TABLE OF CONTENTS

SciFinder Scholar 2004
Web of Science 
Other Science Databases
Obtaining Copies of Papers
Contact Information For Further Assistance
 

• Details about bringing up full text of articles, from out of SciFinder Scholar after bringing up search results, are available here.
• When you are new to a field, it helps to begin by finding "review" papers that give you an overview of a field. By virtue of being "reviews", these papers can lead you to other papers.
• To find review articles, go to "research topic" and do a search. (See help documentation for pointers about entering searches and/or contact the science librarian for help.) At the bottom of the resulting search set, click on "analyze/refine".Select "refine", then "document type". Select "review".
• You can find citing and cited articles. After you click on a "microscope" icon to bring up a full record, you'll see a button labelled "Get related..." at the bottom of the screen. Clicking on this brings you to place where you can find citing and cited articles. You can also bring up cited/citing references by going to the "Get Related" button at the bottom of a set of search results.

WEB OF SCIENCE

WHAT IT IS

A library database that lets you:

1. search for literature about a given subject, 1993-forward
2. start with a known paper (can be pre-1993) and find papers 1993 and later that cite it.

ACCESS

Web of Science (hereafter, WOS) is available off the library listing of databases. Select on-campus or off-campus depending on where you are. If you are off-campus, you will be prompted for your Lehigh login and ID.

This is a link to a web-based tutorial about Web of Science done by the science librarian at Lehigh. The tutorial was done for a class about spectral analysis but you may find its points useful for other topics in chemistry.

It requires that you have the Real Player downloaded, which is freely available from http://www.real.com.

FINDING REVIEW PAPERS

When you are new to a field, it helps to begin by finding "review" papers that give you an overview of a field. By virtue of being "reviews", these papers can lead you to other papers.

To find articles that provide a "review" perspective of aspects of MALDI, go to WOS. Click Full Search. Deselect the other dbases: just use the Science Citation Index. Click on general search. Enter your search term string: in this case, try putting in: maldi or matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization. After putting in the search string, select "review" at the place where it says to "set search limits".

The screen should look like this:

Notice that we've put in both "maldi" and the full phrase "matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization". Also, we did not put in "maldi-ms". Searching the acronym 'maldi' picks up everything that would be picked up by 'maldi-ms'.

Now click on "search". A list of titles comes up containing review articles. A portion of the list appears as follows:

Scroll through these to find one that of interest to you. Click on ones that interest you to see their full WOS record. An example of a record that comes up in this search is:

This is *not* the full text of an article; it provides information *about* an article, including an abstract. How do you get to the full text of the article?

Click on the link (partially clipped in above screen shot) that looks like this:

This will bring up the SFX interface, which will (in this case) let you access the full text of the article. If you are off-campus, you will need to set up the proxy server to access journal articles.

In this case, the full text is available electronically. If you find, using SFX, that it is not available electronically, then off the SFX screen you can access ASA, Lehigh's online catalog, to see if it is available in print at Lehigh. (For further information about obtaining articles, see below).

Note: if  you have gotten to this point and *not* found what you need, you may also the following search string, which uses some 'advanced' features: the truncator * and the operator "same": maldi or matrix assis* same mass spectrom* . Click on WOS's context-sensitive help documentation for details and examples. If you still have difficulties, please contact the science librarian any time for assistance. Contact information is provided below.

FINDING ADDITIONAL PAPERS

If you decide that you are interested in the general topic covered by the paper you just brought up (analysis of proteins and proteomes), how can you find additional papers about this topic? Suppose that you're also interested in limiting the results to a specific time, say for example 2002-2004.

There are a few techniques to find papers that satisfy these criteria.

(i.)

One method is to go back to the Annual Review of Biochemistry paper above, which is from 2001, and click on the links for "times cited". This will let you find items published later in time that cite the paper. This is a great way to locate a group of papers that deal with the same subject matter. (If you have no date restrictions, you can also click on "cited references" to find earlier papers).

(ii.)

You can also do a date restriction to the period 2002-2004, as follows:

Then, click on the "general search" button.  Redo your search, but this time add a concept that focuses the search, such as "protein". Also, don't restrict your search this time to "review.

So the search screen should look like this:

(iii) Yet another method to bring up papers about the particular topic you are interested in:  when you find an item you like, click on the following button, which appears in records like the one above:

OTHER SEARCH TECHNIQUES FOR THE UNDAUNTED

Finally, supposing you already know that an author is an important one for the field you are searching, you can type in the author's name in the author search area of the general search screen. OR, if you already know a good paper (including ones that you found using another database), you can use the cited reference search capabilities of WOS. Click on Full Search, then on Cited Reference Search.

SciFinder Scholar and Science Citation Index are only two of the databases that Lehigh's libraries make available. See here for an alphabetical and subject breakdown of databases. Some databases on this list worth considering for chemistry research:

• Applied Science and Technology Abstracts

• Chemical Abstracts Student Edition

• McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

• INSPEC   Includes coverage of Physical Chemistry topics. Examples are: chemical kinetics, reaction mechanisms, polymer reactions, photochemistry, electrochemistry, radiation chemistry, chemical thermodynamics, surface chemistry.  See INSPEC Classification 1999 ,  025.06 I59c 1999 in FM Reference area,  for details of coverage.

If you have used bibliographic databases to find references and abstracts for papers that look interesting, how do you actually locate the paper(s) that are of interest to you?

(1.) First, check ASA to see if Lehigh has the journal, either in paper or electronic format.

OR, check to see if there is a full text "SFX" link from the bibliographic database you search. See information above.

(2.) If not, you may want to see if one of the regional libraries has the journal.

(3.) An additional way to find papers: browse the tables of contents of recent issues or archived (bound) copies in the library, or look for relevant electronic journals browsable here by title or linked on ASA.

(4.) Contact the science librarian if you need additional assistance in locating a paper.
 

At any point in your research, email Brian Simboli if you have any questions. You may also call me at x5003 or drop by my office at Room 633 in Fairchild-Martindale Library.