SciSearch Plus at LANL

SciSearch Scope and Coverage

SciSearch Plus at LANL: http://search.lanl.gov/

Cover-to-cover indexing of over 5,900 journals

SciSearch indexes all journals covered by the printed Science Citation Index, plus the journals covered by Current Contents.

For most journals, indexing is cover-to-cover, including:

• Journal articles
• Editorials
• Letters to the editor
• Meeting abstracts

SciSearch subject strengths and weaknesses

SciSearch covers all areas of science.

Only the most important journals in each field are indexed.

• SciSearch indexes 5,900 journals in all sciences.
• Compare with:
  • MEDLINE (4,600 journals in clinical medicine and basic biomedical sciences)
  • BIOSIS Previews (5,000 journals in the biological sciences, plus books that are not indexed in SciSearch)
  • CAS Online/Chemical Abstracts (monitors over 9,000 journals in chemistry and related areas)
  • INSPEC (4,200 journals plus other materials in physics, engineering, and related areas)

SciSearch is particularly strong in chemistry, physics, biology, and medicine.

• Coverage is less strong in mathematics, computer science, engineering, and earth sciences.

SciSearch indexes journal literature only.

• Any discipline in which significant research is reported in technical reports or government documents-geology and engineering for example-is less well covered in SciSearch.

Dates of coverage

SciSearch covers 1945 to the present.

The database is updated weekly

SciSearch is more up-to-date than most other indexes.

• Records usually appear in SciSearch two to three weeks after publication.
• For most other databases, it takes three to eight weeks for records to appear in the database.

Records added from 1991 to the present have abstracts.

Cited references-the unique feature of SciSearch.

SciSearch records consist of authors, article titles, and journal source information plus abstracts in some cases.

In some databases, records include subject terms added by indexers to describe the content of the article. SciSearch is more up-to-date than other indexes in part because less human indexing is done.

Cited references are included. This is the unique feature of SciSearch.

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Michael Newman
Falconer Biology Library
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-5021
mnewman@stanford.edu

Last modified: April, 2003