Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Time Saver Tip: And I Quote …

“Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.” -- E. B. White (American writer 1899-1985)

Let’s say you wanted find articles written by S. van Eijk.  And let’s say you want to search the author field of ScienceDirect for that name.

You can put S. van Eijk in the ScienceDirect author field.  The resulting hit list contains 169 items.  As you begin browsing,you notice that none of them seems to be authored/co-authored by S. van Eijk.



Save time by enclosing S. van Eijk in quotes … “S. van Eijk”

The quotes instruct the search engine to search the author’s name exactly as you have typed it.

The result of this search strategy is just two (2) hits … much more manageable.
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2-(1-Alkenyl)- and 2-aryl-substituted four-membered cyclic nitrones as precursors for 2,3,4-substituted pyridines and quinolines  Original Research Article
Tetrahedron, Volume 45, Issue 10, 1989, Pages 3131-3138
W. Verboom, P. J. S. S. Van Eijk, P. O. M. Conti, D. N. Reinhoudt

On the potential of absorption and reactive adsorption for desulfurization of ultra low-sulfur commercial diesel in the liquid phase in the presence of fuel additive and bio-diesel  Original Research Article
Fuel Processing Technology, Volume 92, Issue 3, March 2011, Pages 616-623
J.A.Z. Pieterse, S. van Eijk, H.A.J. van Dijk, R.W. van den Brink

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