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November 15, 2004

SFX links

SFX: Link to Full Text Journals

Look for SFX when searching for articles in many of the major science databases to link to online full text journals. The library provides a wide range of electronic research databases and thousands of electronic journals. But until SFX it has not always been possible to go directly from a retrieved citation to the full text article. You had to complete a database search, and then begin searching for the appropriate electronic journals separately...a time-consuming process.

Using SFX is easy. Search your favorite database as usual and look for the SFX link in the retrieved citations. Click on the SFX button, and a menu will open in a new browser window with options for the citation. The citation will be displayed first, and then a link for full text (if available). Click on the full text link, and SFX will take you either to the article or as close as it can to the article (some publishers only let us link to the journal level, not to the specific article).

When online full text is not available, you can automatically search the library catalog to see if the publication is available in the library. If the library does not have the publication, you can send an interlibrary loan request directly from SFX.

SFX (an acronym for Special Effects) is a resource linking database. SFX technology is based on the OpenURL, a standard that allows data to be passed from a research database, to the Yale SFX server, and then to an online journal. OpenURLs are created instantly, eliminating the problem of dead links. More information on SFX.

SFX is available in many of the major science databases, including Web of Science, BIOSIS, Compendex, GeoRef, INSPEC, Medline, TreeCD, and more.

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New Books Listing

Browse the library new book lists back for up to four weeks. They are based upon physical library locations.

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Open Access: a new model for journals

The library has created a page outlining some of the long-term issues for this newly heralded charging scheme.

The major concern of the community should be maintaining a revenue stream to support the peer review process as the OA reduces the number of organizations that will subsidize the existing publication network.

See the OA and alternative pricing models page for more complete information about this timely topic.

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Journal Abbreviations

For CURRENTLY RECEIVED PRINT JOURNALS

In the box on the Journal Abbreviation help page, enter the abbreviated journal title for which you'd like to find the full title. Then click on "look it up".

Note 1: This search will only locate currently received journals. Cancelled titles will not be found and must be searched in ORBIS, the Yale Library online catalog.


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Quick-and-Dirty guide to journal abbreviation searching in the ORBIS online catalog

Option 1:
If the title is fairly unique try entering just the first few letters of the title
AND Quick Limit to "Serials and Journals"
... the system will present a list of titles that begin with the root letters entered.


Option 2: perform a search using the abbreviations and truncation:

phys? and rev? and let?
AND Quick Limit to "Serials and Journals"

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Online journal list

The easiest way to locate electronic journals is through the
list of electronic journals. This list shows the years of coverage for each title.

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Borrow Direct -- Faster BOOK ILL

Borrow Direct Expands to Seven Libraries


Borrow Direct now includes the libraries of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Penn, Princeton, and Yale. Through Borrow Direct, you can search a combined catalog of these seven libraries and request books not currently available at Yale (including books that are checked-out at Yale, but available at one of the other libraries).


Most books will be available for pickup within four business days, and you can designate one of six Yale libraries as the pickup location. You must provide a Yale e-mail address to utilize
the Borrow Direct system and you will receive automatic email notices to track the status of each request.

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Classroom Instruction and Critical Thinking

Library Research Workshops


Do your students have the library research skills necessary to succeed at course-related projects?
We can help! Science librarians are available to come to the classroom and teach students about efficient library research techniques and demonstrate key databases and research tools. We will work with you to design a tutorial that focuses on course needs and project-based goals. Please contact one of the librarians listed below or send an email message to science.reference@yale.edu to discuss how we can assist you. See our
existing instruction modules.

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BioMed Central journals

March 2003

Yale University Library Joins BioMed Central

Yale University Library has reached agreement with BioMed Central to join as an institutional member. BioMed Central (BMC) is an
independent publishing house committed to providing open access to the peer-reviewed biological and medical research it publishes.


As a benefit of membership, the $500 article processing fee is now waived for all Yale-authored articles published in one of
BMC's 60 peer-reviewed journals. Accepted articles become available through the Internet to readers worldwide. In addition,
articles are immediately archived for permanent access in PubMed Central by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, which is part of the National Institutes of Health.


The Yale University Library pursued membership in BMC as we explore alternative scholarly publishing models in a digital environment.
BioMed Central is premised on a belief that open access to research is vital to rapid and efficient progress in science, and that
subscription-based access to research hinders rather than promotes scientific communication. Yale's membership in BMC has been funded by the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library and the Kline Science Library.


For additional information on BioMed Central and how to publish in a BMC journal, see
http://www.med.yale.edu/library/new/biomedcentral.html


To view all BMC journals, see
http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/authors/bmcjournals


For a list of Yale researchers who have already published via BMC, go to
http://www.biomedcentral.com/inst/36055

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New Online Reference Works

Online Reference Resources

In addition to e-books, we have many reference resources available online. These references resources are available from the Science Libraries Home Page: http://www.library.yale.edu/science and all science Web pages under Quick Links see Online Databases.

Examples of online reference resources include:

Access Science
Access Science is the enhanced online version of the McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. It provides full text access to encyclopedia articles and dictionary definitions in all areas of science and technology.

American Men & Women of Science
American Men & Women of Science is a biographical dictionary of the significant scientists in the physical, biological and related sciences. It includes biographical entries on approximately 120,000 living scientists.

Combined Chemical Dictionary
The Combined Chemical Dictionary includes descriptive and numerical data on chemical, physical and biological properties of compounds; systematic and common names of compounds; literature references; structure diagrams and their associated connection tables.

CRC Engineering Handbooks
CRC ENGnetBASE is a database that allows you to search and view the contents of engineering reference books. Coverage includes handbooks on biomedical engineering, circuits, communications, electrical engineering, environmental engineering, image processing, mechanical engineering, and more.

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
The CRC Handbook is the most widely used source of data for physical scientists and engineers.

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
The online edition of the Encyclopedia of Life Sciences provides comprehensive coverage of the life sciences.

Kirk Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology and Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
Online access is available to these two comprehensive reference works in applied chemical science.

Knovel
Knovel is a collection of chemistry and engineering reference books. Available titles include Lange's Handbook of Chemistry, Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook, and many more.

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Online books listing

Online Books

Thousands of e-books are now available to the Yale community. To search for selected science e-books go to: http://http://www.library.yale.edu/science/help/engebooks.html

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Safari (computing book)

Safari Online Books

Safari Tech Books is a collection of full text online books on subjects in computing and information technology. The collection currently includes 125 titles published mainly by O'Reilly. Example titles include:


Database Design for Mere Mortals
C++ Primer Plus, 4th Edition
Programming Perl, 3rd Edition

Access Safari

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Public Library of Science (PLoS)

Public Library of Science (PLoS)

Yale University is now an institutional member of the Public Library of Science (PLoS),
http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/. PLoS is a non-profit organization committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. PLoS journals are supported with a combination of grant funding, publication fees, and institutional memberships. The pricing model allows PLoS articles to be freely available at time of publication. All articles are immediately archived with the National Library of Medicine as part of PubMed Central.


As an institutional member, Yale authors can publish at a 50% discount ($750) on the $1,500 publication fee. Kline Science and
Cushing/Whitney Medical Libraries jointly purchased an institutional membership for Yale University. Our membership is part of ongoing efforts to promote open access to scientific research and new pricing models for scholarly publishing.


The Public Library of Science journals are:
PLoS Biology, http://www.plosbiology.org
PLoS Medicine, http://www.plosmedicine.org

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Citation Linker

Link to Full Text with Citation Linker

Citation Linker is a quick tool to use when you have a citation for an article you need to find. Simply enter the information you know about the citation into the Web form (i.e., title of the journal, year, volume, etc.) and Citation Linker will search for the article in Yale's online content. Citation Linker will create a menu of options for you. If it finds full text, that link will display at the top of the menu. Even if it does not find full text, additional links available on the menu will automatically perform a search in the list of online journals and in the Yale Library catalogs to locate print holdings.


Access Citation Linker at http://www.library.yale.edu/sfx/citation.html.

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RefWorks bibliography citation manager

RefWorks Bibliography Manager Now Available

RefWorks is a Web-based bibliography manager that allows you to create your own personal database of references. You can use these references in writing papers, and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in a variety of styles (i.e., Chicago, Science, Nature). Best of all, RefWorks is available for free to the Yale community!

RefWorks allows you to:


RefWorks is similar to software-based products like EndNote. The benefits of online access include:

To try RefWorks, go to http://www.library.yale.edu/cite/refworks.html.
First time users will need to register for an account.

For additional information about RefWorks and EndNote see http://www.library.yale.edu/cite/.

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