DISSERTATIONS & THESES; JOURNALS; ISI WEB OF KNOWLEDGE Carlos A. Almenara, PhD Online and Offline Resources In Psychological Assessment PSY494P122 (April 2nd, 2014) DISSERTATION S & THESES 2 ProQuest Dissertations & Theses  With more than 3 million entries (since 1743), is the most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses in the world.  Of the millions of graduate works listed, we offer over 1.5 million in full text format.  Right now, Google, Google Scholar and Google Books are indexing dissertations and theses published since 2007. 3 http://dissexpress.umi.com/dxweb ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 4 http://dissexpress.umi.com/dxweb ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 5 http://dissexpress.umi.com/dxweb  This free version gives you access to the records only.  The results are limited to 40. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 6 http://dissexpress.umi.com/dxweb ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 7 http://dissexpress.umi.com/dxweb  Using Google:  Limit your search to: site:gradworks.umi.com  Using Google Books (Advanced Search)  Limit your search to: inpublisher:proquest  NOTE: It has limitations ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 8 http://dissexpress.umi.com/dxweb  In Google.com ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 9 http://dissexpress.umi.com/dxweb  In books.google.com ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 10 http://dissexpress.umi.com/dxweb  PDF dissertations & theses in Google.com ProQuest Dissertations & Theses  EXERCISE 1:  Using Google or Google Books, find the most similar dissertation/thesis for your research. 11 http://dissexpress.umi.com/dxweb JOURNALS SEARCH ENGINES CUFTS 14 http://lib-code.lib.sfu.ca/projects/CUFTS/  Developed at the Simon Fraser University Library.  CUFTS is a free, open source (GPL) OpenURL link resolver and electronic resource management system designed for use by library consortia. CUFTS 15 http://lib-code.lib.sfu.ca/projects/CUFTS/wiki/CuftsTools  The CUFTS public tools provide serials management services to libraries and people everywhere:  Journal Search allows you to quickly find journal titles in over 475 different electronic collections listed in CUFTS.  Search by journal title or ISSN to find out which collections include a journal, and what coverage dates are available. CUFTS 16 http://cufts2.lib.sfu.ca/MaintTool/public/search CUFTS 17 http://cufts2.lib.sfu.ca/MaintTool/public/search CUFTS 18 http://cufts2.lib.sfu.ca/MaintTool/public/search CUFTS 19 http://cufts2.lib.sfu.ca/MaintTool/public/search CUFTS 20 http://cufts2.lib.sfu.ca/MaintTool/public/search CUFTS 21 http://cufts2.lib.sfu.ca/MaintTool/public/search JournalSeek  Is the largest completely categorized database of freely available journal information available on the internet.  Contains 101467 titles.  Journal information includes the description (aims and scope), journal abbreviation, journal homepage link, subject category and ISSN. 23 http://journalseek.net/ JournalSeek 24 http://journalseek.net/ JournalSeek 25 http://journalseek.net/ JournalSeek 26 http://journalseek.net/ Serials Solutions: SFX®  SFX ® is the most widely used OpenURL link resolver, with a customer base of over 2400 institutions in more than 50 countries.  MetaLibMetaLib, integrated with SFX ®, provides users with a coherent and friendly environment for metasearching, and enables them to view retrieved results in a manageable, unified format. 28 http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/SFXOverview SerialsSolutions SFX® 29 http://sfx.muni.cz SerialsSolutions SFX® 30 http://sfx.muni.cz SerialsSolutions SFX® 31 http://sfx.muni.cz SerialsSolutions SFX® 32 http://sfx.muni.cz SerialsSolutions SFX® 33 http://sfx.muni.cz SHERPA/RoMEO  SHERPA/RoMEO provides you a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement. 35 http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/search.php The SCImago Journal & Country Rank  Includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database and based on the Google PageRank algorithm 37 http://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php? Ulrichsweb  Provides information about serials publications and their providers: price, online availability, abstract & indexing, Document Delivery Services, Reprint Services, etc. 39 http://ulrichsweb.serialssolutions.com/ Journal Citation Reports  By compiling articles' cited references, helps to measure research influence and impact at the journal and category levels. 41 http://admin-apps.webofknowledge.com/JCR/JCR Journals  EXERCISE 2:  Using JCR, find the most important journal in your topic, (consider the impact factor)  Using CUFTS, identify what databases offer the full text of the articles from that journal (including dates, etc.). 42 ISI WEB OF KNOWLEDGE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwPRI9ug6BY ISI Web of Knowledge  As part of Web of Knowledge platform, Web of Science offers a true cited reference index, which is still the best tool for discovery and the only method of retrieving accurate citation counts.  Trace a particular research forward in time or backward in time to see how works grow and develop in a focused area of research using the only true cited reference index. 44 http://wokinfo.com/products_tools/multidisciplinary/webofscience/ ISI Web of Knowledge  REGISTER 45 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  REGISTER 46 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  REGISTER 47 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  REGISTER 48 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  Search interface: Web of Science Core Collection 49 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  You have 17 field codes and lookup option. 50 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  Time limits 51 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  Citation Databases limits 52 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  Chemical Databases limits (you can remove them) 53 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  You can display until 50 results.  And sort the results as you want. 54 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  AUTHOR SEARCH. 55 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge 56 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  Basic search using Boolean operator (AND) and truncation (*) 57 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  Refine your results filtering (including: limiting to; or excluding) 58 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  Refine your results: Up to 100 categories are displayed (alphabetically or by count). 59 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  Refine your results: Document Types (are also displayed alphabetically or by count). 60 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  Refine your results: Choose Research Areas. 61 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  Refine your results: Limit to or exclude authors. 62 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  Refine your results: Limit to or exclude GROUP authors (Research groups, Societies, Institutions, etc.) 63 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  Refine your results: Limit to or exclude Editors. 64 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  Refine your results: Limit to or exclude specific Journals. 65 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  Refine your results: Limit to or exclude Book Series. 66 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  Refine your results: Limit to or exclude Conferences. 67 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  Refine your results: Limit to or exclude Dates. 68 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  Refine your results: Limit to or exclude Institutions. 69 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  Refine your results: Limit to or exclude Funding agencies. 70 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  Refine your results: Limit to or exclude Languages. 71 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  Refine your results: Limit to or exclude Countries. 72 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  Analyze the results 73 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  Body image research in Univ. South Florida. 74 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  Analyze the results 75 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  Sexual Identity research in Univ. California L.A. 76 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  Advanced Search 77 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  Advanced Search: Field codes, operators (AND, OR, NOT, SAME*, NEAR) 78 * Only use SAME with the Address field. When SAME is used in other fields (such as Topic), it works exactly like AND. ISI Web of Knowledge  Advanced Search: The most important Field codes:  TS= Topic  TI= Title  AU= Author  SO= Publication Name  CU= Country  IS= ISSN/ISBN 79 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  EXAMPLES 80 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  EXAMPLES 81 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  EXAMPLES: Combine previous searches 82 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  EXAMPLES 83 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  EXAMPLES: Author search 84 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  EXAMPLES: Times cited 85 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  EXAMPLES 86 http://isiknowledge.com/ ISI Web of Knowledge  EXAMPLES: Create Citation Alert 87 http://isiknowledge.com/ NEXT CLASS 88  READINGS:  Hypothesis development [Part 2: How to conduct a literature review] (McBride, 2013)