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Reformulating RSS feeds created off-campus in JEFFLINE databases

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Many of the literature databases available through JEFFLINE such as Scopus, CINAHL, and PubMed for Jeffersonians offer RSS feeds. These allow you to subscribe to your own custom searches in the reader of your choice.

However, if you’re off campus, the databases will provide a proxied URL that your reader won’t understand. Simply cut out that portion before you paste the address into your reader. For example, here’s the beginning of a feed I just created in PubMed. Delete the bold section to get a reader-friendly address:

http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.proxy1.lib.tju.edu:2048/entrez/…

becomes:

http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/…

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Fun with Scopus Affiliation search and Wordle

Friday, December 5th, 2008

The Scopus database has excellent affiliation searching, so departments can easily locate publications by their faculty members.   Among other things, the librarians use this to see where our authors are publishing.

Wordle is a free website where you can create your own tag clouds — images in which words appear larger or smaller depending on their frequency.  You can paste in text from a document and may get a graphical depiction of the main concepts.

Here’s a fun application:  we plugged into Wordle the titles of articles from Thomas Jefferson University’s Department of Radiology published in 2007 or 2008, identified using Scopus’ affiliation search.

And here’s what we got:

Here’s a RefShare bibliography of the included titles. Try it yourself with the text of an article or titles of publications by a particular author.

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Quick article download for PubMed results

Friday, December 5th, 2008

A recent RefTips article described Scopus’ Download feature, which automagically downloads and renames the PDFs of articles from database search results.  But Scopus has limited subject searching…

You can use the power of PubMed subject searching AND the magic of Scopus’ download feature by searching Scopus using PubMed Identifiers (PMIDs).

Each PubMed article has a PMID:

Using Scopus’ Advanced Search tab, either type in PMID or choose it from the list of fields to search.

Paste or type the PMIDs for articles you want within paragraph marks, combined with OR, e.g.:

PMID(16794170 OR 16738839)

This will retrieve the article citations and you can go ahead with the download.

Note that citations just added to PubMed may take a while to appear in Scopus.

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Download multiple article PDFs in seconds

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Two JEFFLINE databases now automate downloading and renaming journal article PDFs, to quickly obtain and organize batches of articles. The two databases, Scopus and Elsevier ScienceDirect, use Quosa software, which lets you:

  • choose multiple articles to download
  • opt to download abstracts for articles not available online (abstracts download as web pages from the database)
  • choose how you’d like to name the PDFs, using preset combinations of author/title/journal or choosing from a list of citation elements and adding your own prefix or suffix
  • have a quick cup (or sip) of coffee while the software checks each citation for full-text availability, downloads and renames the files. A status page shows which items have downloaded and whether they are full-text or abstract only.

    Scopus Download

    • A recent test of 20 articles found in a Scopus search downloaded and renamed 14 article PDFs in three minutes.

    In ScienceDirect, the Advanced Search lets you limit to Subscribed Sources to get just those articles available through JEFFLINE:

    ScienceDirect - click for full size

    Look for more developments as vendors include better tools to simplify document retrieval when searching databases.

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Eigenfactor, geographical trends and other Scopus-powered observations

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Research Trends is a bi-monthly newsletter about scientific trends based on bibliometric analysis powered by Scopus. The November issue (pdf) has stories on:

If you haven’t seen Eigenfactor, I recommend taking a look. Similar to Google’s PageRank algorithm, but using citations instead of links, Eigenfactor assigns value to a journal based not just on the number of citations but where they’re coming from.

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