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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Last update July 2008
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| food* |
age* |
migrat* |
salmo |
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| feeding | juvenile* |
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| nutri* | larva* |
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| matur* |
Are there other terms that could be used in this table?
How about aging, or immatur*
In the table * is the truncation symbol used in Biosis Previews.
Truncation
Using larva* will retrieve all citations that include any terms that begin with the letters l-a-r-v-a
such as
larva, larvae, larval etc
This truncation is a typing short cut for the search
larva or larvae or larvicide or larvicidal or larval
Each column in the grid is now a list of terms for a particular concept.
Biosis Previews is the main general database for finding citations in all life sciences areas
Access to Biosis previews is available through the catalogue.
Type biosis previews into the Search box.
Click on the Search button.
Click on the electronic version of the database.
Click on the link to e resources.
Access is also available from the Library Home using the Databases tab
If you are using Biosis Previews from outside the University of Adelaide network
you will be challenged to provide
a plus your student number and password
or
Library barcode (on your student card),
and PASSWORD (your last name in capitals).
For more information on authentication click here.
You can also get access to Biosis Previews through the
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Resource Guide
The database web site should appear.
Scroll down the screen to the timespan area.
Here you can change the dates to search if you want.
Use OR logic to combine the terms from the first column of your logic grid.
OR logic is used to combine synonyms and alternative terms to make sure any of these terms are included in the citations retrieved by the search.
Entering searches
You can use all three search boxes in Biosis Previews for this search.
The first column search is
food* or feeding or nutri*
Type this into the first of the Biosis Previews search boxes.
[Notice from the Biosis example, that if you want to search a phrase it needs to be enclosed in double quotes.
The first part of the example given by BP bird* migrat* alaska* would actually be searched as bird* AND migrat* AND alaska*]
Enter the terms from the second column of the logic grid.
age* or juvenile* or larva* or matur*
Change the search field from Author to Topic
In the final search box you can type
migrat* and salmo
Change the search box from Publication Name to Topic.
Click on Search
You could put your whole search into a single search box but you would need to enclose all the search terms joined by or in round brackets.
(food* or feeding or nutri*) and (age* or juvenile* or larva* or matur* ) and migrat* and salmo
Your search results appear.
Click on a title to get the full record.
Using this view of a single citation you get the complete record including abstract, author details, indexing terms, citing references, cited references etc.
From this screen you can
Check full text options in Uni of Adelaide Library
set up a citation alert
view Related Records (other citations in the database that have at least one cited reference in common with the cited references for this article)
Click on Back to results list to return to the full list of citations.
Results Screen
On this screen you can
Alter the number of citations displayed per screen
Change the parameters for sorting citations
Analyse the results
Select citations for output
Check for full text in Uni of Adelaide Library
use Print, email, Save, Add to Marked List
or at the bottom of the screen there is an icon to Export to EndNote.
Marked List
I recommend that you don't use EndNote Web at all. It doesn't have all the features of EndNote.
Instead after selecting the citations you want
Click
Add to Marked List.
You can continue to search and add citations to the Marked List.
Once you have finished searching, click on the Marked List link at the top of the screen.
Your selected citations will remain in the Marked List even if you change to another Web of Knowledge database.
Within the Marked list you can select which parts of citations you want to save.
Leave the parameters as Field Tagged and Export to EndNote
Find your EndNote Library and proceed to automatically import the citations without the need for designating a filter.
Click on Back to Results
Then click on Leave Marked List
Click on Search History
Click on Save History/Create Alert
Register an email address and password
Fill in the required fields for the alert/saved search
Remember to tick in the box to the right of Send Me E-mail Alerts if that's what you want
Choose Field Tagged as your email format if you are going to save alerts into EndNote.
You can get an EndNote filter for Web of Knowledge databases Alerts from the Library's EndNote site.
Click on Importing records-filters
Scroll down the screen to find Web of Knowledge Alert (ISI)
Click on the link.
Save in the End Note Filters folder on your computer.
Click on Select a Database
Scroll through the selection to find the database you want.
Click on the link.
Scroll down to below the search area to change the database limits if you want.
You can change the subject areas and time span.
To remove a subject area in Current Contents Connect, just click on the tick to remove the edition.
Your search will now be limited to those subject areas that are still ticked, and the time span you have chosen.
The time relates to when a citation enters the database, not the publication date of a citation.
Advanced Search
This is useful for combining searches in all the WoK databases.
Tick the boxes for searches you want to combine.
Select the search logic.
Click on the Combine button.
Click on the highlighted number of citations to view the result of the search.
CAB Abstracts
covers agriculture and ecology. It includes citations to books, and govt docs from around the world as well as journal articles and conference papers.
Zoological Record
works the same way as the other databases.
It includes citations to academic, and non-academic articles, books, and a wide range of other documents. It covers all sorts of animals and their environments including palaeontology.
Web of Science
Helps you to find articles that cite known articles.
(you can also try Google Scholar and Scopus to find citing articles)
Who has cited this article?
White CR, & Seymour RS 2003 Mammalian basal metabolic rate is proportional to body mass (2/3) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 100(7) 4046-4049
Within Web of Science click on Cited Reference Search
Type in the surname of the author, first initial, and an asterisk.
If there are multiple authors WoS recommends using the first author. I try to use the author with the most unusual name as long as its one of the first few authors, but doing this you risk missing some citing articles.
If the author's name is a bit common add the date of publication as well.
It's best to avoid using the Cited Work search box as you'll often miss citations if it's included.
When you think you've found the article you know about already rest your cursor over the View Record link (if there is one) to see the title of the cited article.
This helps confirm that you have the correct article.
Click on the link
to find the articles that cite this, Times Cited
and the references in this article, References
Citation Alerts
You can set up an alert to provide you with an email whenever a new entry to the database cites the particular article.
You need to be registered to do this.
You can manage your citation alerts from the My Cited Articles List
Web of Knowledge All Databases
This is supposed to search all of the Web of Knowledge databases simultaneously.
I've found it doesn't find as many citations as searching the databases separately.
Part of this is because each of the databases has special aspects that can be used in searching and these aren't available in a 'federated search'.
All Databases might be useful if you just want a few citations.
Other Library Databases
There is a list of other databases available from the Library Home.
Click on the Databases tab.
Scroll down and click on Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.
There is a short essay titled Which database should I use, that might help you to decide where to start.
You can always ask me for help.
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Resource Guides
Click on the Resource Guides tab.
Find the link to Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Here you can find links to subject related material.
Including the link to this site
Scopus
This is a very large database that includes a lot of citations of articles especially from 1996.
Access to Scopus is available from the Library Home, or from the Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Databases, or Resource Guides links.
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