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Do More Searching in Less Time

Fall Term 2010

Helen B. Josephine

helenj@stanford.edu

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Search more than one Discipline

ISI Web of Knowledge 7 databases

xSearch 28 databases (increase to 150 databases in January 2011)

Scopus 4 subject areas

Scitopia.org 27 databases

Google Scholar ?

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Productivity Tools

Custom features with personal log on Create Alerts Create RSS feeds Create custom database combinations Save preferences

Link direct to fulltext Download results to citation management

tools

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ISI Web of Knowledge

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ISI Web of KnowledgeMulti-file Searching

No option to create custom combinations Use All Databases tab Then limit to General Categories or

Subject Areas

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xSearch

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Database details

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xSearchMulti-file Searching

Use check boxes to select/de-select databases

Use combinations created by Librarians Selections by Subject Area Selections by Course

Create your own Custom Search Returns the top 100 results from each file,

results vary

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SCOPUS

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SCOPUS—What does it cover? Updated daily, Scopus offers: Nearly 18,000 titles from more than 5,000 international

publishers, including coverage of 16,500 peer-reviewed journals (inc > 1,200 Open Access

journals) 600 trade publications 350 book series Extensive conference coverage (3.6 million conference papers)

40 million records, of which: 20 million records going back to 1996 seeking to capture

complete metadata (78% include references) 20 million pre-1996 records captured without references go back

as far as 1823.

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SCOPUS—What does it cover? Scopus also offers full integration of the scientific

web in its search results, with: 435 million scientific web pages 23 million patents from 5 patent offices (US Patent and

Trademark Office, European Patent Office, Japan Patent Office, World Intellectual Property Organization and UK Intellectual Property Office)

"Articles-in-Press" from over 3,000 journals Over 80 selected sources e.g. institutional repositories,

digital archives and special subject collections made individually searchable via Selected Sources tab.

http://info.scopus.com/scopus-in-detail/facts/

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SCOPUSMulti-file Searching

No option to create custom combinations of specific databases

Select one or more of the Subject Categories: Life Sciences Health Sciences Physical Sciences Social Sciences & Humanities

Then limit to Subject Areas

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SCITOPIA.ORG

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Scitopia.orgMulti-file Searching

Use check boxes to select/de-select 21 Scientific Societies Government Information Sources

DTIC Technical Reports Collection European Patents Information Bridge (DOE) Japanese Patents NSF Publications Database US Patent & Trademark Office Database

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Google Scholar

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Google ScholarMulti-file Searching

Can not choose which sources to search or combine No option to select individual databases or create

custom combinations Use advanced search option to limit to Subject Areas

How frequently do you update Google Scholar? We normally add new papers several times a week. However,

updates to existing records take 3-6 months to a year or longer, because in order to update our records, we need to first recrawl them from the source website. For many larger websites, the speed at which we can update their records is limited by the crawl rate that they allow.

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Google Scholar--Advanced

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Google Scholar--Preferences

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Questions/Comments?

helenj@stanford.edu http://englib.stanford.edu