Fast Track to Scientific Databases

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Fast Track to Scientific Databases
SCID515 Generic Skills in Biological Science
Research
Ruchareka Asavisanu scras_at_mahidol.ac.th
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Study Plan

• Mon. 1 Nov. 04
• 1.00-2.00 p.m. (1 hr.)
• Lecture Basic knowledge of e-databases
• 2.00-3.00 p.m. (1 hr.)
• Demonstration How to use e-databases
• Tue. 2 Mov. 04
• 2.30-4.30 p.m. (2 hrs)
• Student Practice (Hand-on workshop)

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Types of Online Providers

• Commercial Publishers
• Subscription Agencies / Third parties /
  Aggregators
• Not-for-profit Publishers
• Open Access Publishers

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Types of E-Databases / E-Journals

• Free Database / Open Access
• Personal subscription
• (required login/password)
• Institutional subscription (IP authentication)
• University / Faculty subscription
• National subscription (by ThaiLis, UniNet)

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E-Databases for Biological Sciences

• Academic Search Premier (ASP)
• BioMed Central (BMC) / Faculty of 1000
• CAB Abstracts-AGORA
• Entrez / PubMed MEDLINE / PubMed Central (PMC)
• HighWire Press
• ScienceDirect
• ISI Web of Knowledge / Web of Science
• Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Science Edition
• Proquest Digital Dissertations (PQDD)
• CrossRef Search (search across 29 Publishers)
• Nature Journals Online
• Daily Science News

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Academic Search Premier (ASP)http//www.ebscohost
.com

• The worlds largest academic multi-disciplinary
  database
• provides full text for more than 4,700
  publications
• (scholary journals, Magazines, Newspapers,
  Monographs, Reference books)
• including full text for more than 3,600
  peer-reviewed journals
• addition to the full text, this database offers
  indexing and abstracts for all 8,175 journals in
  the collection
• Coverage information dating as far back as 1975
• This database is updated on a daily basis via
  EBSCOhost

Online Subscription by Mahidol Univ.
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CAB Abstracts AGORAhttp//www.agora-cabi.org

• AGORA (Global Online Research in Agriculture) is
  a FAO programme to provide free or low-cost
  access to major scientific journals in
  agriculture, biological, environmental and social
  sciences to public institutions in developing
  countries.
• To facilitate access to the journal literature
  CABI Publishing has created a specialist subset
  of its CAB Abstracts database specifically for
  AGORA, providing a structured indexing service
  for the journal titles and research articles from
  the participating publishers.

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BioMed Central (BMC)http//www.biomedcentral.com

• an independent publishing house committed to
  providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed
  biomedical research
• BioMed Central also publishes Faculty of 1000,
  the leading literature evaluation service

http//www.facultyof1000.com
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Faculty of 1000
http//www.facultyof1000.com

• Faculty of 1000 is the literature awareness tool
• highlight and review the most interesting papers
  published in the biological sciences, based on
  the recommendations of a faculty of well over
  1,000 selected leading researchers
• Faculty of 1000 will be run by scientists for
  scientists, and will provide a rapidly updated
  consensus map of the important papers and trends
  across biology

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PubMed MEDLINE http//pubmed.gov

• PubMed database is available on the Entrez
  retrieval system, and was developed by the
  National Center for Biotechnology Information
  (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM)
• Provides free access to MEDLINE, NLM's database
  of more than 15 million bibliographic citations
  and abstracts in the fields of medicine, health
  care, and preclinical sciences
• Includes access to additional selected life
  sciences journals not in MEDLINE
• Links to full-text articles at participating
  publishers' web sites
• Links to the molecular biology databases
  maintained by NCBI

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MEDLINE

• MEDLINE is the NLM's bibliographic database of
  citations and abstracts from nearly 4500
  biomedical journals published in the United
  States and worldwide
• Coverage extends back to the mid-1960s
• All citations in MEDLINE are assigned Medical
  Subject Headings (MeSH) from NLM's controlled
  vocabulary to assist users in their searches

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ENTREZ cross database searchhttp//www.ncbi.nlm
.nih.gov/Entrez

• Entrez is a molecular biology database system
  that provides integrated access to nucleotide and
  protein sequence data, genomic information, 3D
  structure data, PubMed MEDLINE, PubMed Central
  (PMC), Books, and more ( over 20 databases )
• The system is produced by the National Center for
  Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

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PubMed Central (PMC)http//www.pubmedcentral.nih.
gov

• PubMed Central is a digital archive of life
  sciences journal literature, developed and
  managed by the National Center for Biotechnology
  Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library
  of Medicine (NLM)

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HighWire Presshttp//highwire.stanford.edu

• The largest archive of free life science articles
  in the world
• Over 15 million articles from over 4,500 PubMed
  journals, including 770,015 free full-text
  articles from 725 HighWire-hosted journals

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ScienceDirecthttp//www.sciencedirect.com

• The world's largest electronic collection of
  science, technology and medicine full text and
  bibliographic information
• Over 1,800 journals from Elsevier including top
  titles such as The Lancet, Cell and Tetrahedron
• Over 6 million articles and over 60 million
  abstracts from all fields of science
• Articles are available online before appearing in
  print
• Online access to multimedia features, such as
  video files, audio files, Excel spreadsheets and
  Word files
• Articles in Press rapid access to recently
  accepted articles

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Web of Sciencehttp//isiknowledge.com

• Science Citation Index Expanded is a
  multidisciplinary index to the journal literature
  of the sciences. It fully indexes 5,900 major
  journals across 150 scientific disciplines
• A citation index contains the references cited by
  the authors of the articles covered by the index.
  You can use these references to do cited
  reference searching. A cited reference search
  enables you to find articles that cite a
  previously published work.

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Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Science Edition

• Covers 5,907 leading, most highly cited,
  international peer-reviewed journals in 170
  science disciplines, from the ISI database
• Offers citation statistics
• Impact Factor
• Immediacy Index
• Cited Half-Life

Intranet Use only
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Proquest Digital Dissertationshttp//wwwlib.umi.c
om/dissertations

• source for information about doctoral
  dissertations and master's theses
• represents the work of authors from over 1,000
  graduate schools and universities
• includes bibliographic citations for materials
  ranging from the first U.S. dissertation,
  accepted in 1861, to present
• Titles published since 1997 are available in PDF
  digital format and have 24 page previews
  available

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Daily Science News

• SciDevNet
• http//www.scidev.net
• News_at_nature.com
• http//www.nature.com/news
• Science Magazine
• http//www.sciencemag.org
• Science Now
• http//sciencenow.sciencemag.org

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CrossRef Searchhttp//www.crossref.org/crossrefse
arch.html

• Search full text across multiple publishers using
  the power of Google technology
• More than 29 publishers are included e.g.
• Annual Reviews
• Blackwell Publishing
• Nature Publishing Groups (NPG)
• John Wiley Sons
• Springer-Verlag etc.

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Google Brand of the Year 2004
Sergey Brin
Larry Page
Google is a play on the word googol, the number
represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100
zeros. Google's use of the term reflects the
company's mission to organize the immense,
seemingly infinite amount of information
available on the web.
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