CHEMISTRY III

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CHEMISTRY III Library skills training, 2009
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SEARCHING DATABASES
1. Write down your topic in its simplest form
(excluding unhelpful words), and then break it up
into CONCEPTS.
Analysis of heavy metals in sea water
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2. Think of KEY WORDS that describe each of your
concepts

• CONCEPT 1
• ANALYSIS
• DETERMINATION
• MEASUREMENT

• CONCEPT 2
• HEAVY METALS
• COPPER
• NICKEL
• LEAD

• CONCEPT 3
• SEA WATER
• SEAWATER

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3. Now construct your search statement using
Boolean operators to define the way your kewords
and concepts must relate to each other.
THERE ARE 3 BOOLEAN OPERATORS
AND
OR
NOT
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Use AND to combine different concepts
heavy metals and seawater
The AND operator reduces your results
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Use OR to enter keywords for the same (single)
concept
heavy metals or nickel or copper
The OR operator increases your results
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Use NOT to get rid of unwanted results
metals NOT lead
Articles on all metals except lead
The NOT operator reduces your results
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(ANALYSIS OR DETERMINATION OR MEASUREMENT)
( HEAVY METALS OR COPPER OR NICKEL OR LEAD)
(SEAWATER OR SEA WATER OR OCEAN)
AND
AND
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In an unstructured search screen
(ANALYSIS OR DETERMINATION OR MEASUREMENT) AND
(HEAVY METALS OR NICKEL OR COPPER OR LEAD) AND
(SEA WATER OR SEAWATER OR OCEAN)
In a structured search screen
ANALYSIS OR DETERMINATION OR MEASUREMENT
HEAVY METALS OR NICKEL OR COPPER OR LEAD
SEA WATER OR SEAWATER OR OCEAN
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Use TRUNCATION to search for a word stem and
therefore capture different forms of the same
word
catal
will capture catalyst
catalysts catalytic
catalysis
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Your project
The structure and properties of Werner
clathrates J. Lipkowski
Demo of Science Citation Index
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Citation Indexing

• Used in Science Citation Index (Web of
  Science)
• Used in SciFinder Scholar (Chemical
  Abstracts)
• Links journal articles that are related in
  terms of their subject matter
• Enables you to follow the progress of
  research in a particular field

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