ProQuest Aquatic Science
Collection
April 2014
Agenda
 ProQuest’s Aquatic Science Collection
 Traditional Indexing Strengths – ASFA and our other traditional
A&I databases
 Deep Indexing and IllustrataTM
 Full Text Content
 ProQuest Platform Benefits
ProQuest Aquatic Science Collection
Facilitating new research paths within the discipline
Cost effective, subject specific
full text
Search precision: innovative deep
indexing of tables and figures to uncover
hidden data
Trusted, comprehensive
discipline-oriented
databases
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ProQuest Aquatic Science Collection
ASFA (Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts)
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ASFA 1: Biological Sciences & Living Resources
ASFA 2: Ocean Technology, Policy & Non-Living Resources
ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution & Environmental Quality
ASFA Aquaculture Abstracts
ASFA Marine Biotechnology Abstracts
Aqualine
Oceanic Abstracts
Water Resources Abstracts
ProQuest Deep Indexing – Aquatic Science
ProQuest Aquatic Science Journals
Aquatic Science Collection
Aquatic Science Collection
•ASFA & Oceanic Abstracts (3.2 M records)
•Deep Indexing: Aquatic Science Collection (2.3 million tables & figures from 850+ journals)
•PQ Aquatic Science Journals (400+ full text titles)
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Beyond A&I
FULL TEXT WITHIN AQUATIC
SCIENCE COLLECTION: 460+
TITLES
Aquatic Science Collection: Full Text
Sources
467 Titles at March 2014
Number of documents in Aquatic Science Collection by Source
Type (at March 2014)
Scholarly Journals (956285)
Trade Journals (270956)
Magazines (164162)
Cost Effective Full Text Content
1. Enhancing your full text
resources we’re bringing the
widest possible collections of full
text possible while retaining
affordable prices
2. From leading scholarly peer
reviewed journals to trade and
industry publications
3. Provides additional full text
coverage to fill gaps left after
primary publisher resources
reach their limits
4. Access beyond scholarly journals
to discipline specific trade and
industry titles
Cost Effective Full Text Content
FT Pdf Document
ProQuest CSA Traditional Strength: Discipline Orientated Databases
INDEXING & ABSTRACTING
Value of A&I
 Very comprehensive literature reviews across the entire
discipline – A&I has greater breadth, depth and scope
 International in scope and multilingual (with abstracts in
English)
 Content in A&I databases is not under embargo
 Indexing standards applied to specialist content sets
(such as controlled vocabulary) assist in retrieval of
relevant resources
 Suitability for researchers’ workflow ….
The Value in Abstracts: Limited Time to Scan a
Discipline
 Exponential growth of articles to read per year
 “Faculty report nearly twice as many readings as they
did thirty years ago”
A1 Tenopir,Carol
A1 King,Donald W.
T1 Electronic Journals and Changes in Scholarly Article Seeking and Reading Patterns JF D-Lib Magazine
 Often the scientist’s goal “is not to find an article to read,
but rather to find, assess, and exploit a range of
information by scanning portions of many articles”.
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T1 Strategic Reading, Ontologies, and the Future of Scientific Publishing -- Renear and Palmer 325 (5942): 828 -- Science
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IS 12/8/2009NO id: 1 ED http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/325/5942/828
Traditional Abstract & Indexing Components
ASFA & OCEANIC
ABSTRACTS
ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
Database
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Overwhelmingly cited by a majority of aquatic science librarians as their primary database, the
ASFA series is the premier reference in the field of aquatic resources. Input to ASFA is provided
by a growing international network of information centers monitoring over 7,000 serial
publications, books, reports, conference proceedings, translations and limited distribution
literature. ASFA is a component of the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Information System
(ASFIS), formed by four United Nations agency sponsors of ASFA and a network of international
and national partners.
Sources covered include over 3,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade
journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases.
Subject Coverage
•aquaculture
•aquatic organisms
•aquatic pollution
•brackish water
environments
•conservation
•environmental quality
•fisheries
•freshwater environments
•limnology
•marine biotechnology
•marine environments
•meteorology
•oceanography
•policy and legislation
•wildlife management
Dates of Coverage
1971 - current.
Update Frequency
Monthly, with approximately 3,700 new records added.
Size
Over 1,730,106 records as of April 2014
ASFA: A&I Subsets Detail
ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries
ProQuest
Abstracts
Technology
Research Database
ASFA 1: Biological Sciences and Living Resources
ASFA 2: Ocean Technology, Policy and Non-Living Resources
ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution and Environmental Quality
ProQuest High
ProQuest Aquatic
CSA Engineering
TechnologyAbstracts
ASFA Aquaculture
Research Database
Research Database
Research Database
with METADEX
with
Aerospace Abstracts
ASFA Marine
Biotechnology
Dates of Coverage
1981 - current
Update Frequency
Monthly, with approximately
1,209 new records added
Size
Over 438,589 records as of
February 2011
Print Equivalent
Oceanic Abstracts
Oceanic Abstracts
Starting its 33rd year, Oceanic Abstracts is focused exclusively on worldwide
technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment. The
Dates of Coverage
database has long been recognized as a leading source of information on topics1960 - current
Update Frequency
relating to oceans. The database focuses on marine biology and physical
Monthly, with approximately 700
oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, non-living resources, meteorology and new records added
geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics. This databaseSize
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Over 410,000 records as of
totally comprehensive in its coverage of living and non-living resources,
February 2014
meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics.
Source:
App. 300 journals
Subject Coverage
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* Biological Oceanography
* Ecology
* Physical and chemical oceanography
* Marine geology
* Geophysics
* Geochemistry
* Marine pollution
* Nonliving marine resources
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* Navigation and communications
* Maritime law
* Desalination
* Ships
* Shipping
* Marine biology
(Note Oceanic Abstracts is not included in ASFA but is part of ProQuest Aquatic Science Collection)
Dates of Coverage
1967 - current
Update Frequency
Monthly, with approximately
1,000 new records added
Size
Over 660,000 records as of
February 2014
Recent Abstract & Indexing Innovation
ILLUSTRATA &
DEEP INDEXING
Recent Innovations: Deep Indexing
2007 CODiE Award Winner: Best Online
Science & Technology Service
Why Index Tables & Figures?
1. Images are included in Scientific and Technical articles only
because they illustrate something fundamental about the research
field work, experiment findings or conclusions
2. Distilled essence of the research – the closest thing to the raw
datasets
3. Articles with the right kinds of objects quickly establish the
relevance of the related data and findings
4. These objects are most often invisible using traditional articlelevel and full-text searching
Deep Indexing: Indexing
Process
1. Identification of tables and figures
(images, charts, maps, etc.) found
within a scholarly article
2. Extraction of critical data and
information within and surrounding
each table or figure (including full
caption) to provide the indexing
3. Assignment of a category
Search Results
Options to narrow
results by:
•Date
•Scholarly Journals
•Full text
•Source Type
•And more ...
•Indexed Images
5995 hits
… From a regular keyword search
Deep
Indexing
Results
173 hits … more
targeted hits
when we filter by
indexed figures &
tables results
Deep Indexing
Result – showing
indexing
Options to email, cite,
save in My Research,
Save to PPT or Tag
Object descriptors,
Authors, and
Publication are
hyperlinked for
lateral searching
Special WorkFlow Features on The New ProQuest Platform
PROQUEST NEW PLATFORM
ProQuest Platform
CROSS SEARCH ON
PROQUEST PLATFORM
Science & Technology: Cross Search With
PQDT Scientific Dissertations
Combined
Aquatic
Science
Collection +
Dissertations
Results
Cross Search SciTech
Collections databases
with the PQDT and other
ProQuest platform
databases on the All New
ProQuest Platform
Dissertations
Results
Dissertations
Pdf Result
ProQuest New Platform Features
SEARCH TOOLS
Keyword Autocomplete
Smart Search
Results list -
Preview document
Narrow by classification or location
Results List Icons Show Source Type
Use this menu to move to
Advanced Search Form
Advanced Search Menu Options
Command line search for the pros
Search for a particular citation
Thesaurus
Figures & Tables Search Menu
Browse author names
Browse the publications list
ProQuest New Platform Features
ORGANISE YOUR RESEARCH
My Research – Store, Organise and
Share Search Results
My Research – Create Folders to Store
Research
My Research – Store Deep Indexed
Illustrata Figures & Tables
My Research Lists (Create and Share Lists)
My Research Annotate Saved Results
Create RSS Feeds
My Research Cite & Manage Citation Formats
My Research Facebook etc
My Research – Export Citations to
RefWorks or other Citation Manager
Aquatic Science Collection Strengths
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Full Text Content
Deep Indexing
Specialised topic focus
Additional content other than journal and conference
 Conference papers, books, standards, reports
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Intl. coverage
Editorial control and QA
Controlled vocabulary – (ASFA thesaurus, Life Sciences thesaurus, Latin Names)
Cited References (when available)
Currency
Value
Cross Searching with other PQ Content (especially Dissertations)
You want to write a paper on the
protection of the endangered species
Type protection AND “endangered species” into
the Basic Search box.
Thousands of results retrieved, refine your results
using the Narrow results by feature.
From the “Narrow results by” and the Source Type
limit, select to view Scholarly Journals.
Then “Subject” limit and select to include
Endangered species and conservation
Then “Classification” limit and select to include
Marine Pollution.
Go to the Date limit and Drag the handle over to
search on items published from 2000 – 2012.
Go to the top of the results page and resort your
items by Date (most recent first) and click Sort.
Click the PDF full text link of second result and
download the PDF
or click the OPAC link of NTOU from the first
result
Or you can email / print / or export/Save etc.