20-9-2012

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DelftUniversity ofTechnology

Searching in practice… in Discover and in Scopus

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TU Delft Library websitehttp://www.library.tudelft.nl/en

The starting point for searching for scientific information!

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The menu button Collections gives access to parts of the collection, including a compilation of information sources for different fields of study, yours included!

Your own Knowledge Centrefrom the Library website

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Both possibilities link to "Information by subject", where you can find the collection of information sources for different fields of study.

Your own Knowledge Centrefrom the Library website

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Overview of Knowledge Centres

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Overview of Knowledge Centres (cont'd)

Is your field of study included?

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Example of a VKC

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Search system Discoverfrom the VKC website

With the search system Discover, which you can access from each VKC and from each Library web page, it is possible to search a large part of the collection of TU Delft Library.

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Search system Discoverfrom the Library website

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In the Discover search box you can type the search string.

For example, we search for information on the privatization of electricity and water companies.

We use English search terms, because most scientific literature is written in the English language.

Searching in Discover

privatization AND (energy OR water)

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Searching in Discover (2)

The results in Discover. The icons on the right side show whether a book is available (green) or on loan (red).On the left side possibilities to limit the results are shown.

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The description of a book in Discover looks like this. At the bottom you can see where the book is placed: on the shelf TMA207.You can pick it up there yourself and have it lent out at the counter.

Searching in Discover (3)

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From the VKC to Scopus

This is the link to the page containing databases…

… and in this (long) list you can find the link to Scopus.

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• Here you can select the fields you want to search in

For tips & tricks check Help

Searching in the database Scopus

• This is the way to type the search terms in the search box• Smart searching can be performed by using Boolean operators

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Results: more than in Discover!

At the bottom the list of articles is shown. You can look at them one by one or first limit the number of search results with Refine Results. View more provides more options to limit.

You can mark the options you are interested in to keep, you can confirm the selection by clicking the Limit to button.

Searching in the database Scopus (2)

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In this example of an abstract it is clearly shown which search terms Scopus found in this article.

With the "SFX" button you can find out how to get the full text article.

Searching in the database Scopus (3)

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You can see that the article is available full text.

By clicking the "Go" button you get access to the full text article.

Searching in the database Scopus (4)

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The result shows the full text article, which you can download (as PDF) for further use.

Searching in the database Scopus (5)

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Now you have learned:

• where to find Discover and Scopus

• how to reach the VKC for your own field of study

• how to search in Discover and in Scopus