Thursday, August 6, 2009

What's the ScienceDirect Article Toolbox?

The ScienceDirect Article Toolbox brings together several items of functionality that help you do more with the research you are accessing and can save you time!

Here's a quick run-down of what each tool offers:
  • Download PDF -Use the Document Download Manager to download upto 20 full-text articles at once. You can automatically name downloaded content according to your own naming convention and pre-select a preferred destination for downloads.

  • E-mail Article - Quickly send an article to a fellow researcher in HTML or plain text.

  • Cited By -See a list of articles in ScienceDirect that have cited the article you are reading.

  • Save as a Citation Alert-Receive notification when the article you are reading is cited.

  • Citation Feed - Choose this option to get citations in RSS. ScienceDirect RSS feeds allow you to see when new articles, citations or search results are available on ScienceDirect.

  • Export Citation - Download all or a selection of citations to a citation management program such as ProCite, EndNote, RefWorks or Reference Manager.

  • Add to my Quick Links - Add the journal or book that you are reading to your homepage Quick Links for easy access.

  • Add to 2collab - Bookmark the article on Elsevier's online collaboration tool, 2collab, for the benefit of other researchers.

  • Permissions & Reprints - Users sometimes want to use figures, tables or images published by others, which is possible but must be requested. This link fast tracks the request and is enabled by the partnership between Elsevier and the Copyright Clearance Center's Rightslink service.

  • Cited by in Scopus - See a list of articles in Scopus that have cited the article you are reading.

Want to learn more about ScienceDirect? Watch our narrated tutorial or attend a free live on-line training session.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Create Automatic Queries in Scopus from Your Library website

  • Here's a quick tip from the Scopus Info site that can help your students and researchers stay up-to-date in their fields of interest.

    Create simple and/or advanced search queries on your library or departmental websites.

    Use the Scopus inward searching syntax:
    http://www.scopus.com/scopus/search/submit/xadvanced.url?searchfield= CODE OF THE SEARCH FIELD (search term A Boolean Operator search term B)

    Examples:
  • http://www.scopus.com/scopus/search/submit/xadvanced.url?searchfield=TITLE-ABS-KEY(myb and retrovirus)
  • http://www.scopus.com/scopus/search/submit/xadvanced.url?searchfield=TITLE-ABS-KEY(Acromegaly and "growth hormone")


    Quick notes regarding syntax:
  • Click here for a complete list of codes
  • Between the () it is possible to use wildcards * and double quotes "" like in Scopus
  • To limit to a specific time range: http://www.scopus.com/scopus/search/submit/xadvanced.url?searchfield=TITLE-ABS-KEY(Software or Engineering) AND PUBYEAR AFT 1995
  • To search several fields in the same request: http://www.scopus.com/scopus/search/submit/xadvanced.url?searchfield=TITLE-ABS-KEY(Software Engineering) AND AUTHOR-NAME (smith)

    Looking for more Scopus desktop tools to make literature research quicker and easier? Visit the 'Scopus tools' page on the Scopus Info site.