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Chemical Information Sources/Keeping Up and Looking Back
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Chemical Information Sources/Keeping Up and
Looking Back
Current Awareness, Reviews, and Document Delivery
Introduction
With the tremendous volume of primary chemical literature appearing each year, chemists need ways to become
aware of new critical items they should be reading. The service that provides such assistance is called CURRENT
AWARENESS, often referred to as "alerting services." Current awareness services automatically run a frequent
search (usually weekly) against the most recent entries in a database according to a search profile (strategy) that has
been developed. For a broader look at less recent literature (perhaps one to two years old or older), REVIEW
ARTICLES are often sought. These may cover hundreds of articles or other documents on the topic of the review.
Finally, once the appropriate primary documents have been found, it may be necessary to use the services of a
DOCUMENT DELIVERY SYSTEM, since it is likely that not all of the items needed will be found in the local
library.
Current Awareness: Auto-Alerts
An impressive variety of current awareness services, or auto-alerts, are available to help chemists stay current on the
published research literature. Auto-alerts allow you to save a search specific to your research interests, have it
automatically re-run each time new citations are added to a database or publisher website, and have the new citations
delivered to you, as an email or an RSS feed. Other names for these services include: email alerts, and SDI (selective
dissemination of information).
Auto-alerts were formerly available only from subscription article/research databases, but are now also available
from: publishers, Google Scholar, and additional less formal (and generally less comprehensive) options including:
Twitter feeds; user communities or social networks; podcasts; YouTube Channels; smart phone and tablet apps; and
search widgets.
To identify the auto-alert(s) that best meet their needs, researchers need to be aware of the different types that are
available:
Search Alerts: Allow you to save a search on a: topic, substance, reaction, author, or journal name (options vary
by database and publisher). Your search is rerun either when new records are added, or at an interval you specify.
TOC (Table of Contents) Alerts: Send you the table of contents when a new journal issue is published (also
called journal issue alerts).
Citation Alerts: Notify you when article(s) you specify are cited.
The Search Alerts, TOC Alerts, and Citation Alerts sections below list options for creating various types of
auto-alerts using chemistry and general databases, major chemistry publishers, and Google Scholar. Each section
indicates what each type of alert is Best for, and which option is the Best choice, for setting up an alert (database,
publisher, etc.) Within each section, the most robust options are listed first. Each entry includes: a brief description;
the providers name for the alert; links to web pages or PDFs that explain how to set up each type of alert; coverage;
requirements for access; and available formats.
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SEARCH ALERTS
Allow you to save a search on a: topic, substance, reaction, author, or journal name (options vary by database and
publisher). Your search is rerun either when new records are added, or at an interval you specify.
Best for: staying current on a topic, substance/reaction or author
Best choice: article/research databases, significant publishers in your field
Database Search Alerts
Most databases listed here require subscription (paid) access, which is generally provided through your academic
institution library or employer. For those with access, a free login/account is usually required to use the alerts
service.
Chemistry Databases:
SciFinder: Keep Me Posted (KMP): KMP Alerts can be set up for both topics and substances.
Coverage: SciFinder indexes all of chemistry and chemical aspects of other fields and includes journal articles,
patents, dissertations, meeting abstracts, and additional sources. This makes SciFinder Alerts the most robust
option for staying current on the chemical literature.
Required: Access to SciFinder, personal login (a prerequisite for SciFinder access).
How To Set Up:
How To Create A Keep Me Posted Alert (PDF)
[1]
How To Set Up A Keep Me Posted Alert:
[2]
Format: email only.
Reaxys: My Alerts: Reaxys MyAlerts can be set up for: keywords, authors, journal titles, patent numbers,
substances, and reactions.
Coverage: Reaxys indexes selected chemistry journals and patents those that focus on experimental data in
organic, inorganic, and organometallic chemistry. More info on Reaxys coverage
[3]
.
Required: Access to Reaxys, personal login.
How To Set Up:
Reaxys My Alerts
[4]
Reaxys My Alerts Help
[5]
Reaxys Quick Reference Guide (PDF)
[6]
Format: email only. Additional Info: up to 50 alerts can be saved.
General Databases:
Web of Science: My Saved Searches: Any search that can be done in Web of Science (WOS) can be saved
and turned into a Search Alert. Options include: topic, title, author, publication (i.e., journal) name, and others.
Both WOS and Current Contents are products of Thomson Reuters (formerly ISI) and use the same Web of
Knowledge platform, so the process of setting up Search Alerts for these databases is very similar.
Coverage: Web of Science indexes all academic disciplines. As such, it covers fewer chemistry journals than
SciFinder, but provides a broader focus of all of science.
Required: Access to Web of Science, register for personal login (sign in).
How To Set Up:
WOS Help: Save History/Create Alert
[7]
WOS Help: Save Search History
[8]
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Format: email or RSS feed.
Scopus: Search Alerts:
Coverage: All academic disciplines. As with WOS and Current Contents, Scopus can be expected to cover less
chemistry than SciFinder, but provides a broader focus on all of science. See also: Summary of Scopus
Coverage
[9]
, Full Content Coverage Guide
[10]
.
Required: Access to Scopus, register for personal login
[11]
.
How To Set Up:
Scopus Search Alerts
[12]
Format: email only.
Current Contents: Search Alerts: Searches done in Current Contents can be saved and turned into Search
Alerts. Both WOS and Current Contents are products of Thomson Reuters (formerly ISI) and use the same
Web of Knowledge platform, so the process of setting up Search Alerts for these databases is very similar.
Coverage: All academic disciplines. As with WOS and Scopus, Current Contents can be expected to cover
fewer chemistry journals than SciFinder, but provides a broader focus on all of science.
Required: Access to Current Contents, personal login.
How To Set Up:
Current Contents Help - Save History/Create Alert
[13]
Current Contents Help - Save Search History
[14]
Google Scholar Search Alerts
Google Scholar: Email Alerts:
Coverage: As with all things Google, coverage is not specified, and may not be consistent, but Google Scholar
is freely available. For more on Google Scholar coverage see: Content Coverage, Google Scholar Help
[15]
Required: nothing. Google Scholar alerts do not require: a subscription, a login, or even a Google account
(simply enter the email address where you want the alerts sent). Accessing most journal articles will still
require a personal or institutional subscription.
How To Set Up:
Google Scholar Email Alerts
[15]
Format: email only
Publisher Search Alerts
Many publishers offer the ability to save searches on a given topic and have them run automatically. Search alert
options available from some major chemistry publishers are listed below. No attempt is made to list all relevant
publishers. See the next section for Publisher TOC Alerts.
Coverage: Note that Search Alerts from publishers will ONLY include their own publications.
Requirements: A free login/account is usually required to use publisher alert services, an institutional or personal
subscription will required to access journal articles, but citations and article abstracts are usually freely available on
the internet.
American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications:
[16]
Register for ACS ID
[17]
Use the search form or Advanced Search Form
[18]
to create searches
To set up an alert, use the Save This Search option which appears on the search results display (lower left).
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After logging in, use YOUR PROFILE
[19]
page to access, edit, and manage Saved Searches.
Help Searching ACS Journals
[20]
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Publishing:
[21]
Register for RSC account
[22]
or Log In to your RSC Account
[23]
Use the Search Box or Advanced Search page
[24]
to conduct a search
Click SAVE THIS SEARCH (top right) to set up an alert.
Use MY PROFILE
[25]
to access, edit, and manage Saved Searches (My Saved Search link: http:/ / pubs. rsc.
org/ en/ search/ history).
After logging in, access your saved searches
[26]
within My Profile.
Elsevier (ScienceDirect):
[27]
Register for an Account
[28]
or Log In.
Use the Search Form or Advanced Search page
[29]
to create a search.
Select SAVE AS SEARCH ALERT to set up an alert.
After logging in, use the My Settings
[30]
or My Alerts
[29]
links to access, edit, and manage Saved Searches.
How To Set Up:
ScienceDirect Help: Saving A Search Alert
[31]
ScienceDirect Help: Alerts
[32]
Wiley:
[33]
[34]
or log in (top right).
Use the search form or the Advanced Search page
[35]
to create a search.
From search results screen, click SAVE SEARCH to activate Search Alert.
After logging in, use the Alert Manager
[36]
and the Saved Searches
[37]
links (both available under My Profile
[38]
to access, edit, and manage Search Alerts.
How To Set Up:
Wiley Help: eAlerts
[39]
Wiley Help: Registering for Email Alerts
[40]
TOC (Table of Contents) ALERTS
TOC Alerts, or Journal Issue Alerts, send you the table of contents when a new issue is published.
Best for: keeping up with specific journals
Best choice: the journals publisher
Publisher TOC Alerts
TOC Alerts available from some major chemistry publishers are listed below. No attempt is made to list all relevant
publishers. Note that most major publishers offer TOC Alerts. Databases may offer TOC alerts as well, but generally
provide less timely results than publishers for this type of alert.
subscription will required to access most journal articles, but citations and article abstracts are usually freely
available on the internet.
Coverage: TOC Alerts, by definition, provide a Table of Contents for newly published journals. Some publishers,
also provide ASAP, or As Soon As Publishable alerts as well.
[16]
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Register for ACS ID
[17]
You can recieve TOC Alerts as either:
email e-Alerts
[41]
RSS feeds
[42]
After logging in, use YOUR PROFILE
[19]
page to access, edit, and manage saved TOC Alerts.
Help:Help Searching ACS Journals
[20]
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Publishing:
[21]
Register for RSC account
[22]
or Log In to your RSC Account
[23]
Sign up for TOC Alerts as either:
email eAlerts
[43]
RSS feeds
[44]
To manage your TOC alerts, use the personalized subscription page link included on each emailed alert or the
registration form
[43]
Help: RSC eAlert FAQ Page
[45]
Elsevier (ScienceDirect)
[27]
:
[28]
or Log In.
Browse
[46]
through journal and book series titles published by Elsevier to identify TOC Alerts you would like
to receive.
Check the Volume/Issue Alerts box to receive emailed TOC Alerts.
Check the Article Feed box to receive RSS TOC Alerts.
Also available: Articles in Press alerts.
After logging in, use the My Settings
[30]
or My Alerts
[29]
links to access, edit, and manage TOC Alerts.
Help: ScienceDirect Help: Managing Volume/Issue Alerts
[47]
ScienceDirect Help: Adding RSS Feeds
[47]
ScienceDirect HELP: Alerts
[32]
Wiley:
[33]
[34]
To set up an alert you can either:
Use the Publications
[48]
or Browse By Subject
[49]
links to navigate the the home page of the journal. Then,
from the journals home page, click either the Get New Content Alerts link for an email alert or the Get
RSS Feed link.
Use Browse By Subject
[49]
, select the relevant subject (i.e., "inorganic chemistry"), then choose View All
Products in [subject] and limit to journals. This will get you a list of Wiley journals in that subject area. To
set up a TOC Alert for any journals listed, click the check-box by the journal name, then click Get Email
Alerts.
After logging in, use My Profile
[50]
to access, edit, and manage TOC Alerts.
Help: Wiley Help: e-Alerts
[39]
Wiley Online Library Quick Guide
[51]
Wiley Online Library User Guide
[52]
Springer:
[53]
[54]
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To set up an alert, use the SpringerAlerts page
[55]
to:
browse journals by title
[56]
or browse journals by subject
[57]
use the check box to identify TOC alerts you would like receive.
To manage alerts (unsubscribe or change settings) use the Change Alert Profile
[58]
(under My Springer).
Help
Springer Alerts
[55]
My Springer Account Help
[59]
Database TOC Alerts
Note: TOC Alerts from databases generally provide less timely results than those from publishers.
To set up a TOC Alert in an article database, follow the instructions given in the Database Search Alerts section.
Instead of searching for articles on a topic, search for the name of the journal you want TOC Alerts for, and limit
your search to the Journal Name/Publication Name field (the name of the field varies from one database to another).
See How to Set Up links for each database given in Database Search Alerts section.
JournalTOCs Alerts Service
JournalTOCs
[60]
: This is a free service that searches tables of contents (TOCs) of current issues of journals
that produce TOC RSS feeds.
Coverage: Only includes journals that produce TOC RSS feeds. Covers over 18,000 journals from over 1,000
publishers, with over 600 chemistry journals. Publishers include: Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, ACS, RSC and
open access journals. See: publishers included
[61]
, or journals by subject
[62]
.
Required: Register for personal login
[63]
or sign in
[64]
.
How To Set Up:
See "Following" subheading in: Instructions on setting up an RSS feed
[65]
Instructions on Exporting your List of Journals to an RSS Reader
[66]
.
Format: Email and RSS feed.
CITATION ALERTS
Citation Alerts notify you when article(s) you specify are cited. This is a good way to keep track of who is citing
your articles, or articles related to your research. Note that there are limited options for obtaining this type of alert.
Best for: Keeping track of citations to article(s) of interest
Best choice: article/research databases that provide this service
Database Citation Alerts
The databases listed here require subscription (paid) access, which is generally provided through your academic
institution library or employer. For those with access, a free login/account is usually required to use the alerts
service.
Web of Science: Citation Alert: Web of Science (WOS), also known a Science Citation Index, was the first
database that allowed researchers to easily identify and retrieve articles citing other articles.
Coverage: Web of Science indexes all academic disciplines, but does not index as many chemistry journals as
SciFinder. It is however, one of the few databases that provide Citation Alerts.
Required: Access to Web of Science, register for personal login (sign in).
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How To Set Up:
Sign in to WOS, and search for the article of interest. Click on the articles title to get to the full record
page, then click CREATE CITATION ALERT icon (on right). To manage or modify alerts: While
signed into WOS, click MY CITATION ALERTS link (in toolbar at top of page) and click the
MODIFY SETTINGS button.
My Cited Articles List
[67]
WOS Help Index
[68]
Scopus: Document Citation Alert: Scopus and Web of Science are currently the major players among general
databases which provide citation tracking features.
Coverage: Scopus indexes all academic disciplines, but does not index as many chemistry journals as
SciFinder. It is however, one of the few databases that provide Citation Alerts. See also: Summary of Scopus
Coverage
[9]
, Full Content Coverage Guide
[10]
.
Required: Access to Scopus, register for personal login
[11]
.
How To Set Up:
Document Citation Alerts
[69]
Note, this document indicates:
Non-Scopus documents (abstracts available on platforms external to Scopus) and citations
derived from Scopus references
[70]
are not included in Document Citation alerts.
Google Scholar Citation Alerts
Google Scholar: Citation Alerts:
Coverage: As with all things Google, coverage is not specified, and may not be consistent, but Google Scholar
is freely available. For more on Google Scholar coverage see: Content Coverage, Google Scholar Help
[15]
Required: nothing. Google Scholar alerts do not require: a subscription, a login, or even a Google account
(simply enter the email address where you want the alerts sent). Accessing most journal articles will still
require a personal or institutional subscription.
How To Set Up:
Google Scholar Help
[15]
See Email Alerts section, headings for: How do I get notified when my papers
are cited? and How do I get notified when a particular paper is cited?
Format: email only
Publisher Citation Alerts
Coverage: Note that Citation Alerts from publishers can be expected to include only citations from their own
publications.
subscription will required to access journal articles, but citations and article abstracts are usually freely available on
the internet.
[16]
Citation Alerts:
Register for ACS ID
[17]
How To Set Up:
After logging in, use the ACS Publications page
[16]
navigate to the journal and article of interest.
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Click on the articles title to bring up the full record for the article.
In the Toolbar on the right, click on CITATION ALERTS.
This will add the article to your ACS Citation Alerts list, and you will receive an email alert whenever
the article is cited by newly published content.
Use the YOUR PROFILE
[19]
page to manage Citation Alerts.
Wiley:
[33]
[34]
How To Set Up:
After logging in, navigate to the journal and article of interest.
Click on the articles title to bring up the full record for the article.
In the ARTICLE TOOLS toolbar on the right, click on GET CITATION ALERTS.
Citation alerts for this article will be added to your profile.
Use My Profile
[50]
to manage Citation Alerts.
VERIFY THAT THESE HELP LINKS actually provide help for Citation Alerts.
Help: Wiley Help: e-Alerts
[39]
Wiley Online Library Quick Guide
[51]
Wiley Online Library User Guide
[52]
DOES SPRINGER PROVIDE CITATION ALERTS??
Springer:
[53]
[54]
To set up an alert, use the SpringerAlerts page
[55]
to:
Options from Major Abstracting and Indexing Services
Thomson Reuters's Current Contents series
[71]
is a weekly series of current awareness bulletins. These have author
and subject indexes, and entries appear in the printed Current Contents shortly after the appearance of a covered
primary journal issue. One advantage of these table-of-contents services is that more journals are included in them
than are found in most libraries. A disadvantage, however, is that there may be a few weeks delay between the
appearance of the primary journal issue and its entry into the secondary Current Contents issue.
Current Contents comes in the following printed and electronic science editions, with approximately 1000-1600
journal titles covered in each:
Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
Clinical Medicine
Engineering, Computing & Technology
Life Sciences
Physical, Chemical, and Earth Sciences
Social & Behavioral Sciences
It is also possible to subscribe to a Web version of Current Contents, Current Contents Connect
[72]
. With such a
product, an interest profile consisting of subject words, authors' names, etc., can be run against each update to the
database. Over 7,000 evaluated websites are also included in the coverage, in addition to the journal literature.
The Current Contents database option has the capability to output the references in a format that will feed into
personal database software, such as EndNote or ProCite. An added feature is the option of getting conference
proceedings that are published as books. (Many conference proceedings are published as regular or special issues of
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primary journals and, hence, would already be covered in the basic Current Contents.)
Chemical Abstracts Service has a Table-of-Contents feature in SciFinder. Much of the bibliographic information that
enters the CAS database is now received from the publishers in electronic format. With electronic versions of
primary articles now appearing weeks or even months before the printed counterparts, it is important to be able to list
those articles in the database when they become available.
Internet Journal Table-of-Contents Lists
Many publishers and others now put lists of the tables of contents of journals on the Internet. These are usually free
to the user. See the Indiana University Chemistry Library electronic journals list
[73]
for some representative titles.
Sciverse ScienceDirect
[27]
is an example of a service offered by the major publisher Elsevier that includes alerting
services for their journals. You may input author names, subject words, etc., establish a volume/issue alert to
discover when a new issue appears, and set up a citation alert that notifies you when an indicated article has been
cited by someone in a newer article.
The American Chemical Society Publications Division offers its e-Alerts
[74]
service for the 30+ journals. Two
services are available. ASAP Alerts and Table of Contents Alerts. ASAP stands for "As Soon As Publishable," so
when a new article from a selected journal enters the database, you immediately receive an e-mail message that
includes a link to the article. The ACS Table of Contents Alerts is also an e-mail notification service, but it is sent
only when the complete contents of a new journal issue is posted on the Web. The ACS journals are consistently the
most important chemistry journals in the world.
CA Selects/CA Selects Plus
[75]
and Other Standard Interest Profiles
A STANDARD INTEREST PROFILE is a type of current awareness service that covers a topic of sufficiently
general interest to make it profitable to spread the cost among a large number of subscribers to the printed product.
The CA Selects/CA Selects Plus products are bi-weekly printed updates that contain the same abstracts found in the
printed CA. American Chemical Society members who pay with their own funds receive a substantial discount.
There are over 200 separate topics for which the CA Selects standard interest profiles
[76]
are produced. CASelects
Plus on the Web
[77]
also has all of the topics available and offers many advantages over the printed counterparts,
including a hyperlink to the new issue from e-mail notification and key-word searching of the issue.
Custom SDI Service
Custom interest profiles (SDI or SELECTIVE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION) can be constructed to
produce frequent computerized updates from the Chemical Abstracts or other databases. Since SDI is tailored to
individual interests, the cost is high compared to other options. A profile can be constructed on most databases on
search vendors' systems (for example, STN
[78]
) with automatic updates sent to an e-mail address, if desired.
CAPlus and Other STN Files--The CAplus file on STN provides fast entry of articles into the CA database for
key journals (about 1500 titles). The SDI feature of STN will allow you to set up a table-of-contents SDI profile
for the CAplus file that can be sent as hardcopy, fax, or e-mail. It is even possible to establish profiles to be
searched across multiple databases, including structure databases.
STN's SMARTracker
[79]
feature lets you search the Registry File for a structure or text query which can then be
combined with an SDI search in other STN databases. Another SDI feature on the STN system removes duplicate
records before sending you the results.
Thomson Reuters's Discovery Agent--Profiles are run against the Current Contents Database in this Web-based
SDI service. Users can create, manage, and edit their personal profiles on the Web. The Alerts are delivered
weekly on the Web, but e-mail delivery or e-mail verification of the Web posting is also possible.
Thomson Reuters's 's Personal Alert
[80]
service pulls references from a number of their databases, including
Science Citation Index. It is even possible to include a relevant reference in the profile and discover what new
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articles have cited that reference.
CAS's SciFinder "Keep Me Posted Now"
[1]
feature provides an easy way for a scientist to set up an alert.
MyNCBI Auto-Alerts: A free SDI service is provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information
(NCBI) through the US National Library of Medicine. See MyNCBI How to Save Text Searches/Automated
Searches with Emailed Results
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ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase-L3 by virtual screening. Bioorg Med Chem. 2007 Aug 19; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 17761421 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
2: Xu H, Wang D, Zhang W, Zhu W, Yamamoto K, Jin L. Determination of isatin and monoamine neurotransmitters
in rat brain with liquid chromatography using palladium hexacyanoferrate modified electrode. Anal Chim Acta. 2006
Sep 8;577(2):207-13. Epub 2006 Jun 27. PMID: 17723673 [PubMed]
3: Diculescu VC, Kumbhat S, Oliveira-Brett AM. Electrochemical behaviour of isatin at a glassy carbon electrode.
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RSS Feeds
Many primary journal publishers are now offering the option of establishing an RSS feed to their products. This
allows you to stay up to date with websites that provide RSS feeds for their content. An RSS reader, also known as
an RSS aggregator, collects all the information from the RSS feeds to which you subscribe, allowing you to browse
all of this content without having to visit each website.
Reviews
All of the sources in the previous section are aimed at making you aware of the existence of new primary literature
as soon as possible after its publication. Sometimes, particularly at the start of a large research project, it is desirable
to take a broader look at a subject, perhaps in one- or two-year periods of time. REVIEW articles (or chapters) are
written by experts in a field to make it easy to survey a large body of literature on a topic. The reviewers sift out the
best literature, write a brief summary of the significant findings of the works, and give full bibliograpic references to
the primary works. Thus, in a large field, a secondary review article may include hundreds of references in a single
review article.
Review articles are sometimes published as special articles in primary journals, sometimes in conference
proceedings, but most often are published in serial works that look like books. These often have titles that are clues
to the review nature of their contents, for example, Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products or
Annual Review of Biochemistry. (The publisher Annual Reviews
[82]
has many titles of interest to chemists, and each
of their review serials is available online back to volume 1.) Reviews may also be published in journals whose
purpose is to publish reviews, such as Chemical Reviews, a publication of the American Chemical Society, or Mass
Spectrometry Reviews.
On SciFinder, one of the refine options allows you to select the document type "review". Each article that the author
considers a review is so indexed in the CAPlus database. Likewise, in the Web of Science, one can limit the output
to review articles.
A new concept in providing reviews seeks to cut down the time lag between the appearance of the new primary
literature and its inclusion in a review. The Faculty of 1000 service
[83]
is a literature awareness tool that highlights
and reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a
faculty of well over 1000 selected leading researchers. These scientists provide a consensus map of the important
papers and trends across biology and the life sciences.
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The Cumulative Index of Heterocyclic Systems from Wiley indexes the review serial Chemistry of Heterocyclic
Compounds v.1-64, 1950-2008. The index covers reviews of some 2,300 heterocyclic systems and lists heterocyclic
system names in alphabetical order according to the Chemical Abstracts Service Ring System Handbook (2003
edition & supplements) in their fully unsaturated or fully saturated forms as appropriate. Each name is accompanied
with the volume/page reference to Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds, and a skeletal formula drawn without
double bonds or hydrogens is shown. It is probably helpful to use this index with the Ring Systems Handbook, which
has additional indexes for identifying heterocyclic system names from their skeletal structure.
The Index to Scientific Reviews, produced by the same company that published the Science Citation Index and
Current Contents, covered reviews since the early 1970s. A good source of reviews in organic chemistry is the series
of treatises published by Pergamon Press (now Elsevier Science). For example, Comprehensive Organometallic
Chemistry includes in v. 9 of the work an "Index of Review Articles and Specialist Texts on Organometallic
Chemistry." For other leads to reviews, see "Finding Review Articles in Chemistry
[84]
."
Document Delivery
DOCUMENT DELIVERY is a term used in libraries to refer to the process of acquiring a copy of an item which
your home library does not own and does not intend to buy the original document. Thus, it could mean
INTERLIBRARY LOAN, the process whereby copies of books are borrowed through your library from other
libraries or copies of articles are obtained from them. It more and more refers to the purchase of individual copies of
the items to be given to the end user (perhaps at no charge or only a partial charge to the end user).
As electronic journals become widely available, the boundaries between secondary abstracting and indexing services
and the primary journals are obscured. For example, in 1998, the STN ChemPort service
[85]
began to provide access
to full-text journals of key scientific publishers through STN Easy, STN Express, STN on the Web, SciFinder, and
SciFinder Scholar. There are direct links from search results in CAplus, MEDLINE, EMBASE, BIOSIS, INSPEC,
and other secondary scientific databases to the corresponding electronic full texts of primary journal articles and
other documents at the publishers' sites. Some of the publishers offer access to single articles on a per-article sales
basis.
There are now hyperlinks from the citations in the original articles of some journals to CAplus records. Conversely,
CAS has started to add citations to the CAPlus records, thus allowing links among the CA records in the database,
and from there through ChemPort to the original literature. Since the American Chemical Society and some other
publishers have put all of the articles in their journals on the Web, this provides an attractive link to most of the
significant chemical primary literature.
Publishers are always concerned about violations of their copyright on the articles in their journals. Developments in
document delivery that libraries have pioneered under the Fair Use clause of the current Copyright Act have always
been viewed with mistrust by publishers. The electronic age has served to widen the divide between librarians and
publishers, since the latter now seek to license content to libraries rather than to sell it outright.
Summary
There is so much scientific literature being produced nowadays that scientists need ways to hone in on the literature
of interest. Current awareness or alerting services have found a ready market for that reason. The more
individualized the output, the higher the cost, so the personalized selective dissemination of information (SDI)
services are the highest in cost. Another focused approach for scanning the older literature is to identify a review
article, especially the longer articles that are published in review serials, such as the Annual Review of Analytical
Chemistry. Once relevant articles and other publications have been identified, many can be linked to directly through
the web. However, there is still a large number of documents that must be obtained through the various document
delivery services that are available.
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