Chemical Engineering Resources at Purdue University Libraries,Literature Searching,What to do when a “Google” search is not enough?,Spring 2003,Song Yu syupurdue.edu Phone: 496-7279 Chemical Information Specialist Assist. Prof. of Library Sciences Purdue University,Spring 2003,To Warm Up ,Ideas, common terms that we use when doing literature searches,Spring 2003,TERTIARY LITERATURE Information Retrieval,Structure of the literature and Channels of Communication,Spring 2003,Search Operators, Wildcards, and Parentheses,What are search operators? AND, OR, NOT, SAME, NEAR What are wildcards? ? = one character E.g. EN?OBLAST will search ENDOBLAST and ENTOBLAST * = zero to many characters E.g. Gene* will search Gene, Genes, General, Generation Combination of ? and * E.g. CH?M* will search CHEMISTRY, CHEMIST, CHEMICAL, CHEMIE, CHIMICA Parentheses (A or B) and C, (B and C) not A,A,B,C,Note: different databases have different wildcards. Check their Help file to find out what to use.,Spring 2003,What is in a citation?,Author Title Source/journal,Enumeration (volume/issue) Chronology (date) Pagination,Cui, Yi; Lieber, Charles M “Functional nanoscale electronic devices assembled using silicon nanowire building blocks.“ Science 291:5505 (2001): 851-3.,Bibliographic Information,Spring 2003,Cited/Citing Reference ?#&!,Linking to the original cited paper Linking to papers which cite the same paper (Time Cited) Finding related papers,1994,1991,1992,1987,1988,1957,1984,1982,1988,1987,1957,Known Paper,Cited Paper,New paper retrieved via cited reference searching,Spring 2003,Major Databases in Chemical Engineering,COMPENDEX (OVID) SciFinder Scholar (CAS) Web Of Science (ISI),Spring 2003,Major Databases in Chemical Engineering,COMPENDEX (OVID),Engineering and technical literature, as well as related fields in science and management. The records in the database are drawn from over 2,600 published journals, conference proceedings and individual conference papers, technical reports, monographs, and other materials.,Spring 2003,Major Databases in Chemical Engineering,SciFinder Scholar (CAS),Collection of Chemical Databases: CAPlus, CASREACT, CHEMCATS, CHEMLIST, Registry, Medline Chemistry Plus a Whole Lot More! Agriculture Science / Biology and Life Sciences / Engineering Sciences / Food Sciences / General Chemistry / Geological Sciences / Material Sciences / Medical Sciences / Physics / Polymer Science,Spring 2003,Major Databases in Chemical Engineering,Web Of Science (ISI),Accesses multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information from thousands of scholarly journals. The databases are indexed so you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. You can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work.,Spring 2003,Access to the Databases,http:/www.lib.purdue.edu/eresources/index.html choose “By Title” COMPENDEX (OVID) Web based, need your Purdue ID SciFinder Scholar (CAS) Server/Client based Windows Terminal Server To download the primary client software, go to http:/www.lib.purdue.edu/wts Java client can not print and save your searches Web Of Science (ISI) IP based Off campus access Libraries Proxy server http:/www.lib.purdue.edu/proxy,Spring 2003,SciFinder Scholar,Coverage back to 1907 by one search! CAplus. 1907 , +21.5 mil documents from +9000 journals-Updated daily with new citations, weekly with indexed records CASREACT. 1974+, +6 mil single and multi-step reactions CHEMCATS. +5.3 mil Commercial chemicals CHEMLIST. over 227,000 Regulated chemicals Registry. 1965+, 20.3 mil substances, 21.8 mil biosequences Medline. 1958+, 11 mil biomedical citations (including OLDMEDLINE),Spring 2003,Web of Science,8,500 peer-reviewed journals in science, social science, arts and humanities worldwide Science Citation Index (6014 Journal titles) 230 Disciplines 1350 in chemistry, 122 in chemical engineering Update weekly Purdue has access from 1977,Spring 2003,Compendex,Index +5000 journals world wide 1987 Update every week by EI, updated monthly by OVID.,Spring 2003,Example One,Find the review articles written in English on gold nanoparticles for catalysts SciFinder Scholar Topic search: gold nanoparticles for catalyst Refine by Document type, and Language Got 13 review articles Check the citing articles for Shipway, Andrew N.; et al. Nanoparticles as structural and functional units in surface-confined architectures. - 13,Spring 2003,Example One,Find the review articles written in English on gold nanoparticles for catalysts Web of Science General search in Topic: (gold and nanoparticl*) and cataly* Limited by Language and Document type Got 13 review articles,Spring 2003,Example One,Find the review articles written in English on gold nanoparticles for catalysts Compendex Search (Gold or Au), nanopartic$, and catalys$ seperately Combine them together Limited to Journal articles/English (40) Limited to Research Review Got 0 review articles,Spring 2