Information Search 2:

E-Journals

Farzaneh Aminpour, PhD.

Health Information Management

Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Workshop Objectives

Information Resources E-Journals Journal Impact Factor How to retrieve ISI indexed journals How to retrieve Medline indexed journals ScienceDirect Collection ScienceDirect Alert DOI

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Basic Knowledge e.g. Books & Atlasse

Updated Knowledge e.g. Periodicals & Journals

Information Resources

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Medical Information

Half-life: 6 months Doubling-time: 20 month So you should keep updating!

What are E-Journals?

Any journal, magazine, newsletter or type of electronic serial publication which is available over the Internet.

Publication of E-journals has become the main area of thrust for most of the publishers in the area of Science and Technology.

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Advantages of E-Journals

Time saving Simultaneous multi users Ease of access Faster communication No physical storage space

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Electronic Journals:Levels of Access

1. Table of Content (TOC)

2. TOC + Abstract

3. TOC + Abstract + Full text

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Types of Electronic Full Texts

PDF Full text(Portable Document Format)

HTML Full text (Hypertext Markup Language)

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Electronic Journals: Types of Access

• Purchased Journals• Free Journals• Open Access Journals

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Open Access Literature

• OA literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.

• Free (without cost) for readers and users• Not free for producers• Not free to produce

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OA Literature Features

• OA is compatible with copyright, peer review, revenue, profit, print, preservation, prestige, quality, career-advancement, indexing and other features and supportive services associated with conventional scholarly literature.

• The primary difference is that the bills are not paid by readers.

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Authentication Methods

Individual User Name & Password

Authentication Institutional

IP Based Authentication Authens Institutional-Individual

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Authens Service

Institutional Subscription but Username & Password based

Gaining access to the resources from anywhere via any internet service

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How to evaluate an scholarly journal

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Journal Impact Factor

IF has been the most important criteria for evaluating an scholarly journal.

IF is calculated only for journals indexed in ISI Web of Sciences.

The database contains the Journal Impact Factors is Journal Citation Report (JCR).

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Journal Impact Factor

The average citations to the articles published in a journal in the study year during 2 preceding years of that journal received citations in overall ISI indexed journals.

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Impact Factor Calculation

Citations in the current JCR year to articles published in the previous two years divided by the number of articles published in the previous two years.

Citations in 2007 to articles published in 2005 + 2006

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Total 2005 + 2006 Papers

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How to findJournal Impact Factor

Journal Impact Factors are calculated and released annually by one of the most important and usefull ISI databases called Journal Citation Report.

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2010 Impact Factors

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2011 Impact Factors

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How to retrieveISI indexed Journals

Indexed journals

http://tumspress.tums.ac.ir ISI Web of Science (ISI WoS) Journal Citation Report (JCR)

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How to retrieveMedline indexed Journals

Indexed journals

http://tumspress.tums.ac.ir

NLM Catalog: Journals referenced in the NCBI Databases

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals

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Free Medical Journals

• URL: http://www.freemedicaljournals.com• Over 3700 journals• Free Access

Immediately After 1-6 months After 7-12 months Later

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DOAJ

• Directory of Open Access Journals• URL: http://www.doaj.org• Free, full text, quality controlled scientific

and scholarly journals• Covering all subjects and many languages

from 56 countries.• About 1000 journals on Health Science• Open Access without delay

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Access to TUMS Resources

TUMS OnCampus access:

From any station on TUMS campus http://diglib.tums.ac.ir TUMS OffCampus access: Using your dialup username & password

http://diglib.tums.ac.ir

http://www.tums.ac.ir

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TUMS Electronic Journals

ScienceDirect Ovid Wiley InterScience Springer Oxford university Press Proquest Ebsco

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ScienceDirect

ScienceDirect is a part of Elsevier. A leading full-text scientific database

offering journal articles and book chapters. Bringing articles from issue 1 volume 1

eg. The Lancet from 1823.

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ScienceDirect Coverage More than 3000 Journals More than 11,000 books About 11,000,000 articles/chapters Growing rate of 0.5 million per year Link out to articles from over 170 other

publishers 24 subjects Articles In Press Backfile to Volume 1, Issue 1

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Browse - Title - Subject Search - Quick Search - Advanced Search - Expert Search

ScienceDirect Information Seeking

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ScienceDirect Search Techniques

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Truncation

• An aster allows you to search by a root word.• If you type in Behav* the search would

include words such as: behave, behavioral, behaviour, etc.

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Wildcard

? A question mark replaces a character anywhere in a word, except the first character.

To search for both woman and women simultaneously, you could enter Wom?n

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Plurals & Phrases

Plurals horse and horses woman and women case and cases

Searching Phrases double quotes “ ”

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Alternative spellings & Synonyms

English and American spellings behaviour and behavior flavour and flavor colour and color psychoanalyse and psychoanalyze

Synonyms Aspirin will also search acetylsalicylic acid

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Connectors

You can use ScienceDirect connectors or operator to search for more than one word in a single search:

AND OR AND NOT

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Boolean Operators

Shaded areas indicate retrieval Search Statement Types of records

retrieved

               stress AND anxiety Documents that haveboth stress AND anxiety

               stress OR anxiety Documents that haveeither stress OR anxiety

               stress AND NOT anxiety

Documents that havestress but NOT anxiety

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Connectors

If you don't include a connector, AND will be automatically inserted between your search terms.

If you use more than one connector, ScienceDirect interprets the search according to the order of precedence.

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ScienceDirect Types of Alerts Search Alert

Tells you when a stored search retrieves new results.

Topic Alert Tells you when new articles pertaining to a

specific topic are available on ScienceDirect.

Journal alert (New Issue Alert OR TOC Alert) Tells you when new issues of your chosen

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DOI

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) A digital unique code for each object www.doi.org Resolve this DOI:

doi:10.1016/j.beha.2010.05.005  

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