Tools for Literature Searches and Organization

UCD Statistics Works in Progress June 19, 2012 Stephanie A. Santorico, Ph.D. Presentation available at http://math.ucdenver.edu/~ssantori/LiteratureSearchesAndOrganizingResults.pdf

Where? Databases for literature searches Action item 1: search for your topic!

How? Obtaining electronic copies Action item 2: download electronic resources Action item 3: request a paper not available electronically

Now what? Organizing your papers Organizing your references Action item 4 for at home: import and organize papers Action item 5 for at home: format a literature cited section

The plan:

There are many resources at your disposal!

I am maintaining a list at: http://math.ucdenver.edu/~ssantori/literatureSearching.html

This includes html links formatted to work with your login for off campus access

Links will also work while on campus

I am always happy to take suggestions for added resources, i.e., this is an evolving site.

Where? Databases for literature searches

We’ll look at highlights for:

Web of Knowledge

Google Scholar

Current Index to Statistics and

American Mathematical Society’s MathSciNet

Databases for literature searches:

Extensive cross-disciplinary coverage Nice tools to branch out to literature cited by and literature citing a

paper or author of interest Direct link to online versions of papers If our library does not have a subscription to the journal, a link is

provided to request the article via interlibrary loan Connects to Endnote and allows for citation alerts to be created

They focus on providing “comprehensive coverage of the world's

most important and influential journals to meet its subscribers' current awareness and retrospective information retrieval needs.”

Does NOT include every thing! The master journal list can be searched and browsed: http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/

Web of Knowledge: http://0-webofknowledge.com.skyline.ucdenver.edu/

Quick searches and easy access to articles to journals for which our library carries subscriptions

Allows for export of citations in various formats including BibTeX and EndNote

Does not have as many “bells and whistles” as Web of Knowledge

No master journal list. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Scholar: “Google Scholar does not publish a list of scientific journals crawled, and the frequency of its updates is unknown. It is therefore impossible to know how current or exhaustive searches are in Google Scholar. ”

Google Scholar:

http://0-scholar.google.com.skyline.ucdenver.edu/

For more comprehensive coverage in statistics, you will also want to search the Current Index to Statistics:

http://0-www.statindex.org.skyline.ucdenver.edu/CIS/psqlQuery

“The Current Index to Statistics is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics, probability, and related fields. The on-line CIS Extended Database (CIS-ED) indexes the entire contents of over 160 "core journals", in most cases from 1975 (or

first issue if later) to the current end year, and pre-1975 coverage for some, selected articles with statistical content since 1975 from about 1200 additional

journals (cumulatively) in related fields, and about 11,000 books in statistics published since 1975.”1

A full list of journals is available at

http://www.statindex.org/CIS/ReleaseInfo/SerialsList.pdf

Does not link directly to e-resources. No bueno! But, can work around…

Specialty Site for Statistics, CIS:

1: From Current Index to Statistics Homepage, http://www.statindex.org/

Specialty Site for Mathematics, MathSciNet:

http://0-www.ams.org.skyline.ucdenver.edu/mathscinet/search.html

“MathSciNet® is an electronic publication offering access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. Over 100,000 new items are added each year, most of them classified according to the Mathematics Subject Classification.”1

The list of journals covered is available at http://0-www.ams.org.skyline.ucdenver.edu/msnhtml/serials.pdf

Links to e-resources are available as are links to library resources

through 360 LINK.

You can also export reference lists in BibTeX or EndNote format as well as a few others.

1: From MathSciNet “About” page, http://0-www.ams.org.skyline.ucdenver.edu/mathscinet/help/about.html

SEARCH FOR YOUR TOPIC!

Action item 1:

Notes on searches:

Notes on searches:

On campus, you will have access to numerous online resources automatically. Though not always obvious, this access is made possible by the

Auraria Library (even when not linking directly from the library website, http://library.auraria.edu/)

Off campus, remote access to online journals and databases is provided for currently enrolled students, faculty and staff of the Auraria institutions (CCD, MSCD, UCD & AHEC). You must register at the library for access. You will need a photo

id and something to show you are a current student, faculty or staff (registration, campus id etc.).

Library hours are available at http://library.auraria.edu/info/libraryhours.

Your login is your First and Last name and your password is your student ID number.

How? Obtaining electronic copies

Web of Knowledge and Google Scholar:

Provide direct links if a paper is available online.

If the paper is not available online or we do not have a subscription to the resource, you will be redirected to other options:

Perhaps the library has a hard copy of the journal?

If all else fails, you can request a copy through interlibrary loan. These will be made available to you as electronic copies through a service called ILLiad: https://cudenver.illiad.oclc.org/illiad/logon.html .

How…continued:

First time users will need to register for the service. Registration Ensures users agree to copyright regulations. You also will associate an email with the account so that they can notify you when your materials are available.

Directly linking through the library resources will populate the fields for your requested article. It is FANTASTIC!

Prospector: http://www.coalliance.org/prospector/

If you are looking for books or other non journal article resources, Prospector is another useful resource. Of course, this is assuming you’ve already checked out what is available at the Auraria library: http://library.auraria.edu/

Prospector is a unified catalog of academic, public and special libraries in Colorado and Wyoming. Through Prospector you have access to 30 million books, journals, DVDs, CDs, videos and other materials held in these libraries. With a single search you can identify and borrow materials from the collections and have them delivered to your local library.

DOWNLOAD ELECTRONIC RESOURCES and

REQUEST A PAPER NOT AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY

Action items 2 and 3:

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Notes on e-resource download and requests:

Notes on e-resource download and requests:

Two tools that I have found useful:

EndNote (for organizing citations)

Mendeley (for organizing papers)

A free account can be obtained at http://www.mendeley.com/

Now what? Organizing your papers and references

You can obtain a free EndNote account through our library at http://library.auraria.edu/node/10185 You will need to do this on campus or through your off

campus access.

Direct link for use once you have an account: http://www.myendnoteweb.com

Allows for grouping of references Provides links to e-resources through 360 LINK Has citation sharing option Can print out citation listing in numerous formats Has a plug-in that allows you to cite directly into Word

Nice connection between Web of Knowledge and

MyEndNote

EndNote

To get references from the Current Index to Statistics to EndNote: In CIS, chose the Refer format option for

displaying references Save page as a text file In EndNote under the collect tab, choose

import references Select your file, the ReferBibIX import option

and where you’d like the references to go Nice perk: NOW, you will have links to e-

resources!!!

Endnote cont, connecting with CIS:

To get references from the MathSciNet to EndNote: In MathSciNet, chose the Endnote format

option for displaying references Save page as a text file In EndNote under the collect tab, choose

import references Select your file, the Endnote import option and

where you’d like the references to go Note: you will have links to e-resources!!!

Endnote cont, connecting with

MathSciNet:

IMPORT AND ORGANIZE PAPER REFERENCES and

FORMAT A LITERATURE CITED SECTION

Action items 4 and 5:

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Notes on Endnote:

Notes on Endnote:

EndNote provides great organizational tools and links to online resources.

What if I want to organize my copies of electronic papers?

What about annotating and making comments on my papers?

This is where Mendeley comes in handy.

What else is needed?

Mendeley has an online interface as well as a software interface called the Mendeley Desktop:

Mendeley

You can drag and drop a PDF of a paper into the Mendeley Desktop, and it will attempt to associate pieces of the paper with a citation record! You are asked to verify or to use Google Scholar to help

verify to details of the citation.

You can add notes to a paper . Since your library is searchable., this makes it easier to flag important papers and then go back to find “What paper was it that…”

You can create group access to papers. This comes in handy if you’re working on a group paper!

There are also lots of citation groups available for browsing in the online community.

You can print out citation listings in a number of formats.

There is a web-importer and an MS Word Plugin.

Some Mendeley Utilities:

IMPORT AND ORGANIZE ELECTRONIC PAPERS and

FORMAT A LITERATURE CITED SECTION

I will demo, but I encourage you to test out the Mendeley Desktop on our own computer

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Notes on Mendeley:

Notes on Mendeley:

Best way to learn is to do! …And if you find new tools or even glitches, let me know so I can share them on the resource page.

CURRENT LINKS INCLUDE:

Introductory Presentation on Literature Searching and Organization Tools Available to UCD Students: http://math.ucdenver.edu/~ssantori/LiteratureSearchesAndOrganizingResults.pdf

Websites for literature searching:

Web of Knowledge: http://0-webofknowledge.com.skyline.ucdenver.edu/ Google Scholar: http://0-scholar.google.com.skyline.ucdenver.edu Current Index to Statistics: http://0-www.statindex.org.skyline.ucdenver.edu/CIS/psqlQuery American Mathematical Society MathSciNet: http://0-

www.ams.org.skyline.ucdenver.edu/mathscinet/search.html

Key Auraria websites:

Auraria Library: http://library.auraria.edu/ Auraria Library: catalog: http://skyline.ucdenver.edu Interlibrary Loan, ILLiad https://cudenver.illiad.oclc.org/illiad/logon.html Prospector http://www.coalliance.org/prospector/

Reference Management software:

Mendeley for Reference Management: http://www.mendeley.com/ EndNote through Auraria

Directions to set up account: http://library.auraria.edu/node/10185 Direct link: http://www.myendnoteweb.com

Up to date links are maintained at

http://math.ucdenver.edu/~ssantori/literatureSearching.html