ScienceDirect (SDOL) Introduction - MCUT

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ScienceDirect (SDOL)Introduction

Jade Li/ Customer Consultant, A&G

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20201124 Update

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• Title• Authors• Abstract• Keywords

Article Structure

• Introduction

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• Objective• Method• Result• Discussion

• Reference

Article Structure

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Elsevier’s leading Info solution for researchers https://www.sciencedirect.com/

15M publications

Digital archivestraced back to 1823

37,000 books, incl. referenceworks

3,800 journals, more than 612,000 issues

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4 main subjects, 24 sub subjectsChemical Engineering/Chemistry/Computer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences/Energy/EngineeringMaterials Science/Mathematics/Physics and Astronomy

Physical Science & Engineering

Medicine and Dentistry/Nursing and Health Professions/Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science/Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine

HealthScience

Agricultural and Biological Sciences/Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology/Environmental Science/Immunology and MicrobiologyNeuroscience

Life Science

Arts and Humanities/Business, Management and Accounting/Decision Sciences/Economics, Econometrics and Finance/Psychology/Social Sciences

SocialScience &Humanities

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How to find journals and books１１

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Elsevier Journals & Books(Top)

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Elsevier Journals & Books

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Publication namePublication Type/ Access Type

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Source: ScienceDirect/Elsevier

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Elsevier Subjects (Middle)


4 main Subjects

Subdomain

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Elsevier Publications (Bottom)


Open Access

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Literature Review & Analyzing Process

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Quick Search (Homepage Top)


Quick Search

Keywords ( Search all fields except reference)Journal/book title ( Enter the keyword and related journal name will be listed)

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Advanced Search (Homepage Top)


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Advanced Search


Click and the definition will be shown.

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Advanced Search


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Advanced Search


Need to use capital letter

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Tips for search

Boolean Operators

OR At least 1 keyword is shown，e.g. liver OR cirrhosis. Sometimes for synonyms.

AND The two keywords need to be shown, e.g. "Cognitive architecture" AND robots

NOT Exclude keywords，e.g. lung NOT cancer orlung -cancer

• Boolean precedence is as follows: NOT, AND, OR• Parentheses can be used when nesting clauses. E.g. a OR (b AND c)

“” Quotation mark can be used to specify terms which must appear next to each other e.g. type “heart attack”，the result will include heart attack、heart-attack、heart attacks.

Advanced Search

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Tips for advanced search

Title

Abstract,Title,

Keywords

Find Articles with these terms

Narrow

Expand

Scope TimeWell

establishedWide

e.g. H1N1

e.g. Law

NewNarrow

e.g. H7N9e.g：same sex marriage

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Advance Search (Refine Result)


RefineYearArticle TypePublication title Access typeOnce select, the platform will show the updated result

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Advanced Search (refine search)


Cancel refining search if not needed

Click to refine search

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View Articles(Search Results)Title

Document type

Source titleAuthor

Access type

Choose Download Selected articles to download all the pdf files.

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View Articles (Fulltext Page Left)


Click title to go to fulltext page

Swiftly go to the section

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View Articles (Fulltext Page Middle)


Journal title

TitleAuthor

DOI

Through Arrow to see previous/next articles

Cover of the journal

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View Articles


When Author’s name is blue, it willlink to the author’s related articles

Link to the reference to understand the content

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View Articles (Fulltext Page Right)


Based on Big data to recommend the articles related to the subject

The impact and influence of an artilce

Captures: indicates that someone wants to come back to the articleMentions: measures when people are engaging with the articleSocial Media: the +1s, likes, shares, and tweets about article.Citations: measures of how many times the article has been cited by others.

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Organize Documents (Fulltext Top)


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Organize Documents (Export)


Choose the documents and export citations EndNote/Mendeley -.ris

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Export citations in different formats

Organize Documents (Cite=Export)

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Organize Documents(Import PDF或ris file to Mendeley)

Source: ScienceDirect/ElsevierDone

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Alert(Personalized Service)


Register to get personalized service

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Alert (Search Alert)


Sign in first

Set up search alert to get most updated articles

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Alert (Search Alert)


Manage Alert

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ScienceDirect Support Centerhttps://service.elsevier.com/app/home/supporthub/sciencedirect/