Science Direct full text searching
- In Science Direct click on the Advanced Search link in the grey panel
- Click on the Journals tab above the Term(s) box
- Next click on the arrow next to All journals in the Source field and highlight subscribed journals
- Enter your search phrase or keywords (Note: individual keywords must be linked with the word ‘and‘ unless it is a phrase). Phrases and keywords can be combined by using ‘and‘ to link them.
- Click the Search button
Science Direct Athens username activation
- First login to the university portal on and off campus
- Select the My Learning link
- Select the Online databases and academic journals link in the Search the Library portlet
- Scroll down the A-Z list on the next page and select Science Direct
- Click the Login button at the top right of the screen
- Click the Athens/Other Institution Login link at the top right of the screen
- On the next screen Login via Athens or Your Institution click the View all institutions link at the bottom of the grey box
- On the next screen scroll down to UK Access Management Federation and select University of Greenwich
- You will now see an Athens login screen – wait to be transferred
- You will now be logged into Science Direct as University of Greenwich
New Resource – British Periodicals Online
British Periodicals Online is a collection of journals published in Britain between the 1680s and 1930s. Thematically wide ranging: from literature, drama and architecture to philosophy, history and the social sciences.
To access the resource:
Login to the portal with your computer ID and password
Select the My Learning / Learning support page.
In the Search the Library portlet, select the Online databases and academic journals link.
Scroll down to the resource in the list on the next page.
Select the name of the resource to be transferred to the search screen.
Web of Knowledge new features
In early February there will be new features and enhancements to the ISI Web of Knowledge e-resource.
- Log queries to Search History.
– Including “Search within results”, Refine and Analyze. - Funding acknowledgements:
– Captured since August 2008.
– Searchable and exportable.
– 3 fields: Grant Agency, Grant #, Funding Acknowledgements. - CAB Global Health.
- Scientific WebPlus
– Now uses the Thomson Reuters default login system, so that the ISI Web of Knowledge login credentials can be used. - Shibboleth compliance update:
– to comply with regulations regarding a single sign in. - Distinct Author Identification System – Web of Science:
– All author clusters have been updated.
For a preview of these changes and additions please see the Thomson Reuters presentation at: http://wok.mimas.ac.uk/support/documentation/presentations/Q409updates.ppt
Scitable
Nature Education has launched a free, online educational resource for undergraduate biology students and educators. Currently focussed on genetics, Scitable combines scientific information with social media functionality.
ticTOCs
ticTocs is a new scholarly journal of tables of contents (TOCs) service. It’s free and easy to use, and it provides access to the most recent tables of contents of over 11,000 scholarly journals from more than 400 publishers. It helps scholars, researchers, academics and anyone else keep up-to-date with what’s being published in the most recent issues of journals on almost any subject.
Using ticTOCs, you can find journals of interest by title, subject or publisher, view the latest TOC, link through to the full text of over 250,000 articles (where institutional or personal subscriptions, or Open Access, allow), and save selected journals to MyTOCs so that you can view future TOCs (free registration is required if you want to permanently save your MyTOCs). ticTOCs also makes it easy to export selected TOC RSS feeds to popular feedreaders such as Google Reader and Bloglines.
Social networking site – Academia.edu launched
Dr Richard Price a Fellow of All Souls College Oxford has launched Academic.edu a social networking site for academics and researchers.
Academia.edu
– Displays academics, faculty members and post-doctoral students around the world in a ‘tree’ format, according to which university / department they are affiliated with.
– Enables researchers to keep track of the latest developments in their field – the latest people, papers, and talks.
Some of the professors on the site include:
– Richard Dawkins http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardDawkins
– Stephen Hawking http://cambridge.academia.edu/StephenHawking
– Noam Chomsky http://mit.academia.edu/NoamChomsky