1 Do More Searching in Less Time Spring Term 2010 Ask an Expert Helen B. Josephine

2 Search more than one Discipline ISI Web of Knowledge 7 databases xSearch 28 databases 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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9 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

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13 SCOPUS

14 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.

15 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.

16 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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20 SCITOPIA.ORG

21 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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24 Google Scholar

25 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

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