IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY DIGITAL LIBRARY By Brenda Rice

Full text of IEEE Computer Society periodicals and conference proceedings are now available to the University of Chicago community. This electronic resource includes 22 society periodicals (1988 to date) and 1,500+ conference publications (1995 to date).

You can access this digital library at: www.computer.org/publications/dlib/

This page provides several ways to access the Digital Library:
Browse: Click on the periodical name to browse by volume/issue or date. Conferences are arranged alphabetically by acronym; click on the appropriate letter to browse conferences. If you do not know the acronym, use the “Advanced Search” feature and search by conference title.

Search: Use the search box at the top of the page to search contents of periodicals and proceedings.

Advanced Search: Click on “Advanced Search” to perform more complex or focused searches. The main advanced search permits keyword searching, which can be limited by field, date, and publications. This page also provides links (tabs at top of page) to other searching options, including author and proceedings.

Search results can be modified without returning to the searching page. They can also be sorted by relevance, date, or publication title and viewed in groups of 10, 20, 50, or 100 results per page. (Note: This Digital Library contains a huge amount of content, so searches should be as specific as possible.)

DISCOVERYGATE DEMOSTRATION

Bob Zuzak and Chris Fleming of Elsevier MDL will be on campus to give a live demonstration of the next generation of chemical information searching using Discoverygate www.discoverygate.com

Thursday, April 14, 3:00-4:15 pm
Crerar Library Board Room
(administrative area, 1st floor).

All are welcome to attend. We would really appreciate it if you have time to attend this session and share your opinion.

For more information please contact at atbrooks@uchicago.edu.

NEW - CHEMICAL BIOLOGY JOURNALS
By Andrea Twiss-Brooks

Chemical biology, the application of chemistry to the study of molecular events in biological systems, is the focus of several new and forthcoming journals. These journals will publish papers at the interface of chemistry with drug design, the -omic sciences, and understanding complex biological processes at an atomic level. For more information, including editorial boards, instructions to authors, and free articles/sample issues, visit the journal web pages.

Nature Chemical Biology
Launch date: June 2005
www.nature.com/nchembio/index.html

ACS Chemical Biology
Launch date: January 2006
pubs.acs.org/journals/acbcct/index.html

Molecular BioSystems
Launch date: Summer 2005
www.rsc.org/is/journals/current/mbs/mbspub.htm

BMC Chemical Biology
Available now
www.biomedcentral.com/bmcchembiol/

WEB OF KNOWLEDGE UPDATE: ANALYZE RESULTS TOOL

Web of Knowledge has introduced a new tool, called Analyze Results, which allows users to refine their searches and “mine” the results for information such as:

- Publishing trends in a specific field
- Institutions conducting research on a specific subject.
- A list of authors who have published extensively on a topic.

Remember that when you are searching the Web of Knowledge, you are searching only the journals which they index.

To use the Analyze Results tool first perform a search. When your results appear, click on the “Analyze” button. In the below example I searched for “jellyfish.”

Next select a field for your analysis (I used “Institution Name”). Also select how many records to analysis (note: it will take longer for “all” to be processed), and select how many records you want to appear on each page. Click “Analyze.”

An analysis of my search results has shown that the majority of papers on “jellyfish” are produced by reseachers at, or affiliated with, the University of Basel.

You could further refine these results, for example, by author. Check mark the box for “Univ Basel” and click “View Records.” Once the search results appear, click “Analyze.” Select “Author” for the field you want to analyze.

Here are some other examples of ways you can analyze search results:

Who has published extensively on a topic?
Search: bell palsy
Analyze Results by: Author

View the citation trend of a topic
Search: atkins
Analyze Results by: Publication Date

A help guide is available at www.thomsonscientific.com/ media/scpdf/analyze_how_to_use.pdf

If you have any questions, please contact Barbara Kern at bkern@uchicago.edu or 702-8717.

The ERU (Electronic Resources Update) is written and produced by the Science Libraries at the University of Chicago. This quarterly publication is distributed in print, on the web and via email.

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