Current Awareness for Chemists
The challenge of a vast and growing ocean of literature is
to find your wave and stay on.
To do this, you need good tools. The choice will depend on your own interests and preferences.
The following are some of the useful resources that you
can choose from:
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Publishers’ Sites
·
Abstract Databases, such as Web of Science
·
Current
Contents (staff-mediated)
·
Infotrieve
Journal Publishers’ Sites
Major journal publishers now offer alerting
services. These typically send email or
an RSS feed to alert you to new articles in your field, based on a profile that
you have set up.
Advantages:
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Timely: sent out
close to publication, or even sooner (articles in press)
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Abstracts are generally available
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If UNH has an online subscription, and you are on campus
or connecting via VPN, a click connects you to the articles
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Easy to turn on and off, but must do so at every
publisher’s site.
·
Some sites allow a precise search strategy for alerts,
rather than full tables-of-contents (ex. Elsevier’s ScienceDirect)
Disadvantages:
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You must register and create a profile for each
publisher that publishes journals or topics you want to follow
·
Alerts are mainly available just for journal literature,
at present (in chemistry)
·
Some publishers (like ACS) do not have search strategies
linked to alerts, so you are notified of all articles in a journal
·
Alerts on citations to an article are limited to those
on the publisher’s site
Examples:
American Chemical Society*
Email Alerts and RSS Feeds
(by journal title and Articles ASAP)
http://pubs.acs.org/alerts/index.html
Elsevier (ScienceDirect)*
Alerts (Email and RSS)
(by journal title or saved search)
Royal Society of Chemistry*
E-Alerts; RSS Feeds
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/Index.asp
Springer
SpringerAlerts and RSS
Email and RSS for books, journals and volumes in series
After
registering:
http://www.springer.com/alert/
http://www.springer.com/rss/ (books)
Note:
For journal RSS, go to online journal page, right-click on RSS symbol, and copy
the link into your feed reader
Wiley*
Email & RSS (by journal title or saved search)
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com
*For these publishers, UNH has
current access online to all or some journals
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Illustration: ACS ASAP article alert, sent to my email
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ASAP Alert |
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Liquid−Vapor Equilibrium of
the Systems Butylmethylimidazolium Nitrate−CO2 and Hydroxypropylmethylimidazolium
Nitrate−CO2 at High Pressure: Influence of Water on the Phase Behavior |
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Physical and Electrochemical
Properties of N-Alkyl-N-methylpyrrolidinium Bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide Ionic
Liquids: PY13FSI and PY14FSI |
Abstract Databases
Web of Science and others
These online databases cover journals and in some cases,
other types of literature, from many publishers and countries. If the Library subscribes to the database, as
a UNH community member, you can register and set up a personal profile for
alerts.
Advantages:
·
Additional indexing that’s added can make alerts more
precise, so you may be more likely to get citations that fit your needs
·
A wide variety of publishers provides better coverage of
the literature
·
If non-journal literature is covered, that can provide
more breadth (not always desirable)
·
Citations can be easily downloaded, whether or not
articles are available at UNH
·
Easy to turn on and off, can add alerts for multiple
journals from different publishers
·
Alerts on citations can encompass a broad range of
publications
·
Can use “Find It @ UNH” within database to access
article easily, if we subscribe
Disadvantages:
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Time for indexing makes these resources slower, although
important journals are fast-tracked
·
Articles-in-press (pre-publication) are not covered.
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Some platforms are complicated
·
If UNH does not subscribe, information may have to be
entered into an
Examples:
CA Selects Web
UNH does not subscribe.
CA Selects in print is available to individual subscribers.
For more info, http://www.cas.org/products/print/selects/selects.html
INSPEC*
Physics, plus electrical engineering & computing.
Save searches, create alerts based on search strategies,
RSS feeds
http://www.library.unh.edu/scripts/redirect.pl?dbase=185
Web of Science*
Interdisciplinary.
Offers alerts based on search strategies and on citations (within Web of
Science database)
http://www.library.unh.edu/scripts/redirect.pl?dbase=126
SciFinder Scholar* does not
have alerts in the client version we are using.
The new web version has a limited “Keep Me Posted” feature. SciFinder Scholar does offer Table of
Contents browsing, so you can set a list of favorite journals to browse and
conveniently access any that have UNH subscriptions.
*Available at UNH
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Current Contents
Current Contents offers very
precise searching
within an interdisciplinary database.
UNH has only single-user access to Current Contents
Library staff (Bob or Emily) work with you to set up
search strategies. The strategies run automatically and Bob will forward the
results each week or two.
Current Contents utilizes same
database as Web of Science, but it allows you to specify broad categories,
which helps to limit the context in which search terms are used. There is no limit on the number of alternative
terms, synonyms, or terms of different types (topic, author, author
affiliation, discipline) you can combine
Results are emailed to you and can be sent as received
in HTML or text, or in a formatted bibliography, or in an EndNote library.
UNH has two sections of Current Contents:
·
Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences (1280 journals)
·
Engineering, Computing, and Technology (1250 journals)
For lists of the journals covered:
http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/
Advantages:
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Complex search strategies, including category
specifications, limit retrieval to relevant articles
·
Covers journals of many different publishers
·
Articles-in-press are included for some online journals
(“e-first coverage”)
·
Library staff maintain and renew your alerts
·
You can receive alerts in different formats
·
Author addresses are included
Disadvantages:
·
Alerts from Current Contents are somewhat slower than
publishers’ web sites
·
Only journals are covered, no proceedings
·
Links do not work directly, due to single-user access
Sample Current Contents alert (with tags):
*Record 10 of 22. Search terms matched: IRON(5); MOSSBAUER(2)
*Order Full Text: [ ]
PT J
TI Stable and metastable iron silicide phases on Si(100)
AU Dezsi, I
Fetzer, C
Szucs, I
Dekoster, J
Vantomme, A
Caymax, M
SO SURFACE SCIENCE
LA English
DT Article
AB The formation of iron silicide and the reaction in interface between Fe and Si(l 00) were investigated by conversion electron Mossbauer spectroscopy. Depending on the thickness of the iron film (3-20 ML), different phases were observed. The reaction rate between Fe and Si was also thickness dependent. Depending on the Fe thickness and on the annealing temperature, stable (epsilon-FeSi, beta-FeSi2) and metastable (disordered, c-FeSi) phases were formed. At 3 ML iron thickness an amorphous phase with hyperfine interaction parameters characteristic to that of amorphous iron silicide phase with 50 at.% Si content appeared. The parameter values of this phase changed significantly around 673 K indicating the transformation of the structure close to that of epsilon-FeSi. At 8 and 20 ML Fe thicknesses magnetic split spectra with distribution were detected. After annealing, metastable c-FeSi, stable epsilon-FeSi and at higher temperature stable epsilon-FeSi2 phases were formed. (c!
) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
SN 0039-6028
PY 2005
PD DEC 30
VL 599
IS 1-3
BP 122
EP 127
PG 6
GA 995VN
ER
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Infotrieve
http://www.library.unh.edu/services/infotrieve/
Last but not least, the UNH Library currently provides Infotrieve,
a document delivery service in addition to InterLibrary Loan for graduate
students and faculty.
Infotrieve offers a Table of Contents service, through
which journal articles can be ordered directly and sent to you.
Advantages:
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Huge: if UNH does
not subscribe to the journal, this is very convenient as the citation does not
have to be re-typed, a major advantage
Disadvantages
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Some publishers are slow to send articles to Infotrieve,
so Infotrieve alerts may be delayed in contrast to publisher alerts
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All alerts are Tables-of-Contents; there are no search
strategy or citation alerts
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Thanks for your time!
We hope this helps you.
If you have further questions
afterwards,
please contact us:
Bob Constantine,
Chemistry Library Associate
UNH Chemistry Library
862-1083
Emily Poworoznek,
Engineering & Physical Sciences
Librarian
Associate Professor
UNH Library (Office at
Engineering/Math/CS Library)
862-4168
This page is available on the
Chemistry Links page, accessible from the Chemistry Library web site:
http://www.library.unh.edu/branches/chemgide.html