Blackwell Synergy and
Ingenta full-text online journals
Publisher: Blackwell
• Name of service: Blackwell-Synergy
• Service type: online journals database
Available through two sources
1. Blackwell-Synergy: which is owned and run by
Blackwell and contains Blackwell’s science,
technology and medical titles.
2. Ingenta: a separate online service which contains all
of Blackwell’s humanities and social sciences titles.
(NB: Ingenta provides an online journals service for
over 180 other publishers. You will be able to view
the ToCs and abstracts for journals from these
publishers but you will only have access rights to
the full text of Blackwell Social Sciences and
Humanities journals).[www.ingenta.com]
Content available
• Access to just over 800 leading learned journals in
science, technology, medicine (on Synergy) and
social sciences and humanities (on Ingenta)
• Subject Strengths
– journals on Blackwell-Synergy—all life sciences,
medicine/health, ecology
– journals on Ingenta—accountancy and economics,
cultural studies (especially Asian studies, African
studies, Australian studies, international studies),
development issues, history, management studies,
social policy
Getting started
• Load Synergy
homepage
• Login using
• Username:
inasparmenia
• Password:
inasparmenia
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/
Homepage
Link for
Search
facility
The way journals are
listed can be changed
so you can view them
by subject or in an A-Z
format.
QuickLink feature enables
readers to find particular
issues or pages immediately.
Simply enter the Vol. Issue
and Page numbers you need
List of Issues Page
QuickSearch facility
allows you to search
in all journals, or just
this one.
Link to further
information,
such as
submitting a
paper, editorial
board details
and aims and
scopes.
Click to link to the Issue you want.
Expanding list of issues keeps
page size to a minimum.
Table of Contents Page
QuickSearch facility
available again, this
time to issue level.
Users can choose between
viewing the Abstract, Full
text PDF or Full text HTML.
Article level features
Easy to use
navigation bar
allows one click
access to other
parts of the issue.
QuickSearch will
now search in either
Synergy or PubMed
for the keywords or
author’s names
selected.
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time, images are
shown as a
thumbnail preview.
To enlarge the image,
simply click on it, and
it will pop up in a
separate browser
window.
Searching
Simple and Advanced
search facility using
Boolean parameters. Users
can search all journals, or
a subset.
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How Synergy can be
incorporated into handouts.
Authorised users may:
Incorporate parts of the Licensed Material in printed
or electronicand
Course or
Study packs forinto
the use of
 URLs can be copied
pasted
Authorised Users in the course of instruction. Each
emails to students. such item shall carry appropriate
acknowledgement of the source, listing title and
author of extract,
title andincluded
author of work, and
 Articles may be printed
and
publisher. Copies of such items shall be deleted by
in handouts. the licensee when they are no longer required for such
purpose.
 The license states:
Personalisation of Synergy
• Register as a “My Synergy” user – this
provides access to additional
functionality:
– e-mail table of contents alerts
– save searches and results for use later
– Automatic re-run of searches and email
results
– create 'hot-links' to your favourite journals
and articles
Further reading
• Searching help
– http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/help_pages/searching.htm
• Advanced search
– http://www.blackwellsynergy.com/servlet/useragent?func=showSearch&type=advanced
• General help
– http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/help_pages/help_contents.htm
[URL’s checked o.k. Jan. 2006]