How To Search ScienceDirect?

To access the HPU databases, You need to:

• log on to Pipeline
• click on the Libraries tab
• click on Databases

ScienceDirect provides access to journals, books, and reference works; however, HPU Libraries subscribes to ONLY journals.

 

When searching ScienceDirect:  

• use Advanced Search and use the Journals search form--which is designed specifically for journal article searching.
   
• Choose search terms that are specific or closely related to your topic.
   
• Use the Document Field(s) to limit your search results (e.g. check off an option(s) to select both/either research and/or review articles).
   
• Reset date range as needed. (Remember HPU full-text coverage is from 1995-current) 

When searching databases, it is important to understand/effectively use "Boolean Operators" and "Truncation".

"Connector words such as AND, OR and NOT are important to use when you combine ideas."

• Use AND to narrow a search
  
  
• Use OR to broaden a search
  
  
• Use NOT to eliminate words (it also narrows a search)

Click here to learn more about "Boolean Operators."

 

 

Source: IRIS
http://www.clark.edu/Library/iris/index.shtml 

"Truncating means using a symbol to replace word endings. With the symbol in place, any letters can be at the end of the word."

 

Truncating searching allows you to search multiple variations of the keyword. Use Truncating to expand your search. The most commonly used symbol for truncating is an asterisk (*).

 

Click here to learn more about "Truncating*" and other search strategies. 
 

Phrase searching allows "you to specify that adjacent words be searched as phrases: use parentheses or quotes around search words is a common way to do a phrase search." (e.g. "energy saving")

Use Phrase searching to narrow down your search.

Click here to learn more about "Phrase Searching" and other search strategies including Proximity operators.

Source:
IRIS
http://www.clark.edu/Library/iris/index.shtml

MIT Libraries/Database Search Tips: Phrases
http://libguides.mit.edu/c.php?g=175963&p=1158825

Let's search for journal articles using a basic keyword or phrase search. (e.g. enzyme AND "plant cell")

 

• Use the first search box for a main concept (keyword). (e.g. enzyme)
  
  
• Use the second box for a different concept (e.g. plant cell): use quotation marks " " for a phrase. (e.g. "plant cell")
  
  
• Use Boolean Operator "AND" between the two terms to find articles containing the two concepts.
   
• Click Search.

 

Search results for your initial search would include both research and review articles .  
 

          

 

You can refine your search in various ways.
 

Click on the left arrow at the top of your browser page to modify your search for research articles published after 2006:

• Check to see if your search terms still remain. If not, double click on the search boxes to re-enter your search terms.
  
  
• Add related terms to the original search term(s) using a Boolean operator OR / Truncating * to broaden your search in case you do not have enough search results.
  
  (e.g.) enzyme* OR "enzyme reaction"
           AND
          "plant cell" OR potato*

• Check off "Article" available on the Document Fields to retrieve ONLY "research articles." 
   
• Reset "Date Range" beginning at 2006.
   
• Click Search.

 

Let's keep modifying your search for review articles published after 2011.
 

Click on the left arrow at the top of your browser page to modify your search. Once you are in the "Journals" search form;

• Check to see if your search terms still remain.
  
  
• Uncheck "Article" and then check off "Review Article" to retrieve ONLY review articles.
  
  
• Reset your publication year  beginning at 2011.
  
  
• Click Search.

 

Search results for "Review Articles"

 

 

You can also apply other Refine filters such as "Year," "Publication Title," "Topic," and "Content Type" to specify your results as needed. Click Apply Filters.

 

 

1. Please click and complete viewing the "Reviewing Documents" tutorial (5 min.).

 

2. Click here to open a document and complete the quizzes below. (Copy & paste as needed)

 

What is the title of the journal?

 

What is the affiliation of the first author, Fazilath Uzmaa?

  

List DOI* of this article.

 

This is a research article. True or false?
  
 

Find/list other keywords listed by authors:
 

Click here to open the previous search result page.
 

To view/save the full text of an article(s), check off an article(s) that you want and then click on "Download PDFs." Click "Download."

 

If you have an EndNote Basic or Zotero account, click on "Export" to save a citation of an article.  When choosing the Export file option, select "RIS" format. Click "Export."

 

 

To learn more about exporting a citation to your EndNote Basic account, click here.

• ScienceDirect Tutorials by Elsevier
  
  Registering and Logging In

  Reviewing Search Results

  Browsing Publications

  Using Alerts

  Personalizing Your Settings
  

• Library Workshops

  -HPU Libraries offers various workshops including citation management tools (EndNote, EndNote Basic, Zotero, Cite While You Write, etc) for a class, a group, or an individual consultation.

  -Click here to view more information or to register for a session.

  
  
• Contact librarians
  
  -Librarian Subject Specialist list
  
  -or contact Lydia Lee, Natural Sciences Librarian

Congratulations, you have finished the 'How To Search ScienceDirect?' Tutorial !

If you have further questions, stop in to whichever campus' library is closest and talk with a librarian.

Mahalo!!

 

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