Googling is great. I Google® all the time in my consulting work. I also use
another powerful search engine, which, like Google®, is free. And, if you are
lucky, you will be able to download the full text of any articles you find.
The search engine is ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com).
A demonstration of some of the features in the ScienceDirect search interface appears below …
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ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) demonstration, using dibenzothiophene as an example
You can perform a simple Google® style search on the first ScienceDirect screen. For example, type …
dibenzothiophene
in the Keywords box. Then click the search icon.
This yields about 9300 results.
To do so, Click Advanced search.
Then type dibenzothiophene in the Title, abstract or author-specified keywords field.
Click Search
This reduces the number of hits to about 2100.
You can tighten the noose even further. On the left, check the boxes for 2018, 2019, and 2020.
You are now down to about 300 results – 9000 less than the initial results list.
So, far this is a lot like Googling. Now for the fun part … accessing the full text of the articles you determine to be of interest.
If your organization subscribes to ScienceDirect, many of the articles you identify can be downloaded at no charge to you.
Talk to your librarian if you have any questions.
And, if it turns out that your organization does not subscribe to ScienceDirect, consider recommending to your librarian AND to your manager that a subscription will make you a more effective researcher.
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The search engine is ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com).
A demonstration of some of the features in the ScienceDirect search interface appears below …
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ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) demonstration, using dibenzothiophene as an example
You can perform a simple Google® style search on the first ScienceDirect screen. For example, type …
dibenzothiophene
in the Keywords box. Then click the search icon.
This yields about 9300 results.
To do so, Click Advanced search.
Then type dibenzothiophene in the Title, abstract or author-specified keywords field.
Click Search
This reduces the number of hits to about 2100.
You can tighten the noose even further. On the left, check the boxes for 2018, 2019, and 2020.
You are now down to about 300 results – 9000 less than the initial results list.
So, far this is a lot like Googling. Now for the fun part … accessing the full text of the articles you determine to be of interest.
If your organization subscribes to ScienceDirect, many of the articles you identify can be downloaded at no charge to you.
Talk to your librarian if you have any questions.
And, if it turns out that your organization does not subscribe to ScienceDirect, consider recommending to your librarian AND to your manager that a subscription will make you a more effective researcher.
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