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Grace Baysinger: Presentations

SLA 90th Annual Conference | Drug Abuse Research Team Program | Scientific Information Literacy | Identifying Unknowns | Searching Databases | Universal Web Page Design

Searching Databases to Support Collection Development Work: Tips and Techniques

Using SciSearch | Using Ulrich's International Periodical Directory | Using the Community of Science Web Server | Using the Colorado Alliance for Research Libraries

Using SciSearch to See What Sources Your Users are Publishing in and Citing

FIL SCISEARCH
S (STANFORD(S)CHEM?)/CS
SET SMARTSELECT ON
SEL L1 JT RWK 1-
FILE STNGUIDE
D L2 1-25 OCC
D L2 1-12407 ALPHA
D L2 JT 1-12407 OCC
D L2 JT 1-12407 ALPHA

1. Enter the SciSearch file via STN.
2. Search your institution in the corporate source field. Be sure to truncate and to use the (s) proximity operator
3. Use SmartSelect command to analyze field(s) in an answer set.
4. Enter STNGUIDE file to reduce connect costs.
5. Recommend displaying results both by frequency of occurrence and alphabetically. Add JT to display instructions if you only want to see source publications. Default format is a combined list of source publications and cited reference works.

Notes:

• STN charges $8/SmartSelect search whereas Dialog charges $0.02/record Ranked in an answer set.
• STN has a 50,000 record maximum that can be analyzed at one time. There is no limit to the number of records that can be analyzed at one time in Dialog.

SciSearch Full Search