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Introduction to ScienceDirect for Library Personnel in Switzerland

Join us for the ScienceDirect workshop tailored for library staff in Zurich, Bern, and Geneva from February 12-14, 2002. Led by Account Development Manager Sandra Grijzenhout, this event will provide insights into utilizing ScienceDirect effectively for the Swiss Consortium. Discover historical backfiles, bibliographic databases, and various functionalities that enhance user experience. Additionally, learn about account development, streamlining access to over 1.8 million articles across diverse subject fields, and how to utilize cross-referencing with CrossRef.

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Introduction to ScienceDirect for Library Personnel in Switzerland

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  1. Elsevier ScienceDirect:Einführung für Bibliothekspersonal Zürich, Bern, Genf 12-14 Februar 2002 Sandra Grijzenhout Account Development Manager

  2. Your Contacts • Account Development: Sandra Grijzenhout • s.grijzenhout@elsevier.nl • Account Management: Annemarie Koot • a.koot@elsevier.nl • HelpDesk: Tom Williams • t.williams@elsevier.nl • Sales Support: Ina van den Doel • J.doel@elsevier.nl

  3. Today’s focus on: • ScienceDirect for the Swiss Consortium • Optional: • historical backfiles • bibliographic databases • major reference works • (Personal) Features & Functionalities • Internal/External Linking (CrossRef) • Account Development & Usage statistics

  4. WWW.SCIENCEDIRECT.COM • > 1,200 journals • >1,8 million articles • 23 subject fields • access as of ‘95 • MEDLINE - Free of Charge • SCIRUS - search engine for STM information • FEBS Letters Historical Backfiles (back to Volume 1, issue 1/ 1968-1994) Free of Charge for all SD Customers!

  5. Historical BackfilesBack to Vol.1/issue1 • Chemical backfiles available • (in)organic chemistry • chemical engineering • physical & analytical chemistry • Economics • Mathematics & Computer Science • Psychology • Social Science • Physics and Astronomy • Pharmacology, Toxicology & Pharmaceutics • Immunology and Microbiology

  6. Bibliographic Databases • EMBASE (biomedical & pharmacological database) • Elsevier BIOBASE (life sciences biological database) • BIOTECHNOBASE (biotechnology database) • EI's Compendex (engineering database) • FLUIDEX (process and civil engineering industries) • BEILSTEIN Abstracts (organic and related chemistry) • World Textiles (textiles database) • Oceanbase (marine science and technology database) • Geobase (geography, geology, ecology database) • Econlit (economics literature database) • INSPEC (Physics, engineering, electronics and information technology) • BIOSIS Previews (life sciences and biomedical database) • PsychINFO (behavioural sciences)

  7. Major Reference Works • Comprehensive Clinical Psychology (CCP) Supported by CrossRef (links via PsycInfo) • International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (IESBS) Print subscribers entitled to initial period free access! • Handbooks

  8. Logging into ScienceDirect • Former Groupwide login: • IP-recognition • NO username/password (anonymous) • NO personalized features • Personal login: • IP-recognition • username/password • ALL personalized features • Remote login (portable id): • NO IP-recognition / username/password • access to SD at any time from any location • when requested by librarian/ valid for 6 - 12 months

  9. User Name = First Name + Surname Password

  10. Personalized features • Select your own subject homepage • E-mail alerts • - issue • - search • - citation • Personal journal list • Search history • - save searches • - recall searches • - combine searches

  11. To create an issue alert = personal feature

  12. Online Demo

  13. Online Demo

  14. Online Demo

  15. WWW.SCIRUS.COM • Membership (=paid) content: • - ScienceDirect (1,8 million full text articles) • - ChemWeb (1,9 million Beilstein abstracts) • - BioMedNet Reviews (>12 million Medline citations) • - Neuroscion (550 news items) • - BioMed Central (370 full text articles) • - United States Patent Trademark Office (USPTO) • (> 800,000 patents) • Free content: • > 69 million URL’s, such as university & author websites • SUBMIT YOUR INSTITUTE’S URL!!

  16. External LinkingWWW.CROSSREF.ORG • Non-profit organisation • A centralized source for reference linking • Provides links to articles independent of location of articles • Publishers create article links by registering their articles • (via DOI) at CrossRef

  17. Online Demo

  18. Linking without (before) Crossref

  19. Linking with Crossref

  20. Online Demo

  21. Online Demo

  22. Online Demo

  23. Online Demo

  24. Account Development • Why ADM? • Goal: Stimulate usage • How? • By assisting library staff in getting the most out of ScienceDirect • Tools? • - ‘Train-the-Trainer’ and/or end user sessions • - Promotional material • - ScienceDirect Newsletter: SD@Connect • - ScienceDirect Support Site (http://support.sciencedirect.com) • - User statistics • (http://reports.sciencedirect.com)

  25. User Statistics • http://reports.sciencedirect.com • Password protected: login name & password sent to contact person each month • Usage of 13 months on a rolling basis • Downloadable files, I.e. save files in excel format

  26. Online Demo

  27. Questions?

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