ProQuest Aquatic Science Collection

National Tawian Ocean UniversityMar 2012

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ProQuest Aquatic Science Collection

Search precision: innovative deep indexing of tables and figures to uncover

hidden data

Trusted, comprehensive discipline-oriented

databases

Facilitating new research paths within the discipline

Format: • Full Text,Illustrata™ Deep Indexing and

Abstract and Index

Media: • Electronic/Online

Coverage: • 1970-current

Total Sources Covered: •

Over 3.2 million A&I records •

Over 2.3 million indexed tables • and figures

Over 350 full text journals •

ProQuest Aquatic Science Collection

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Aquatic Science Collection

Aquatic Science Collection•ASFA & Oceanic Abstracts (3.2 M records)

•Deep Indexing: Aquatic Science Collection (2.3 million tables & figures from 850+ journals)•PQ Aquatic Science Journals (350+ full text titles)

FULL TEXT WITHIN AQUATIC SCIENCE COLLECTION: 350+ TITLES

Beyond A&I

Aquatic Science Collection: Full Text Sources

371 Titles at March 2012

Number of documents in Aquatic Science Collection by Source Type (at March 2012)

• Scholarly Journals (383436)

• Trade Journals (183946)

• Magazines (73803)

Cost Effective Full Text Content1. Enhancing your full text

resources we’re bringing the widest possible collections of full text possible while retaining affordable prices

2. From leading scholarly peer reviewed journals to trade and industry publications

3. Provides additional full text coverage to fill gaps left after primary publisher resources reach their limits

4. Access beyond scholarly journals to discipline specific trade and industry titles

Cost Effective Full Text Content

INDEXING & ABSTRACTINGProQuest CSA Traditional Strength: Discipline Orientated Databases

Very comprehensive literature reviews across the entire discipline – A&I has greater breadth, depth and scope

International in scope and multilingual (with abstracts in English)

Content in A&I databases is not under embargo

Indexing standards applied to specialist content sets (such as controlled vocabulary) assist in retrieval of relevant resources

Discover articles available within the library’s paper and digital resources

Suitability for researchers’ workflow ….

Value of A&I

The Value in Abstracts: Limited Time to Scan a Discipline

Exponential growth of articles to read per year

“Faculty report nearly twice as many readings as they did thirty years ago” A1 Tenopir,CarolA1 King,Donald W.T1 Electronic Journals and Changes in Scholarly Article Seeking and Reading Patterns JF D-Lib Magazine

Often the scientist’s goal “is not to find an article to read, but rather to find, assess, and exploit a range of information by scanning portions of many articles”.

T1 Strategic Reading, Ontologies, and the Future of Scientific Publishing -- Renear and Palmer 325 (5942): 828 -- Science VO 2009IS 12/8/2009NO id: 1 ED http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/325/5942/828

ASFA & OCEANIC ABSTRACTS

Traditional Abstract & Indexing Components

ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts Database

Overwhelmingly cited by a majority of aquatic science librarians as their primary database, the ASFA series is the premier reference in the field of aquatic resources. Input to ASFA is provided by a growing international network of information centers monitoring over 5,000 serial publications, books, reports, conference proceedings, translations and limited distribution literature. ASFA is a component of the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Information System (ASFIS), formed by four United Nations agency sponsors of ASFA and a network of international and national partners.

Sources covered include over 3,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases.

Subject Coverage

Dates of Coverage1971 - current.Update FrequencyMonthly, with approximately 3,700 new records added.SizeOver 1,501,033 records as of January 201

ASFA: A&I Subsets Detail

Dates of Coverage1981 - currentUpdate FrequencyMonthly, with approximately 1,209 new records added SizeOver 438,589 records as of February 2011Print EquivalentOceanic Abstracts

Oceanic Abstracts

Starting its 33rd year, Oceanic Abstracts is focused exclusively on worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment. The database has long been recognized as a leading source of information on topics relating to oceans. The database focuses on marine biology and physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics. This database is totally comprehensive in its coverage of living and non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics.

Subject Coverage

(Note Oceanic Abstracts is not included in ASFA but is part of ProQuest Aquatic Science Collection)

ILLUSTRATA & DEEP INDEXING

Recent Abstract & Indexing Innovation

Why Index Tables & Figures?

1. Images are included in Scientific and Technical articles only because they illustrate something fundamental about the research field work, experiment findings or conclusions

2. Distilled essence of the research – the closest thing to the raw datasets

3. Articles with the right kinds of objects quickly establish the relevance of the related data and findings

4. These objects are most often invisible using traditional article-level and full-text searching

Deep Indexing: Indexing Process

1.Identification of tables and figures (images, charts, maps, etc.) found within a scholarly article

2.Extraction of critical data and information within and surrounding each table or figure (including full caption) to provide the indexing

3.Assignment of a category

Search Results

5995 hits… From a regular keyword search

Options to narrow results by:

•Date•Scholarly Journals•Full text•Source Type•And more ...•Indexed Images

Deep Indexing Results

173 hits … more targeted hits

when we filter by indexed figures &

tables results

Deep Indexing Result – showing indexing

Options to email, cite, save in My Research, Save to PPT or Tag

Object descriptors, Authors, and

Publication are hyperlinked for

lateral searching

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Combined Aquatic Science

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Dissertations Results

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Search for a particular citation

Thesaurus

Figures & Tables Search Menu

Browse author names

Browse the publications list

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