Technical and scientific literature
Ludo Holans
STIMULATE 2004
I. Introduction
• A. Historical overview : from TTY tot
Internet
- apparatus
- platforms
- information suppliers
I. Introduction (2)
• B. Literature
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- subject-indexing
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- classifications
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- key-words
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- formal indexing (ISBD, AACR2..)
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- full-text
I. Introduction (3)
• B. Literature
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- primary
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- secondary
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- tertiary
II. Assessment of an I.R.-system
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- searching possibilities
- costs
- reliability of data
- exhaustivity
- browsing
- fault-tolerance
- level
III. Search instruments
• 1. Classical (not gratis)
• access via intranet – servers
• access via internet – hosts
• All kinds of literature (primary, secondary
en tertiary)
III. Search instruments
• 2. Internet (gratis)
• A. Classification
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1. Directories
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http://www.webbrain.com
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http://dmoz.org
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http://www.britannica.com
III. Search instruments (2)
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2. Search engines (single)
http://www.beaucoup.com
3. Meta-search engines
a. Metasites
http://www.gogettem.com
http://www.webbrain.com
b. “Human Resource”-website
Question Point
http://www.about.com
III. Search instruments (3)
• A. Pitfalls
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- stoplist with keywords
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- too many keywords and synonyms
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- alternative spelling
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- spelling mistakes
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- Boolean construction too difficult
• B. Solution : use of filters
IV. Literature offer
• 1. Mathematics
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- Classical : primary : full-text
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secondary : Zentralblatt
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MathSciNet
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- Internet : repositories or depositories
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primary
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Multi-repository marthematics collection
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http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/mathall/
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DML: digital mathematics library
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http://www.mathematik.uni-
IV. Literature offer
• 2. Physics
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Classical : primary : full-text OIP/AIP
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secondary : INSPEC
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Internet : repositories or depositories
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- primary : Los Alamos http://arxiv.org
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institutional : Papyrus
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http://papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca/view/subjects/phy
s.html
• CERN
IV. Literature offer
• 3. Chemistry and chemical engineering
• Classical : primary : full-text ACS AiChE
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Secondary : Scifinder/
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other e.g. Corrosion Abstracts
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Kirk-Othmer / CRC / Beilstein /
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Gmelin / Perry /
IV. Literature offer
• 3. (next)
• Internet : primary :
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repositories or depositories
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full-text
• Secondary : chemical kinetics database on the web
: http://kinetics.nist.gov/index.php
• NDRL/NIST Solution kinetics database on the
web : http://kinetics.nist.gov/solution/index.php
IV. Literature offer
• 3 (next)
• Material Safety data sheets : http://ilpi.com/msds/
• Chemfinder :
http://chemfinder.cambridgesoft.com/
• Chemcyclopedia 2004 :
http://www.mediabrains.com/client/chemcyclop/B
G1/search.asp
• Chemical acronyms database :
http://www.oscar.chem.indiana.edu/cfdocs/libche
m/acronyms/acronymsearch.html
IV. Literature offer
• 3 (next)
• Chemical and physical properties :
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/sci/chem/properties.html
• Chemweb.com (scirus search) :
http://www.chemweb.com/
• IUPAC-NIST Solubility data series :
http://srdata.nist.gov/solubility/
• CCD (ChemExper Chemical Directory)
• http://search.chemexper.com/main.html
IV. Literature offer
• 4. Geology
• Classical : primary : full-text
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secondary : Georef /Geoarchive/
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Compendex
• Internet : primary : full-texts
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secundary : Geoscan database
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http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/ess/esic/geoscan_e.html
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Mining environment
database :
http://www.laurentian.ca/library/medb/medlib_e.p
IV. Literature offer
• 5. Biology – Agriculture
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Classical : primary : full-text
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secondary : Medline / BIOSIS /
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CAB / FSTA /
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Agris
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Internet : primary : full-text
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highwire :
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http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl
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BioOne :
http://www.bioone.org/bioone/?request=index-
IV. Literature offer
• 5. (next)
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secondary : Agricola :
http://www.nal.usda.gov/ag98/
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CDL/LOC environmental :
• http://www.eip.cdlib.org/eip/isite/keyword.html
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Entrez nucleotide – PopSet –
Protein – Structure –
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/
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Toxline :
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/cgibin/sis/htmlgen?TOXLINE
IV. Literature offer
• 6. Engineering
• classical : primary : full-text
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Secondary : Compendex
ISMEC – METADEX – FLUIDEX – APID
– WEB OF SCIENCE - + SOCIETIES +
previous databases
IV. Literature offer
• 7. Computer sciences
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Classical : primary : ACM/SIAM
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secondary :
Zentralblatt/INSPEC/MATHSCINET
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Internet :
• Collection of computer science bibliographies :
http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/
• Decatomb production database :
http://www.decatomb.com/database
• NEC Research Institute Citeseer :
• http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/
IV. Literature offer
• 8. Mechanical engineering
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classical : primary : full-text : ASME
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secondary : Compendex, INSPEC,
ISMEC, WELDASEARCH
• Internet : NTRS : NASA Technical Report Server :
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/
• Bibliotheken : Yale University :
http://www.library.yale.edu/science/subject/mecha
nical.html
IV. Literature offer
• 9. Electrical and electronics engineering
• classical : primary : full-text / IEE/IEEE/IEL
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secondary : INSPEC
• Internet : Circuits archive - UWEE :
http://www.ee.washington.edu/circuit_archive/
• NTIS :
http://www.ntis.gov/search/index.asp?loc=3-0-0
• VLSI : www.mrc.uidaho.edu/vlsi/
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10. Others
• Energy : Energy Citations Database
http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/search.
adv.jsp/
• Cogprints (also AI, robotics)
• http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk
• CE Database (ASCE)
• http://www.pubs.asce.org/cedbsrch.html
10. Others (2)
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CORDIS
http://dbs.cordis.lu/EN_GLOBALsearch.html
Spectra
- NIST Atomic Spectra Database
http://physicxs.nist.gov/cgi-bin/AtData/main_asd
- Database of Raman spectra
http://www.models.kvl.dk/users/engelsen/specarb/
specarb.html
10. Others (3)
• - Patents
• USPTO Web Patent Database
http://uspto.gov/
• Micropatent (not free)
• disciplinary e.g. :
• DNA patent database (DPD)
http://dnapatents.georgetown.edu/oshtml/os
nmain.htm?/