Lecture 10: Using Online Databases, Part II: Journal Article Databases
Overview
The University of California, through the California Digital Library (CDL) has subscribed to a wide range of electronic indexing and abstracting databases to provide access to the journal article and other primary literatures.
Until a few years ago, CDL's strategy was to mount databases on their own computers and use the same basic interface as the MELVYL Catalog then used for searching and displaying records.
As the number of databases has grown, however, the expense and effort of maintaining a large number of databases in house has prompted change. CDL has switched our subscriptions to other vendors. All the article indexes are now obtained from third-party vendors.
Some features, such as truncation symbols, will be common to all databases from a given vendor. Others, like the time lag between publication and indexing (see under chronological coverage), will depend on the database itself.
Mainly popular literature, covering news, humanities, social sciences and sciences, but that does include Scientific American, Science News, New Scientist
Some scholarly journals: Science, Nature, JACS
Comprehensiveness
Journals only -- around 2,500 magazine and journal titles, all English language...fairly select.
Chronological coverage
Roughly 1980 to present.
Articles indexed about one month after publication date.
Access points
Searchable by keyword (includes title, abstract (if any) and subject heading words).
In "advanced search", specific fields may be searched: title word and/or subject headings, as well as author and journal title.
Search features
Search alternatives --
"Basic" -- Single search window, can specify subject, keyword or entire document.
"Advanced" -- Multiple search windows, can select search field from dropdown menu. Separate search windows for specific publication title, or publication subject. Searches may be limited by date, to refereed publications, records with images and/or to those with available full text.
"Subject guide search" -- Similar to advanced search, but allows browsing of subject headings.
"Publication search" -- Main search is by publication (i.e. journal) title. Limits as above, plus limit by target audience and/or publication format.
Truncation -- * represents any number of characters, usually used at the end of a word, ? represents exactly one character, ! represents one or zero characters.
Boolean operators - AND, OR, NOT available. Parentheses may be used for grouping terms.
Proximity -- Default search of multiple words assumes the two words are within two words of each other in either direction. You can specify the proximity: DNA w5 splicing means that DNA has to be within 5 words of splicing in that order, while DNA n5 splicing means within 5 words in either order.
Stopwords -- automatically ignored.
Combining searches -- Can do so in advanced search; does not allow combining of previous searches from search history.
Display features
Many articles (not scholarly) are present in the database itself as ASCII full text, some are available as PDF file replicas of the printed page (including graphics.)
Linking to electronic journals is available via UC-eLinks.
Marking, printing, e-mailing: records may be marked for separate viewing. The list of marked records may be formatted for printing, using the browser's print capabilities, or e-mailed.
Results are automatically grouped into "Academic Journals", "Magazines", "Reference", "News" and "Multimedia"
The default order of answer display is "Publication Date", newest to oldest, but you may choose to sort by "Relevance" (see drop-down menu on right-hand side of display.)
On the left-hand side, subject headings associated with the answer set are automatically displayed. Clicking on a subject heading limits the search to results with that heading. Narrower, broader and related headings may be displayable.
Customization features
The user can set certain "Preferences" (e.g., number of records/page, font style and color) for a single session but cannot save them for later use.
Help features
Clicking on the Help link takes you to context-sensitive help. That is, if you are on the Keyword Search screen when you click Help, you get help on that type of searching; if you are on the Citation List screen, you get help for displaying and selecting citations.
Once you've entered Help, you can click on the Help Index link to view a list of all Help topics.
There is no Search function for Help topics.
General comments: Not a bad starting place for research in an area with which you are unfamiliar. Good for finding popular level review articles.
BIOSIS Previews -- Biological Science File (ISI Web of Knowledge Interface)
Scope
BIOSIS covers the entire range of the life sciences, including biochemistry and biomedical research, and much biotechnology.
Comprehensiveness
BIOSIS indexes over 6,000 journals, plus books, conference proceedings, and technical reports.
BIOSIS is the largest biological sciences database, but even it is not completely comprehensive.
Chronological coverage
1926 to present.
Articles indexed about three weeks to one month after publication date for major English language journals.
Access points
Searchable by Topic (= keyword), Title, Author, Publication Name, Year Published, Address (=location where research was done), Taxonomic Data, Major Concepts, Concept Code/Heading, Chemical and Biochemical, Meeting Information and Identifying Codes in Basic Search. By clicking on Change Limits, the search can be limited by the date or range of dates the article appeared in the index.
In Advanced Search, you can use command language codes to search in all of the above fields, plus Gene Name Data, Sequence Data, CAS Regisry Numbers, Disease Data, Parts and Structures Data, Methods and Equipment Data, Geographic Data, Geological Time Data and Patent Assignee. You can also use parentheses and Boolean operaors to combine searches in more complicated combinations. Besides indexing dates, searches may also be limited by language, publication type (e.g., journal articles, conference papers), literature type (e.g., literature reviews, protocols) or taxa (e.g, humans, non-human mammals, plants, bacteria, viruses.)
Special Features of BIOSIS (available in Advanced Search:
Concept codes (CC) index broad subject areas and lifeforms.
Taxa can be used to limit by broad groups: plants, animals, non-human animals, primates, etc.
Chemical and biochemical names (CB) and CAS Registry Numbers (CA) can be searched in a specific field.
BIOSIS introduced some new subject fields to supplement/replace concept codes in 1999. Earlier articles won't have these search features.
Search features
Truncation (called "wildcards" by Web of Knowledge) -- * represents any number of characters, usually used at the end of a word, ? represents exactly one character, $ represents one or zero characters.
Boolean operators - AND, OR, NOT available. Parentheses may be used for grouping terms.
Proximity -- Default search of multiple words assumes the words are a phrase. The operator SAME requires the terms to both be in the title, the author keywords, or the same sentence of the abstract.
Stopwords -- automatically ignored. If used in a search phrase, they are treated as a sort of wildcard word. Example: Searching mind over matter will retrieve any three word phrase beginning with "mind" and ending with "matter".
Combining searches -- Can do so in Advanced Search.
Search History -- Available by link from any screen, or viewable in advanced search. Displays all searches in a given session. In Advanced Search, searches may be combined used set numbers and Boolean operators. Example: #2 NOT #1 From the Search History, you can create Saved Sets or Search Alerts. To do so, you must register to create an account on the Web of Knowledge server. See also Personalization below.
Display features
From the results display, you may search within the results set, or "refine" by Major Concepts, Document Types (e.g. article, meeting, patent), Literature Types (e.g. review), Authors, Source Titles, Subject Areas, Publication Years, Assignees, Concept Codes, Super Taxa, Languages, or Literature Types. This feature uses the Analyze capability of the interface to generate a list of the most common members of the chosen category. Clicking on Analyze allows you to generate a ranked list of any of the above with additional control. The lists of, say, authors, may be sorted by the number of hits or alphabetically.
Linking to electronic journals is available via UC-eLinks.
Records lists are sorted by default by indexing date, but may be sorted by relevance, first author, source title, conference title or publication year.
Marking, printing, e-mailing: Selected records on a given page, or a numeric range of records may be printed, e-mailed or saved to disk. Records may be marked for separate viewing. by clicking the check box beside the desired records, then clicking on the "Add to Marked List" link. The list of marked records may be formatted for printing, using the browser's print capabilities, or e-mailed. Sets of records in Web of Knowledge databases may be saved directly to one's EndNote Web account.
Customization features
Users can register, using an e-mail address and self-created password, to be able to save search histories within BIOSIS, and create e-mail alert searches.
Help features
Clicking on the Help link takes you to context-sensitive help. That is, if you are on the Keyword Search screen when you click Help, you get help on that type of searching; if you are on the Citation List screen, you get help for displaying and selecting citations.
Once you've entered Help, you can click on the Help Index link to view an alphabetical list of all Help topics, or the Help Table of Contents for a structured list.
There is no Search function for Help topics.
General comments: BIOSIS is essential for most searches on biological topices, but others (CSA Biological Sciences Database, Chemical Abstracts) can be complementary and should also be checked for any biochemistry search. On the Web of Knowledge platform, you may search BIOSIS and Web of Science simulataneously by clicking on the "All Databases" tab. This can save time, but loses some of the specialized features of each database.
"Ovid Syntax" (default) -- Single window; may select keyword, author, title or journal searches. May limit to English only, full text, journal article, abstract, latest update or by publication year.
"Basic" -- One window for keywords. Same limits as "Ovid Syntax"
"Find Citation" -- Allows entry of article title, journal name, authors, volume, issue, starting page and/or publication year for quick location of a known publication.
"Search Fields" -- May select any of the available record fields or combinations of them (a list of dozens) for searching or browsing the indexes. Strangely, clicking "Search Tools" gives the exact same range of choices.
"Search Tools" -- allows you to delve into the INSPEC Thesaurus to see subject headings, "ued for" narrower and related terms. Clicking the "explode" box next to a term allows you to automatically search the term and all its narrower headings at once.
Truncation -- $ used for any number of characters at the end or middle of a word. You can specify the number of characters by placing a number after the $. Example: child$3. # represents a single wildcard character. ? represents one or none.
Boolean operators - AND, OR, NOT available. Parentheses may be used for grouping terms.
Proximity -- Terms entered as a phrase: fluidized bed combustion, are searched as a phrase. Also available: ADJn searches for words within n words of one another.
Combining searches -- Can do so with "Search History"; combine any or all previous searches in the session.
The "Author" search takes one to a list of possible author names, much like a Browse search in Pegasus.
Clicking on the "Map Term to Subject Heading" box causes a keyword search to browse the list of subject headings (where applicable.)
To search specialty fields in any database, click on the "Search Fields" button, and select the desired field(s) from the list given.
By using the "Change Database" function, one can select any or all subscribed Ovid databases, and conduct a search in all of them simultaneously, with a duplicate removal feature.
Display features
Most records have abstracts.
Linking to call numbers and electronic journals through UC-eLinks is available for many journals.
Sorting -- Records may be sorted by any available INSPEC field, in either ascending or descending order, and within that by a secondary field. Note that the Ovid interface can sort only a limited number of records..
"Search Aid" -- Can display the top five subject headings, authors or journals in your result set. Clicking on the desired link narrows your search result to that subset.
Marking, printing, e-mailing: records may be marked for separate viewing. Entire answer sets or marked records may be formatted for printing, using the browser's print capabilities, saved to disk, or e-mailed, using the "Citation Manager" located the left of each page of the short title list.
Customization features
Display formats may be customized for a single session.
You may register to create a "Personal Account". This allows you to save searches, and create e-mail alerts and RSS feeds.
Help features
Clicking the Help button takes you to context-sensitive Help screen in a new window. A table of contents of all Help screens is available along the left-hand side. There is no Search Help function.
INSPEC -- the Physics, Electronics and Computing File
Scope
Scholarly journals and conference proceedings in physics, computer science and electrical and electronic engineering.
Comprehensiveness
The INSPEC database contains citations to articles in over 4,000 scholarly journals, plus conference proceedings, books, reports, and dissertations.
INSPEC is considered fairly comprehensive in its areas of strength.
Chronological coverage
1969 to present. Backfiles from 1904-1968 are separately searchable in the INSPEC Archive. You can use the "Select Databse" option to search both the current and backfile INSPEC databases togeter.
Articles indexed about six weeks (APS journals) to four months after publication date (Nature.)
Access points
Searchable by keyword (article title words, subject headings and abstract keywords), author(s), author's affiliation and journal title and a long list of specialized fields, including classification codes, and astronomical object terms. Any of the indexes may be browsed by selecting one, enteraing a search term and clicking"Display Indexes".
Searches may be limited by date, language, publication type (e.g., reviews).
The INSPEC Thesaurus (see "Search Tools" has a detailed hierarchical set of subject headings.
Special chemical searching for inorganic compounds:
Can search by complete formulas or by components. Formulas are entered in customary order (e.g. NaCl, GaAs).
Only field which is case sensitive; Co is not the same as CO
Can specify type of application; e.g., dopant, substrate, etc.
General comments: INSPEC is the premier database for physics, electronics and computing, and a significant resource for physical chemistry as it shades into chemical physics.
Compendex Plus - The Engineering Index - using the Engineering Village 2 interface
Scope
Compendex covers all branches of engineering, including chemical engineering, biotechnology and materials science.
Comprehensiveness
Covers over 5,000 international engineering journals, technical reports and conference proceedings. Each
year more than 200,000 new abstracts are added..
Chronological coverage
1884-present.
Journal articles indexed withing about one month after publication date for major English language journals.
Access points
Default search" is by keyword in all fields.
In "Quick Search" (the default mode) or "Expert Search" (the command-line mode) you may specify which fields the term(s) will be searched in: Subject/Title/Abstract; Abstract; Author; Author affiliation; Engineering Index Classification Code; CODEN (a journal ID); Conference information; Conference code; ISSN (another journal identifier); Main Heading; Publisher; Serial Title; Title of article or Controlled term.
Searches may be limited by date, document type (e.g. conference article, journal article), treatment type (e.g. experimental, theoretical) and/or language before searching.
You may browse the Author, Author Affiliation, Controlled term, Serial title and Publisher indexes by clicking the appropriate link at the right-hand side of the Search screen.
Searches may be combined using the "Search History" link at the upper right of the screen.
Special Features of Compendex
The database uses a thesaurus of subject headings (see the "Thesaurus" tab in the upper part of the screen), which may be searched to find broader, narrower and related terms. In the thesaurus, you can mark terms to select them for searching, or click on them to further explore the subject hierarchies. Located within the "Tools" options.
Search features
The Ei Village 2 version of Compendex has three search modes:
Easy Search -- uses a Google-like single search window.
Quick Search -- uses multiple windows, with drop down menus of search fields, and the other access point features described above.
Expert Search -- Command-line searching. It has somewhat more power and flexibility than Quick Search, but a steeper learning curve.
Truncation -- * used for any number of characters at the beginning, end and/or middle of a word. ? represents a single wildcard character. Note the box labelled "Autostemming off"; if this box is not checked, Compendex will automatically truncate every term, except in the author field.
Boolean operators - AND, OR, NOT available. Parentheses may be used for grouping terms.
Proximity -- Terms entered as a phrase: fluidized bed combustion, are searched as individual words. To search as an exact phrase, put the words in quotation marks "fluidized bed combustion" or braces {fluidized bed combustion} Also available: NEAR/n searches for terms within n words of one another and ONEAR/n for terms within n words of each other in the specified order.
Combining searches -- Click on "Search History" and combine any or all previous searches in the session.
Display features
Most records have abstracts.
Linking to call numbers and electronic journals through UC-eLinks is available for many journals.
Before searching, you may select to sort records by relevance or in reverse chronological order. When results are displayed, you may also sort in chronological order, or alphabetically by author, source or publisher.
Compendex automatically displays a "Refine Results" column on the right-hand side of the display. This shows the ten most common authors, author affiliations, controlled vocabulary (subject headings), classification codes, countries of publication, document types, languages, years of publication, and publishers (though you may opt to display more than 10 in any given category.) You may click the check box(es) for items in the lists and narrow your search to include or exclude them. There is no user-selected Analyze option. You may also use the "Add a term" window to search within a results set.
Marking, printing, e-mailing, downloading: Records may be marked for separate viewing. You may mark individual records, an entire page or a specified range of records using the "Results Manager" area at the top of the Search Results page.
In the full record display, author names, CODENs, ISSNs, and controlled subject terms are hotlinked for one-click searching.
Customization features
Users can register to create a profile. With a profile, you can save searches (click Save from the Search History screen), create e-mail Alerts (check the Alert box when saving a search) or create online folders for your searches.
Other types of customization, such as search and display defaults, are accessible only to system administrators.
Help features
The Help tab takes you to a table of contents of help with all aspects of search and display of records and other Engineering Village features.
There is no Search function for Help topics.
General comments: Compendex is a useful source for applied chemistry, especially biotechnology and chemical engineering.
Scholarly journals in medicine and related areas of science and engineeing.
Comprehensiveness
Journals only -- around 4,300 journal titles, mostly English language. PubMed adds close to 600,000 new records per year.
PubMed is very comprehensive for medical journals.
Chronological coverage
Mid-1960's to present.
Articles indexed about two weeks to one month after publication date. In process records can be as little as a week old.
Access points
Searchable by keyword.
Searches may be limited to specific fields (of which there are many!), or by date, language, publication type (e.g., reviews).
PubMed uses the MeSH (Medical Subject Headings), created by the National Library of Medicine, for subject indexing. The MeSH headings are very detailed for medical topics, and use extensive subheadings for even more specificity.
Specialized limits include: age ranges, human vs. non-human animal, male vs. female.
Search features
Truncation -- * used for any number of characters at the end of a word. Note that PubMed will automatically map search terms to its thesaurus of MeSH headings, but use of truncation deactivates this feature.
Boolean operators - AND, OR, NOT available. Parentheses may be used for grouping terms.
Proximity -- No proximity searching available, but does check for certain phrases.
Stopwords -- automatically ignored.
Combining searches -- Can do so by previous searches from search history; click on "History" link to view searches and combine them.
Display features
Linking to electronic journals and call numbers through UC-eLinks is available for many journals.
Marking, printing, e-mailing: records may be marked for separate viewing. Entire answer sets, marked records or specified ranges of records may be formatted for printing, using the browser's print capabilities, or saved to disk. No e-mail option is available, but you can use the browsers "Send Page" function to send records formatted for printing.
Customization features
"My NCBI" allows users to create a username and password with which they can save searches, set up e-mail alerts for new content and other options.
Help features
Clicking on the Help link takes you to the Help table of contents. There is also an FAQ page and a tutorial. There is no Search Help feature.
General comments: Best starting point for medical research. Note that some other versions of Medline take better advantage of the detailed Medical Subject Heading indexing available in the database. However, PubMed's free (i.e. taxpayer-supported) public access has made it extremely popular. From the PubMed home page, you will find links to NLM's vast suite of other databases of nucleotide, protein, genome, safety and other information.
Databases available through PrQuest on the CSA Illumina platform -- CSA Biological Sciences Database, GeoRef
Common features
Search features
Truncation -- * used for any number of characters at the end or middle of a word. ? represents a single wildcard character.
Boolean operators - AND, OR, NOT available. Parentheses may be used for grouping terms.
Proximity -- Terms entered as a phrase: anti-retroviral agent, are searched as a phrase. Also available: within n searches for words within n words of one another; near, equivalent to "within 10"; and before and after, which specify the order of terms without requiring any particular degree of adjacency.
Combining searches -- Can do so in "Advanced" search. Can also click on "Search History" and combine any or all previous searches in the session.
By using the "Change Database" function, one can select any or all subscribed CSA databases, and conduct a search in all of them simultaneously, though records can only be displayed one database at a time.
Display features
The search results list displays not only bibliographic information, but a portion of the abstract, and hotlinked descriptors (subject headings) for each record.
Results may be sorted in "Most Recent First" or "Relevance" order.
Linking to electronic articles and call numbers through UC-eLinks is available.
Marking, printing, e-mailing: records may be marked for separate viewing. Entire answer sets (with a maxiumum of 500 records) or marked records may be formatted for printing, using the browser's print capabilities, saved to disk, or e-mailed. The Illumina interface also allows you to use the selected answer set to create a bibliography using one of several standard bibliographic styles (APA, Chicago, Turabian, etc.) It also allows you to export a set of records to RefWorks, CSA's online bibliographic database utility. (Note: UCSB does not yet have a subscription to RefWorks.)
Customization features
Users can register online to create a "Personal Profile". When you log into your profile, you can save searches online, create search alerts, or journal issue alerts (the latter send you a table of contents listing for journals you select as new issues are indexed. Note: at present this last feature does not seem to be fully enabled.)
Help features
Clicking on the Help button takes you to the context-sensitive Help screens for the CSA Illumina interface and all the CSA databases.
You may browse the Table of Contents, use the Help Index or Search the Help screens (see tabs at upper left of Help screen.
There are online tutorials for Quick Search, Advanced Search, and Command Search.
CSA Biological Sciences covers research in biomedicine, biotechnology, biochemistry, microbiology, some other areas of zoology, ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary medicine.
Comprehensiveness
Indexes over 6000 serials, as well as conference proceedings, technical reports, and monographs. About 165,000 new records are added per year.
Chronological coverage
1982-present.
Articles indexed about six weeks to two months after publication date for major English language journals.
Access points
"Quick Search" is by keyword (article title words, subject terms and abstract keywords, author(s), author's affiliation and journal title.) Searches may be limited by specific date ranges
"Advanced search" allows the user to specify which fields the term(s) will be searched in. It also allows searching by conference name, document type, language and publication year, among others. Searches may be limited by year or range of years.
Clicking on the "Search Tools" tab allows you to go to "Command Search" (information on search commands can be found on the Help screens.)
Special Features of CSA Biological Sciences
Indexes may be browsed to verify search terms for authors, journal names and publication types. See "Indexes" under "Search Tools".
The database uses a thesaurus of subject headings, which may be searched to find broader, narrower and related terms. In the thesaurus, you can mark terms to select them for searching, or click on them to further explore the subject hierarchies. See "Thesaurus" under "Search Tools".
There is also a taxonomic thesaurus to let you find species, genus, family, etc. terms for organisms of interest.
General comments: CSA Biological Sciences is a useful complement to BIOSIS for many areas of biology, especially biochemistry, biotechnology and marine biology.
GeoRef covers all areas of geology (including extraterrestrial geology), economic geology (e.g. mining and petroleum geology), hydrology, oceanography, palaeontology, geophysics, geochemistry and mineralogy.
Comprehensiveness
Indexes more than 3,500 journals in 40 languages as well as new books, maps, and reports. Each month between 4,000 and 7,000 new references are added to the database.
Chronological coverage
1693 - present (North America coverage); 1933 - present (Worldwide coverage)
Articles indexed about one to three months after publication date for major English language journals.
Access points
"Quick Search" is by keyword (article title words, subject terms and abstract keywords, author(s), author's affiliation and journal title.) Searches may be limited by specific date ranges
"Advanced search" allows the user to specify which fields the term(s) will be searched in. It also allows searching by conference name, document type, language and publication year, among others. Searches may be limited by year or range of years.
Clicking on the "Search Tools" tab allows you to go to "Command Search" (information on search commands can be found on the Help screens.)
Special Features of GeoRef
Indexes may be browsed to verify search terms for authors, journal names and publication types. See "Indexes" under "Search Tools".
The database uses a thesaurus of subject headings, which may be searched to find broader, narrower and related terms. In the thesaurus, you can mark terms to select them for searching, or click on them to further explore the subject hierarchies. See "Thesaurus" under "Search Tools".
General comments: GeoRef is the premier database for the geological sciences, and is very strong in geochemistry, mineralogy, and cosmochemistry.
Business Source Premier covers the literature of business and industry
Comprehensiveness
Over 7,000 scholarly business journals, trade journals and economic reports. Currently, about 700,000 new records are added per year.
Chronological coverage
Varies. Many scholarly journals go back to 1965, most publications are from 1993-present, but some records date back to 1900.
Very up to date. Articles indexed a week or less after publication date for many sources (e.g. The Wall Street Journal.)
Access points
"Basic search" is by keyword (article title words, subject terms and abstract keywords, author(s), title words, journal name). You may limit searches by date range, full text availability, refereed journals only, by publication name or type. You may also expand the search to search article full text.
"Advanced Search" allows the user to specify which fields the term(s) will be searched in. It also allows searching by company, geographical term, product name, business codes and more. Limits are the same as for "Basic Search".
To combine searches, click on the Search History tab in the middle of the screen.
There is a separate "Cited References" search screen, for searching by cited author, source, title and year.
Special Features of Business Source Premier.
The database uses a thesaurus of subject headings, which may be searched to find broader, narrower and related terms. In the thesaurus, you can mark terms to select them for searching, or click on them to further explore the subject hierarchies. To do so, click on the "Thesaurus" button.
"Advanced Search" also allows browsing and selecting of author names, journal names, classification codes, etc. for improved searching. To do so, click on the "Indexes" button.
Browsing "People" will let you find references to individuals in articles. If the person is frequently referenced (e.g. Bill Gates), you can find subheadings to identify different types of articles.
Company names are browsable, but different names for the same company are not cross-referenced.
The "Company Profile" button lets you find "Datamonitor" reports on corporations worldwide.
Search features
Truncation -- * used for any number of characters at the end of a word. ? represents one wildcard character.
Boolean operators - AND, OR, AND NOT available. Parentheses may be used for grouping terms.
Proximity -- To search an exact phrase, use quotation marks: "biotechnology stocks". Also available: Nn searches for words within n words of one another. Wn specifies the order of the terms.
Display features
Most records have abstracts, many have full text, either as HTML pages with graphics or as PDF files
You may display separate results lists for "Academic Journals", "Trade Publications", "Magazines" or "SWOT Analyses".
The results list may be sorted by date, author, source or relevance.
A list of the most commonly assigned subject headings in the answer set displays in the left-hand column. Clicking on the heading narrows the results to records containing the desired heading.
UC-eLinks is available in this database.
Marking of records is referred to as "saving records to a folder." Records in the folder may be formatted for printing, using the browser's print capabilities, saved to disk, or e-mailed. If there is HTML full text for an article, it may be saved/printed/e-mailed as well.
Customization features
Users may register to create a personal profile, which allows for saved searches and alert searches.
Help features
Clicking the Help button pops up a separate Help window using a Java applet. You may browse the Help table of contents.
General comments: While not really a science database, Business Source Premier does index the major chemical industry news sources, like Chemical Week, Chemical Market Reporter and Chemical and Engineering News, as well as Scientific American.
