Introduction esources

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Introduction e-sources

• Hilde Van Kiel
• Coordinator electronic resources
• K.U.Leuven University Library

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Introduction

• LibriSource
• Librarys webpages
• Multidisciplinary sources
• Web of Science

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Database types

• Bibliographic database
• references to articles, books, working papers,
  conference proceedings
• bibliography in electronic format
• Discipline-oriented
• Catalogue
• Shows possessions of a library. It will only show
  journal titles, no articles.
• Full text
• Some databases are bibliographic databases with
  full text.
• On the other hand give a lot of publishers access
  to full text of articles through their websites.
• Remark only available within K.U.Leuven-site.

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Technical starter

• Installation of cdroms at K.U.Leuvensite
• stand-alone
• lan
• hydra-server (Plug-in)
• ERL-server
• Webdatabases
• Plug-ins in blue bar on website

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LibriSource

• Overview and acces to 300 databases and 15.000
  electronic journals
• gt how will the user find his way ?
• Remarks
• Database of databases
• Records not in Libis-catalogue

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LibriSource administration

• Universiteits library
• e-sources
• Adding new sources
• Maintenance
• Registration of e-journals

• Faculty libraries
• Give subjects
• Feedback on acces, problems,

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Search in LibriSource

• 3 tabs
• all resources, e-journals, databases and websites
• 3 ways
• alfabetic
• Part of a title of e-journal or database
• subject
• results
• Selection on type

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Subject search

• All subjects gt Humanities gt Economics
• Select
• Start search or Enter
• To show only databases click on databases 1 on
  top of screen

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Some multidisciplinary databases

• PCI human sciences, full text journals from
  start of journal up to 1994.
• Academic Search Premier Full text journals
  humanities
• Business Source Premier
• Pica o.a. Online contents
• Picarta
• WorldCat
• Web of Science

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Web of Science
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Overview

• What is a citation database ?
• How to search such a database ?
• Usage for research ?
• Usage for research evaluation
• Journal citation reports
• Links to full text

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What is a citation database ?

• Citationdatabase
• Journal articles
• Bibliographic references (title, author, journal
  title, volume, year, )
• Citations included
• Keywords, Keywordsplus

• Bibliografische databank
• Journal articles, books, working papers,
  conferences,
• Bibliographic references (title, author, journal
  title, volume, year, )
• No citations
• Thesauri and indices

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Science Citation Index

• indexing 5900 periodicals
• 19 000 new records per week
• 423 000 new citations per week
• data starting 1945 (K.U.Leuven 1972)
• Some of the disciplines covered include
• Agriculture  Astronomy  Biochemistry
  Biology  Biotechnology  Chemistry Computer
  Science    Materials Science  Mathematics
   Medicine  Neuroscience Oncology Pediatrics
  Pharmacology Physics Plant Sciences
  Psychiatry Surgery Veterinary Science Zoology

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Social Sciences Citation Index

• indexing 1725 journals
• 2 900 new records per week
• 423 000 new citaties per week
• data starting 1956 (K.U.Leuven 1972)
• Some of the disciplines covered include
• Anthropology History Industrial Relations
  Information Science Library Science Law
  Linguistics Philosophy Psychology Psychiatry
  Political Science Public HealthSocial Issues
  Social Work Sociology Substance Abuse Urban
  Studies Women's Studies

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Arts Humanities Citation Index

• indexing 1144 journals
• 2 300 new records per week
• 15 250 new citaties per week
• data starting 1975
• Some of the disciplines covered include
• Archaeology Architecture Art Asian Studies
  Classics Dance Folklore History Language
  Linguistics Literary Reviews Literature Music
  Philosophy Poetry Radio, Television, Film
  Religion Theater

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Structure Web of Science
Article (2003) Citation (2000)
Basis
More Recent
Article (2000) Citation (1998)
Older
Article (1998) Citation (1993)
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Web of Science
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Web of Science searching

• Starting point to search for papers that cite a
  certain (already known) publication within the
  following years.
• Advantage no concern about thesauri, correct
  search syntax
• Disadvantage not all the publications will be
  relevant
• Preliminary is that the researcher already knows
  a valuable publication, not to recent to start
  his search.

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WoS Cited reference Search

• Attention for authornames
• Search for all variations
• Names of more than one word, type all
  possibilities vb. O CONNOR or OCONNOR
• Chinese names combine the three components in
  all possible ways

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WoS Full Search

• Selection of a database
• If no selection all indices are automatically
  selected.

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WoS General Search

• Possible restrictions
• On language or document-type
• Use scroll down menu, multiple selections via
  shiftclick

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WoS General Search results

• Sort
• Latest date
• Times cited
• Relevance
• First author
• Source title
• Resultlist summary
• Full record
• Niet onderlijnde link
• Boek, onvolledige gegevens, tijdschrift niet in
  WoS

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Related records

• Shows articles which have one or more citation in
  common
• Come from all years of database whatever the
  original selection
• Sorted on citations in common first one has
  most citations in common with original article

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Citation analysis

• How many times a certain person or article has
  been cited ?
• Remark newest version can remove auto-citations
  !

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WoS Resultats

• Mark records
• Marked list
• Printing format for print, then via Webbrowser
• Download save to file
• Export to ProCite or Ref. Manager
• E-mail

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Journal citation reports

• Impact factor measures how many times an
  average article in a journal has been cited in
  a certain year.
• Calculated by dividing the number of citations in
  the reference year to articles published in the
  two previous years with the total number of
  articles published in the two previous years by
  that journal.

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Link to full text

• Recent addition

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E-journals

• Includes journals not to be found within the
  catalogue
• Info-fiche time period and embargo period is
  mentionned
• Pasword and username

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Questions, problems,

• Hilde Van Kiel
• Coordinator electronic resources
• K.U.Leuven university library
• Ladeuzeplein 21
• Hilde.vankiel_at_bib.kuleuven.ac.be
• E-bronnen_at_bib.kuleuven.ac.be