1 Do More Searching in Less Time Fall Term 2010 Helen B. Josephine

2 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 ?

3 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

4 ISI Web of Knowledge

5 ISI Web of Knowledge Multi-file Searching  No option to create custom combinations  Use All Databases tab  Then limit to General Categories or Subject Areas

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10 xSearch Multi-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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14 SCOPUS

15 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.

16 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.

17 SCOPUS Multi-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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22 Scitopia.org Multi-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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25 Google Scholar

26 Google Scholar Multi-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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