文档介绍：Literature Searching
What to do when a “Google” search is not enough?
Chemical Engineering Resources at Purdue University Libraries
Song Yu
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Phone: 496-7279
Chemical Information Specialist
Assist. Prof. of Library Sciences
Purdue University
Spring 2003
To Warm Up …
Ideas, common terms that we use when doing literature searches
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TERTIARY LITERATURE Information Retrieval
Structure of the literature and Channels munication
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Search Operators, Wildcards, and Parentheses
What are search operators?
AND, OR, NOT, SAME, NEAR
What are wildcards?
? = one character
. EN?OBLAST will search ENDOBLAST and ENTOBLAST
* = zero to many characters
. Gene* will search Gene, Genes, General, bination of ? and *
. CH?M* will search CHEMISTRY, CHEMIST, CHEMICAL, CHEMIE, CHIMICA …
Parentheses
(A or B) and C, (B and C) not A
A
B
C
Note: different databases have different wildcards. Check their Help file to find out what to use.
What is in a citation?
Author
Title
Source/journal
Enumeration (volume/issue)
Chronology (date)
Pagination
Cui, Yi; Lieber, Charles M.. “Functional nanoscale electronic devices assembled using silicon nanowire building blocks." Science 291:5505 (2001): 851-3.
Bibliographic Information
Cited/Citing Reference ?@#&!
Linking to the original cited paper
Linking to papers which cite the same paper (Time Cited)
Finding related papers
1994
1991
1992
1987
1988
1957
1984
1982
1988
1987
1957
Known Paper
Cited Paper
New paper retrieved via cited reference searching
Major Databases in Chemical Engineering
COMPENDEX (OVID)
SciFinder Scholar (CAS)
Web Of Science (ISI)
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Major Databases in Chemical Engineering
COMPENDEX (OVID)
Engineering and technical literature, as well as related fields in science and management. The records in the database are drawn from over 2,600 published journals, conference proceedings and individual conference papers, technical reports, monographs, and oth