Academic articles online

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Academic articles online

• Internet Research SkillsNiall O Dochartaigh,
  Dept. of Political Science and Sociology

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Understanding academic articles

• The prime location for 'scholarly' debate
• Quality control
• Pitched at a high level
• A key bibliographic resource

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The tangled maze

• The origins of academic articles online
• Indexing and abstracting databases
• Full text databases
• Overlap

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Search strategy identifying key journals

• Ask people
• Where do key articles appear?
• Check a subject guide such as Intute
  (www.intute.ac.uk)
• Scan the contents pages of previous issues
• Set up content alerts

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The linking revolution

• OpenURL links
• such as SFX and MetaLib
• Collapsing the distinction between indexing and
  full-text databases

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CrossRef

• Over fourteen hundred academic publishers and
  associations
• Joint searching of the full-text of academic
  journal articles available online
• A precursor to Google Scholar
• Available as a search option on the sites of
  participating publishers such as
• Sage (sagepub.com)
• Blackwell (www.blackwell-synergy.com)
• Cambridge (journals.cambridge.org)

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(one third of the results in Google Scholar)
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Google scholar

• Flawed but fantastic
• Joint searching of the full-text of academic
  journal articles available online including
• Taylor and Francis / CSA / JSTOR / Ingenta
  Connect / Project Muse
• Not comprehensive
• Cruder than searching the publisher services
  directly
• Open Access repositories
• Other scholarly materials
• Start with Scholar, mop up on the other databases

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• Web Search

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Cited by
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group of 2 (or more)
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Downloading of references select Scholar
preferences
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• Books
• more info in..
• Library search
• Redundant results
• In the UK and Ireland BL Direct
• Advanced search

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Windows Live Academic (academic.live.com)
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Search tip Accessing an article from a journal
your institution is not subscribed to
1. Search Google Scholar on the title and author
to see if this points you to a free copy of the
article 2. If the article is more than three
years old and your institution is subscribed to
JSTOR, search for it there. 3. Locate a home
page for the author by searching for the name of
the author and their university on Google, Yahoo,
MSNSearch or Ask.com. 4. Search an open access
search engine such as OAIster (oaister.umdl.umich
.edu/o/oaister) 5. Search your own library
catalogue to see if the library subscribes to the
print version of the journal. 6. If the journal
is not included in any of the full text databases
it may have a website through which it make
articles freely available on the open Web.
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Indexing and abstracting databases

• Citation details, keywords, and abstracts
• More comprehensive than the full text services
• OpenURL links
• Some services adding large full text collections.
• Overlap
• Downloading references

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OCLC ArticleFirst

• 22,000 journals and other periodicals in the
  social sciences, humanities and popular culture
• Current affairs magazines and reviews of books.
• No abstracts
• No subject search
• Limit your search to an individual journal.
• Limit your search to items which your library
  subscribes to
• OpenURL link to NUIG librarys records in
  relation to this article
• Uniquely lists libraries that hold the journal
  in question.

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ISI Web of Science (isiknowledge.com)
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Social Sciences Citation Index Arts and
Humanities Citation Index.
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• Aspires to being comprehensive
• Focus on citation
• Assessing impact
• Strong organisational structure.
• Inflexible

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You cant search for an authors full name, only
by their surname and initials
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'Cited reference search'
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Checking the cited work index to see how ISI
has abbreviated the publication.
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• Using abbreviated publication titles
• Citations of a single article may be spread
  across two or more entries
• Citation alerts
• Book reviews, magazines and bibliographies

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Cited references
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times cited
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'Find related records'
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Scopus
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Scopus

• Easy to use
• Not available at NUIG
• Strongest in the health and life sciences
• Does not cover the humanities

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Other indexing and abstracting databases
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Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)

• Academic journals, newspapers and magazines,
• Full text of 4,000 journals
• Wide range of disciplines

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Infotrieve ArticleFinder (www.infotrieve.com)

• Document delivery service
• Select ArticleFinder to search for academic
  articles
• Abstracts and titles

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Search strategy searching for an article

• Aims
• to get the full text of an article you have
  identified
• or, to get enough information to tell you if
  it's worth ordering or purchasing
• to explore information associated with the
  article (references and the articles that cite it)

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Exploring academic debates around the Harry
Potter novels

• Pennington, John (2002) From Elfland to
  Hogwarts, or the Aesthetic Trouble with Harry
  Potter. The Lion and the Unicorn 26 (1) 78-97.

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Google Scholar (scholar.google.com) the best
place to start

• Search for Elfland to Hogwarts

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Group of 2 duplicate results
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The cited by link
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The web search link includes course syllabi
that reference the article
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ISI Web of Science
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General search on Elfland
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SFX link to NUIG
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Times cited
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Full record citation alert (not possible via
Scholar)
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Author name
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Find related records
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Cited references
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OCLC ArticleFirst

• Title search for Elfland
• Libraries that hold the journal - including NUIG
• Available in nearby libraries

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• The Lion and the Unicorn not available in
  Ingenta, Swetsnet, in Highwire, in Crossref or in
  JSTOR
• Much overlap but much unique information

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Specialised subject databases

• Tightly restricted
• Abstracts written especially for these databases,
  
• Articles and books
• Mop up search on the bigger databases

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• ASSIA Applied Social Sciences Index and
  Abstracts (CSA) Not in NUIGSocial science and
  health
• Social Services Abstracts (CSA) Not in NUIG
• Social Work Abstracts US National Association of
  Social Workers45,000 records

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• SocINDEX with Full Text (CSA)
• Abstracts for several hundred Sociology journals
  and hundreds of related journals dating back to
  1895
• Indexes books, conference papers, and other
  sources.
• Full text for 300 journals, several hundred
  books and several thousand conference papers.

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Search strategy Searching by author

• Search for author name and university to locate a
  home page for an author
• Home pages will often include some or all of the
  following
• A fuller list of their publications than you'll
  get from any other source
• Teaching syllabi and reading lists
• Work in progress
• The full text of some of their articles.

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Full text articles online

• Citation details and abstracts may be available
  in twenty different databases
• Full text is generally hosted by one service only
• Limited overlap between full text databases
• Google Scholar searches many of these services

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Highwire Press (highwire.stanford.edu)

• 1,000journals
• Largest collection of free academic articles
  available (1.6 million).
• Full text collections from over 130 publishers

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• Links to the full text of cited articles held in
  other databases
• Links to information on articles that cite the
  article you're looking at in ISI's Web of Science
• Links to related entries in Google Scholar
• Citation alerts, search alerts
• Content alerts
• 'My Personal Archives a personal search library.

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Blackwell Synergy (www.blackwell-synergy.com/)

• 850 journals, 1 million articles
• View abstracts
• Follow links to citing articles that cite the
  item you are looking at
• View the list of references for an article
  OpenURL links
• Links to the records relating to these articles
  in a number of other databases in ISI, CSA
  Illumina and a number of full text databases.
• Citation alerts

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Ingenta Connect (www.ingentaconnect.com/)

• Full text journals from a variety of academic
  publishers (but some have pulled out).
• 30,000 publications, 21 million articles
• Search titles, abstracts and keywords but not
  full text
• To search the full text use Crossref or Google
  Scholar

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JSTOR (www.jstor.org)

• Archiving older issues
• Great historical depth
• Key journals in the social sciences and
  humanities
• Moving-wall of three to five years
• Access to older articles in JSTOR from journals
  whose current contents you cant access

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Search strategy Keeping up with new articles

• After you have mined the big databases
• 1. Content alertsSet up content alerts for the
  three or four key journals in your area through a
  database of through the journal websites
• 2. Search alertsFor search queries that worked
  particularly well
• 3. Citation alertsTo alert you when a new
  article cites a key book or articleAlso
  available as RSS Feeds

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Publishers
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Cambridge Journals Online (journals.cambridge.org)
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Elsevier Science Direct (www.sciencedirect.com)
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Oxford Journals Online (www.oxfordjournals.org)
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Project Muse (muse. jhu.edu)
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Sage Journals Online (Sagepub.com)
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SpringerLink (www.SpringerLink.com)
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Taylor and Francis Online Journals
(www.tandf.co.uk/journals) and Informaworld
(www.informaworld.com)
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Open Access

• The dream of free circulation of academic work
• Publishers provide not only publication, but
  publicity, distribution and prestige
• The Open Access movement
• Self-archiving
• Institutional repositories
• Pressure from government, funders and
  universities
• Peer-review

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• Escholarship / eprints
• Preprints
• Postprints
• Preprints, working papers, conference papers
• Searched by Google Scholar
• Included in several of indexing and full text
  databases

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OAIster (oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister)

• 500 Open Access repositories.
• Organizes the results by institution.
• Full text of books and PhD theses

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Directory of Open Access Journals(www.doaj.org)

• A directory of 2,000 free, full text academic
  journals

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Institutional Repositories

• OU E-prints (http//oro.open.ac.uk/) Research
  that has been authored or co-authored by members
  of staff. Only includes postprints
• University of California eScholarship repository
  (repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/) One of
  the earliest repositories17,000 items.

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• More important than getting to know the
  technology
• Getting to know your subject area

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Internet Research Skills, the book

• O Dochartaigh, Niall (2007) Internet Research
  Skills. London Sage.

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Contact details

• Niall O Dochartaigh
• Room 318, Aras Moyola
• niall.odochartaigh_at_nuigalway.ie