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Dear MR chapuis,
Learn how to maximise your online research by making the most of the links
and navigation tools available.
The
web offers an unprecedented level of access to worldwide scientific
literature.
By utilising the power of hyperlinked articles online, you can identify
and locate articles, institutes and individual researchers relevant
to your research subject. However, scientific articles on the web
are not indexed in a standard way.
They exist in a variety of file formats and are spread across archives,
journals, institution web sites and researcher homepages.
In order to utilise the efficiency of hyperlinks, you need to find
the right tools.
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Tip
of the week: Find influential researchers in your subject
area
ISIHighlyCited.com is a freely accessible Web site which enables
you to identify individuals,
departments and laboratories that have made fundamental contributions to the advancement of science and technology. ISI has identified highly cited researchers
from 21 broad subject categories in life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, engineering and social sciences.
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Tip:
Google backward linking
Google has a useful feature enabling you to track web
sites that link to a page of interest. This enables you to identify and locate other relevant web pages, and instantly click through to evaluate if the information is
also relevant to your research.
For
example: If you search for 'Hale-Bopp' on Scirus, the search
engine for science, the first result you see is http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/images/hale-bopp/.
To see which other web sites link to this page, you should
do the following search:
Another useful resource is LinkPopularity.com. This allows you to run a similar linking search,
but to query the results of Google, AltaVista and Hotbot at the same time.
For more information, see http://linkpopularity.com/
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Advanced
Tip: ScienceDirect ‘Cited by’ feature
When you find an article of importance to your research, it
is useful to be able to track how this article has affected
other work in your subject area. With ScienceDirect it is simple
to evaluate how a particular idea has evolved into an accepted
concept used by other researchers.
The ScienceDirect 'Cited by' option enables you to see the impact
of a particular article in your subject area. Simply select
the 'Cited by' link when viewing any article, and all available
articles that cite it will be listed.
To
try this tool, follow the link below and select the 'Cited by'
option to see other articles which cite this one.
Note: to use the 'Cited by' option you must have access to ScienceDirect
via your institute.
Click
here to check the 'Cited by' option.
Saving
you hours chasing up this bibliographic data, you can use ScienceDirect
citation alerts to get regular updates of new work which cites
an article you are interested in. Setting up an alert is easy,
and you can do it directly from any article you are viewing
on ScienceDirect.
For more information on how to set up a citation alert, please
click here.
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Next
week: Each search engine only indexes a part of the Web. When looking for specific information, you need to know how to choose the right search engine… |
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Reminder:
Already activated a ScienceDirect search alert?
To see the full list of ScienceDirect subject specific alerts please
click here.
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About
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect provides online access to more than 1,800 journals,
representing over 4 million full-text articles. Every article is
available in seamlessly linked, fully searchable html format, as
well as paginated PDF. ScienceDirect also offers a range of email
alerts, enabling you to set up personalized updates that automatically
notify you of the latest article citations, search results and journal
issues.
Find out more at ScienceDirect. |
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About
the Web Research Guide
The guide consists of ten weekly emails focused on specific areas
of web research. Each email is illustrated with subject-specific
examples so that you can start using the research tips immediately.
The tips cover a broad range of topics, from finding hidden information
online, to locating expert directories and setting up subject-specific
alerts of the latest news. The Web Research guide includes contributions
from research scientists, information professionals and search engine
specialists.
For more information about this guide, click
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