage of the service in relation to journal searching is that it offers aJournal cluster which searches across many of our full text journal collections in one step– this compares to the previous section where you were searching just one publishercollection at a time. You should note however that not ALL our journal collections areincluded in the service so you should check the listing of those that are included.

4. You can only do fairly basic searching – not the advanced search strategies and featurescovered in the workshop so far.

5. There is a separate guide on using the Cross Search@ UCD tool

6. The link to this is found on the library home page at the bottom right corner


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7. You are routed to the service home page where there are various search clusters - whenaway from UCD you will be prompted for your University login and password

The quickest way to get journal results is to:

put some search terms into the search box (put phrases into inverted commas, and to cutdown on result numbers alter search type from keyword to title if you wish)

tick next to Journal search

then click on Search button and wait for results.

You will need to be patient – the service has to go off and search across a large number ofjournal collections and pull back results from all of them – in the example below variousjournal collections have results for the chosen subjects


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You can: resort the results use the facets at the left to filter your results and/or pick resultsfrom particular publishers.

Glancing through the results you will see that they come from many different journalcollection sources.

Tick on titles of interest to access the full text.

8. Return to the home page of the service by clicking on New Search at the top left of theresults set display.

This time click on the title Journal Search. You see here that you can do a search butlimit to either HSS or STM journal collections to speed things up a bit.

Or click again on one of these two headings and you can see the actual list of collectionsincluded and you can pick your own cross search selection of services if you wish.

Four approaches to searching for journal literature have beenreviewed: citation databases; search engines; searchingjournal collections; the Cross Search@UCD option

The Find it@UCD tool has been mentioned as an option that canbe found in some of these discovery services and the nextsection provides a little more information about that service


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Off-campus accessKey points

1. Nearly all our journals are available when off campus

2. This is mainly achieved by routing your access to them via an intervening UCD serverwhich wraps your request in a UCD identity and forwards it to our journal providers“disguised” as coming from a UCD destination – the journal provider will then give youaccess to our subscription content from your home or other non-UCD location

3. Therefore when away from UCD you should access journals:

via listings on our Library websitevia links in our cataloguevia our A-Z e-journal listings.via Cross Searchvia the Citation Search toolaccessing abstract-only databases and using find it @ UCD to hop to the full text

These will all work well – other approaches will NOT work well when away from UCD –see number 4 for some of these things to avoid when in need of access to full text journalcontent off campus.

You will sometimes get a pop up window at various points when using all of the abovejournal access routes and need to put in your UCD Connect details – then you should gainaccess.

Example: a journal title accessed off campus

In this example the Forum for modernlanguages online journal is selectedfrom home using the A-Z of e-journals:

When prompted the UCD Connectuniversity login and password is entered(if you user a number of resources in onesearch session from home you will onlyhave to do this once or twice)


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Access is then available and though away from UCD you are identified as a member ofUCD with the full text access to this OUP journal as we have a full blanket subscriptionto that publisher – as can be seen in the screen below.

Example 2 Journal article access via Citation linker when off campus

THE GLAST MISSION AND OBSERVABILITY OF SUPERNOVAEREMNANTS.TIBOLLA, OMAR1Modern Physics Letters A; 7/20/2007, Vol. 22 Issue 22, p1611-1619,

If I wanted to look this reference up at home, I could look up the journal title but I wouldthen have to navigate down to the article. I can use the Citation Linker tool when offcampus which I pick from the library website front page

I put in the journal details(not keying the article author and article title as these are notneeded for the search)


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If prompted at any point with the UCD login window then login – and you get the fullarticle record with full text available as you are identified as a user from UCD

4. Things that will NOT work well when you are off the UCD network for journal accessare as follows:

a. clicking on journal links in search engine result sets such as google or googlescholar – the publisher version will often not be available to you from home,though you may be able to access other versions – conference papers, openaccess versions in repositories and so forth

b. your own bookmark links (unless you copied the properties from our listings)

c. direct links from RSS feeds or e-mail alerts to new journal issues


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d. Example 1 – linking from Table of Contents alert e-mail from home

If the following e-mail came through with details of the articles in a new issue a key journal foryour research you could if at UCD click on the article links provided and route direct to the fulltext.

Things may APPEAR to go well if doing the same and clicking on the article links from home…

But when you click on the full text options in the right panel things go wrong – in thisexample Oxford University Press are not identifying your PC as a UCD one so you arenot offered full text access and see this screen instead:


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Example Two – clicking on google scholar results from home

A search is done in google scholar and the result set records checked and the first item is wantedto read


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This would work OK on campus but when away from the UCD network just clicking will notwork for all google results. Some will work (free journals such as Pubmed titles and earlierversions such as conference papers) but for subscription journals like this they will not be able toidentify you from home as a UCD person and so they will show you the record and the abstractbut when you click on the full text option they want login or money from you as is the case in thisexample where the following screen appears.

You will have to use one of the routes that does work off campus – Journal A-Z listing or Citationlinker and re-key the result citation.

With both the Table of content alerts and the google result set when OFF CAMPUS you will haveto do a bit more work and use one of the access routes listed in number 3 and re-key part of yourcitation to get access.

With the second example keep your google results in a browser and open a new browser windowand go the library website and key in the journal title into the A-Z search box


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Going via this route you can get to the journal main page. The Google reference is very sketchybut at the journal home page you can search for the article title in the right panel search box – andthen you get the full text from home with no problems, when compared to just clicking on thegoogle links:


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Nearly all e-journals are available off campus You have a more restricted set of routes to use When using these if prompted with a UCD Library login box

put in your university login and passwords The routes that work when off campus:

listings on our Library website e.g. journal collectionslinks in our catalogueour A-Z e-journal listings.Cross Search@UCDCitation Linker toolaccessing abstract-only databases and using find it@UCD tohop to the full text

The routes that do not work or work more patchily:

clicking on results in search engines such as googleRSS feed and e-mail alerting links provided for new articlesbookmarks that take you directly to an online journal page


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When the journal is not available in the UCD collection

Key points

1. If UCD does not have a journal or journal article available in print or online you can availof our Inter-Library loan service

2. For many journal articles you will receive a copy to retain

3. For maximum speed avail of the service to have these items delivered to a website fromwhich you can personally pull them into your desktop – this can reduce delivery times bymany days as the item does not have to be posted from the British Library (our mainsupplier) to the Library and then out to yourselves

4. FULL details of this service can be viewed on the Library website at

http://www.ucd.ie/library/services_&_facilities/inter_library_loans/

5. The other main alternative open to you is to visit other libraries to access their physicalcollections and full details of their catalogues and the system for arranging access isavailable on our website at

http://www.ucd.ie/library/about/admission_to_the_library/access_other_libraries/

http://www.ucd.ie/library/electronic_resources/links_to_other_libraries/

http://www.ucd.ie/library/services_&_facilities/inter_library_loans/

http://www.ucd.ie/library/about/admission_to_the_library/access_other_libraries/

http://www.ucd.ie/library/electronic_resources/links_to_other_libraries/

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