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Today’s post brings you three (3) tips to make you a more effective online researcher and, by extension, more effective in your job.

• Use the online databases to which your employer subscribes.  If you are not sure what databases are subscribed, contact your librarian a.k.a. information progessionl
• Create alerts in your area of interest.  Google® provides this service.  So do the major vendors of online databases … EbsoHost, ProQuest, ScienceDirect, to name a few.
• Search beyond alerts for more information on a given article.  For example, I subscribe to several ProQuest alerts.  One of them uses the key word “dibenzothiophene.”  Alerts appear in my Outlook inbox.  When I see one of interest, I then search for that title on ScienceDirect.  ScienceDirect provides much more detailed abstract information than other vendors.  The information is available whether or not your organization subscribes to ScienceDirect.  Obviously, if your organization does subscribe, you should set up alerts within ScienceDirect … Alerts are a service available only to subscribers.

To illustrate above tips, here is something that appeared in my Outlook inbox.  Scroll down to see the difference between the ProQuest information and the ScienceDirect information.
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EXAMPLE: dibenzothiophene in ProQuest showed up in my email
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THE ALERT AS IT APPEARED IN MY INBOX
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Logging into ProQuest, I found the following …

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Unfortunately, full text for this particular article is not available under my organization’s ProQuest agreement.  I thought it might be worth purchasing, but wanted more details before making the purchase decision.  Googling® the title, I found the following in ScienceDirect.
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Journal of Catalysis
Volume 279, Issue 2, 25 April 2011, Pages 269-275
Oxidative desulfurization of dibenzothiophene and diesel over [Bmim]₃PMo₁₂O₄₀ Jian Zhang^a, Anjie Wang^{a, b, ,} , Xiang Li^{a, b} and Xuehu Ma^b
ajwang@dlut.edu.cn
^a State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116012, PR China
^b Liaoning Key Laboratory of Petrochemical Technology and Equipments, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116012, PR China
Received 16 November 2010; 
revised 15 January 2011; 
accepted 19 January 2011. 
Available online 15 February 2011.

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AbstractA hybrid material ([Bmim]₃PMo₁₂O₄₀) was synthesized by reacting H₃PMo₁₂O₄₀ with the ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methyl imidazolium bromide. SiO₂-supported [Bmim]₃PMo₁₂O₄₀ showed a high catalytic activity in the oxidation of dibenzothiophene (DBT) with 29% H₂O₂ aqueous solution as the oxidant. Maximum activity was observed at a loading of 20 wt.% [Bmim]₃PMo₁₂O₄₀ on SiO₂, and 100% DBT conversion was achieved at 60 °C, atmospheric pressure, and an oxygen to sulfur (O/S) molar ratio of 3.0 in 100 min. The high performance of [Bmim]₃PMo₁₂O₄₀/SiO₂ might be attributable to its amphiphilicity, which enhances adsorption of both H₂O₂ and sulfur-containing compounds. [Bmim]₃PMo₁₂O₄₀/SiO₂ could be easily separated by centrifugation and reused without deactivation after seven runs. Quinoline and carbazole had slightly positive effects on DBT oxidation, whereas indole had a negative effect. The high performance of [Bmim]₃PMo₁₂O₄₀ was verified in the sulfur removal from a real diesel by means of oxidation followed by dimethylformamide extraction.
Graphical abstract

[Bmim]₃PMo₁₂O₄₀/SiO₂, which is amphiphilic, exhibits high catalytic performance in the oxidation of dibenzothiophene and a real diesel. Quinoline and carbazole show slight promoting effects, whereas indole strongly inhibits the oxidation.
Research highlights► [Bmim]₃PMo₁₂O₄₀/SiO₂ is an outstanding catalyst in oxidative desulfurization. ► The aqueous phase adsorbs on catalyst particles, which work like microreactors. ► The aqueous phase and solid catalyst are separated simultaneously from oil phase. ► The dried spent catalyst was reused for seven runs without deactivation. ► Nitrogen compounds may have positive or negative effects.Keywords: Oxidative desulfurization; Dibenzothiophene; Ionic liquid; Phosphomolybdic acid; Quinoline
Article Outline
1. Introduction
2. Experimental
3. Results and discussion
3.1. Oxidation of sulfur-containing compounds
3.2. Role of nitrogen-containing compounds in the oxidation of DBT
3.3. ODS of a real diesel
4. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Appendix A.
Supplementary material
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You can see how much more informative the ScienceDirect abstract details are … giving you a sounder basis on which to make a decision to purchase.
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