1. Find it! Searching Databases - Hands-on workshop Chemistry Research Project (CHE600) School of Biological and Chemical Sciences

2. Can you remember what we did last session? NOV 2015library-sande@qmul.ac.uk2 Go to www.govote.at and use the code 23 97 74

3. Learning Objectives By the end of this session you should be able to:  Understand the principles of literature searching  Use Web of Science and Reaxys to carry out searches and refine and sort your results in order to identify the most relevant citations  Use the citation network to expand your search NOV 2015library-sande@qmul.ac.uk3

4. INTRODUCTION TO DATABASES

5. Databases: What are they? NOV 2015  Searchable indexes of evaluated literature such as journal articles and conference proceedings  Types of database:  Bibliographic indexing & abstracting databases or full-text collections  Subject-specific or interdisciplinary  Use to carry out literature searches library-sande@qmul.ac.uk5

6. NOV 2015  Major search tool comprised of 3 indexes that provide multidisciplinary coverage of academic literature (Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index). The Science Citation Index covers almost 7000 journals from 1952 onwards. Web of Science was formerly known as Web of Knowledge library-sande@qmul.ac.uk6

7. SEARCH TECHNIQUES

8. Keywords  Develop an effective search strategy:  Identify the key concepts in your topic  Choose keywords relating to each concept  Think about acronyms, alternative spellings (e.g. US or UK), synonyms and related terms NOV 2015library-sande@qmul.ac.uk8

9. Wildcards  Use wildcards (*, ?, $) for word variations, e.g.  singular / plural, nouns / verbs, UK / US spellings  The asterisk (*) represents any group of characters, including no character  The question mark (?) represents any single character  The dollar sign ($) represents zero or one character NOV 2015library-sande@qmul.ac.uk9

10. Wildcards  Wildcard examples:  microscop*finds microscope, microscopic, microscopy, etc.  polymeri?ation finds both polymerisation and polymerization  colo$rfinds both colour and color NOV 2015library-sande@qmul.ac.uk10

11. Phrase Searching  To search for an exact phrase, enclose the words in quotation marks, for example “chemical synthesis of carbon”  Searching for chemical synthesis of carbon without quotation marks would retrieve citations with these keywords anywhere within the field searched NOV 2015library-sande@qmul.ac.uk11

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13. Boolean Operators NOV 2015 AND Search for articles that contain both of the search terms. Using AND narrows your search OR Search for articles that contain one or both of the search terms (useful for synonyms). Using OR broadens your search NOT Search for articles that contain the first term and do not contain the second term. Using NOT narrows your search library-sande@qmul.ac.uk13

14. Curie AND Chemistry NOV 2015 Boolean Search String Game Pierre Curie: A Life Cut Short Marie Curie : Heroine of Chemistry Radioactive: The science of Curie Chemistry OR Science Curie NOT U-boat library-sande@qmul.ac.uk 14

15. Boolean Operators  Use parentheses to group compound Boolean operators, for example:  Correct: (galvanic OR voltaic) AND cell  Incorrect: galvanic OR voltaic AND cell  Database search fields sometimes fulfil the same function as sets of parentheses NOV 2015library-sande@qmul.ac.uk15

16. Refine and Sort Your Search  Refine (narrow) your results by:  searching within results  limiting to subject areas  limiting by publication date  limiting by document format  Sort your results by:  relevance  times cited  publication date NOV 2015library-sande@qmul.ac.uk16

17. SEARCHING WEB OF SCIENCE

18. Accessing Web Of Science  You can access Web of Science via a Library Catalogue search or the Library’s subject support webpages for Chemistry: http://www.library.qmul.ac.uk/subject/chemistry NOV 2015library-sande@qmul.ac.uk18

19. Reminder: Off-Campus Login NOV 2015 Off-campus you must log into e-resources using your Queen Mary username and password Some e-resources accessed instead via Institutional Login/Shibboleth/UK Federation library-sande@qmul.ac.uk 19

20. Registration NOV 2015library-sande@qmul.ac.uk20

21. EXAMPLE SEARCH

22. Search 22NOV 2015library-sande@qmul.ac.uk22

23. Results NOV 2015 library-sande@qmul.ac.uk23

24. Citation NOV 2015library-sande@qmul.ac.uk24

25. SEARCHING REAXYS

26. Reaxys NOV 2015 Provides access to Beilstein (organic) Gmelin (inorganic) and patent chemistry databases. It covers over 200 years of primary literature and contains data on structures, reactions, facts and citations for more than 11 million organic, inorganic and organometallic compounds. library-sande@qmul.ac.uk26

27. EXAMPLE SEARCH

28. Reaxys – Literature NOV 2015library-sande@qmul.ac.uk28

29. Reaxys – Literature NOV 2015 Literature results can be articles or patents library-sande@qmul.ac.uk29

30. TWO EXERCISES

31. Exercise 1 Van Zeist, W.-J. & Bickelhaupt, F.M., 2010. The activation strain model of chemical reactivity. Organic & biomolecular chemistry, 8(14), pp.3118–27. Use Web of Science to find this journal article and answer the following: 1)How many references are cited by the authors? 2)How many times has the article been cited? 3)Can you access the full text of this article? NOV 2015library-sande@qmul.ac.uk31

32. Exercise 1 Answers: 1)74 2)155 times [06/11/2015] 3)Yes, via RSC Journals NOV 2015library-sande@qmul.ac.uk32

33. Exercise 2 NOV 2015 You want to find journal articles about electrochromism resulting from electrochemical intercalation and have jotted down the following keywords: intercalation, insertion, electrochromic, electrochromism  Construct a search to retrieve relevant WoS citations  Points to consider:  What are the two main concepts? What are the synonyms or related terms?  Which word(s) might need to be truncated? library-sande@qmul.ac.uk33

34. Exercise 2 NOV 2015library-sande@qmul.ac.uk34

35. Exercise 2 NOV 2015library-sande@qmul.ac.uk35

36. Exercise 2 NOV 2015library-sande@qmul.ac.uk36

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