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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To Warm Up

Ideas, common terms that we use when doing literature searches

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Structure of the literature and Channels of Communication

TERTIARY LITERATURE Information Retrieval

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Search Operators, Wildcards, and Parentheses

What are search operators? AND, OR, NOT, SAME, NEAR What are wildcards? A B ? = one character E.g. EN?OBLAST will search ENDOBLAST and ENTOBLAST C * = zero to many characters E.g. Gene* will search Gene, Genes, General, Generation Combination of ? and * E.g. CH?M* will search CHEMISTRY, CHEMIST, CHEMICAL, CHEMIE, CHIMICA Note: different databases Parentheses have different wildcards. (A or B) and C, (B and C) not A Check their Help file to find
out what to use.
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What is in a citation?
Author Enumeration

Title
Source/journal

(volume/issue) Chronology (date) Pagination

Bibliographic Information
Cui, Yi; Lieber, Charles M.. Functional nanoscale electronic devices assembled using silicon nanowire building blocks." Science 291:5505 (2001): 851-3.
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Cited/Citing Reference ?@#&!

Linking

paper

to the original cited

1994

Linking

to papers which cite the same paper (Time Cited) related papers

1992

1991

1988
1987 1984

Finding

1982 1988 1957

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1957

Known Paper
Cited Paper

1987

New paper retrieved via cited reference searching

Major Databases in Chemical Engineering

(OVID) SciFinder Scholar (CAS) Web Of Science (ISI)
COMPENDEX

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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 other materials.

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Major Databases in Chemical Engineering

SciFinder

Scholar (CAS)

Collection of Chemical Databases: CAPlus, CASREACT, CHEMCATS, CHEMLIST, Registry, Medline Chemistry Plus a Whole Lot More! Agriculture Science / Biology and Life Sciences / Engineering Sciences / Food Sciences / General Chemistry / Geological Sciences / Material Sciences / Medical Sciences / Physics / Polymer Science
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Major Databases in Chemical Engineering

Web

Of Science (ISI)

Accesses multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information from thousands of scholarly journals. The databases are indexed so you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. You can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work.

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Access to the Databases

http://www.lib.purdue.edu/eresources/index.html choose By Title COMPENDEX (OVID) Web based, need your Purdue ID SciFinder Scholar (CAS) Server/Client based Windows Terminal Server To download the primary client software, go to http://www.lib.purdue.edu/wts Java client can not print and save your searches Web Of Science (ISI) IP based Off campus access Libraries Proxy server http://www.lib.purdue.edu/proxy
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SciFinder Scholar
Coverage back to 1907 by one search!
CAplus. 1907 ~, +21.5 mil documents from +9000 journals-Updated daily with new citations, weekly with indexed records

CASREACT. 1974+, +6 mil single and multi-step reactions CHEMCATS. +5.3 mil Commercial chemicals CHEMLIST. over 227,000 Regulated chemicals Registry. 1965+, 20.3 mil substances, 21.8 mil biosequences Medline. 1958+, 11 mil biomedical citations (including
OLDMEDLINE)

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Web of Science
8,500

peer-reviewed journals in science, social science, arts and humanities worldwide

Science Citation Index (6014 Journal titles) 230 Disciplines 1350 in chemistry, 122 in chemical engineering

Update

weekly Purdue has access from 1977

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Compendex
Index

+5000 journals world wide 1987 Update every week by EI, updated monthly by OVID.

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Example One
Find

gold nanoparticles for catalysts

SciFinder Scholar
Topic

the review articles written in English on

search: gold nanoparticles for catalyst Refine by Document type, and Language Got 13 review articles Check the citing articles for Shipway, Andrew N.; et al. Nanoparticles as structural and functional units in surface-confined architectures. -> 13
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Example One
Find

gold nanoparticles for catalysts

Web of Science
General

the review articles written in English on

cataly* Limited by Language and Document type Got 13 review articles

search in Topic: (gold and nanoparticl*) and

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Example One
Find

gold nanoparticles for catalysts

Compendex
Search

the review articles written in English on

(Gold or Au), nanopartic$, and catalys$ seperately Combine them together Limited to Journal articles/English (40) Limited to Research Review Got 0 review articles
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Further Investigation

If SciFinder Scholar indexes more journals and cover more years than Web of Science, why my search retrieve the same number of articles?

Crooks, RM, Zhao MQ, et al. Accounts of Chemical Research 34(3): 181-190.
The most cited review in Web of Science, is also in SciFinder Scholar!!

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SciFinder Scholar Record:

Dendrimer-Encapsulated Metal Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications to Catalysis. Crooks, Richard M.; Zhao, Mingqi; Sun, Li; Chechik, Victor; Yeung, Lee K. Department Web of Science Record: of Chemistry, Texas AM University, College Station, TX, USA. Accounts of Chemical Research Dendrimer-encapsulated metal nanoparticles : Synthesis, characterization, and applications (2001), 34(3), 181-190. CODEN: ACHRE4 ISSN: 0001-4842. Journal; General to catalysisCAPLUS Review written in English. CAN 134:168789 AN 2000:887031
Crooks RM, Zhao MQ, Sun L, Chechik V, Yeung LK ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH Abstract 34 (3): 181-190 MAR 2001 Document type: the Review Language: English Cited A review with 55 refs. that reports synthesis and characterization of References: 53 Times Cited: 61 Abstract: dendrimer-encapsulated metal nanoparticles and their applications to catalysis. This Account reports the synthesis and characterization of dendrimer-encapsulated metal These materials are prepd. by sequestering metal ions within dendrimers followed nanoparticles and their applications to catalysis. These materials are prepared by sequestering by chem. redn. to yield the corresponding zerovalent metal nanoparticle. The size metal ions within dendrimers followed by chemical reduction to yield the corresponding of such particles depends on the no. of metal ions initially into the zerovalent metal nanoparticle . The size ofloaded such particles depends on the number of metal ions dendrimer. Intradendrimer hydrogenation and carbon-carbon coupling reactions initially loaded into the dendrimer. Intradendrimer hydrogenation and carbon-carbon coupling in water, org. solvents, biphasic fluorous/org. solvents, and supercrit. CO2 are also and supercritical CO2 are reactions in water, organic solvents, biphasic fluorous/organic solvents, described. also described. KeyWords Plus: SUPERCRITICAL CARBON-DIOXIDE, SURFACE-CONFINED MONOLAYERS, PHASE PROBE MOLECULES, POLY(AMIDOAMINE) DENDRIMERS, STARBURST DENDRIMERS, GOLD, WATER, NANOCLUSTERS, TEMPLATE, ELECTROCHEMISTRY Addresses: Crooks RM, Texas A&M Univ, Dept Chem, POB 30012, College Stn, TX 77842 USA Texas A&M Univ, Dept Chem, College Stn, TX 77842 USA
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Save Search/Results
COMPENDEX

(OVID)

Run Saved Search/Save Search History/Delete Search

SciFinder

Scholar (CAS)

Save only to computer drives with a $ sign!!

Web

Of Science (ISI)

Mark and Submit Marks Marked List Save Search/Run saved search
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Full Text?
COMPENDEX

(OVID)

No full text available from the database Link to Purdue catalog, can link to full text then
SciFinder

Scholar (CAS)

Click the computer icon Choose the purple colored options

Web

Of Science (ISI) check in Purdue Catalog!!

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Selected full text available

Double
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Full Text?
Full text journal articles available through Purdues subscription

All full text articles

Full text articles that covers in the database

The full text articles you can get if you only check the full text links in the database

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Comparing Results of Example One

Total

review articles found 25.

13 (52%)in SciFinder Scholar 13 (52%) in Web of Science 1 (4%) overlap in both 0 in Compendex

Citing

Crooks, RM, Zhao MQ, et al. Accounts of Chemical Research 34(3): 181-190

papers for

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Total found 68 63 (93%) in Web of Science 57 (84%) in SciFinder Scholar 52 (83%) overlap in both
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More on Cited Reference Search

Web

of Science also has a separate Cited Reference Search screen. Sometimes you will pick up more cited references for an article. C.D. Nobes and A. Hall, published in Cell, Volume 81 (1) 53-62, 7 April 1995

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Example Two
Find

Prof. Lees publication in recent years

SciFinder Scholar
Author

search: Lee Gil, choose all possible entries Refine by Databases (CAplus only) Analyze by Company/Organization Found 5 publications from Purdue

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Example Two
Find

Prof. Lees publication in recent years

Web of Science
Search

Author: Lee GU and Address: Purdue Got 8 results

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Example Two
Find

Prof. Lees publication in recent years

search of Lee G or Lee G U or Lee Gil or Lee

Compendex
Author

Gil U Combine with Institution search: purdue -> 0 (!!)

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Conclusion
For a same search The search strategies are different among three databases The retrieved results are quite dissimilar Even when searching in one database, various approaches will retrieve diverse results
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Conclusion
That means to do a comprehensive literature search Consult as many resources as possible (including the Web, your advisor, librarians) Search critically. Use various combinations of search terms and search strategies as necessary Learn while you are searching. Adjust your searches accordingly Search independently and consistently Manage your search results by using the tool from the databases
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A Few More Words

You

web Always think what you might miss by consulting to one source E-journals are NOT free, so are the databases you use in the library Science and technology didnt start from 1907, or 1977, or 1986.
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can not find everything on the

Question Time

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