Informační zdroje v zoologii Stano Pekár
Simple
• Google, Lycos, Altavista
• Yahoo, Seznam, Ask
Meta-browsers
• Web Crawler, Metacrawler
- includes Google, Yahoo, Ask, Live Search
www.metacrawler.com
www.webcrawler.com
www.yahoo.com
www.altavista.comwww.lycos.com
www.excite.com
Scientific
• Google Scholar, SCIRUS
- browses through scientific publications, webpages, “grey”
literature, etc.
Search using:
- author’s name in citation marks (“d knuth”)
- title of paper in citation marks
- key words from the title
- subject area
www.scirus.comscholar.google.com
AND to find resources including both keywords
OR to find resources including only the first or the second
keyword
NOT to find resources including the first but not the second
keyword
domain:cz to find pages of the specified domain (uk, com)
host: www.shopping.com to find pages on specified server
link: www.myway.com to find pages that includes links to
specified server
title: text to find pages with the keyword in the title
url: text to find pages with the keyword in the URL address
Thomson-Reuters (Ovid Technologies)
• Zoological Records - zoological sciences (6 500 periodicals)
from 1978, abstracts since 2000
• Biological Abstracts - biological sciences (6 000 periodicals)
since 1990
• MedLine - microbiology, medicine, pharmacology, biophysics,
social sciences, biotechnology (5 000 periodicals) since 1950
• EMBASE - medical and pharmacological sciences (5 000
periodicals) since 1974
• GeoBase - geography, ecology, geology, oceanography (2 000
periodicals) since 1980
• CAB Abstracts - agriculture sciences (6 000 periodicals)
• Current Contents - multiscientific (8 000 periodicals)
• Web of Science - multiscientific (10 000 periodicals) since 1900
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts: (6 000 periodicals)
• BioOne - biological sciences, since 1998
• Biotechnology Research Abstracts - since 1993
• Conference Papers Index - since 1982
• Natural Sciences - since 1997
Elsevier
• SCOPUS - multiscientific (16 000 periodicals) since 1998
!access only with an IP address of MU!
1. Prepare key-words (author names, organism names, subjects)
- from other papers
2. Select database
- check with Thesaurus
3. Search
- using Boolean operators
4. Browse and mark references
5. Save references
6. Create your own database
mice gene including both keywords in a specified order
AND, OR, NOT
( ) to compose keywords and separate operators
(mouse OR mice) AND (gene OR pseudogene)
WITHIN X keywords separated by X words
(mice WITHIN 3 gene)
NEAR keywords separated by less than 10 words
(mice NEAR gene)
BEFORE, keywords in specified order
AFTER (mice BEFORE gene, mice AFTER gene)
* replaces several letters in keywords
(patent*= patent, patents, patented, atd.,
behavi*r = behaviour, behavior)
?, ??, ??? replaces 1-3 letters in a keyword
(fib?? = fiber, fibre)
Biological Abstracts
MedLine
Zoological Records
EMBASE
ESPM:
BioOne
Access via:
http://sci.muni.cz/uk/eiz/
1. Find 10 references of scientific resources within scientific
databases. Use keywords such as:
- taxonomy, prey, behaviour/behavior, chromosome, evolution, competition,
predation, social, distribution, gene, activity, population, temperature,
development, dispersal, karyotype, behavioural ecology, communication, ...
2. Save references without abstract, key-words and descriptors.
3. Format references using a consistent style.