Information Literacy support and research strategy skills Mary Joan Crowley DISG Library, Engineering Faculty, Sapienza, University of Rome * all images

Information Literacy support and research strategy skillsMary Joan Crowley

DISG Library, Engineering Faculty, Sapienza, University of Rome* all images uploaded for educational purposes

TUTORIALS – Scopus - Search tips - http://help.scopus.com/Content/h_srchtips.htm

• Field codes• Searching affiliations and references• Choosing search terms• Finding plurals• Using Boolean operators• Finding phrases• Using proximity operators• Finding variations of a word (wildcards)• Searching with stop words• Finding accented and special characters

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Boolean Operators / Truncated / Wildcards

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr7LscBEYC8• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Zei_azjX0

• AND, OR, AND NOT, “MMMMMM”

• Bridge*

• Col?r Wom#n


ISI Web of Science (WOS) retrieved the most citation results, followed by Google Scholar (GS) and then Scopus


Google Scholar

• Cable-stayed bridges

• Cable-stayed bridges -long

• Cable-stayed and girder (2014)



SCOPUS

• Search by document, author or affiliation, or use Advanced Search

• Refine results by source type, year, language, author, affiliation and more

• Link to full text

• Updated daily, Scopus includes:

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• – 20,000 peer-reviewed journals

• (including 2,600 open access journals)

• – 390 trade publications

• – 370 book series

• 5.5 million conference papers

• “Articles-in-Press” from more than 3,850 journals and major publishers


….. And more

• Clarify your identity through integration with ORCID

• Analyze results,

h-index, analyse

journals

Conferences

• ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers.


Web of Science

• Web of Knowledge is an academic citation indexing and search service, which is combined with web linking and is provided by Thomson Reuters. Web of Knowledge covers the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. Wikipedia


http://sciencewatch.com/

• http://sciencewatch.com/weekly-byte/hot-paper-materials-science-20140209

• http://sciencewatch.com/weekly-byte/science-italy-2008-2012


Researcher ID

• Manage Profile

• Manage Publications

• Sync with ORCID



Google Scholar

• My metrics

• My library

• My citations

• My alerts


My profile

• Visibility

• Visibility

• Visibility


British Library – e-theses


Search across 300,000+ theses for free and order full text quickly and easily

Dart – Europe e-theses portal

• http://www.dart-europe.eu/browse-list.php?index=institution


NDLTD

http://www.ndltd.org/resources/find-etds



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Information Literacy support and research strategy skills Mary Joan Crowley DISG Library, Engineering Faculty, Sapienza, University of Rome * all images