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:

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http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/

Homepage

QuickLink feature enables

readers to find particular

issues or pages

immediately. Simply enter

the Vol. Issue and Page

numbers you need

The way journals are

listed can be changed

so you can view them

by subject or in an A-Z

format.

Link for Search facility

List of Issues PageQuickSearch facility

allows you to search

in all journals, or just

this one.

Click to link to the Issue you

want. Expanding list of issues

keeps page size to a minimum.

Link to further

information, such

as submitting a

paper, editorial

board details and

aims and

scopes.

Table of Contents Page

Users can choose

between viewing the

Abstract, Full text PDF or

Full text HTML.

QuickSearch facility

available again, this

time to issue level.

Article level features

QuickSearch will now

search in either

Synergy or PubMed

for the keywords or

author’s names

selected.

Easy to use

navigation bar

allows one click

access to other

parts of the issue.

Images in HTML

To save loading

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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Search again within your Search Results to find

the exact information you’re looking for.

How Synergy can be incorporated into handouts.

URLs can be copied and pasted into emails to students.

Articles may be printed and included in handouts.

The license states:

Authorised users may:

Incorporate parts of the Licensed Material in printed

or electronic Course or Study packs for the use of

Authorised Users in the course of instruction. Each

such item shall carry appropriate

acknowledgement of the source, listing title and

author of extract, title and author of work, and

publisher. Copies of such items shall be deleted by

the licensee when they are no longer required for

such purpose.

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.blackwell-synergy.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]