Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Search tip: Use ScienceDirect's hyperlinks

"A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting" -- James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)

The glory of the Web is its ability to hyperlink the browser from point to point in the information domain with the click of a mouse. Web sites like ScienceDirect take advantage of this capability to lead the searcher from a particular article to similar articles.

For example, from the article …

Ultrasound-assisted oxidative desulfurization of liquid fuels and its industrial applicationIN: Ultrasonics Sonochemistry

… we can leap to the abstracts of Related Articles, which are listed in a side bar to the right of the article we originally found.

Related Articles
Enhance efficiency of tetraoctylammonium fluoride applied to ultrasound-assisted oxidative desulfurization (UAOD) process
Applied Catalysis A: General, Volume 319, 1 March 2007, Pages 237-245
Meng-Wei Wan, Teh-Fu Yen

A new method for obtaining ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel via ultrasound assisted oxidative desulfurization
Fuel, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 2003, Pages 405-414
Hai Mei, B. W. Mei, Teh Fu Yen
Ultrasonic treatment of liquid waste containing EDTAJournal of Cleaner Production, Volume 12, Issue 4, May 2004, Pages 429-435
S. Chitra, K. Paramasivan, P. K. Sinha, K. B. Lal

… and so on.

Here’s another hyperlink feature … Click on the journal hyperlink (in this case, Ultrasonics Sonochemistry). Then in the “All Fields” search box enter a search term, such as "desulfurization"

The result is a list of articles appearing in the journal Ultrasonics Sonochemistry containing the word “desulfurization

1. Ultrasound-assisted oxidative desulfurization of liquid fuels and its industrial applicationUltrasonics Sonochemistry, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 18 November 2009
Zhilin Wu, Bernd Ondruschka

2. Ultrasound-assisted oxidative process for sulfur removal from petroleum product feedstock
Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, Volume 16, Issue 6, August 2009, Pages 732-736
Paola de A. Mello, Fábio A. Duarte, Matheus A.G. Nunes, Mauricio S. Alencar, Elizabeth M. Moreira, Mauro Korn, Valderi L. Dressler, Érico M.M. Flores

3. Asymmetric reactions in sonochemistry
Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, Volume 8, Issue 3, July 2001, Pages 191-200
Béla Török, Katalin Balázsik, Károly Felföldi, Mihály Bartók

source:
www.sciencedirect.com
It’s easy to overlook these tricks when you are in a hurry. If you take a few extra minutes, the results are often worth the effort.

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