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Who are we?
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Science Direct

• ScienceDirect covers about 24.4 of the worlds
  full-text scientific, technical and medical (STM)
  information across 24 fields of science

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ScienceDirect did you know that

• ScienceDirect contains over 9 Million peer
  reviewed article
• 11 million researchers worldwide have access to
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• 36 full text downloads every second during an
  average working day.
• Since Launch science direst has put an average of
  two articles every minute

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• Content

• 9 million full-text articles from 2,500 Elsevier
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• 23 Subject Collections
• Backfiles dating back to 1823
• Early access to preprints via Articles in Press
• 70 Reference Works
• 141 Book Series in 6 packages (63 titles)
• 6 series Handbooks (164 volumes)
• 5,000 eBooks
• Free linking to other STM publishers via CrossRef

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Making ScienceDirect your Own

• How do I register?

• Select Not Registered? at top of SD homepage

• Free Registration
• Create your own login
• Quick and Simple

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Where to begin?

• Im new, where do I begin?

• Browsing

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Browsing

• What if I want to look in a particular
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Browsing-Journal Home Page
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Browsing-Articles in Press

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• Uncorrected Proof

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Browsing-Articles in Press

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• Not copyedited
• Not formatted

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• Uncorrected Proof

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• Corrected and approved by author
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• I dont know what title to look in, what can I do?

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• Behav finds behave, behavioral, behaviour, etc.
• ? replaces a character anywhere in a word, except
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• Wom?n finds woman and women
• Proximity Connectors
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• Boolean OR automatically added to query
• Finds more records

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• There are two options for searching a phrase
• Loose phrase search double quotes
• Exact phrase search single quotes
• Loose phrase search enclose in double quotes
• Will search for documents where the words are
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• Does not insert the AND operator
• Will ignore punctuation, e.g, hyphens or
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• e.g., heart-attack will find docs with and
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• C or C will find the same results
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• Turn on search history to capture and
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Spell Checker on Results Pages

• Just like Google
• If no results or less than 20 results are found,
  the system offers alternative spellings
• FAST has its own dictionaries that offers
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• Proven helpful tool that users appreciate

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Synonyms and Alternative Spellings

• English and American spellings
• behaviour and behavior, flavour and flavor,
  colour and color, psychoanalyse and psychoanalyze
• Plurals
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• Root words
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• Synonyms
• Aspirin will also search acetylsalicylic acid

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Further advanced features Graphical Abstracts
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Downloading a PDF from Search Results How it
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2Collab integration on ScienceDirect
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2Collab
Launched in 2007- a collaboration platform
designed specifically for researchers in the
science, technical and medical communities. 2colla
b provides three types of features1.Online
bookmarking and reference management2.Groups -
for sharing with existing networks, or building
new ones3.Networking - find, evaluate and
initiate contact with new people
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2collab Integration on the Article Page
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some websites to note down

• top25.sciencedirect.com
• info.sciencedirect.com
• trainingdesk.elsevier.com
• topics.scirus.com

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Online Demo
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• A brand new workflow tool for synthetic chemists.
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Synthesis of 4-chloroindole
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Answer Set Ranking (e.g. Commercial Availability,
Yield)
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Synthesis Planner
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Thank You
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