Chemical Engineering Resources at Purdue University Libraries Literature Searching What to do when a “ G o o g l e” search is not enough? Mellon Library of Chemistry Purdue University Libraries ******@ Spring 2003 Song Yu ******@ Phone: 496 - 7279 Chemical Information Specialist Assist. Prof. of Library Sciences Purdue University Mellon Library of Chemistry Purdue University Libraries ******@ Spring 2003 To Warm Up … Ideas, common terms that we use when doing literature searches Mellon Library of Chemistry Purdue University Libraries ******@ Spring 2003 TERTIARY LITERATURE Information Retrieval Structure of the literature and Channels munication Mellon Library of Chemistry Purdue University Libraries ******@ Spring 2003 Search Operators, Wildcards, and Parentheses ? What are search operators? ? AND, OR, NOT, SAME, NEAR ? What are wildcards? ?? = one character ?. EN?OBLAST will search ENDOBLAST and ENTOBLAST ?* = zero to many characters ?. Gene* will search Gene, Genes, General, Generation ? Combination of ? and * ?. CH?M* will search CHEMISTRY, CHEMIST, CHEMICAL, CHEMIE, CHIMICA …? Parentheses ?(A or B) and C, (B and C) not A A B C Note: different databases have different wildcards. Check their Help file to find out what to use. Mellon Library of Chemistry Purdue University Libraries ******@ Spring 2003 What is in a citation? ?Author ?Title ?Source/journal ?Enumeration (volume/issue) ?Chronology (date) ?Pagination Cui, Yi; Lieber, Charles M.. “Functional nanoscale electronic devices assembled using silicon nanowire building blocks." Science 291:5505 (2001): 851 -3. Bibliographic Information Mellon Library of Chemistry Purdue University Libraries ******@ Spring 2003 Cited/Citing Reference ?@#&! ?Linking to the original cited paper ?Linking to papers which cite the same paper (Time Cited) ?Finding related papers 1994 1991 1992 1987 1988 1957 1984 1982 1988 198
